Tag: Flower

Flower is a bloomin’ stinker; fans don’t mind

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 [...]

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Flower Shop Is a Bright Bouquet of Bloom

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 [...]

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Flower Business Blossoms Mother’s Day Weekend

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 [...]

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Long Branch Girl Scout Brownies and Daisies Plant Flower Garden

News from Word on the Shore: By: Jack Kearns   Published: May 12, 2012 Long Branch:  Girl Scout Brownies of Troop #1363 and Daisies Troop #356 planted flowers at the community garden on Union Avenue and Liberty Street on Friday afternoon.   The fifteen scouts had raised money to purchase the flowers from their Girl [...]

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Last Minute Mother’s Day Gift Idea: Fresh Cut Flower of the Month Club

News from Seattle Post Intelligencer: Because every woman loves to beautify her surroundings! Lake Forest, CA (PRWEB) May 11, 2012 Mother’s Day is just around the corner, accompanied by the panic of sons, daughters and husbands as they struggle to find a gift that says “I love you” in just the right way. With monthly [...]

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Flower & Garden Show reveals ’13 theme

News from Windy City Times: Tony Abruscato, director and owner of Flower Show Productions, has revealed the the Chicago Flower & Garden Show’s theme for 2013. Next year, the show will present “The Art of Gardening” in Navy Pier’s Festival Hall March 9-17. The show’s preview event, “Evening in Bloom,” will be held Friday, March [...]

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Dig in for Flower Power garden party

News from Aurora Beacon News: By Jeff Long jlong@fvpd.net May 8, 2012 12:04PM Volunteers work together planting annuals in front of Splash Country Water Park, one of three locations where Flower Power Planting Parties will be held Saturday. storyidforme: 30151397tmspicid: 10933172fileheaderid: 5003108 Updated: May 8, 2012 5:50PM Let’s be honest here, guys. Flowers really do [...]

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Dig in for Flower Power garden party

News from Aurora Beacon News: By Jeff Long jlong@fvpd.net May 8, 2012 12:04PM Volunteers work together planting annuals in front of Splash Country Water Park, one of three locations where Flower Power Planting Parties will be held Saturday. storyidforme: 30151397tmspicid: 10933172fileheaderid: 5003108 Updated: May 8, 2012 5:50PM Let’s be honest here, guys. Flowers really do [...]

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The Gift of Kittens in a Flower Pot

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 [...]

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Flower power restores colour to ancient Rome

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 [...]

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