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!

Everyone knows Boesen does holidays like no other, and July 4^th is no exception.

The Fourth of July is a day for family, friends, food, fireworks, freedom, and most importantly,  (to us at least) flowers! Americans celebrate the Fourth of July as the day we declared independence, or did we? Did you know that America’s independence was actually declared on July 2^nd and only adopted by Congress on July 4^th?

This and other myths surround the celebration of our independence. Many people believe that the Declaration of Independence was actually signed on July 4^th, but TRUE PATRIOTS know better.

QUESTION:

On what day was the Declaration of Independence ultimately signed?

Post the correct answer to this trivia question in the comments section below. The 10^th post with a correct answer wins a FREE “Weber King of the Grill” bouquet from Boesen the Florist! With a beautiful arrangement of bright flowers placed in a perfect miniature replica of the legendary Weber® grill, this is the perfect bouquet to roll into your Fourth of July festivities!

Good luck.

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, we finished our week long ugliest plant contest and we have our winner.  Congratulations to @kmracek for the ugliest plant.  You’ve won a $75 plant of your choice.  Come on in to our Beaverdale location and let us help you figure out how to replace that old thing.

Hey All -

Okay.  So we’re running a really fun contest that will run from Friday November 13th through Friday November 20th.  That gives you a full week to find the ugliest plant possible.  The winner of this contest will get a free plant up to $75 in value. Here’s how it will work:

Find your plant and take a picture of it get it to us in one of three ways:

• You can email it to us at steve@createwowmedia.com
• Send us the picture via Twitter.  You can use twitpic if you’d like or any other service, just be sure to @boesenflorist in your tweet.
• Upload it on our Facebook fanpage and add your name in the comment box.  You can become a fan here.

Like I said, we’ll be accepting all pictures between 11/13 and 11/20.  Once all pictures have been submitted we will post them online and YOU get to vote on the winner.  We will have our designers vote as well on which they feel is the ugliest plant.  Just like one of your favorite shows, our designers vote will count as half and your as the other half.

You will have all weekend (11/21 & 11/22) to vote for the ugliest plant and that following Monday (11/22) we will announce the winner.

HELP US FIND THE UGLIEST PLANT IN THE DES MOINES METRO AREA!!!!  And win yourself a plant up to $75 for FREE!!!

This will be a ton of fun and we can’t wait to see what ugly plants you find out there.  Remember:  If you submit via email please include your name, if you submit via Twitter, be sure to follow us so we can message you and if you submit via Facebook, enter your name in the comment box.

Prize is for store pick up only

Okay.  We’ve got some flowers we are going to give away this Monday to a nursing home in the Des Moines area.  Saturday and Sunday nominate any nursing home you’d like to receive these flowers and on Monday AM we’ll have a drawing to deliver them.  Help us out and nominate a nursing home via Twitter or email us here.

Thanks a ton everybody!!

Last Friday we had a Twitter contest to give away a free dozen roses to a random follower on Twitter.  All they had to do was re-tweet and follow to win.  Due to the excitement we found with our loyal customers keep your eyes out for some more contests coming up in the near future.

To all you going to Highlight Midwest, we’ll be having a fun one coming your way this Friday, October 23.  It’s going to be a blast!

Our winner from Friday was @phoever.  Shoot her a quick congrats because I’m sure she’s going to love her roses and they’ll definitely be a bright spot in her day.

Today only we’re running a Twitter contest.  RT the link for this page and follow us @boesenflorist and you’ll be eligible to win a delivered dozen roses on the house.