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Big day for Deniliquin Florist | Shepparton News - Shepparton News

We try to make it to the Conargo Market most years,’’ she said.‘‘It’s lovely to have everyone together for Mother’s Day.’’The family travelled from Griffith, Coleambally and Darlington Point to celebrate at the Conargo Mother’s Day Market.Movie nightThe Intereach Neighbourhood Centre will host a family movie night this Friday evening.Bring your own bean-bag and popcorn and enjoy a free screening of Disney’s ‘Moana’ and the amusing ‘Hunt for the Wilderpeople’ from 4pm and 6.30pm, respectively.All are welcome, and a light supper will be provided.For more information, phone Intereach Family Services on 5890 5200.MS cake stallA cake stall at the Cressy St kiosk in Deniliquin on World MS Day will raise funds for the national Kiss Goodbye to MS organisation.To be held on Wednesday, May 31 from 9.30am, the stall will have an array of delicious treats, including cakes, slices and biscuits.Local event organiser Robbie Landale said all proceeds will go towards vital research into the cause and a cure for MS.‘‘Help those affected by multiple sclerosis by coming down and grabbing a delicious bite to eat,’’ she said.If you would like to donate any goods for the cake stall, call Robbie Landale on 0427813040.Bin fireDeniliquin NSW Fire and Rescue responded to a fire in a wheelie bin in Whitelock St on Saturday morning.Firefighters quickly arrived on scene to extinguish the bin, which was attached to a metal pole, about 2.10am.Deniliquin Captain Martin Smith said the cause of the fire is unknown.According to police, it may have been caused by a cigarette butt. By Deniliquin Pastoral TimesMay 17, 2017... http://www.sheppnews.com.au/regional/2017/05/17/89161/big-day-for-deniliquin-florist

DIGGIN IN | Historic homes feature fresh floral decors for holidays ... - Daily Press

The Plumeri House on Chandler Court was built in the 1920s and extensively renovated in 2000. Two Victorian homes, the J. C. Darlington House and the Charlotte Brooks house were built in 1904 and are across the street from each other in the Peacock Hill area of Williamsburg. The J.C. Darlington House is privately owned by a young family and has never been on a tour in the past."Two Colonial Williamsburg homes include the Elkanah Deane House and the Custis Tenement. Each of these homes has beautiful interiors and is exquisitely furnished. All homes will feature creative Christmas decorations that can serve as holiday inspiration for the season."On Dec. 13, the Ware River Circle of The King's Daughters and Sons presents its 27th annual Christmas Open House at the Sherwood, the circa-1740 home of Tim and Missy Giardina in Gloucester. Proceeds benefit the Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters; nationwide, the 5,000-member interdenominational Christian service organization supports and runs hospitals, homes for the elderly, thrift shops and childcare centers.In addition, you can walk Colonial Williamsburg's Duke of Gloucester Street this week through Jan. 1, where you will see doors and windows decorated with fresh fruit- and floral-embellished wreaths and swags. Early December, the Dudley Digges House on Main Street in Yorktown is festooned with fresh wreaths, swags and crescents made from garden materials by York/Poquoson Master Gardeners.Here's how to make some of those decorations:Punch bowltable wreathChristmas is the perfect season for entertaining family and friends when decorating options are at their peak, especially for featuring holiday evergreens, d... http://www.dailypress.com/features/home-garden/dp-fea-diggin-in-williamsburg-holiday-1127-20161126-story.html

Creepy plants a Halloween fit - WatertownDailyTimes.com

The vine can grow to 7 feet before it strangles and smothers the host plants. It’s also known as devil’s guts, strangleweed and witch’s hair.¦ Cobra lily: Darlingtonia californica puts up tall green pitchers with hollow, inflated tops, each bearing a striking resemblance to a cobra poised to strike, Dotson says. “A maroon landing pad shaped like a forked tongue completes the picture and offers a place for its insect victims to perch before they fall to their deaths,” he says. The carnivorous plant lives only in the wet meadows of coastal California and Oregon.¦ Bleeding tooth fungus: The name says it all. The fruit secretes a red liquid that resembles blood. With spikes and a bitter taste that makes it inedible, this fungus (Hydnellum peckii) belongs on any scary plant (or fungus) list. It is found in North America and Europe, though in recent years it has been discovered in Iran and Korea. Its goal is to take over the world. http://www.watertowndailytimes.com/unknown/creepy-plants-a-halloween-fit-20151028

Goats go green by eating invasive plants and vines in Towson area - Baltimore Sun

Baltimore Gas and Electric Co.'s East Towson substation at East Pennsylvania and Railroad avenues."We call this goat ballet," said Jack's owner, Veronica Cassilly, of Harmony Church Farms in Darlington in Harford County.Jack was one of 19 goats, all members of Cassilly's "Harmony Herd," who helped clear the future site of Adelaide Bentley Park by grazing there."Our job is to save the trees," Cassilly said. "The goats eat all the brush. They eat the leaves off the vines so we can find the vines at the bottom of the trees," and uproot them.Cassilly, 51, has lived on her farm for 20 years and has owned goats for the past four years. She first brought them in to clean up her overgrown, 12-acre property."It was in really bad shape," she said. "The vines were pulling the trees over."Now, Cassilly, who was born in Havre de Grace and grew up in Bel Air, brings her traveling goats in a trailer to schools, environmental groups and governments that hire her to help restore forested areas in the region to their natural habitats, free of unwanted brush and vines that can suffocate trees and deny them sunlight. She charges fees ranging from $350 to $5,000 depending on the size of the lot and how much work needs to be done.The goats have been everywhere from Bel Air's Rockfield Park to the Masonville Cov... http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-county/towson/ph-tt-goats-1014-20151012-story.html

Susan In The Sky with Spring Flowers - Ricochet.com

Madison Wisconsin, Spring 1975She was house sitting, that week, as memory serves. The teacher’s home had an adobe-style wall fencing in a plethora of dogwoods and cherry, plum and almond with an occasional Japanese maple thrown in. There were hydrangeas and rhubarb, the stalks of irises, and some jonquils so newly yellow peeking out from behind some type of vegetation.“I love it here, don’t you?” she asked. We, two young women, sat swinging on the porch couch, sipping our coffee and enjoying our lives. The sky above us yawned so that the silvery grey clouds revealed a slumbering sun. From the way things felt around us, it was hard to know if it would be sunny or rainy, chilly or warm. Being Wisconsin, it could be all of those things, in just ten or twelve hours!“We could bike over to the lumber yard, if you want.” She could tell I was battling simmering emotions. Friends always know these things.“Are you sure Dar hasn’t forgotten?” I asked, feeling nervous. The deal was, today was crib day. W... https://ricochet.com/623926/susan-in-the-sky-with-spring-flowers/

Make sure your Mothers Day flowers are what you paid for - WSAU News

CDU) party congress in Hamburg, Germany, December 7, 2018. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch MADISON, WI (Wisconsin Radio Network-WSAU) Mother's Day is Sunday. If you're looking to find a flower arrangement for Mom, make sure you're getting what you're paying for.State consumer protection director Michelle Reinen says one option you might have, if your mom lives here in the state, is to get a local florist to put together something with a Wisconsin touch. "If you are asking these questions and really looking, you may be able to get something special that's unique to our state, and give that as your gift as well."Reinen says ask about pricing and if a vase is included, and when possible work with a florist directly in your mom's area, rather than a floral service.Reinen said, "Other questions are what flowers are fresh and season in that specific area. In Wisconsin we're going to have different seasonal flowers right now than somebody in Hawai'i or Florida."= ... https://wsau.com/news/articles/2019/may/06/make-sure-your-mothers-day-flowers-are-what-you-paid-for/

Capital - Why are flowers so expensive? - BBC News

Jeanie McKewan, who has been growing flowers for 13 years in the US states of Illinois and Wisconsin, points to insect damage as a big challenge, saying there’s a “zero tolerance” policy: “It is through constant vigilance and the use of integrated pest management that we keep the little buggers from getting the best of our crops,” she says.Then the flowers have to bloom on schedule. In the case of Mother’s Day tulips planted in January or February, they have to bloom by early May in time to be picked and shipped.Labour costs are already high – according to the 2012 US Agricultural Census, contract and hired labour accounted for 10% of total agricultural operating expenses in the US, but that number soared to 40% for greenhouse, nursery and floriculture production because of a tighter farm labour market and rising wages. Then you add extra costs for peaks.McKewan hires extra hands during peak periods but says cutting flowers “requires experience and cannot be done by just any part-time employee”. Chris Drummond, a Philadelphia-based florist, says wages average around $13.25 (£10.16) per hour in the US. “In order to ramp up production to meet holiday demand, growers are required to pay far above that average,” he says.In developed countries like the Netherlands or Germany, Stewart says that there are greenhouses with automated technology like sophisticated watering machines or robot transplanters and harvesters, where fewer workers are needed. But in poorer nations with cheaper labour, there’s less use of technology.  Then it’s time for shipping. While flowers are waiting on the runway or in the back of a lorry, temperatures can’t be too cold (for Valentine’s Day) or too hot (for Mother’s Day). When they arrive at the wholesaler, they must look perfect. That means no bug bites, no missing petals, no dead buds. Otherwise, they get thrown away. “It has to be flawless,” Stewart says.Complicated logisticsChris Drummond, the florist, estimates that the holiday volume “is usually nearly 20 times the everyday volume”. He says many farmers nurture flowers all year long to ensure enough blooms for the handful of holidays. During the other months on the farm, he says, flowers are sold at cost, below cost or discarded and turned into mulch.“So, of course farm price increases as demand increases,” he says. “Consumers are paying a premium to make sure that grower is compensated for their expense and effort to maintain the plants year-round, thus ensuring the wide variety of flowers is available at each holiday.”He highlights costs across the supply chain, saying industry participants must “rent temporary space, pay fuel surcharges, find space on airlines, hire independent drivers, find more refrigerated trucks, pay overtime to staff” and more. Roses flown from Bogota to Miami are hit with a 15-cent (£0.12) importer’s fee to clear customs and inspection. Domestic refrigerated shipping can vary, but that’s another eight cents (£0.06) per rose.It also depends on what kind of flower you’re shipping – Drummond says 300 carnations can fit into the same box as 150 roses, so the transport price per stem is halved. Transit time from field to florist can be up to a week (though it can wildly vary depending on where the flowers are coming from), and the blooms must be carefully handled every step of the way.Hans Larsen is a cut flower grower in the US state of Wisconsin and has ... http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20190507-why-are-flowers-so-expensive

Appletons Memorial Florists to diversify by growing hemp - Appleton Post Crescent

There's literally no way you can get high off hemp," said Rob Richard, senior director of governmental relations at the Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation in Madison. Nevertheless, hemp was outlawed as a crop in Wisconsin in 1970, squashing Wisconsin's hemp growing industry.  "Wisconsin has a long history of growing hemp and was the top producer in the country from the 30s to the 50s," said Richard.  The state Legislature passed a law in November 2017 to allow farmers to grow industrial hemp once again.  While legal to grow, Richard said farmers are keeping an eye on a federal 2018 farm bill, yet to be signed, that gives them more incentive. "It clears up any misinterpretation or legal interpretation of what hemp is. It will be a crop. It removes it from the controlled substances act," Richard said. "It makes it eligible for crop insurance, so it takes away some of the risk."  Richard sees hemp as a good option for Wisconsin farmers. "Our farmers are going through a rough time because commodity prices and milk prices are taking a beating. This is one avenue for farmers to hopefully make some profit on a crop."  Besides Front Range, a number of other companies offering seeds and "clones" or tissue cuttings for propagating plants are starting in the state. "They're looking at Wisconsin because we're No. 2 in available organic acreage. Organics are where a lot of the profitability is," he said.    Front Range leased one of Memorial's 15,400-square-foot greenhouses to grow tiny hemp plants — in much the same way greenhouses grow bedding or pack plants for home gardeners — that it will sell to Wisconsin farmers for planting in the fields. The operation will add eight full-time jobs.  Memorial Florists' traditional floral and greenhouse operations will continue in the remainder of its 40,000-square-foot facility.  That means home gardeners, decorators, brides, funerals and those looking for the business' better quality plants will ... https://www.postcrescent.com/story/news/2018/12/04/appletons-memorial-florists-greenhouses-signs-deal-grow-hemp/2201857002/