There’s a NEW holiday tradition being added to St. Louis’s social calendar this year! “Holiday Magic” comes to America’s Center, December 4-6, and it promises to be an exciting and entertaining event for families and shoppers. Enjoy wood carving demonstrations and hands-on crafts, a dazzling light show with over 40,000 holiday lights choreographed to holiday music, and a full-scale indoor carnival.
And best of all . . . Walter Knoll Florist will be there with a special treat for children . . .

It’s gonna be great – we’ll have hundreds, maybe thousands of white poinsettias for kids to paint – as well as protective gear to keep their little outfits tidy – so come on down and get in the Christmas Spirit!

As we prepare and set up our booth for the big show we are also installing over 75 real live Christmas trees around the center-complete with lights!

And our booth will have lots of fully decorated trees and ideas as well as special “show” pricing – there will be ornaments and garland and wreaths and swags you can buy and take with you and we will also have on display our Holiday Arrangements (you may have seen them on our Holiday Unwrapped 2009 brochure we mailed out last week) – so come on down, bring the kids (and $5 of course-proceeds benefit Mathews-Dickey Boys and Girls Club). Tell ‘em Di sent you!

Speaking of poinsettias – you know it’s an old wives tale about them being toxic, don’t you? Well, although we don’t recommend you eat them, they are NOT poisonous.

Here is a pic of a poinsettia painted by a 73-year old!

How about a blue or purple poinsettia?

Can’t get down to the Convention Center this weekend? Don’t despair – visit our garden center at California and LaSalle and see all our poinsettia varieties – here’s a sampling!

Taller than some trees!

Our new digital signage at the St Louis Hills store

Hey, this installer looks suspiciously like one of the Knolls!

We at Walter Knoll Florist are happy our new sign is up and working. First zoning and hearings that took place, then it took 8 weeks to have the sign made,  then it took a crane and welder in a cherry picker bucket to install it, then new electric and fiber optic cable need to be bored under the driveway, then the electricity hooked up the fiber optic cables terminated, and the sign installed and plugged in and connected to a computer, but finally today, our sign is active! Every two minutes a new image appears, just in time to wish all the traffic on South Hampton (located at 4620 Hampton Ave) a Happy New Year!  The sign can show, text,  images, moving video, flash,  can update motion at 30 frames per second, and can be programmed remotely from our main office.  The sign has over 28,000 LEDs (light emitting diodes), a temperature sensor, A GPS for time, and can display more than 68.7 billion colors. We are going to remove the lower reader board in the lower letterbox and replace it with our logo.

The balloons are animated!

We’ll announce specials

Tulips Are Here!

and give you the time and temp.

WATCH FOR IT!

Here are some images of the sign and the crane for this monumental installation!

This tree is in the Lobby of the Metropolitan Square building in downtown St Louis (Located at 1 Metropolitan Square).  This year the tree has been transformed to tell the story of the history of St Louis. Included in the ornaments are 32 large, custom luminaries that were hand crafted by Walter Knoll Florist.  These luminaries show a pictorial history of St Louis.  The luminaries are made from Lexan, a clear polycarbonate that has been cast into tubes that then have historical images from St Louis’ past displayed with back-lit illumination.  Images featured include Louisiana Purchase, Thomas Jefferson,  Lewis and Clark, The 1904 Worlds Fair, Charles Lindbergh & the Spirit of St Louis,  the construction of the St Louis Arch and many other Saint Louis historic moments.

Standing at over 45 feet tall, this is the largest Indoor holiday tree in the St Louis area.

The Christmas tree in the lobby of the Metropolitan Square Building

This year we added a podium and a book with copies of the images and a description of each photo.

The Podium and Picture Book feature LED lighting

Some Close Ups of the Luminaries

Many of the images came from the Missouri History Museum and  several from the personal collection of Mark Allen from Anmar Photography.

If you are out looking at holiday decorations this season, it is worth your time to go by and see the biggest and best tree in St Louis. The Metropolitan Square Building tree is a great backdrop for a holiday photo.

This tree was assembled and decorated by Walter Knoll Florist and we manufactured many of the decorations as well.

If you would like to ask Walter Sr a question about the decorations click here.

The Gateway to the West in Downtown St Louis Missouri

550 KTRS Talk Radio is running the Spirit of St Louis campaign that Walter Knoll Florist is proud to be part of . . . to quote Walter Knoll “St Louis has been great for Walter Knoll Florist – for over 125 years!” Mike Shannon, Ozzie Smith and John Rooney all talk about how they could be anywhere in the world but they choose St Louis. We have so much to be proud of here -

there’s the world famous

St Louis Zoo

and the Missouri Botanical Gardens and Buckminster Fuller’s geodesic dome, the Climatron

Climatron @ Missouri Botanical Garden

as well as our St Louis Science Center with it’s Omnimax theater -and what St Louisan doesn’t get that fuzzy feeling when we see the bow around the Planetarium as the holidays draw near?

KTRS The Big 550

Walter Knoll Florist Your Personal Florist Since 1883

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For 125 years Walter Knoll Florist Has Called St Louis Home

We had a bit of a competition among each of our stores – an arrangement was entered by each and during our 125 anniversary party we asked our guests to vote for their favorite. Well, I’m not going to say which arrangement got the most votes. They are all such great entries. Enjoy!

Walter Knoll Florist Saint Louis’s Favorite Mom Contest.

Martha Stewart Living’s Weddings website rates Walter Knoll Florist the highest of the Saint Louis area florists

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Our hearts go out to the family and friends of Tim Bippen, our co-worker, killed in a tragic accident on Saturday 8/25/07. Tim started here as holiday help a few Christmases ago and quickly signed on for full time. Always ready with a helping hand and sheepish grin – even answered to “Greg” – his brother’s name, Greg works here on his holidays from school.

Tall, handsome, charming, funny, sly, precious to many, you’ll be missed by all.

Get some good Angel shots for us, Tim!

Funeral service at KUTIS Affton Chapel, 10151 Gravois, Wed., Aug 29, 10 a.m. Visitation Tues., Aug 28, 3-9 p.m. Internment Sunset Cemetery.