That’s right!  It’s National Backyard Games Week.  We would love you to tweet, comment, or update on Facebook what your favorite backyard game is.  So tell EVERYONE what you’re going to play this week in your backyard, and while you play around in your backyard, why not celebrate National Barbecue month at the same time!

We couldn’t not give you a deal to let your secretary or any other administrative professional get the thank you they deserve. We’re going all out this time with our beautiful mini-orchid plants.  Normally these beautiful plants run $24.99 delivered.  But we know times are tough on a lot of your businesses, so, get them delivered at 20% off.

These orchid plants are yours for only $19.99 delivered but will make your secretary feel like a million bucks because they will know you are grateful for what they do.

Don’t want to pay for delivery?  Then come into any of our Boesen the Florist locations and get your plant for only $9.99!  We’ve taken away all your excuses.  Thank your secretary and let them know you appreciate their role in your business for only $9.99.

This deal is exclusive for our online friends on Facebook, Twitter and our blog readers.  No one else will know about this deal!  Feel free to tell them, but we wanted to make something special as a thanks for your online loyalty!

To order online click here, or call us at 515.244.ROSE, otherwise we’ll look forward to seeing your smiling faces in one of our convenient locations.

This is a local special only.  Including Des Moines Metro Area and Ankeny, Altoona and Indianola

We want to make this Valentine’s Day something special for someone out there.  This year we are running a contest where you can win a dozen roses every month for the rest of 2010! (Local contest only)

Rules: Submit what you did for your significant other or your significant other did for you on Valentine’s Day to make it special.  Leave out any of the risque details, after all, this is a rated G website.  The person with the most original and creative experience will win.

Submission: We will accept submissions for one week after Valentine’s Day, that is, February 14th through February 21st. If you’d like we will keep your stories private/anonymous for those that may be a bit shy.  BE SURE TO TELL YOUR SIGNIFICANT OTHERS ABOUT THIS in case it’s their year to throw something together for Valentine’s Day!

PRIZE: Win a dozen roses delivered every month to your home or office for the remainder of 2010.  Prize can be delivered anywhere but only in the Greater Des Moines area (includes Ankeny, Altoona and Pleasant Hill) To submit your story you can either email it to us here or fill out the form below.  We will contact the winners either via phone or email depending on your preference.

Well gang, we’re at it again.  As florists we obviously have a thing for Valentine’s Day and there are more opporutnities to win free flowers than ever before!

We’ve partnered with KDSM Fox 17 in their “Romantic Date for Two” contest.  You can read the official rules here but I’ll give you the Tom Boesen run-down.

Register at the KDSM Fox 17 website which you can find here.  All you have to do is register for the contest.  If you win, you’ll get two (2) front row tickets to the Tim McGraw concert on February 13th along with a dozen beautiful roses from yours truly and chocolate strawberries from the Chocolate Storybook.  And again, all you have to do to win these prizes is REGISTER!  That’s it!

Sign up now for the contest and get a chance to win a Valentine’s to remember!

While there may be six more weeks of Winter we’d like to offer a little Spring to brighten up the rest of the season. Today only we are offering one of our top sellers and a beautiful Spring arrangement, Citrus, for only $39.95 in store down from $65.00. Or have it delivered for just $46.98.  Visit us online here to send it to someone special or just give us a call or stop on by. We’d love to make your last six weeks of winter brighter.

This Valentine’s Day we’ve partnered up with the Des Moines Register to give you the greatest Valentine’s Day contest out there.  Starting this Friday, January 29th at 5am through Wednesday, February 3rd at 5pm you can vote to pick the Valentine’s couple.  These couples submitted their photos and how they knew they found “the one,” to win huge prizes.

Check it out here and vote for who you think should win $500 in flowers from Boesen the Florist.  That equates to a year of flowers.  It’s a great prize to win and you can help choose who gets it.

Check out the couples here and vote for the best one!

Can you believe we’re already at the end of January?  You’d think with the snow and ice storms it would have gone a bit slower.  Those of us here at Boesen are well rested and gearing up for Valentine’s Day.

In the mean time though, we’d like to get you one last deal before we start our super-push for Vday.  We have this beautiful arrangement in some new vases we just picked up a couple weeks ago.  Enjoy this full bouquet at half the cost this week only. This arrangement would normally go for $50 and we’re dishing it out to your for a mere $25! If you want it delivered here locally just add a delivery charge and your total will only be $31.99.

We saved our best buy for the last week we’re doing our half off specials.  Get this full arrangement and surprise a loved one at half-the-cost. Raise the bar for Vday by getting some flowers early. As a matter of fact, why not surprise them at work.  How nice it would be to show off arrangements this week AND Friday 2/12 for Valentine’s Day.  You know they love showing things off like that.

Check them out in the slideshow above and click here if your ordering online.  Otherwise stop by any of our convenient locations or call us at 1.800.274.4761.  Call now or stop by today.  Remember, get this arrangement for only $25 – you won’t be disappointed.

This week’s special is trendy and beautiful.  A dozen, multi-colored tulips with some greenery in a rectangle vase.  Its the January Blues Tulips! These are some beautiful tulips and we’re throwing them out there for only $17.50 in store or $24.49 delivered. Get half off these tulips which are normally $35 in store. We’re excited to offer you great deals this month because there is no better way to give yourself a smile than getting some great flowers and an even better price.  Click here to check it out at Boesen.com!

Come on in to one of our stores, visit us online or just give us a call at 1.800.274.4761.  Let us know you want the January Blues Tulips!  Local delivery only.

Enjoy and have a wonderful week!

What a week we had last week.  I hope all of you that stopped in enjoyed your half off dozen roses.  This week though, we’ve got another special offer to cure those January blues.  It’s the January Blues Gerbera Daisies Special.

Check out this fabulous arrangement you won’t find anywhere else but Boesen’s.  We’re throwing this one out there for only $14.99 in store and $21.98 delivered.  You can pick up this beautiful arrangement for only $14.99.  You won’t find a deal like this elsewhere.  It’s a $15.00 savings for January Blues Gerbera Daisies Special. Surprise someone you love with this bright, colorful arrangement today!  Click here to visit our site.

We are bringing back our Monthly Win a Dozen Flowers Drawing. It’s quite simple really. Visit our website and register online and you’ll be entered in a drawing for a free dozen roses. All you have to do is register online. Click here and you’ll be taken directly to the form. We’ll soon be announcing last month’s winners. To view the form and register click here.

Those who win can opt to either keep the roses or send them anywhere in the US and Canada. The roses will be in your choice of color. Step it up a notch and make yourself look good by possibly winning and sending a beautiful, $65 arrangement of Boesen Roses. It’s too easy and there’s no reason you shouldn’t participate for you chance to win. Click here for the registration form.