23 September 2019
A love letter to our riders
Whenever we advertise for new cyclists we understandably get a lot of interest. If you’re happiest on two wheels it’s a dream job; you’re doing what you love and getting paid for it, it keeps you fit (wouldn’t we all exercise more if we were paid to?), you get to...
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10 September 2019
The importance of bees
We don’t want to be dramatic, but it has been acknowledged many times that the extinction of bees would mean the end of humanity. It’s no wonder, when they pollinate 70 of around 100 crop species that feed 90% of the world. Honey bees are responsible for $30 billion a...
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24 July 2019
Cloud Busting
Flower clouds are at once one of the most difficult, enjoyable, deceptively expensive, beautiful, laborious and instagrammable pieces of floristry you can do. Petalon’s relationship with them has become a little repetitive in some ways. We say yes to something we shouldn’t, for not enough money, because we really want...
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27 February 2019
Flowers are good for you. Science says so.
Flowers have a long-held and well-deserved reputation for making us happy. We give them to people to celebrate great moments and well as to soften the worst ones. It’s one of those truths that we all accept to be true, without ever really thinking about how or why they work....
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19 February 2019
Turning your garden in to bee heaven
This week on the blog we’ve got a guest post from Karoline Gore about how those of us lucky enough to have gardens can do our bit to help the bees (besides through buying Petalon bouquets, of course!) Choosing The Best Blooms for Bees Londoners can do more for bees...
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