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Blooming beautiful - The Ellsworth American
Tuesday, September 24, 2019TH AMERICAN PHOTOS BY JENNIFER OSBORN“I call it dressing houses,” Ganz quipped. “I have a lot of clients who Airbnb or HomeAway.” Ganz will arrange bouquets so the renters arrive to fresh flowers.The Pennsylvania native grows every last flower from seed and hates to see any flower go by without being used. So that’s how she got the idea of “flower bombing” people.Plus, Ganz loves spreading beauty.“Random acts of kindness are so important,” she said.Her recipients are most appreciative.“She has bombed the town office multiple times,” said Steuben Town Clerk Julie Ginn. “Her displays are always fantastic and creative.“She uses things you don’t typically see, like cabbage,” the town clerk continued. “It’s always beautiful. She did bomb our fire department chicken barbecue. There were flowers on every table. It was gorgeous.”The gardener’s grandparents, Peter and Mary Dickey of Sehova and Hadji, Czechoslovakia, respectively introduced her to flowers.Amaranth hang from their stalks in another cutting garden. Ganz likes to wrap the dripping blossoms around a flower arrangement.Ganz relies on a greenhouse she bought in Friendship to grow many thousands of seedlings over the course of a year.Flower bombs also are a clever advertisement for her work. Ganz attaches a tag that exclaims “You’ve been flower-bombed,” with her business name and the address of her posy stand at 85 Dyer’s Bay Road in Steuben.div id="at... https://www.ellsworthamerican.com/living/arts-a-living/blooming-beautiful/
Pop art, Woodstock era energize 2019 Philadelphia Flower Show - Cherry Hill Courier Post
Tuesday, September 24, 2019Flower Show are accustomed to being wowed by show-stopping floral designs of some of the most masterful flower and horticultural designers in the region. The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society’s 2019 Philadelphia Flower Show takes things up a notch. That’s because the 190-year-old event will play host this year to the FTD World Cup, which brings together some of the most respected floral designers in the world in an international competition. The show runs Saturday, March 2 through Sunday, March 10 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Center City. More: Flower Power: Your survival guide to the 2019 Philadelphia Flower Show More: Philadelphia Flower Show: Experts offer tips to aspiring gardeners More: Look Back: 190 years of the Philadelphia Flower Show “FTD World Cup is the biggest showcase in the flower world,’’ said Sam Lemheney, vice president and chief of shows & events for Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. “Philadelphia is hosting the show this year. It will include 23 floral designers representing 23 different countries. The World Cup only happens every four to six years, most recently in Berlin and Shanghai. It hasn’t been in the U.S. since 1985 (Detroit), and ’74 (Miami) before that.’’ The theme of this year’s Flower Show is “Flower Power,’’ and in addition to evoking some of the most colorful aspects of the 1960s, it al... https://www.courierpostonline.com/story/life/2019/02/20/pop-art-woodstock-era-energize-2019-philadelphia-flower-show/2910425002/
Royer's Flowers and Gifts CEO talks about returning to the family business - Reading Eagle
Tuesday, August 13, 2019CEO in January.The grandson of founder Hannah Royer, who started the company by selling home-grown flowers in local textile mills, Royer now oversees a company that has 19 locations in Pennsylvania and Ohio and 400 employees. Royer believes Royer's is the largest family-owned florist in the country and sells more flowers than anyone outside of supermarkets.Business Weekly: Did you always plan to get involved in the family business? Thomas Royer: "No, because I had a career in it before I went to college. I worked there so much, and I wanted to try different things. I did that, and you always hear the old adage 'the grass is always greener.' After two years, I was like, 'I'm going back to the flower business,' because the restaurant business was crazy. I could've gone into other businesses, but I always liked the retail industry. So I came back in like 1980, and I've been here ever since."BW: Why did you decide to come back to Royer's? TR: "When I got out of school I lived in Houston and I was in the restaurant business. I always thought that working here was long hours. There was no comparison when I lived in Texas; we were working 100-hour weeks. That's when the oil boom was going on, and Houston was growing by leaps and bounds so there wasn't enough people for all the jobs and we couldn't keep people at our restaurant. It fell back on the manager and assistant manager to open and close."BW: Valentine's Day is just around the corner. How much business does Royer's do this time of year? TR: "Dollar wise, we do more sales at Valentine's Day than any other time. Valentine's Day and Mother's Day are the two big ones. The thing about Valentine's Day is it's such a short timeframe because most people don't want to buy it too far ahead of time. We do so much business in three days. The 12th, 13th and 14th are the three busiest days of the year for us, and we do about 8 percent of our business on those three days. Mother's Day, we do the same number of units of arrangements and plant... https://www.readingeagle.com/business-weekly/article/royers-flowers-and-gifts-ceo-talks-about-returning-to-the-family-business
This Farm Lets You Pick, Cut, And Arrange Your Own Flower Bouquets For Just $5 Each - HouseBeautiful.com
Tuesday, August 13, 2019Getty Images Terra Farms in York County, Pennsylvania, is changing the flower-arranging game. Dreamed up by Lori and Andy Snyder, the 34-acre farm lets customers come in on special "U-Pick" days where they invite locals and tourists alike to explore the gardens, cut fresh flowers from their land, and DIY eye-catching bouquets.“We tend to call ourselves 'farmer-florists,'” said Lori, a North Dakota native, said to York Daily News. “People can come out here and pick. But I also really loved the florist side of the business, and I wanted to use 100 percent my own flowers instead of buying flowers that have been flown from who knows where.”BOOK NOW York County, Pennsylvania, TripAdvisorVessels priced at $15 can be filled to the brim with flowers of your choosing, and can usually create 2-3 bouquets (that's just around $5 each!). If you want even more flowers, you can purchase a larger bucket for $40 that'll give you around 5-6 bouquets. You don't have to dive right into arranging them on-site, of course, but there's a garden tabl... https://www.housebeautiful.com/lifestyle/a28622872/pick-your-own-bouquet-flower-terra-farms/
