Thursday, 12 September 2013

september & Super Crawl is finally here

The James Street North is more than buzzing, it is howling!

Super crawl is here and it promises to be a day and a half of fantastic weather, live music for every taste and art and design in the street, in the galleries and in the studios. This is the best of the best, Hamilton, and it is all ours!

We welcome new businesses like Burnt Tongue (look out boys - opening your doors on Super Crawl is like taking a shower in the Devil's Punchbowl after a hard rain...)

For the fall i fiori has a whole new assortment of terrariums and planters, the widest variety of succulents and cactus in the Hamilton area (and rumour has it in the GTA as well). And you know that with fall comes seed pods and fabulous grasses and branches and flowers in deep vibrant irresistable colours.

september 'flowers for a good reason' :: sunflowers


Watch the workshop and event space on the blog in the next couple days, or pick up the details in our flyer in the shop on the upcoming i fiori fall and winter workshops and demos!


And, like the last art crawl, we will have
'flowers for a good reason'.
Net proceeds will be donated to Good Shepherd. Rumour has it that for Super Crawl we will feature the sale of sunflowers and roses.

Super Crawl gives me the opportunity to design for the sake of designing, so come in and see what's new, come and be inspired, or just come in and say hi!






Sunday, 4 August 2013

the dog days of summer

Welcome to August and hopefully the last few days of sweltering hot summer weather.
The plants that seem to be the happiest in the past few weeks have been the succulents, and we have a lot to choose from in the shop.
Some of the most popular are the lithops, or 'living stones'.

collection of living stones

Their shape and size is actually a natural camouflage to keep them from being eaten by animals looking for a desert snack(!), but we love them for the interesting texture and style that they lend to terrariums and mixed planters.

The selection of succulents, living stones and cactus is expanding every week - come in and have a look!

Thursday, 11 July 2013

art crawl, garden tours and lazy crazy daisy summer days

Daisies!

The happy flower - synonymous with the sun, with long summer days, and simplicity.
This weekend on Friday (during Art Crawl) and on Saturday i fiori will have buckets of daisies for sale in the shop and the net proceeds from every daisy sold will go to support 2 charities:
Friday: Good Shepherd Food Bank
Saturday: Stephen Lewis Foundation / Blooms for Africa 


Drop in this weekend during the day or the crawl and pick up a daisy, or two, or maybe a big bunch
- they are $1 a stem and they will accomplish such big things!



And speaking of Blooms for Africa, i fiori is helping to sponsor the North End Garden Tour, and selling the passports / guide booklet.



Date: Friday July 19th & Saturday July 20th
Time: 6pm - 10pm
Cost: $20 per passport


This is a garden tour with a few twists: 
  • The tour leads you into some fabulous gardens in the north end of Hamilton in the evening (when most gardeners get to enjoy their own work!)
  • Each Passport entitles the holder to a 15% discount at some of the best restaurants in the north end on either or both days of the tour
  • ALL profits are donated to the Stephen Lewis Foundation / Grandmothers to Grandmothers Campaign  

Tuesday, 2 July 2013

Happy birthday Canada, and Thanksgiving is just around the corner

It is July 2 and the shop is closed for the day. Nothing serious or sad, just trying to catch up to it being July 2.
Now if we were all 9 years old this day would have taken forever to arrive, but in my world the days scoot by at a rate that is hard to keep up with.
So, to gradually ease myself into the second half of 2013, i fiori will be closed today.
See you Wednesday July 3rd!


Thursday, 6 June 2013

June is here!

And June means many things: sleeping with the windows open, fresh Ontario asparagus, packing away your socks for the next few monhs, garlic scapes, mojito mint, and peonies.
We have buckets and buckets of fresh cut peonies in the shop this week. They are one of those flowers that have a season - which make them all the more special!

June peonies in the shop this week :: white, blush pink and hot pink!