Tips for sending flowers for Chinese New Year and Valentine’s Day: Order early for Chinese New Year and especially for Valentine’s Day. We are a small shop and we get booked up before the big day. Please indicate in the order comments any relevant details. It is especially useful to know whether the address is[…]
Updated Covid-19 Announcement
We have resumed deliveries. However, the situation here in Taiwan/Taipei is definitely not back to normal, so please note the following. Please read the entire message. 1. The wholesale flower markets are operating on a reduced schedule, so they are not open every day. Please give us a few days’ notice to avoid delays. In[…]
228 Peace Day Holiday
We will be closed on Thursday, February 28th, and Friday , March 1st, for the 2-28 Peace Day Holiday. You can still place orders and we will still respond to email, but no deliveries will be made on these two days. We will reopen for business as usual on Saturday, March 2nd. Best regards, Dave[…]
How to Send Flowers to Taiwan
Note: This post helps people with the process of ordering flowers. Click here to go directly to our shop. We receive numerous emails from customers who want to send flowers to Taipei saying, “I am looking at your website and I want to order flowers. How to I do that?” Therefore, we have put together a[…]
Send Flowers to New Taipei City
Avignon Florist is happy to announce that we are now offering flower delivery to an expanded portion of New Taipei City. We now offer flower delivery to most districts of New Taipei City as well as Keelung City. When we first brought our flower store online, we wanted to be sure we could offer the[…]
Chinese Valentines Day is Just Around the Corner
Did you realize there is a Chinese Valentine’s Day, also known as Qixi Festival (七夕節) or Qiqiao (乞巧節)? Although the February Valentines Day has perhaps surpassed the Chinese one in popularity, both remain popular days with couples here in Taiwan. The story behind Chinese Valentine’s Day, is an old one, dating back 2600 years, and[…]
5 tips to find a local florist
I was prompted to write this article when a customer recently called our Taipei flower shop and asked us to help her place an order for flowers in a city in the US. In this internet age, We are of course happy to help our customers in any way we can, but I feel that[…]
Why You Should Order From a Local Florist
In the past, it was difficult to find a florist half way round the world. This led to the rise of organizations with networks of florists all over the globe that could deliver an order for you. Of course, they didn’t do this for free. A portion of your purchase price went to the organization[…]
The Meaning of Colors in Chinese Culture
If you are thinking of sending flowers to a girlfriend, spouse, or business associate, there are a couple of things you should know. Probably the most important thing is that color can have a much deeper meaning and is used to symbolize things much more commonly in Chinese Culture than in most Western cultures. Red[…]