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Calgary woman finds heirloom seeds in attic, hopes to grow vintage flowers - CBC.ca

It got her thinking about two things: whether she could grow the seeds, and who might have left them there. As Moore told the Calgary Eyeopener, it all started with some exploring around her Ramsay property. "I live in an old house in one of the original communities in Calgary, and we have this amazing little garage in the back. It's the cutest little thing, and one day I was kind of just puttering in it and I realized that there was a hole in the ceiling," Moore said. "I went up there and nobody had been up there in a really long time. It was full of old terracotta pots and canvas tarps, and this really cool seed tray." The seed tray is a wooden box, filled with little glass jars and seed packages. "I noticed on the glass jars there were handwritten labels that had dates on them, years, like 1935, 1939, which I thought was really cool," Moore said, adding that most of the seeds appear to be flowers. She said the dates range from the 1930s to the '40s — she spotted petunias, calendula and sweet william. A quick Google search revealed that vintage items may be not just valuable on Etsy, but also a collector's item. 'I noticed on the glass jars, there were handwritten labels that had dates on th... https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/heirloom-seeds-attic-vintage-tray-florist-purver-1.5518367

Lethbridge-area garden centres slammed with curbside orders - Global News

Lethbridge and Coaldale areas. [ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ] “We’re doing similar stuff in Calgary,” he said. “Especially the seniors in Calgary, they don’t want to leave their homes and they’ve really taken to the home delivery instead of going to the farmers’ markets.”On the same property as Broxburn Vegetables, Country Blooms Garden Centre sells gardening supplies, flowers and a variety of other plants for the spring and summer seasons.It is not letting people into the garden centre but is taking orders in advance and preparing them for pickup.“People are just dying to get plants,” said Erich Dyck, operator of Country Blooms. “People have been homebound… so they’re anxious to go out and do something in their yards.” READ MORE: Southern Alberta Filipino community ‘worried for our lives’ as members test positive for COVID-19 Green Haven Garden Centre has instated similar measures, taking orders online or by phone and having staff bring the orders to the customers’ vehicles. Credit card payments are made beforehand so customer contact is virtually non-existent. Story continues below advertisement Co-owner Karen Barby said it has been difficult to keep up, with wait times for orders up to five days as hundreds of calls and emails come in. The business also had to reduce its staff.“It’s just been getting busier and busier every day because the weather is beautiful,” Barby said.“We normally don’t see this kind of weather until mid-May, end of May sometimes.”Both Green Haven and Country Blooms said they hope to have their physical locations open in the first week of May, as they prepare to open with extra restrictions similar to the ones in grocery stores. View link » © 2020 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc. JOURNALISTIC STANDARDS REPORT AN ERROR ... http://globalnews.ca/news/6868970/plants-gardening-lethbridge-covid-19-coronavirus/

'Always in Bloom,' flowers 'Blossom' for moms, 'Eden' during a pandemic - Sippican Week

Mother’s Day is fast approaching, and though families can’t go to brunch or and may have to stay six feet apart at the park, florists are still making sure that residents can buy flowers, even if they don’t come look at them.Sharon Monteiro, owner of Always in Bloom in Marion, said that although she has lost business with cancellations and postponements of proms, graduations and weddings, the flowers have never been more vibrant and business has been steady because of the holiday.“Without the world moving, mother nature is outdoing herself,” said Monteiro who said she has noticed the impact of less pollution. The owner is allowing one to two people in her shop at a time, but has noticed an increase in online orders, curbside pickup and delivery. Eden’s florist and garden shop further down the road in Marion has taken a similar approach with customers. Owner Esmeralda Braga said she doesn’t require customers to sign for card payments to keep contact to a minimum.To help further keep contact to a minimum, she took inspiration from a customer and now sells bouquets at the Marion General Store. Braga s... https://sippican.theweektoday.com/article/%E2%80%98always-bloom%E2%80%99-flowers-%E2%80%98blossom%E2%80%99-moms-%E2%80%98eden%E2%80%99-during-pandemic/47776

Founder of Victoria's 'cheeky' flower count, dies at 97 – Vancouver Island Free Daily - vancouverislandfreedaily.com

Even the last time we visited her there was a flower arrangement. Fresh flowers, her orchids, her flower garden outside. It was all about flowers for my grandma.”Fitzsimmons started her career as a florist, working in flower shops in downtown Victoria before buying her own flower business in 1957, which she sold in the late 1980s, Bourrie said.RELATED: Saanich counts most blooms in 45th Greater Victoria Flower CountFitzsimmons, known as a tireless community volunteer, would make flowers part of as many local events as she could, said Bourrie.She would donate and arrange flowers for the Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter dinners at Victoria’s downtown Our Place shelter for homeless people. She also provided flowers and arrangements for the Greater Victoria Art Gallery, Victoria Symphony and the Victoria Conservatory of Music.Bourrie said she organized a beach wedding in 2010 for former cross-Canada runner Steve Fonyo after sponsors pulled out of the event following news the cancer survivor’s bride had previous convictions.“She was always about the underdog,” said Bourrie, adding her grandmother later invited the couple to celebrate their one-year anniversary in her backyard. “She wanted to do what she could to make it a beautiful thing for Steve and his wife.”Daughter Diane Kuypers said her mother saw herself as an ambassador for Victoria as a colourful, generous and welcoming city, and her message spread nationally and globally.“It’s a hard act to follow,” said Kuypers. “She was just so kind and her love of life — I think that gave her that longevity that she did have because of her passion for everything.”Kuypers said she will always remember being in her mother’s kitchen looking out at her country-style garden of daisies, lilies and cherry and magnolia trees, with the ocean in the distance.“She was very happy right up until the end,” Kuypers said.Victoria Mayor Lisa Helps said Fitzsimmons made amazing contributions the Victoria area and the flower count has helped the city become a major tourist destination in February and March when other places are cold.“I think the benefit of the flower count is the story it tells, and I think that’s a lasting legacy that Norma Fitzsimmons has left for our community and I’m ve... https://www.vancouverislandfreedaily.com/news/founder-of-victorias-cheeky-flower-count-dies-at-97/

Middletown family florist: Mother dies 6 days after daughter’s death - Hamilton Journal News

Tracy Armbruster, a 1985 Middletown High School graduate, was 49. She died of natural causes, her brother said. Her visitation and service were held Saturday.Now the florist family is planning another service.Funeral services are pending for Melinda at Baker-Stevens-Parramore Funeral Home.Melinda's husband, James Armbruster, owner of the business that was established in 1945 and a former city council member, died in 2010. He was 66. A 5.8-acre nature preserve in Middletown is named after the Armbruster family.Melinda is survived by two sons, Jim II and Matthew, and grandchildren.Despite the deaths, Matthew Armbruster said the business remains open and will continue serving the community for generations.“We haven’t skipped a beat and we’re not going to,” he said.He has received condolences from florists throughout the tri-state, he said.“The outpouring from the entire community has just been so overwhelming,” he said. https://www.journal-news.com/news/local/middletown-family-florist-mother-dies-days-after-daughter-death/VQINewRxtNKtHOlqOAEruM/

Local florist brings joy to Clevelanders with massive floral installation at Edgewater Park - News 5 Cleveland

CLEVELAND — A local florist dedicated his time and talents to spread joy throughout Cleveland as everyone deals with the need to stay inside and keep a distance from one another during the COVID-19 pandemic. Andrew Thomas, of Andrew Thomas Design, created a massive floral display at Edgewater Park with the goal to spread hope to those who are struggling during a time of uncertainty.Thomas, who specializes in custom floral design, wanted to do some sort of public display for the community that was heartfelt and positive while having an interactive component that still followed the “social distancing” recommendation.At the same time, Mayesh, who is the largest flower wholesaler in Northeast Ohio, had a significant amount of inventory on hand as they prepared to close through April. Bob Fenner Flower display at Edgewater Park. So Thomas loaded up as many flowers as he could, approximately 5,000 stems, onto the bed of his pick up truck.Working after dusk, plucking and... https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/made-us-smile/local-florist-brings-joy-to-clevelanders-with-massive-floral-installation-at-edgewater-park

The Flower Bucket in Yarmouth County nurtures joy with flowers - TheChronicleHerald.ca

Benzakein. Fordham was inspired by the fact that someone was making a living from a flower farm and says she was hooked.“I started really loving arranging the flowers and creating designs. I’m not a florist but I just practiced and practiced. I started growing things that are good for cut flower production. Some flowers are better than others, they have longer vase lives than others.”She likes letting flowers do what they naturally want to do in a vase, instead of trying to control them. She says her mother was like that too. Fordham is also in her element when it comes to arranging material that’s in season locally.“If it’s in bloom and it looks beautiful and it’s going to last in a vase, then I’ll cut it. I’ll cut anything!” she laughs.“I drive around with snippers in my car (for wild material or cultivated, and cut with permission.) You never know what you’re going to see.”Each morning she visits the flowers on their property, cutting those that have reached perfection. These are placed in buckets of water for the day’s arrangements.She custom designs each bouquet according to the price point supplied by each customer, sometimes including plants like basil and mint for their fragrance.Last Christmas season she held a highly successful wreath making workshop. It’s something she plans on doing in other seasons, when she has time.“Everyone made their own and every creation was beautiful and original. There was Christmas music playing, hot cider, it was so much fun.”Fordham says this is The Flower Bucket’s first serious year as a business.She’s learning to accept failures along with success, when it comes to growing specific flowers.“I’m so new to all this and learning as I go. Maybe I won’t grow that flower there next time, or maybe I didn’t start it early enough. I’ve learned to focus on things that need my attention the most.”Once a week she walks her gardens and makes herself a bouquet for the week. “It’s my favourite thing to do on Sundays,” she says.The practice of giving flowers is a wonderful one, she adds, especially because of their finite lifespan.“We all have too much stuff. That’s why I love flowers. You can give flowers to somebody and they get to experience it for a couple of weeks and then it’s done. They don’t have to put it on their shelf somewhere and feel bad if they ever throw it away. It’s like eating food. You eat it and enjoy it and then it’s done.”How to contact The Flower BucketContact The Flower Bucket through FacebookOr InstagramOr by email... https://www.thechronicleherald.ca/business/local-business/the-flower-bucket-in-yarmouth-county-nurtures-joy-with-flowers-482841/

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