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Mother's Day vases - Pueblo West View

Mother’s Day is May 14.With a prepay date of April 26, the Sons of the American Legion, Squadron 207 are selling Mother’s Day vases to fund various veteran and youth community programs in Pueblo West.The vases are $20 picked up and $25 delivered to the Pueblo West and Pueblo areas.Pick up is from 5 to 7 p.m. May 12 at the VFW Post 5812, 127 E. Spaulding Ave, Pueblo West.Delivery will be at the same time.For the third year, Jo Ann Quinton, owner of Pueblo West’s Q Garden Design – Wedding Florist, is providing all flowers and supplies at cost and donating her time to help the Sons in this fund aising event.Contact Q Garden Design – Wedding Florist at 547-4626 or the American Legion Post 207 (text or call) at 248-4378 for questions and to purchase these vases.Payment can be made in cash or checks to S.A.L Squadron 207. http://pueblowestview.com/briefly/mother-s-day-vases/article_5b2f1fcc-1491-11e7-821d-d37138d4e311.html

Tucson ranked 57th best city for Valentine's Day - KVOA Tucson News

Valentine’s Day.Tucson was ranked no. 56 with total score 48.82. The Old Pueblo received a budget rank of 57, an activities rank of 35, an accessibility rank of 43 and a weather forecast rank of 9.The top three cities for Valentine’s Day are San Francisco, Scottsdale and Honolulu, respectively. The worst cities for Valentine’s Day are Cleveland, Detroit and Hialeah, Fla.For the complete results, visit wallethub.com. http://www.kvoa.com/story/31171800/tucson-ranked-57th-best-city-for-valentines-day

A Pop-Up Shop at a Portland Florist Is Selling Cannabis Bouquets

Mercury StaffThis weekend, Starflower florist on Southeast Hawthorne will be host to a "Cannabis Flower Bouquet Pop-Up." Among their usual flowers and greenery, these colorful collections contain extremely fresh and subtly fragrant Oregon sun-grown hemp flowers from East Fork Cultivars. Starflower will be selling "bud vases" that contain some gorgeous, CBD-dominant, very-low-THC, and terpene-rich cannabis flower (AKA craft hemp), along with non-cannabis flowers in the arrangement for $15, $20, and $25, with full bouquets from $50 to $100 upon request. These beauties got comments from my Lyft drivers to and from the Mercury offices to be photographed. They have a mild cannabis smell—not an overpowering skunk aroma, but one certainly indicative of their shared linage with its THC-heavy relative. The buds are vibrant and rich, and pair remarkably well with the other flowers. “We've wanted to create and sell cannabis flower... https://www.portlandmercury.com/blogtown/2018/10/26/23968414/a-pop-up-shop-at-a-portland-florist-is-selling-cannabis-bouquets

Fashion Industry Favorite FLOOM Brings Its Same Day Online Artisanal Flower Delivery Experience Stateside

Floom is the product of my life-long love of flowers and the frustration that the floral industry didn’t have a beautifully curated, easy to use service that brought together all the amazing florists operating under the radar of most people,’ says Elie. Floom is a VC-backed start-up on a mission to become the most-trusted place to send extraordinary flowers from the best independent florists around the globe. Our website’s seamless curatorial-like shopping experience, blends creative and inspiring content and exceptional customer service to create a marketplace like no other, offering a truly unique floral delivery experience. Floom has been voted one of the top UK 100 startups two years in a row, created long-lasting relationships with florists across all of the UK and New York, and sent flowers to over 120 different countries.Created out of the conundrum of trying to find beautifully crafted bouquets online or at the local grocery store, Floom believes that last minute bouquets should be just as beautiful as the ones you spent a little bit more time arranging. Striving to be a platform where shoppers can find a stylish selection of speedily available bouquets  – a sort of Farfetch for independent florists if you like – Floom gives florists the tools connect to our discerning online community. Florists receive a backend management tool, and customers receive more options, in more areas, from carefully vetted florists, with the ultimate convenience of a seamless check-out and fresh, uniquely designed bouquets delivered stat whether it’s Mother’s Day, Valentine’s Day or Hump Day. Continuing on their mission to spread floral joy, Floom is now working with the most sought-after, independent, green fingered artisans in Los Angeles including Eric Buterbaugh, Fiore Designs and Juicy ... http://nbherard.com/pr/fashion-industry-favorite-floom-brings-its-same-day-online-artisanal-flower-delivery-experience-stateside/232992

Volunteers band together to revive recycled-bouquet program

Random Acts of Flowers: Blossom Buddies in Menlo Park and Flowers of Comfort in San Jose. Many of the volunteers have maintained their earlier relationships with local donor retailers, florists and markets. "There's nothing that excites us as much as a bucket of day-old or week-old flowers," said Palo Alto resident Barbara Levin, as the group cheered the arrival of a new bucket of leftovers from Mills Florist. Levin is a longtime volunteer who routinely collects cast-offs from Trader Joe's in Palo Alto. Others pick up from Trader Joe's in Menlo Park and a branch of Whole Foods. "We never know what flowers or vases we're going to have to work with, so every time we come in it's a new and interesting experience and it's a way of showing off our creative side," Levin said. The women have no trouble unpacking funeral wreaths and other event-specific arrangements to "create something more interesting," Klause said. But in some cases the used flowers are not fresh enough for a second life and must be discarded. Volunteer Sandra Bachman, a Woodside resident, said her favorite place to deliver is Stanford University Hospital. "To go in and see patients that do not have any flowers or visitors and walk in with a bouquet and for five minutes they forget about their problems," Bachman said. "They open their eyes and to get that smile, and to hear through that family what a difference that can make for healing ... A lot of the nurses say it helps them heal. It brings the outside in, the sunshine in." For more information about Avenidas Blooms, write to info@avenidas.org or call 650-289-5400.--- Follow the Palo Alto Weekly/Palo Alto Online on Twitter @PaloAltoWeekly and Facebook for breaking news, local events, photos, videos and more. ... https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2018/10/07/volunteers-band-together-to-revive-recycled-bouquet-program

Florist Fire outgrows Hyde Park Village, relocates to Davis Islands

TAMPA -- Florist Fire Design House creates award-winning florals for any special occasion: weddings, corporate parties, charity events “and just because flowers make everyone happy,” said Gayle Zerr, the owner/lead designer who relocated the floral shop to downtown Davis Islands last month.“We outgrew our space in Hyde Park Village,” Zerr said. “I really like the sense of community on Davis Islands and felt it needed a neighborhood flower shop.”Weddings keep the business busy year round and account for 75 percent of the work.“I love weddings,” Zerr said. “We’ve done themes from traditional to Bollywood, a really fun one with exotic flowers, incense and lanterns.”Corporate and charitable clients, including Wine, Women and Shoes and St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital gala can take 80 hours of planning and preparing, she said.“We did a Dali event where we copied his paintings and portrayed them in florals... https://www.tampabay.com/news/hillsborough/city-times/florist-fire-outgrows-hyde-park-village-relocates-to-davis-island-20181011/

The Art of Flowers: Carolyne Roehm will speak about her career in fashion, design and gardening

Growing up in Missouri, she remembers playing on her grandparents’ farm, in the garden and with the animals.“As a little girl I played dress- up and played florist,” she said. “My heart and soul is really in the outdoors and nature.”Roehm, 67, started her career as a fashion designer in New York City, working for Oscar de la Renta before opening her own fashion house. But the love of nature never left her, and after 22 years she took a hiatus from the world of fashion to learn a new craft, taking an unpaid stint working at a flower shop in Paris.There, she learned the intricacies of designing perfect bouquets and floral arrangements.“I kind of took a sabbatical and decided I wanted to do things I’d never had time to do before,” she said.It was a whole new kind of design, but in many ways, she said, it was familiar.“To me, there is no difference. Flowers and nature teach us about color, about proportion, about line texture, about composition,” she said.She went on to write 13 books, combining her love of gardens, fashion and interior design. Her latest book, “Design & Style: A Constant Thread,” published Sept. 25 by Rizzoli, is part memoir, part photo-laden coffee table book, mixing stories from her life and career with images of her gardens and design work.“I wanted to show this relationship between gardening and fashion and flowers. Flowers have connected so much of what I’ve designed and created,” she said. “This is my relationship with nature and flowers.”That’s an apt topic for her visit to the Cedar Rapids Garden Club, which has supported public beautifica... https://www.thegazette.com/subject/life/books/the-art-of-flowers-carolyne-roehm-will-speak-about-her-career-in-fashion-design-and-gardening-20181027

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