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English Tudor-style home showcases Atlanta owners plans and flowers

The downstairs bedrooms and bathroom also were renovated. The master bathroom was gutted and redesigned with space for a walk-in closet by California Closets; it also has sinks by Decolav. The covered wood deck was converted into a porch off the second-floor master bedroom. The exterior brick was painted and artificial turf was added to the backyard.Interior design style: TraditionalFavorite interior design elements: The circa 1900 Singer sewing machine table that doubles as a side table in the living room, houseplants and furniture inherited from family.Favorite outdoor features: The covered porch off the second-floor master bedroom. The space, which Kenan said feels like staying in a great hotel suite, also joins a patio and side porch for their outdoor spaces.Resources: Furniture from Intaglia Home Collection. Lighting from Pottery Barn. Fabric from Karen’s Fabrics. Curtains from Pottery Barn. Sewing machine by Singer. Art by Steve Penley, Britt Bass Turner and J. William Hill. Faucet by Brizo and Newport Brass. Kitchen range, fridge and dishwasher by Thermador. Paint by Sherwin-Williams, including Repose Gray.Tip: Don’t be afraid to mix metals and finishes for a collected look, Kenan said. ... https://www.ajc.com/lifestyles/home/morningside-tudor-showcases-fondness-for-florals/PgO3zCX8v4gC5aNKQnaNAP/

California succulent smugglers plant poachers seed Asia desire for dudleya

Last December, Patrick Freeling, a game warden with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW), was in his office in Mendocino County when his phone rang. No one back then, not the anonymous caller and certainly not Freeling, could have imagined the events that phone call would set in motion: not the arrests, the court cases, the undercover agents pressed into service prowling California’s coastline. In less than six months, international poaching rings stretching to South Korea and China would be exposed – operations that, prior to that phone call, no one knew existed.The woman on the phone had been annoyed. Earlier that day, while visiting the post office, she had found herself stuck in line behind a man sending 60 packages to China. As curious as she was peeved by the inconvenience, she asked what he was shipping so much of. He raised a finger to his lips with a conspiratorial “Shhhhh!” and said it was something “very valuable”. When she asked where he got the items, the man pointed towards... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/2163157/californias-succulent-smugglers-plant-poachers

FIORE florist grew business out of grit and hustle

Pallin hustled to hone and develop her design skills by pursuing jobs and learning opportunities from other successful designers. She got her foot in the door with an innovative and prominent California florist after regularly pursuing him for a job, for four years. “I would see him places and I would constantly ask him for a job and he would constantly say no until one day I asked him and he said yes! I learned so much and absorbed what he had to say like a sponge. My motto with my team now is ‘How can we make it different and better,’ and I learned that from him.” Determined to pursue her design dreams, Pallin decided she needed to be in New York City to reach them. At 26 years old, she took everything she had to the Big Apple — $1,000 and a couch — and gave herself a month to make it. She soon found a job working as an interior florist in the Carlyle Hotel. Pallin and one other employee were responsible for servicing the entire luxury hotel with arrangements and helping with party planning. For two years, she worked events for hotel guests such as fashion designers Calvin Klein and Diane von Furstenberg, as well as planned hotel parties where other celebrities would attend, including entertainer Eartha Kitt and many others. New York was a “make it or break it” experience for Pallin, but she says because she was on her own she learned more and persistently asked for help. She found more freelancing opportunities and was soon helping to produce television design shows for the likes of star hosts Martha Stewart and Katie Brown. More: Celebrating with Flowers Thrilled with her success, Pallin had no real interest in moving back to Pensacola where her mother now lived again. However, during a visit home for Mardi Gras she met her husband, Tim Pallin, and never went back to New York. She continued to travel to the Big Apple for freelance jobs but eventually decided to combine her passion for design with her entrepreneurial spirit and open a business in Pensacola. She started FIORE at 35, when she was pregnant with the first of her two children. “I guess I just had a lot of drive,” Pallin explains with a smile. “Florists weren’t as hip then as they are now. My passion was for designing and I had to learn how to run a business. Twenty-two years later, I don’t see myself doing anything else in the future.” Pallin’s team of 10 employees includes one man and the rest are women, several who have been with her for years. They work together around the tables in the Design Room and also in the field preparing for someone’s special occasion. Sometimes the work can be stressful, juggling deadlines and the emotional needs of customers who want flowers for everything from weddings to funerals, but they all work as a team to help customers feel like friends and family. Many stop by just to visit the staff while they work on designs in the shop. Dropping in at FIORE is like stopping by a friend’s place. Inside the historic, brick building on Main Street is an assortment of displays in the gift shop including home décor, jewelry, and the ever fashionable “Fifi,” a decorative display mannequin whose flamboyant regalia embodies the current mood of the season. Just past the gift shop is the large Design Room, the heart of FIORE. The walls are lined with coolers and buckets overflowing with blooms of every color, shape and size, as well as shelves and stacked floor-to-ceiling vases, big and small. It’s a busy, but peaceful ... https://www.pnj.com/story/life/2018/08/25/pensacola-florist-grew-fiore-business-out-grit-and-hustle/1070517002/

An illustrated guide to Los Angeles trees and flowers

Also known as “pineapple palms,” they are distinguished by the diamond-shape pattern on their trunks, caused by the scars of past leaves, and their bright orange-yellow flowers.3. California fan palmShorter and stockier than Mexican fan palms, California fan palms are also known as “petticoat palms” on account of the shaggy skirts of dead fronds that encircle their trunks. Thanks to this feature, these palms are quite popular with roof rats.4. Orange treesOranges arrived in Southern California with Spanish missionaries, who planted one of the first groves in the region at Mission San Gabriel in 1804. But it wasn’t until the 1870s that the citrus industry really took off, thanks to the introduction of a seedless variety of orange from Brazil, which later became known as the Washington navel. The advent of refrigerated shipping a decade later really kicked things into high gear, and in short order, vast swaths of what is now Pasadena, the San Fernando Valley, and, of course, Orange County were blanketed by orange groves. Most of the groves got squeezed out by the post-WWII population boom and suburban sprawl, but orange, lime, and lemon trees can still be found in countless yards all over the city. And for those folks who don’t have a yard, or whose yards are without fruit trees, there’s the Endless Orchard, which maps the location of publicly accessible fruit-bearing trees in your neighborhood.5. Angel’s trumpetIts name might be cute, and its musical instrument-shaped flowers pretty, but don’t toot on those horns—they’ve got hallucinogenic properties and are highly toxic, as more than a few curious teens who’ve ingested them in the hopes of getting high have learned firsthand.6. JacarandaFor 10 months a year, these South American imports are content to blend into the landscape, providing shade and shelter in low-key fashion while quietly biding their time. Then one spring day, as if by prearranged signal—Shazam!—they turn into drama queens, unveiling their vivid violet canopies in concert for maximum impact. When you find yourself feeling less dazzled by the annual showcase of purple haze than annoyed about the mess that accompanies it, congratulations—you’re now a local.7... https://la.curbed.com/2018/8/23/17720768/los-angeles-plants-trees-glossary-guide-jasmine-palm