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North Dakota Florist Association to host public class

SHOW ARTICLE -- The Minot Convention and Visitors Bureau welcomes the North Dakota Florist Association to Minot, Sept. 7-9. The ND Florist Association is hosting a public class at the Clarion Hotel and Conference Center in Minot on Friday, Sept. 7 at 7 p.m.Participants are invited to work alongside members of the Florists Association to create and take home a mixed fall floral arrangement. Partakers will learn tips and tricks on how to create a beautiful arrangement throughout the year from the comfort of their home. This year’s class titled “Setting the Scene” will allow participants to design a nature-inspired centerpiece showcasing fall mums and embellishments. Charge for the class is $25 per person and the individual must pre-register. For more information, or to pre-register for the class, contact Michele Dean, Executive Director of the North Dakota State Florists Association, by Wednesday, Sept. 4 by 5 p.m. Dean can be emailed at NDStateFloristAssoc@hotmail.com. For more informatio... http://www.minotdailynews.com/news/local-news/2018/08/north-dakota-florist-association-to-host-public-class/

Maine florists expect blizzard of Valentine's Day activity after Monday's snow delay - Press Herald

Legislature is usually in session and staffers fill the state office buildings.“Once the state offices close, we’re in trouble because so many of our deliveries go to the state,” O’Brien said.Minott’s Flowers in Portland had employees working in shifts Monday, and store manager Ashley Dyer said there was a lot of telephone business.But many of the shop’s orders go to businesses or offices that were closed Monday, so drivers are going to be doing a lot of backtracking Tuesday to get everything delivered, she said.“We gave a courtesy call to all our customers who were scheduled for Monday delivery telling them we would try,” Dyer said. “We’ve been able to get a lot of runs done, but since none of the businesses are open, a lot of them are being held until tomorrow.”In Waterville, Dave Lagrange said that despite the heavy snowfall Monday morning, a customer came into KMD Florist & Gift House looking for a special Valentine’s Day order.Lagrange had planned to make about 10 deliveries Monday, with the remaining orders set for Tuesday.“We’d normally have triple our regular crew, but most of them can’t get in today,” he said. “We’re going to see how much we can pack into one day that is usually spread over two days.”All of the florists admitted that if it weren’t the day before Valentine’s Day, they probably wouldn’t have opened their shops Monday. They also said that despite the bad weather of the past week, their products are in good shape.Dyer said all the flowers from Minott’s wholesaler in Rhode Island were delivered by Sunday and are “fresh and nice.” Lagrange said his orders are “looking great and are as fresh as they can get.”Despite the challenges the storm has thrown at them, the florists are optimistic that most of the orders will be fulfilled and delivered in time for people to celebrate Valentine’s Day with their loved ones.“We’re sitting on about $40,000 worth of fresh flowers that we’ve already purchased and normally they’d be all gone already,” said Allen of Harmon’s & Barton’s, which also has a store in Portland. “Flower shops have a low profit margin to begin with, but we’re hoping for the best.”... http://www.pressherald.com/2017/02/13/maine-florists-expect-a-blizzard-of-valentines-day-activity-after-mondays-snow-delay/

Stylist Dani Michelle Wore Four Dresses to Her Wedding at Casa del Mar - Vogue

Carolina Herrera, Dior, and Givenchy, with men in sharp tuxedos. “We wanted our guests’ first experience upon arrival to reflect a lush, romantic French garden vibe,” Dani explains. “So our florist designed a floral installation and candles down the double staircase to welcome them.” The aisle was lined with wild delphinium, wild grasses, caspia, and candles at every height, and the couple was married under a chuppah covered in those same florals, anchored on a raw wooden frame enhanced by curly willow branches.Dani’s veil was 11 feet long, and it trailed all the way from the stage down to the aisle. “One of our dear friends sang Etta James’s ‘At Last’ and then segued into Elvis’s ‘Fools Rush In’ with our family and six bridal-party couples coming down the aisle before us,” Dani remembers. “The ceremony was full of laughter and love. I will never forget how hard we locked eyes, our sweaty hands, and everyone surrounding us. We made our crowd cry, so we’ve heard! We left to The Ronettes’s ‘Be My Baby.’ It was everything we’d dreamed of and more!”Cocktail hour followed the ceremony, and after finding their names on vintage French mirrors, guests were ushered through a foliage-and-floral arch into the ballroom, where the band broke out into music, signaling the start of the party. Flowers from the aisle lined the stage so abundantly that it looked like the band was floating above a wild garden, and the dance floor was full from the first dance to the last song.Dani’s client Sierra Deaton performed the newlywed’s first-dance song, “Beautiful Thing.” “She took everyone’s breath away with her vocals,” Dani says. At midnight, the fashion DJs known as Posso took over in plunging Helmut Newton–esque black tuxedos. “People were just as excited to watch them as to dance to their music,” Dani adds.“My favorite moments were when Ian and I would find each other on the dance floor,” she recalls. “He would grab me so tight and whip me around, holding me close, and suddenly everyone else disappeared.”... https://www.vogue.com/article/dani-michelle-kourtney-kardashian-stylist-ian-morrison-wedding-vera-wang-dress

The Dutch Florist behind the Met’s Grandiose Bouquets - Artsy

Dutch horticulture industry (famous for its tulips). His great-grandfather had grown flowers for a living, while his grandfather and father became florists. Van Vliet was raised in his father’s shop and began arranging flowers not by choice, but “out of obligation,” he remembered, with a laugh. “It’s kind of like being the son of a butcher or baker—you have to help out in the family business. So that’s what I did.” He spent the majority of his young life in the family store, arranging as many as 40 to 50 bouquets per day for locals and the occasional royal. Each small-ish arrangement took him around 10 minutes to assemble; he plucked flowers from a patchwork of buckets behind the counter as he went. When he wasn’t in the shop, Van Vliet immersed himself in art. (His grandfather, who’d painted and collected art on the side, had rubbed off on his grandson in this way, too.) In school, he learned painting, etching, watercolors, welding, and art history; he remembers at least two works from the Met’s collection showing up on his final exams. https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-dutch-florist-mets-grandiose-bouquets

A Perfumer’s Fragrant Flower Salad - The New York Times

The Los Angeles-based perfumer Ezra Woods grew up in the 1990s surrounded by food and flowers. The florist business his parents ran — the Woods, which catered to celebrities and the Four Seasons Hotel — was across the street from Mezzaluna, the Brentwood trattoria that vaulted to notoriety during the O. J. Simpson trial. The family had an account at the restaurant, so it became the place where young Ezra developed his palate. Now 35 and the co-founder of the boutique fragrance brand Régime des Fleurs, Woods has found two new ways to combine his obsessions: He makes edible scents and he cooks with edible flowers. “I love nothing more than flowers,” he says. “There’s something magical about being able to eat something so beautiful.”[Coming soon: the T List newsletter, a weekly roundup of what T Magazine editors are noticing and coveting. Sign up here.]ImageFlowers inspire everything about Régime des Fleurs, from its name to its scents, and Woods isn’t picky about which ones he puts in his salad. While the flavor is generally mild, the visual impact is anything but.CreditJulia StotzTo be clear, most of his fragrances — ones that conjure up palo santo and musk — are not meant to be dige... https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/05/t-magazine/ezra-woods-flower-salad.html

Cut Flowers Caucus blooms on Capitol Hill - Washington Examiner

American flower farms like the ones in Alaska.” In Young's 46 years in the House, he's received no contributions from PACs linked to florists or nursery services and only small individual donations in 1994, 2006, and 2011 from people working in the sector, according to OpenSecrets data. The Cut Flowers Caucus is just one example of Capitol Hill's more niche collection of lawmakers. Other instances in the 116th Congress focus on areas ranging from political, ideological, regional, ethnic, and economic, including the Candy Caucus, the Civility and Respect Caucus, the Rock Caucus, the Small Brewers Caucus, the Term Limits Caucus, the Wrestling Caucus, and the Zoo and Aquarium Caucus. "I'd never heard of the Cut Flowers Caucus," Georgetown University government professor Michele Swers told the Washington Examiner with a laugh. The organizations serve different purposes, depending on the topic, she explained. "Caucuses allow members to take various public positions and advertise that an issue is important to them, but their profile obviously depends on what group you're talking about," Swers said. "We've seen how the House Freedom Caucus has attracted enough members to shift policy to the right, whereas being a member of the Problem Solvers Caucus makes them look bipartisan and provides them with the opportunity to tell their constituents they are interested in ensuring Washington works." The organizations additionally reflect broader trends, the professor added, citing the new Servicewomen and Women Veterans Caucus created this year following the election of a host of female lawmakers. George Mason University political science associate professor Jennifer Victor predicted more groups would form in the future. "Caucuses are growing; there are more of them every year. The growth is driven in part by outside industries, like flower growers," Victor said. "Often caucuses don't take up particular bills and opt not to push for legislation because they value bipartisan relationships and the informational benefits of the group over controversial policy."... https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/cut-flowers-caucus-blooms-on-capitol-hill

HELL OF A DAY: Try working at a La Jolla flower shop on Mother’s Day - La Jolla Light

Day — the mother of all flower holidays. (Kristen Tebbetts, owner of Bloomers of La Jolla for the past 10 years, said it’s busier than Christmas or Valentine’s Day.)Most of the three full-time florists at Bloomers, 7520 Eads Ave., worked from 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. on the Thursday and Friday before the big day, fulfilling more than 300 orders. The website was turned off on Thursday evening.“I finished at midnight and went to check the computer and there were 20 new orders,” Tebbetts said. “I’ve been leaving home at 5 a.m. and getting back late every week. I’m a mom, too, and I want to be with my kids.” Bloomers of La Jolla had about 80 Mother’s Day orders come in on Saturday, May 11 — and that was after it turned off its website ordering mechanism.(COREY LEVITAN) Bloomers would only let me fulfill one order. But judging from the look on my fellow florists’ faces, it was one too many. The order, placed by La Jolla resident Jolynn Deiro, was for a $69 bouquet of “anything.” Apparently, even anything can be screwed up. When I returned from one of the store’s two flower coolers with my choices, I was told that butterfly ranunculus were good for the order since they were $2 each, but alstroemeria were not because they were $6 each. The two flowers appeared identical, by the way.“To you,” said florist Thomas Hoyle.Hoyle, a North Park resident, knows his flowers. Even Tebbetts defers to him when a man and woman walk in seeking emergency... https://www.lajollalight.com/lifestyle/sd-cm-ljl-hell-florist-20190516-story.html

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