News from Columbus Dispatch: Enlarge Image Neal C. Lauron | Dispatch Andi Wolfe photographs the corpse flower at OSU last year. By  Summer Ballentine THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH Thursday May 17, 2012 5:56 AM Ohio State University botanists are holding their breath as they wait for a rare flower to bloom at the Biological Sciences Greenhouse [...]

News from Patch.com: Mary Zoltowski is at the height of her busy season. “The week leading up to Mother’s Day makes up about 35 percent of the store’s business,” says Zoltowski, 47, owner of Moorestown Flower Shoppe, a prominent fixture on Main Street for decades (and recently chosen by Moorestown Patch readers as their favorite [...]

News from Prestwood Advertiser: A LIBRARY will hope for a blossoming future after confirming a community partnership with a local florist to help preserve its long-term future. Bucks County Council ran a public consultation in March to see if the public would support plans to move another business into Great Missenden Library’s premises to generate [...]

News from a Montclair teacher – harvests inspiration from the flower garden – NorthJersey.com: The woman in the middle of the Presby Memorial Iris Gardens in Montclair, staring intently at a flower, watercolor paints at her side, is probably Verona resident Patricia Buchanan. ADAM ANIK/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Verona resident Patricia Buchanan uses broad and fine brushes [...]

News from IBNLive.com: BANGALORE: What strikes you first when you feel like gifting a friend or a dear one? The first thing that comes to one’s mind is fresh flowers or a beautiful bouquet. Yes, it is much easier to buy a floral bouquet now, as many florists are seen selling colourful and exquisitely arranged [...]

News from Telegraph.co.uk: Richard Reynolds has just completed something of a marathon guerrilla-gardening spruce based around Elephant and Castle, of which both the Guerrilla Lavender Field (Westminster Bridge Road, SE1 junction with St George’s Road) and St George’s Circus (SE1) are the largest and most spectacular, while the “pimped” pavements of London Road (10 tree [...]

News from The Tribune-Democrat: JOHNSTOWN — Jim Burns didn’t fit the prototype of a race car driver during the rough and tumble stock car racing era of the 1950s through the late-’70s. The Geistown native had the reputation of being quiet and laid back in the pit area and was never involved in on-track altercations. [...]

News from WSAW: This year, Mother’s Day gift sales are expected to increase 14 percent from last year. According to the National Retail Federation, consumers will spend a whopping $ 18.6 billion. For flower shops and garden nurseries, that equals big sales. Floral arrangements are the number one purchase this weekend; more than $ 2 [...]

News from Salt Lake Tribune: (Kim Raff | The Salt Lake Tribune) Kassie Washington organizes flowers for delivery for Mother’s Day at the Salt Lake Florist Delivery Pool in Salt Lake City on May 11, 2012. This is the 25th anniversary of David Marti’s flower delivery pool service. Saturday is sure to fly by in [...]

News from Roanoke Times: About a week before Mother’s Day, one of the busiest holidays for florists, a Google advertisement for George’s Flowers in Roanoke read: “Real Local Roanoke Florist.” The ad, placed by floral shop owner George Clements, is one way he’s pushing back against Internet and telephone-order flower service companies such as FTD, [...]