The Connells Maple Lee Kids Club will salute Veterans Day with a free event on Nov. 2 in all Connells Maple Lee Flowers & Gifts stores.
Children ages 5 to 12 will have an opportunity to make a patriotic arrangement that includes an American flag.
Participants also may decorate a coloring page for the annual Holidays for Heroes event, for which Connells Maple Lee works in conjunction with the American Red Cross to honor veterans and active military.
Children are encouraged to wear their Halloween costumes to the Nov. 2 event.
Time slots are available at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.
Registration is required by calling your nearest Connells Maple Lee store: 3014 E. Broad St., Bexley, 614-237-8653; 2033 Stringtown Road, Grove City, 614-539-4000; and 8573 Owenfield Drive, Powell, 740-548-4082.
Sizing up six new arrangements for fall
Several sure signs of the season: cooler temperatures, candy corn on grocery store shelves and the arrival of our fall menu.
Emily Mallis, Connells Maple Lee’s marketing manager, shared her insight on six arrangements making their debuts.
2820/Foliage Terrarium:
A tilted pedestal container gives a unique, updated look to our everyday dish garden while retaining its vintage feel.
2838/Rectangle Succulent:
Succulents are in, and we are keeping them trendy with this stylized design. This two-plant dish garden gives an earthy feeling, with the stone container and moss as finishing touches.
3768/Darling with Spray Roses, Extra Large:
Charmelia adds height and removing the lilies and gerbera daisy makes for a fuller look in shades of purple and pastel pinks. Ginger spray roses add a finishing touch.
3780/Triple Rose Bud Vase:
This new style of triple rose vase, with its wider lip, enhances a shift to more of an all-around look that’s a great size for an office desk or end table in the home.
3788/Baby Girl Steps:
The new L- shaped, three-quarter round design replaces the all-around look from last year. The increased height and width give it a more impressive look, with pink or blue carnations instead of an overall garden color.
3795/English Garden Vase:
We wanted to increase the number of $125 vase selections. This English garden vase was redesigned to be fuller. It no longer includes curly willow and uses stock, roses and other value flowers in place of lilies and gerbera daisies.
If you haven’t received a copy of the fall menu in the mail, you can pick one up at any Connells Maple Lee store.
And the winning arrangement name is … Tranquil Blooms
Karen Reif said her close friend received an email from Connells Maple Lee Flowers & Gifts about this year’s name-the-arrangement contest.
“She saw it [and said], ‘You’re the creative one not me, so here you go,’ ” said the Westerville retiree.
Her friend’s hunch paid off as Reif submitted the winning entry, Tranquil Blooms. Reif entered names most days of the online contest, which ran Aug. 1-15.
“It was whatever I was feeling each day when I looked at it,” she said.
The all-around arrangement comprises three roses, stock, hydrangea, mini hydrangea, a lily, cushion poms, button poms, bupleurum, caspia, and curly willow accents swirled in a nine-inch glass bowl.
Reif will receive a Tranquil Blooms arrangement as her prize. The arrangement will debut in September.
Blacklick third-grader wins Connells Maple Lee Kids Club birthday card design contest
Abby Hollstrom of Licking Heights describes her son Logan, 8, as a “big drawer.”
“He’s constantly drawing and coloring,” she said of Logan, who is entering third grade. “Legos, lots of Legos. And reading, too. He’s very creative.”
That creativity no doubt contributed to Logan winning this year’s Connells Maple Lee Flowers & Gifts Kids Club birthday card design contest.
Logan’s aquatic design will be featured on the electronic card that kids club members will receive on their birthdays in the coming year. His prize is a free flower delivery on his next birthday.
The kids club is free to ages 5 to 12. With parental permission, children may register for the kids club at any Connells Maple Lee store or at cmlflowers.com/kidsclub.
Membership benefits include a membership card, website activities, an e-mail newsletter, contests and in-store events.
‘Stems Hunger’ food drive collects 157 pounds for Columbus food pantry
Thanks to your generosity, our annual Connells Maple Lee Stems Hunger food drive collected 157 pounds of nonperishable items for the Neighborhood Services Inc. Food Pantry in Columbus.
Donors received a free carnation for each food item they contributed, up to six per visit.
This year’s event took place June 22-July 6.
In its eight-year history, the food drive has collected nearly 1,400 pounds of food for area food banks.
We need your help naming this arrangement; enter our contest by Aug. 15
It has a number, but arrangement 3771 also needs a name.
That’s why we’re asking for help by seeking submissions to our name-the-arrangement online contest through Aug. 15.
The all-around arrangement comprises three roses, stock, hydrangea, mini hydrangea, a lily, cushion poms, button poms, bupleurum, caspia, and curly willow accents swirled in a nine-inch glass bowl.
The person who submits the winning name will receive this arrangement (retail value $69.99) as a prize.
To enter the contest, visit cmlflowers.com/contest.
Limit one entry daily per email address, now through Aug. 15.
Connells Maple Lee Kids Club offers free back-to-school event Aug. 17
We’ll celebrate the start of a new school year with a free kids club event on Aug. 17.
Children ages 5 to 12 will have an opportunity to create an arrangement featuring lavender and yellow daisy pompons, tree fern, limonium, and a back-to-school stick-in in an orange diamond-cut vase.
Time slots are available at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.
Registration is required by calling your nearest Connells Maple Lee store: 3014 E. Broad St., Bexley, 614-237-8653; 2033 Stringtown Road, Grove City, 614-539-4000; and 8573 Owenfield Drive, Powell, 740-548-4082.
Connells Maple Lee’s annual ‘Stems Hunger’ food drive returns June 22-July 6
Connells Maple Lee’s annual food drive returns June 22-July 6.
Connells Maple Lee Stems Hunger will benefit the nonprofit Neighborhood Services Food Pantry at 1950 N. 4th St., Suite J, Columbus.
Food drive donors will receive a free carnation for each nonperishable food item they contribute (limit six per visit).
Donations may be dropped off during regular business hours at any one of Connells Maple Lee’s stores: 3014 E. Broad St., Bexley; 2033 Stringtown Road, Grove City; and 8573 Owenfield Drive, Powell.
Forty million people face hunger in the United States – more than the entire population of Canada, according to Feeding America, the nation’s largest domestic hunger-relief organization. The need is acute during the summer months for more than 18 million children who lose access to free and reduced-price meals through schools.
Enter the kids club birthday card contest by July 15 for a chance to win a free flower delivery
It’s like sending a gift to yourself.
One lucky child between the ages of 5 and 12 will receive a flower delivery on his or her birthday by winning this year’s Connells Maple Lee Kids Club birthday card design contest.
The deadline for submissions is July 15. The winning design will grace the official e-card that all kids club members will receive in the coming year. (Here’s how to become a member.)
One way to enter the contest is to attend the June 29 kids club event, where everyone who participates also will have an opportunity to make a sundae out of carnations. Time slots are available at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Registration is required by contacting your nearest store.
The other way to enter the contest is by downloading the entry form and dropping it off at your nearest store.
You’ll see the 2018 winning design at the top of this post.
To everyone who enters the contest, we wish you good luck! We can’t wait to see what you come up with.
Connells Maple Lee Kids Club making sundaes on Saturday at June 29 event
Here’s the scoop on the Connells Maple Lee Kids Club event on June 29.
Children ages 5 to 12 will have an opportunity to create an ice cream sundae out of carnations and to enter the kids club birthday card design contest. Participants also will receive a balloon.
As the price of admission, children are asked to bring at least one nonperishable food item to contribute to the Connells Maple Lee Stems Hunger food drive to benefit the Neighborhood Services Food Pantry in Columbus.
Time slots are available at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.
Registration is required by calling your nearest Connells Maple Lee store: 3014 E. Broad St., Bexley, 614-237-8653; 2033 Stringtown Road, Grove City, 614-539-4000; and 8573 Owenfield Drive, Powell, 740-548-4082.
The other remaining 2019 kids club events are Aug. 17 and Nov. 2.