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Naples garden workshop series starts Jan. 10 with talks on orchids, sustainable gardening - Naples Daily News

Jan. 31 —  Basics of plant propagation — Brian Galligan and Chad Washburn with Naples Botanical Garden Learn how to use propagation techniques using seeds and cuttings to help increase your tropical garden's palette while saving money » Feb. 7 —  Demystifying the ancient Japanese art of bonsai — Chris Gilbert, Collier County master gardener  A step-by-step look at age-old techniques used to grow bonsai  » Feb. 14 —  Plant nutrition — The need for feed — Bob Cook, certified horticulture professional  Learn what lawns, trees and flowers require to grow and when it's a good idea to use fertilizer » Feb. 21 — From lawn to landscape — Isabel Way, owner of Colusa Farms in Naples A workshop on ground covers that enhance curb appeal, reduce fertilizer and pesticide use, and help conserve water » Feb. 28 —  Arsenic and old lace: Poisonous plants — Gil Long, Collier County master gardener  Learn which plants are dangerous to humans and pets and what safer alternatives are available » March 7 —  Bromeliads in the landscape — Jon Hanson with Bromeliad Paradise Learn how to select, plant and care for bromeliads » March 14 — ... https://www.naplesnews.com/story/life/home-garden/2019/01/04/upcoming-naples-garden-series-features-talks-bonsai-trees-orchids/2463797002/

When Mom Cancels Appointment to Take Care of Sick Son, Company Sends Her Flowers - Good News Network

Sometimes it’s the smallest good deeds that mean the most to us. In Lindsay Pualoa’s case, it was a bouquet of flowers that was delivered to her door on Monday.The mother from Ashburn, Virginia had spent most of the might taking care of her son AJ. The toddler had been feeling sick, and by the time the sun came up, he wasn’t feeling any better.“He was still a hot mess (in the) morning so I cancelled an annual furnace check I had scheduled with our HVAC company,” Pualoa wrote on Facebook. “I just apologized for the late notice, said I had a sick kid at home, and didn’t think much more about it. Three hours later, my doorbell rings and there is a florist at my door.”The HVAC company, AllTech Services from Sterling, had sent Pualoa flowers with a note saying that they hoped AJ felt better soon.“I’m floored! I’ve never had something like this happen before,” she added.WANT TO READ MORE STORIES ABOUT BUSINESSES DOING GOOD? CHECK OUT THESE OTHER ARTICLES FROM OUR GNN ARCHIVES… (Photo by Lindsay Pualoa)When Girl Asks For a Day Off For Dad, Google Gives Her Something Better #TBTCompany That Turns Tire Scraps into Shoes Employs Single Mothers Living in Pove...

Brookdale Riverwalk seniors, staff hand out flowers, kindness - The Bakersfield Californian

I think they’re more apt to do the same for others if it happens to them.”Diane Ashburn, director of financial services at Brookdale, helped hand out the flowers this year. This is the first year that management has been able to participate in Random Acts of Kindness Day, as it was just a residents-only activity last year.Only about 100 flowers were given out in 2017. The event grew into a communitywide activity this year.“It was wonderful. People really responded positively,” she said. “It was a really neat experience to be able to do that and see them light up.”At the Park at River Walk on Stockdale Highway, Daniel Cepeda was playing with his 4-year-old son, Isaac, when several residents and associates from Brookdale Riverwalk came up to them and each handed them a flower.“It’s really nice. It shows that there are some good people in this world,” he said.Desiree Armendariz was reading a book while her husband was fishing at the park. She said she was pleasantly surprised by the gesture.“It made my day. I’m sure it’ll make other people’s days, too,” she said.While making people’s days a little brighter was a major focus of the event, resident Juanita Blackwell said getting out of Brookdale Riverwalk also does a lot of good for the residents’ health, physically, emotionally and spiritually.“We need to be out with other people. We need to be out doing something,” she said. “You can feel pretty hemmed in if you just stay here all the time. You can get to feeling old. Just because I’m 90 doesn’t mean I need to feel old.”Newman said participating in events like Random Acts of Kindness Day makes the residents feel that they are making a difference in the community, even if it’s a small, short-lived one.“It isn’t just the recipient who feels better. I think the giver is rewarded even more,” she said. “To think you’ve made someone, even if for a very brief time, enjoy the day more and feel better about themselves is a great thing.”Brookdale Senior Living Inc. operates senior living communities throughout the United States. The company operates independent- and assisted-living ce... http://www.bakersfield.com/news/brookdale-riverwalk-seniors-staff-hand-out-flowers-kindness/article_27f66b80-1367-11e8-b4fa-8b9f862d8db6.html

The versatile DC investor with a buzzy nonprofit - Washington Post - Washington Post

About half a dozen full-timers run the day-to-day operations from an office in Ashburn, assigning 75 staffers to clients. Price bought a Virginia franchise in 2016 for about $350,000, including working capital. He expects it to earn around $2 million in revenue this year and double that by 2019, throwing off a 10 percent profit. The Rockville native gets his entrepreneurial bug from his grandfather, who sold whiskey from a still he had hidden in the Great Smoky Mountains of North Carolina.His great-grandfather was an Italian immigrant and roadbuilder who coined the family aphorism that it’s “better to sell apples on the corner than work for The Man.”Price’s father ran an excavating firm in Washington, where Price worked before attending the University of Maryland. He graduated summa cum laude in 1980 with an accounting degree.The guy was ambitious. Upon entering Maryland, he set his...

Arlene Earl, Flower Lady of the Great Lakes, dies at 78 - Detroit Free Press

I’ve ever met in my life," she said. "She was so well-loved by everyone … just made people laugh. Very spunky. Never a dull moment in mom’s life."Earl's sister, Linda Engel Washburn, said she was grateful Earl is now at peace.“She was just amazing and remarkable and had perseverance for being a dynamic business women, a giver, a heart of gold,” Washburn said. "Just a golden girl."?Related: Freighters sound a salute, Flower Lady sends her thanksEarl's great-grandfather founded Chris Engel's Greenhouse in 1883 in southwest Detroit. The shop was handed down through the generations, and Earl grew up in the business. She ran the shop until recent years, traveling the 90-minute route daily from Harsens to Woodmere Street.In the '80s, Earl wrote letters to captains asking them to sound a salute as the ships passed her house. She did so for a very special reason.When the ships began honoring her request, she showed her thanks by sending bouquets from her flower shop."I was brought up in a world that if somebody gave you something, you thanked them," she said in 2014. "How many people are out there today who will give you anything?"This giving quickly grew beyond a one-time deal. Before long, Earl was sending flowers through the J.W. Westcott mail boat about five times a year, around the major holidays. Folks at the Westcott, a business in the shadow of the Ambassador Bridge that has been around even longer than the flower shop, were happy to accommodate."We would probably put flowers on as many as 50 or 60 vessels, when she brought in the batches, like at spring fit out and Father's Day and Thanksgiving," said Paul Jagenow, a longtime Westcott employee.The mail boat would motor out to the center of the river, sidle alongside the massive freighters and hand up the bouquets just like the mail — by putting them into a bucket that would then be hoisted high above to the towering ships.The flowers "always put a smile on their face," Jagenow said in 2014. The sailors flooded Earl with letters and thank you notes.In recent years, the flower deliveries slowed as Earl struggled with her health. Her sister believes the last time Earl was able to send bouquets was around Father's Day 2015.Earl overcame breast cancer, but then contracted brain cancer. She lived alone on Harsens Island after her husband, Dick, died in 2010. The couple was known for legendary parties with family and friends. Besides Kapanowski, they had two sons, Chris and Richard Jr.The Interlake Steamship Co., which owns nine freighters that haul iron ore and coal on the Great Lakes, posted ... http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2016/12/21/arlene-earl-flower-lady-great-lakes/95700266/

How green plants expand their capacity to use solar energy? - Tech Explorist

Understanding these jobs, notwithstanding, has ended up being a test because of the way that carotenoid’s energetics are very delicate to their condition.Now a team led by Thomas D. and Virginia W. Cabot Career Development Assistant Professor Gabriela Schlau-Cohen has discovered that a single carotenoid — LHCII — in the major antenna complex of green plants serves as the nexus of light harvesting by accumulating energy and transferring it through a debated dark state. This photophysics reveals how plants expand their capacity to capture and utilize solar energy.Minjung Son, a graduate student in Schlau-Cohen’s lab said, “Solar energy devices must absorb a large fraction of the solar spectrum — i.e., many different energies or colors — to be competitive with fossil fuels. Absorption of these energies comes with a challenge: How can the high energy be funneled down to the low energy, which is what is used to produce electricity and eventually biomass?”“We mapped out pathways of energy flow that connect the high energy side to the low energy side of the absorbed solar spectrum, including one pathway through a previously-debated dark state. This map provided a blueprint for solar energy devices that absorb a lot of energy across a broad range, as well as provides an important step in understanding the intricate photosynthetic machinery of plants.”The research is described in “The Electronic Structure of Lutein 2 Is Optimized for Light Harvesting in Plants,” which is featured on the cover of the March 2019 issue of the journal Chem, which was released online on Jan. 31. https://www.techexplorist.com/how-green-plants-expand-their-capacity-to-use-solar-energy/20755/

Perspective | This D.C. florist secret to surviving 114 years and four generations - The Washington Post

They lease 2,600 feet across two buildings separated by a driveway instead of owning the buildings. “People say, ‘Gosh, why don’t you put a shop in Virginia? Why don’t you put one in Maryland?’” Mike said. “The thing about this is we like to have control over the product and the employees and everyone. That way, you can take care of your quality. If you start branching out more and more, then you have more headaches.”Boxes of flowers come in the back door, and beautiful arrangements fly out the front. Besides the trucks, they have some refrigerators and a computer. “With flowers, you want to move those out two, three days after you get them in,” Mike said. “It’s not like food where you can put it in the freezer. You want to keep that product moving.”The Washington economy does its part.“You are insulated by being in D.C., between the government, the individual businesses and the law firms,” he said. “We have been at this location since 1968. The rents keep escalating. I try to get in as long a lease as I can. I signed one a couple of years ago for 10 years.”[A first lesson on the stock market: Don’t run from a good sale]Mike’s brothers, Tim and Steven, split responsibilities. Tim takes care of technology and billing. Steve handles hard and soft items such as vases and fruit. Phil orders most of the flowers and is the ambassador and face of the company.Everything about Phil is flowers. He lives in a Montgomery County neighborhood called (I am not making this up) Flower Valley. His house is on Jasmine Drive. He wore a green flower-print Brooks Brothers silk tie when I saw him.Phil doesn’t take a salary. He and Peg, his wife of 63 years, live on Social Security and stock investments.“We bought a new truck with my salary [instead... https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/this-dc-florists-secret-to-surviving-114-years-and-four-generations/2017/08/18/ee1a0152-836e-11e7-b359-15a3617c767b_story.html

The Flower Shop Emerges as the Leading Florist in Charlottesville VA - Press Release - Digital Journal

Flower Shop, the leading florist in Charlottesville VA, is recognized as number one in the industry and supplies beautiful floral arrangements that are crafted to suit any occasion. Charlottesville, Virginia - January 21, 2019 - Since 1996, The Flower Shop, the leading florist in Charlottesville VA has been supplying a range of beautiful flowers and floral arrangement to lift the spirit of any occasion. They not affiliated in any way with any wire service, and are privately owned.“We have been dedicated to bringing the world’s most exquisite flowers, beautiful floral design, and exceptional customer service to Charlottesville for over 25 years. With the help of our knowledgeable, talented team, The Flower Shop has become a recognizable standard of high-end floral creation,” said Randall Cash, the owner of The Flower Shop.The Flower Shop supplies floral arrangements for any event including Birthday, Anniversary, Thank You, Funeral, Corporate Events or a grand affair of a Wedding.Mr. Cash continued, “We import our own flowers directly from the farms! From Modern design to loose and garden-like, our style of design varies depending on the occasion and the style you choose.”Randall's insistence on u... http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/4118615

Former White House Chief Floral Designer Laura Dowling appearing at Akron Home & Flower Show (photos) - cleveland.com

Jane Austen style job," Dowling says during a telephone interview from her home in Alexandria, Virginia. "But it was actually very intense, involving seven days a week sometimes, with 16-to-18 hours a days. I was responsible for outlining the decor and choosing linens, ordering flowers, staffing the production. It's a pretty big job."Dowling is appearing at the Akron Home & Flower Show, Friday through Saturday, February 23 to 25, at the John S. Knight Center. She'll present a slide show of her designs with an emphasis on the newest ideas, take questions from the audience, and share anecdotes about her time at the White House. Her appearances are at 12:30 p.m. and 4:30p.m. Saturday, and 1:15 p.m. Sunday.On the trend front, purple flowers will reign, so to speak, because "Ultra Violet" happens to be the hottest shade this year, according to Pantone, which annually chooses a leading color."Flower trends follow fashion trends, so the idea is that the Pantone Color of the Year is being incorporated in floral designs" says Dowling. "That would include sweet peas, hydrangeas, orchids. It's a bit controversial because not everyone likes that shade. But I think, with flowers, there is an incredible range of options. For example, one of my favorite roses is called amnesia. It's a pale lilac-gray-beige. It almost has a vintage feel."Grape tomatoes, turnips, limes and other edibles are lending a new look to floral arrangements, too."With an unusual mix of materials, arrangements are much more organic," says Dowling. "The look is very natural and free-flowing."The horizontal-shaped arrangement is a new trend as well.Dowling, who at one time was a part-time florist with her own design studio, and held jobs in government and public policy before then, was picked to be the official White House Florist after her husband, Robert Weinhagen, learned of the opening."I sent my resume in never expecting to ... https://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2018/02/former_white_house_chief_flora.html