Enter today to win a night of romance for you and your Special Valentine from Boesen The Florist!

Boesen the Florist is teaming up with some prominent Des Moines businesses to offer you the chance to be the doting hero (or heroine) this Valentine’s Day!

Starting Wednesday February 1st, through Friday February 10th, visit Boesen.com and download their FREE FloralApp™ for your smartphone.  With that download, your name is entered in a drawing to win an amazing Valentine’s Day prize package valued at over $450!

This package includes:

• One dozen gorgeous, long-stem red roses from Boesen the Florist;
• Dinner for two at the charming Café di Scala;
• An overnight stay in a suite at the beautiful Suites of 800 Locust!

You can have the roses delivered to your sweetheart anywhere in central Iowa on Valentine’s Day, and then get ready for a wonderful weekend!

A table for two is reserved at Café di Scala for 7:00 pm on Saturday February 18th, where you’ll be able to share a gourmet meal and the best wine in Des Moines.

Suites of 800 Locust will have a private whirlpool suite ready for your arrival.  This dreamy suite includes a whirlpool tub and wet bar for your enjoyment and relaxation, plus a full made-to-order hot breakfast in the morning.

With a fantastic, romantic Valentine’s Day Getaway package like this one, you’re bound to want better odds of winning!

Once you download the Free FloralApp™ and get your first entry to the drawing, be sure to use your new FloralApp™ to send flowers and gifts to everyone on your Valentine’s Day list – your mother, sister, daughter, mother-in-law, cousin – and get an additional drawing entry for EACH order made with your FloralApp™!

Everyone wins and YOU look like Superman!

*The winner will be notified by phone and email on February 12th, with an announcement on February 13th through Twitter, Facebook, and a blog post on FlowersDesMoines.com.

Reservations have been made for 7:00 pm, February 18th at Café di Scala and The Suites of 800 Locust, but the flowers can be delivered ON Valentine’s Day or picked up by the winner and delivered personally.

Thank you! And GOOD LUCK!!

Now, CLICK HERE to go to the FLORAL APP DOWNLOAD PAGE!

Ready for the busy holiday season?  Black Friday is an exciting day for shoppers and retail shops, alike – patrons get amazing deals and vendors can get their business back in the “black” for the year.  But don’t forget about Small Business Saturday!  How much do you think about where you shop?  Did you know that by shopping local, each of your dollars gets circulated in your community EIGHT times vs. only three with the big box stores?  That benefits your friends and neighbors instead of the fat cat corporate bigwigs.

Here at Boesen, we feel strongly about this issue, as we are a locally owned and operated business, trying to better our community.  Here is Tom Boesen talking about why it’s important to shop local and what benefits can be reaped from that simple choice.

Boesen the Florist has taken Mother’s Day “High Tech.”  Just in time for the upcoming Mother’s Day celebration, the Floral App for Boesen the Florist has been approved and launched into the iTunes store so iPhone users can download and shop for flowers right from their iPhone!

The Boesen the Florist Floral App launched for Android devices just before Valentine’s Day and saw great success in mobile purchases.

The integration of the iPhone version of the app is just another step Boesen the Florist has taken to push the Flower retail business into the 21st century.

Tom Boesen was “… thrilled with the number of orders that came in through the app during Valentine’s Day.”

Tom went on to say,

“Buying flowers from mobile phones will create a new connection to an emerging demographic of tech-savvy customers that most floral retailers just don’t understand how to reach. {Boesen the Florist} is really excited about this offer.”

With Mother’s Day quickly approaching, the Boesen brothers would like to invite you to download the mobile apps for your devices to receive a promotional $10 discount on your initial purchase through the app!

Simply click on the link icon below, ENTER THE KEYWORD “BOESEN” when prompted and get hooked up!

REMEMBER: keyword “BOESEN”

Of course, Android users can always go to the link below to download the Android version of the Floral App.

Simply click on the link icon below, ENTER THE KEYWORD “BOESEN” when prompted and get hooked up!

REMEMBER: keyword “BOESEN”

For more information about Boesen the Florist and the Floral App:
Tom Boesen
Boesen the Florist
515-244-ROSE (7673)
3422 Beaver Avenue
Des Moines, Iowa 50310

Or email Tom Boesen at: Tom@boesen.com

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.