Milwaukee Florist, Welke's House of Roses, Teaching Three Milwaukee Schools This Week

Welke's House of Roses, Milwaukee's best florist will be teaching three Milwaukee Schools this week the joy of flowers in their Flowers For Kids School Program.

The educational program is designed to teach school age children the joy of flowers. The class encompasses a bit of biology, chemistry and most definitely art. By the end of the class the students will be more knowledgeable about the biology and chemistry of flowers, how to treat and care for flowers, how to make flower food. In addition each child will have a hands on workshop where they will be taught how to design a flower arrangement including fillers, lines, focals, greens and flowers. The best part of all each of the students will be able to take home their own flower bouquets.

The course outline also includes why roses have thorns, how flowers make you feel, how small sunflowers are grown, proper flower cutting techniques and so much more.

For a complete list of the programs that Welke's House of Roses offers or to request the Flowers For Kids program at your school, please visit welkes.com or call either one of our Milwaukee flower shops at 414-442-9640

Best Boss in Milwaukee Contest , Sponsored By Welke's House of Roses, Milwaukee Florist

Welke's House of Roses is sponsoring the Best Boss In Milwaukee Contest. Do you have the best boss in Milwaukee? Would you rather tell us why your boss is the worst boss in Milwaukee... post a comment below or email us at bosses@welkes.com.

Bosses Day is this Friday October 16th. Welke's has a large selection of gift ideas for your boss. Maybe your boss a movie buff and you want to send our movie gift basket or if your boss is a golf fanatic, send our golfers gift basket. Maybe your boss would prefer The Best Pink Flowers in Milwaukee delivered to her office. No matter what your boss enjoyes Welke's House of Roses can deliver the perfect gift.

Welke's House of Roses wants to hear from you about your boss. We know Milwaukee has some great bosses, so share your story and win flowers for you and for your boss.

Deadling is Thursday at midnight so get your entries in today.

Milwaukee Florist, Welke's House of Roses, Roses For a Cure

Pink Roses from Milwaukee Florist, Welke's House of Roses will be handed out to all the breast cancer survivors walking in this Sundays Susan G Komen Milwaukee Walk for the Cure.

It is our third year the pink roses have been handed out at the finish line. This is just a little something that we do at Welke's in order to give back to the community that has blessed our family flower business so much. Roses and flowers in general can say more than words can express especially at difficult times.

The staff at Welke's House of Roses wants to encourage all Milwaukee residents to get out and support the Komen Foundation either by walking or donating to the cure. Just in case you don't think that this is a Milwaukee issue, 1300 women in Milwaukee will be diagnosed with Breast Cancer in 2009 alone. Sadly 260 women will die.

If you feel moved to help women that suffer from Breast Cancer and you are not able to walk for the cure, you may consider making a donation online: click here

Milwaukee Florist, Welke's House of Roses A New Look to our floral website!

Looking for fresh flowers delivered in Milwaukee, WI? Shop our new and improved website complete with new features that make shopping for flowers faster and easier.

Search Fast and Easy : In the upper right hand section of welkes.com you can find a gift by searching "by price", "by flower" and even "by color." So, if it is your mom's birthday today and you know her favorite color is lavender, select "shop by color" then select Lavender to see our wide selection of lavender arrangements.

View Each Image Larger: Now you can see the flowers in greater detail and up close. Just move your mouse over the image you want to enlarge and the larger version will appear. Now you can really see what you are buying.

Have you ever sent a gift and wondered if they ever received it? Don't you want to know for sure when your gift is delivered? Welke's will send you a delivery confirmation so you absolutely know when your flowers/gifts were delivered. www.welkes.com will deliver your flowers anywhere in Milwaukee the day that you want them to arrive, not the day after. Welke's House of Roses will not deliver them in a box so your recipient will have to design the flowers themselves and try to make them look good.

Welke's flowers are delivered on the day that you requested artistically arranged in a vase and delivered by hand with care. Backed by our 100% satisfaction Guarantee. Buying flowers with confidence from Welke's House of Roses is one of the many reasons why we have been in business for over 100 years. Two locations to serve you in Milwaukee and Elm Grove.
For Milwaukee Flower and gift deliveries today: 414-442-8640 or toll free 877-211-7673

June is National Rose Month

June is National Rose Month at Milwaukee's Best Florist, Welke's House of Roses, and our feature for the entire month of June an unbelievable Buy 12 roses get 6 Roses Free (yep free). This is Welke's rose special and if you have a Wedding Aniversary this month or a just want to send roses to your girlfriend, this is your chance to send 18 roses for the cost of 12. The arrangements could be mixed color roses or all red roses.

View Welke's wide selection of rose arrangements in Welkes Rose Collection .

Welke's House of Roses and Ronald McDonald House Charities

In a previous blog we announced that we were working on a way for our customers to be able to make a donation to Ronald McDonald House Charities(RMHC). In the left hand column of Welkes.com. A RMHC logo has been added to include a "donate here" button that will take you right to their website. In addition, in order to make it even easier, we have added an option at the check-out section within the order process. Just a simple click of a button helps provide a home-away-from-home for families during the medical treatment of their seriously ill children. While at the check-out section look for the Ronald McDonald House Charities Logo and select a donation of your choice starting at $1.

Giving back to the community that has blessed our business for the past 100 years motivates us to continue to do everything we can to help these families during their time of crisis. The entire staff at Welke's House of Roses feels fortunate to be in the floral industry because flowers express the words that are sometimes difficult to express. This Sunday, May 10th, Mother's Day, we will be giving roses to each of the Mother's staying at the Ronald McDonald House over the Mother's Day holiday in order to express what words cannot.

Welke’s House of Roses Says; "Pick 3 Spend $50 Save The Economy!"

If you have not heard of the 3/50 Project…this Blog will open your eyes to the importance of shopping at locally owned businesses. The 3/50 Project tag-line is “Save your local economy three stores at a time.” The projects goal is to promote shopping in locally owned businesses while thanking customers for the positive impact that decision has on a local economy.

As a locally owned flower shop, since 1901, Welke’s House of Roses wants to share the details of this project in order to raise public awareness of buying from local businesses and how this will help our local economy.

3/50 Project

3 - The 3 in the 3/50 project asks consumers to think about which three stores they would miss if they disappeared, then remind them to shop locally. Welke’s House of Roses has been serving our community for over 100 years. Think of buying locally before you pick up the phone to call 800 Flowers, Pro Flowers or even Teleflora or FTD Headquarters.

50 – The 50 comes from the suggestion to spend a mere $50 per month in locally owned retail stores. If only half of the employed population made three - fifty dollar purchases it would generate more than $42.6 billion in revenue. That would make a huge impact in our sagging economy. Did you know that $68 remains in the local economy for every $100 spent in locally owned stores. By contrast, only $43 per $100 remains local when spent in national chains.


Think about the 3/50 Project before picking up the phone this Mother’s Day. Calling 800 flowers, Teleflora.com or Pro Flowers will not help our local economy. Call Welke’s House of Flowers or shop on-line at www.welkes.com