News from Fox Business: Be a Good Kid and a Shrewd Shopper You love your mom. And after all she’s done for you, she deserves something really special on Mother’s Day, don’t you think? But before you splurge on a gift — such as a day at a spa, a gift certificate to her favorite [...]

News from Patch.com: The following is a press release issued by Assemblymember Bob Wieckowski’s office: Assemblymember Bob Wieckowski’s (D-Fremont) bill to combat consumer deception in the floral industry passed the state Assembly last week with strong bipartisan support on a 60-11 vote. The bill, AB 1581, requires floral retailers who use local phone numbers or [...]

News from Stars and Stripes: On my first visit to the Rose Garden in Zweibrücken, Germany, everything was not coming up roses. It was raining and it was cold. Even the yellow tulips kept their petals tightly shut, as if to protest the damp chill. A half hour earlier, we had left our village of [...]

News from Huffington Post: Early in my life I was told to be careful how I treated strangers because I might be entertaining angels without realizing it. A few days ago a small clan of angels arrived on my patio without my invitation or knowledge. They were discovered by me when I hurriedly went into [...]

News from Patch.com: The following is a press release issued by Assemblymember Bob Wieckowski’s office: Sacramento – Assemblymember Bob Wieckowski’s (D-Fremont) bill to combat consumer deception in the floral industry passed the state Assembly this week with strong bipartisan support on a 60-11 vote. The bill, AB 1581, requires floral retailers who use local phone [...]

News from Fort Wayne Journal Gazette: On a bright April morning, Darlene Stucky and Cardy McComas get out of Stucky’s silver-gray sedan in the driveway of a yellow-painted bungalow a couple of blocks from Parkview Hospital’s Randallia Drive campus in Fort Wayne. Carrying an insulated tote bag, the two climb up the front porch steps [...]

News from AFP: Flower power restores colour to ancient Rome (AFP) – 29 minutes ago  ROME — Italian archaeologists on Saturday inaugurated new flower gardens in the ruins of ancient Roman palaces on the Palatine Hill in a colourful reconstruction of what the area may have looked like 2,000 years ago. Purple petunias, white leadworts [...]

News from Boston.com: DENNIS, Mass.—The owner of a Dennis florist shop has died from injuries suffered when he was struck by a car last weekend, and the driver is now facing vehicular homicide charges. Police say 76-year-old Symen “Jim” Kooy, owner of Blossoms Florist of Cape Cod, died Wednesday night at a Boston hospital. He [...]

News from Chicago Tribune: Somewhere along the way, honoring mom came to mean a fancy brunch or extravagant flower bouquet, an oddly transactional approach that manages to be both generic and pricey at a time many household budgets are tight. But the most meaningful Mother’s Day gifts may be the ones that don’t cost a [...]

News from nwitimes.com: Josephine Schoettle was the remarkable woman who owned Flowers by Josephine in Lansing for almost 50 years. When the shop finally was closed two years ago, after the Christmas season, Schoettle got plenty of good wishes from those who’d been customers and friends over the years. Schoettle opened her flower shop upon [...]