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Protecting Paradise Protecting Paradise through your own garden Alanna Quillen 6:05 PM, Jun 20, 2019 - WPTV.com

Have a story idea? Email us at paradise@wptv.com WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — If you’re trying to go green at home, why not start with your own yard?There are lots of things you can do there to help the environment.Laurie Albrecht, a University of Florida horticulture extension agent, walked us through how you can plant smart at home.?? SPECIAL COVERAGE: Protecting Paradise ?? “Most people are unaware that what they do in their own backyard or garden can have massive impacts on what happens in our water bodies and natural areas,” she said.It starts with following the nine principles of Florida-Friendly landscaping :Right plant, right placeAlbrecht said making sure you put the right plant in the right place is important, otherwise you might unknowingly create problems in your yard. A plant that thrives in a friend's yard on the coast might not do so well in your yard just a few miles inland.“If it’s the right plant in the right place, generally speaking they don’t attract as many insect or disease problems, and that means we can reduce s... https://www.wptv.com/news/region-c-palm-beach-county/west-palm-beach/protecting-paradise-through-your-own-garden

Mother's Day gift ideas: Our picks for flowers in Palm Beach County - Palm Beach Post

Waterford Crystal. Plants, orchids, silk and artificial flowers are also available. Floral arrangements can be paired with a number of gift items, including chocolates.Contact: 411 7th St. Suite 10, West Palm Beach; 561-659-0772Visit their websiteLove’s Flower Shop opened in downtown West Palm Beach 15 years ago. The shop specializes in tropical arrangements, but offers a wide variety of other flowers, plants and blooming gardens. Arrangements can be paired with a number of gift items, including bath products and essential oils.» RELATED: See our complete Mother’s Day Local Gift Guide ... http://malled.blog.palmbeachpost.com/2016/04/27/mothers-day-gift-ideas-our-picks-for-flowers-in-palm-beach-county/

Homegrown and beautiful: Photo show makes a case for Florida native plants

It would look a great deal more like the 100 photographs of Florida native plants in Renewal: Going Native at the Palm Beach Photographic Centre in West Palm Beach. PHOTOS: Florida native plants at Palm Beach Photographic CentreMany Florida gardeners have gone native, including the photo center’s president and chief executive officer, Fatima NeJame.She doesn’t feel she’s missing out by bypassing the exotic plants that have squeezed out natives in many landscapes. Everything that grows in her West Palm Beach yard is either a native or an edible plant.They’re not only beautiful, but also if you plant the right native in the right place “you’re protecting the wildlife and you don’t need to fertilize or water so much,” she said.She hopes the exhibition convinces others to give native plants a try.NeJame organized the exhibition with West Palm Beach resident Susan Lerner, the three-term president of the Palm Beach County Chapter of the Florida Native Plant Society.NeJame is the chapter’s treasurer. Lerner recently was hired to fill the newly created director of horticulture position with the Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach.“We want to show people how beautiful natives are and while we’re at it show how important they are,” she ... https://www.palmbeachdailynews.com/news/local/homegrown-and-beautiful-show-makes-case-for-florida-native-plants/UGAGaMxraCfNzqgB0MY4CP/

Graceful peony has super colors for the bedroom

Palm Beach, where you’ll likely find patterns with blooming peonies that will suit your style. Consider Mac Fabrics at 426 Clematis St., West Palm Beach. I often visit Boca Bargoons at 910 U.S. 1 in Lake Park for a look through the racks — and I always appreciate the very helpful staff there.A trip to Boca Bargoons also means a stop for lunch nearby at The Carving Station, 720 U.S. 1, a popular and casual buffet-style restaurant. It isn’t fancy, but it sure is fun — and perfect for summertime, I think.*Palm Beacher Carleton Varney is president of Dorothy Draper & Co., an international design firm with offices in New York, West Palm Beach, London and White Sulphur Springs, W.Va. Visit CarletonVarney.com or email him at cvarney@dorothydraper.com. https://www.palmbeachdailynews.com/lifestyles/graceful-peony-has-super-colors-for-the-bedroom/sj1WgQkp2elj7sNH7FUQFM/

Faux can be fun in design, but go natural when it comes to floral - Palm Beach Daily News

I say.*Palm Beacher Carleton Varney is president of Dorothy Draper & Co., an international design firm with offices in New York, West Palm Beach, London and White Sulphur Springs, W.Va. Visit CarletonVarney.com or email him at cvarney@dorothydraper.com. http://www.palmbeachdailynews.com/lifestyles/faux-can-fun-design-but-natural-when-comes-floral/U1rRGkVedJwSXRvM7gsPXM/

The Blossom Shoppe Provides Custom Floral Arrangements - Press Release - Digital Journal

Boynton Beach FL Blossom ShoppeOne of the leading florists serving the Boynton Beach area for over 60 years offers customized floral arrangements crafted by their best designers.Boynton Beach, Florida - September 23, 2019 - The Blossom Shoppe, one of the recognized flower shops in the Boynton Beach area, now provides Custom floral arrangements for their clients. No matter the occasion, the designers will create a beautiful design upon understanding the clients’ requirements. The company suggests custom arrangements for those who are unsure about choosing the right flowers for their loved ones.A spokesperson for the company explained, “We are happy to offer customized flower arrangements for all our customers. If there’s a favorite flower or color, just let us know and we’ll incorporate it into the design. You will be sure of obtaining an arrangement that is full of lively, gorgeous blooms. All our floral arrangements are crafted by our experienced designers, and we make sure to use only the freshest flowers available.”The Blossom Shoppe has been in business for over 60 years and is one of the preferred florists in the Boynton Beach area. The company has been voted “Best in Boynton” for several years. The ... http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/4452913

Royer's Flowers and Gifts CEO talks about returning to the family business - Reading Eagle

The only thing I buy from the U.S. is some of our greens that we use to make arrangements. We get stuff from the west coast, the northwest of the United States, and we get some stuff from Florida. In the summer, we use a lot of locally grown flowers, like sunflowers. There's an Amish family that we've worked with for like 15 years that grows a lot of our sunflowers that we use during the summer. We don't get any greenhouse-grown flowers anymore."BW: How often do you or someone from Royer's travel out of the country to inspect flowers? TR: "At least two or three times a year. I go to all the farms that I buy roses from to go inspect them. While they're in the process of cutting them, harvesting them, I'm there seeing what they're doing to make sure that the cut point on the rose is right: it's not too far open, it's not too tight, I check on the head size to make sure the size of the flower is the right number of centimeters and also to make sure they're fresh. After I do that inspection, I'm there for two or three days, and then I fly into Miami where we fly our flowers and they clear customs there, and I inspect them again to make sure everything is OK, then we load them on our refrigerated trucks to ship them up here to Pennsylvania."BW: How has the internet changed the flower business? TR: "I would say about half of our business runs through the internet. It's been very helpful for us for communication and showing people what we have. One of the biggest issues we had at Valentine's Day before the advent of the internet, we couldn't handle the volume of business on Valentine's Day because we didn't have enough infrastructure to be able to deal with it. We needed 100 phone lines instead of 12. We just didn't have enough structure. People waited until the last minute. It's been a wonderful thing."BW: Are there any plans for additional Royer's locations? TR: "We're always looking at potential growth through acquisition. There are always things out there that we're aware of, nothing that I can report. We're always looking to grow."BW: Do you think your grandparents would have ever imagined the company would get as big as it is? TR: "No. My dad told me when he was younger he wanted to be the largest florist in Lebanon County. Back then, there was a lot of flower shops in Lebanon. It was very competitive. There was a lot of really good family businesses that were florists. It was a constant struggle with competition, but he eventually realized his goal of being the largest florist in Lebanon County and now we're probably the largest florist in the country because of our size. They never had an idea that it would grow to the size it is today."BW: Are you indeed the largest florist in the country? TR: "I'm pretty sure about that, because I know all the biggest florists in the country, and we're bigger than all of them. Grocery store chains sell a lot more flowers than I do by sheer numbers. But a traditional retail flower shop, we're the largest in the country."— Interview by Brad RhenFYIAge: 63Residence: Hummelstown, Dauphin CountyEducation: Penn State, 1977, business; Lebanon High School, 1973Work History: After college worked at a Whataburger in Texas for two years. Returned to Pennsylvania in 1980 and started at Royer's as a painter. Was also a store manager in Lancaster, distribution manager for about 25 years, chief operating officer and senior vice president for about 20 years, and he became CEO in January.Best Piece of Management Advice: "Six P" rule: prior proper planning prevents poor performanceFamily: He and his wife, Cindy, have six kids — five girls, one boy — who range in age from 10 to 32Hobbies: golf, yard workRoyer's Flowers and GiftsAddress: 810 S. 12th St... https://www.readingeagle.com/business-weekly/article/royers-flowers-and-gifts-ceo-talks-about-returning-to-the-family-business

Wild Honey Flower Truck is Birmingham's florist on wheels - Yellowhammer News

They have stormed us,” Tuberville added. “We’ve taken in 890,000 illegal immigrants since last October. More people than in Orlando, Florida, okay? The Democrats say we don’t have a problem.”He advised that it takes approximately $200 billion annually for the federal government to care for all of these illegal aliens and asylum seekers.“And I’m not against people coming here,” Tuberville remarked. “We’re all immigrants, we are immigrants. We all came here — and here for a reason. … But most everybody came the right way.”That has changed, Tuberville decried.“This group’s not coming the right way,” he said. “The Democrats want them to come, not because they’re kind and nice… [but for] power and money. They have no sympathy for the people here in Alabama… We have lost control of our borders and they’re coming right and left.”Tuberville sarcastically credited longtime Democratic elected officials like former Vice President Joe Biden, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) for somehow spinning the nation’s problems, like the border crisis, into being President Donald Trump’s fault, as he has only been in office for two and a half years compared to their lifetimes in politics.“They own the media. And that’s the reason our country’s in the shape it’s in today, because our media will not call a spade a spade,” Tuberville lamented. “They won’t call it out. They’re going to side with the socialist Democratic Party and push that narrative as far as they can, because they want for some reason, I don’t understand it, for some reason they want to go that direction. They want free for everybody, and we know that doesn’t work. It’s really a sad situation.”During his remarks, Tuberville also identified fixing the rural healthcare crisis, workforce development, industry recruitment and growing Alabama’s high-tech sector as priorities if elected.Of course, his stump speech also included a heavy dose on what he views as one of the main reasons for American society’s decline.“I’m a Christian conservative,” Tuberville emphasized.“We ought to be ashamed of ourselves. We took prayer out of the schools in the ’60s and not one person has fought to get it back — not one. … You know what? Other religions can pray in our schools. They can. They can pray in our schools. And I’m not against any religion. Hey, you come here, as long as you go by our laws and our constitution you can pray to any god you want to. I’m all ... https://yellowhammernews.com/wild-honey-flower-truck-is-birminghams-florist-on-wheels/

Community deaths - Washington Post

Michael Karson.Dr. Karson, who lived in Bethesda, Md., was born in Baltimore. He was with the FAA from 1962 to 1975 and the State Department from 1977 to 1983. He was a psychologist at the Florida Institute of Technology from 1983 to 1989. He retired in 1995 after six years as a psychologist in Washington at Second Genesis, a substance-abuse treatment and prevention program.— From staff reports... https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/community-deaths/2019/07/15/68a915b4-a74b-11e9-86dd-d7f0e60391e9_story.html