Dixon Florist Magazine- August 2021

Meet My Florist Showcasing your local florist

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DIXON FLORIST

FLORIST AND GIFTS

Meet My Florist Showcasing your local florist Welcome to Meet My Florist magazine, a publication that gives you new insight into the wonders of your local flower shop. Your florist is an important part of your community. The following pages will provide you with information to help you better utilize your florist, and make you a more informed floral consumer.

Flowers are something that anyone can appreciate and everyone enjoys. Flowers always make a beautiful statement, expressing a wide range of sentiments to compliment any occasion. You can always make someone smile with flowers!

Choosing the perfect flowers for your occasion can be a daunting task. Let your florist guide and help you create the perfect arrangement. Your florist will help you express your sentiments with flowers.

This issue of Meet My Florist magazine features Dixon Florist. The three sisters of Dixon Florist give you an insider’s look into their flower shop, and share with you the many ways that they help customers with all their floral needs. In addition, you will get information about how to get more from your plants and flowers.

When you buy from a Mom and Pop business, you are supporting your community. Your local florist is another family in your community, your neighbor, and your friend. Our customers are our shareholders. We strive to make you happy.

Thank you for your support!

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Meet the sisters of

DIXON FLORIST T he three Sisters that run Dixon Florist, Courtney, Melissa, and Dana, are the daughters of Joe and Jean Williams. Explains Courtney, “we are a second generation florist, in business since 1962. Originally the shop was across the street. There was vacant lot, and so my dad designed and built his own shop.”

“This shop is specially designed so that one person can run the whole operation all by themselves. For sixteen years my dad and mom ran this shop while also raising us kids.”

The Enchanted Cooler Box window: “The glass in the front of our cooler is very special glass that came from the original Bell Florist of Sacramento. When that shop closed, the special cooler box glass was sent to Dixon and installed in our cooler

box. This is very old antique glass that has a special quality, a frosted coating, that gives a special glow to everything you see through it.” “ We are a full service florist- we do it all.

Someone calls, and we say, ‘absolutely, not a problem!’ People don’t necessarily come to us for a specific flower design, they come to us for our quality and our expertise. We emphasize seasonal floral, with a bit of exotics mixed in! We love orchids. Something that our father instilled in us: feature flowers that people don’t see on a daily basis.”

“Our clients are everywhere: Sacramento, Davis, Winters, Woodland, and Vacaville.

We really appreciate our Dixon business, but we also service a much larger area.”

“We were raised in this lifestyle; it’s what we do! When you work here, you are DIXONFLORIST. NET

working with family. For us this business is something bigger than just a flower shop, bigger than just selling flowers… we help people express their emotions with flowers. We are there for them through all their life events.”

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Every Wednesday morning at 3AM Courtney gets up to get ready for her weekly trip to the San Francisco Flower Market. She doesn’t always go by herself though! At times her trusty companion Stella (the sweetest yorkie you’ll ever meet) tags along. A fun stop for Courtney on her way to San Francisco is to Donut Queen in Vacaville. “There’s nothing like it. Keeps you going” says Courtney about Donut Queen.

“With beginnings paralleling the growth and development of the San Francisco Bay Area, the origins of the San Francisco Flower Mart go back to the late 1800’s when land was plentiful.

Local flower growers could bring their product to Lotta’s fountain in downtown San Francisco three days a week, selling their product to local flower shops. A need for a centrally located market bringing together the three ethnically diverse groups of flower growers was fulfilled with the opening of a market located at 5th and Howard Streets in 1924.

As flower growers expanded production areas outside of the Bay Area and as product from other parts of United States came in, the need for a larger more modern permanent facility led to the design and construction of our current market at Sixth and Brannan Streets in the South of Market area of San Francisco.

The grand opening of the San Francisco Flower Terminal in September 1956 marked the establishment of an industry icon.

Today, officially known as the San Francisco Flower Mart, we now have over 60 vendors, purveyors of cut flowers, potted plants, blooming plants and floral supplies. We have evolved from being a “growers” market to being a marketplace for floral wholesalers.

Product, which at one time was only from the immediate Bay Area, now comes from the far reaches of the world.” SF Flower Mart.

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Facts About Sweet Peas

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1 – They’re a very satisfying flower to grow. They look great in the garden but also make a wonderful cut flower; 2 -The vase life for sweet peas is about 5 days. Keeping them in a cooler place, changing the water every other day and re-cutting the stems may give you a few extra days; 3 – Don’t be fooled by their name – sweet peas are not edible; 4 – In the language of flowers, sweet peas mean thank you, appreciation, farewell or delicate pleasures. These meanings, combined with it being the flower for the month of April, means you have many gift-giving opportunities for sweet peas; 5 – Sweet peas have a slender stem. The best way to display them is to put them in a vase with a narrow neck to support them.

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Did you make the deal?

We have women in their 40’s,50’s,60’s and 70’s who say, “my husband never gives me flowers.” Or “I wish my husband would give me flowers.”

We always ask them, “did you make the deal?”

Now you’re probably wondering what the deal is well its when you tell your significant other “you don’t have to give me flowers” or “you don’t need to get me anything.” And that’s why they don’t get flowers.

Even if you said that years ago, men will do cling on to that and do exactly what you say and won’t get you flowers ever again. Women think it’s just for that year... men think it’s forever.

The bottom line: NEVER make the deal!

Flowers are the single most inexpensive gift you can give. If it is a birthday, and you are tight on money, come get a single rose or a mixed bouquet. When people get older, they’re trying to purge things, to eliminate some of the clutter in their life. Flowers only last for a certain amount of time.

When you take someone a dozen roses, or peonies when they are in season, that first thirty minutes, they take a deep breath, and it’s absolute joy!

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Remembering Joe & Jean Joe had been working with Bell Florist in Sacramento and heard of a shop for sale in the small town of Dixon. He and Jean took a drive and immediately fell in love with the town.

In 1962 the shop originally was located in a small building across the street from its current location. In 1964 they purchased an empty lot and started construction on the building we know of today as Dixon Florist and Gift Shop.

Joe and Jean were always creative, they designed the building as well as the current logo. Joe and Jean ran the florist shop alongside each other, and to them it was much more than a small business.

It was a connection to the people of Dixon. The shop allowed them to be an integral part of the community and acted as the fabric that tied them to people in town.

Whether it was the celebration of marriages, anniversaries, birthdays, the birth of babies, showing sympathy for people’s loved ones, they shared in learn everything they need to know in everyone’s celebrations, blessings, and kindergarten but Joe and Jean’s kids hardships. learned everything they needed to know in the florist.

Joe and Jean raised all four of their children, Scott, Melissa, Courtney and Today Dixon Florist runs the same Dana, in the shop. The children grew up as it did 58 years ago. They still hand helping Joe and Jean with anything they write every order with care, still hand would throw at them. The kids always pick the floral from the San Francisco say, “They never went anywhere without flower market every week, and the a wet lap” because they would have to grandchildren from every daughter are hold the floral for the deliveries. now being raised in the shop. Dixon Florist is a family business through and They always went to places where the through with integrity, commitment deliveries needed to go. Along with and honesty. Just like Joe and Jean raising in the kids in the shop, Joe and did back then, today the shop is Jean also had a telephone ring at the open six days a week and delivers to house so they could take orders at all Dixon, Davis, Winters, Woodland, and times. Many people say that you kids Vacaville.

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“To them it was more than a business. It was a connection to the people of Dixon”

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