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It's time to stop and smell the wildflowers - Kenai Peninsula Online

It’s easy to find yourself among the wildflowers in Alaska.The approach of summer solstice brings peak wildflower season on the Kenai Peninsula. The roadways are already brightened by the deep purple of the lupine. It’s hard, though, to predict exactly when the bloom will reach its height.“The question will be when they peak this year,” Kenai Wildlife Refuge Park Ranger Leah Eskelin said. “I wouldn’t even be able to put my finger on it because it’s different throughout the peninsula.”Eskelin said she saw all the wild roses and Labrador tea flowers out by the Swanson River in full bloom Monday and she saw the same in the Skilak area this weekend.“Those flowers are all blooming and then, here, around town, nothing,” Eskelin said.But the wildflower wait will end soon, leading to a wide array of flowers that create a palette of color.Alaska’s state flower, the sky-blue forget-me-not, can be found in alpine meadows, or as written in the margin of the 1917 bill that approved the flower as the Alaska Territory’s official floral emblem — “a little flower blossoms forth on every hill and dale, the emblem of the Pioneers... http://peninsulaclarion.com/outdoors/local/2017-06-15/it-s-time-stop-and-smell-wildflowers

Seasonal advantage gives state peony market room to grow - Alaskajournal.com

Lower 48 or in Holland but we haven’t accomplished this yet with our young farms in Alaska,” Williams said.Mike Williams of Alaska Peony Distributors said the company serves farms from the Kenai Peninsula to northern parts of the Matanuska-Susitna Borough with small planes chartered to fly flowers in to the pack house at Lake Hood.Single-engine planes typically carry a few hundred stems but larger, twin-engine aircraft can transport up to 6,000, Williams said.It takes about an hour to get the cut stems from the farm to the Lake Hood facility, where they are sorted for quality, chilled and packaged for shipment to the Lower 48 via Federal Express or cargo services of scheduled air carriers like Alaska Airlines and Delta Airlines, Mike Williams said.Alaska Peony Distributors buys the cut stems from the farmers and ships out to Lower 48 and some international buyers, selling to wholesalers as well as hotels and direct to retail outlets like grocery chains and florists.Although the logistics network is complex and expensive, covering about 7,800 square miles, Meghan Williams said the area covers about a dozen micro-climates, which creates a variation in harvesting schedules (higher altitudes makes for a later harvest) and stretches out the shipping season from Alaska.An example of this is at Homer, Mike Williams said.“Some farms there are in a maritime climate but at an 800-foot to 1,500-foot elevation, which means they harvest later than the rest of us,” he said.Williams’ own EagleSong farm is nearing the last stage of its 2016 harvest, typical for most farms, but Homer peony farmers will be able to add supply for several weeks longer, he said. There are also peony farms in Interior Alaska that handle their own distribution.Meghan Williams said there are no firm estimates of how many commercial peony farms are now operating in the state but she believes there are about 65. Many are small “boutique” farms with just a few hundred roots and specializing in rare and unusual peony varieties, she said. However, a handful are larger, like EagleSong, with 12,000 roots now producing.Mike Williams said the market growth has great potential because of Alaska’s seasonal advantage in selling. The European market is huge, with flower distributors in Amsterdam moving 20 million peony stems in a matter of weeks in June. The market potential in Asia is unknown, but it is equally large, he said.Agriculture will always be a small, niche industry. Historically, Alaskans had to produce much of their own food and dairy products before the advent of fast container ships, an improved Alaska Highway and efficient air cargo service.Farming in Alaska continues, and sometimes even thrives, in small niche markets, said Arthur Keyes, the state agriculture director. The thriving weekend farmer’s markets in Anchorage and Fairbanks, where local growers sell fresh produce, testify to that.Keyes said resilient barley farmers near Delta, east of Fairbanks, who inherited problems of the state’s failed 1980s-era experiment in large state-sponsored barley farming, are developing new products, like a barley flour, and finding markets in the growing health food sector, though it is mainly within the state.Peony farming, a new industry, represents another niche, and perhaps ultimately a big one, he said. http://www.alaskajournal.com/2016-07-13/seasonal-advantage-gives-state-peony-market-room-grow

Piney Rose Flower & Decor opens in The Woodlands - Houston Chronicle

Taylor and Cullen Handfelt of The Woodlands are blending the business of a traditional florist with some new twists. The Handfelts are the dynamic duo that created Piney Rose Flowers & Decor. A mixture of the feminine side, Rose, and the masculine side, Piney, they operate their newly opened business together much like everything else they do in life. “Cullen handles more of the business and corporate side of things, I’m the creative one,” Taylor said. Taylor says that while residents coming to a florist for occasions or commercial needs is not a new thing, she and her husband are working to bring something new to the trade. Piney Rose offers monthly, bi-weekly, and weekly subscriptions for a specially fashioned arrangement of blooms — fresh in a vase... https://www.houstonchronicle.com/neighborhood/woodlands/news/article/Piney-Rose-Flower-Decor-opens-in-The-Woodlands-14947966.php

Norwich florist to open new business in high street | Latest Norfolk and Suffolk Business News - Eastern Daily Press

Libby Peryer who is running Niche. Pic: submitted A florist who sold her business to focus on being a mum is about to open a new shop in Norwich. Angela Lloret, who is Libby Peryer's business partner at Niche. Pic: submittedLibby Peryer, who sold Libby Ferris Flowers in 2015 to take a break to look after her four children, has secured a lease on a shop in Timber Hill for her new floristry called Niche.And she could not have hoped for a better way to promote the new enterprise because she's opening a pop-up shop just a few doors away in Hairsmiths hair salon where owner Deb Dominic has been offering retail space. MORE: See inside this home for sale in one of the prettiest streets in NorfolkNiche will open in Hairsmiths on February 1 where they will be for a fortnight during florists' busiest time of the year Valentine's Day. Niche is opening in a pop-up space in Hairsmiths hair salon, Timber Hill. Pic: ArchantMrs Peryer, who's currently running Niche from her home in Bracondale, has teamed up with another florist, business partner Angela Lloret, and is hoping to employ three members of staff.She has just secured a lease on a little period shop unit - 10 Timber Hill - next to the Murderers pub and owned by the Castle Quarter. After decorating it as a little "flower cave" Mrs Peryer hopes to be open by Easter, and possib... https://www.edp24.co.uk/business/florist-libby-peryer-of-libby-ferris-to-open-new-business-in-norwich-1-6486442

Ask Jerry: Order flowers, gifts from a local purveyor - Seacoastonline.com

The quality was not great. I dont want that to happen again.Can you advise me in time for Valentines Day?Marc E., Grand Rapids, Mich.Yes. Order your flowers from a local florist. By local, I mean a florist in the town or city where the flowers are being delivered.If you know someone in that area, ask for a florist recommendation. Otherwise, search the Internet for local florist names and read the reviews. Since reviews are not always authentic, you can also check online for public libraries in your flower recipients neighborhood. Then, call the librarian for florists listed in that area. And ask the librarian off the record whether he or she has any personal florist suggestions. It is off the record because librarians normally give information they can document with a published source. It is not within their routine purview to give personal opinions. That need not stop you from asking off the record.Once you identify a promising local florist, call and speak with the owner, the manager, or a conscientious-sounding employee. Request the name of that individual and address the person by name. Be specific about what you want to purchase, the importance of freshness, how the card should read, the delivery time, and any other relevant particulars. Make it clear you are a potentially future customer.When ordering flowers or anything perishable (i.e., candy, fruit, etc.), it is best to communicate with that personal touch. A gift recipient is often reluctant to inform you when your gift arrived in less-than-perfect condition. Accordingly, you want to feel confident. You want it handled properly. Though this process ... https://www.seacoastonline.com/news/20200209/ask-jerry-order-flowers-gifts-from-local-purveyor

Pig Floyd's is offering a meaty taco bouquet for Valentine's Day - Orlando Weekly

There are eight choices of taco meat, including butter chicken, pork al pastor, shrimp and sausage and "Korean kimcheeze." The flowers and decoration will be provided by the Heavy, a florist in Winter Park.Each order can be placed online and will be made fresh, prepped and available for you to pick up at Pig Floyd's Mills 50 location. Although payment is required upfront, the bouquets are being offered at a first-come, first-serve basis. click to enlarge Photo courtesy Pig Floyd's At $45 each, the ValenTaco boxes are costly enough to show you're seriously hungry, but be careful planning the surprise because Pig Floyd's will call you ahead to schedule your desired pick-up time. This event is only happening on Friday, Feb. 14, so make sure you grab someone special and figure out if they want chimichurri or not. This way your ValenTaco box will be set to perfection. See you on Valentine's Day at Pig Floyd's with a taco (or three). Stay on top of Orlando news and views. Sign up for our weekly Headlines newsletter. https://www.orlandoweekly.com/Blogs/archives/2020/02/04/pig-floyds-is-offering-a-meaty-taco-bouquet-for-valentines-day?utm_source=widget&utm_medium=toc&utm_campaign=rightrail&utm_content=TabbedPopularity

Muncie Origins: Normandy Flower Shop continues family florist tradition - Ball State Daily News

Judy Benken, owner of Normandy Flower Shop, can be found in this room taking orders, making flower arrangements and calling suppliers. As a third-generation florist, Benken isn’t new to the flower business. She said she grew up in her father’s flower shop because it was attached to their house, and “there wasn’t any getting away from it.”  “I probably started working when I was around 12 [doing simple little things],” Benken said. “When I started [delivering flowers] after school, I was 16.”After Benken moved from Muncie to Ohio with her husband, she said, she thought she had left the flower business behind her. However, once the holidays rolled around, Benken said, she found herself working for a flower shop in Ohio because she missed the “chaos and crazy” of the season.  Although Benken and her husband started their family in Ohio, they wanted their children to grow up in Muncie. In 1982, the Normandy Flower Shop, which was established in downtown Muncie in the 1940s, came up for sale. The Benkens decided to make the shop their own.“It was the [floral] business that I knew,” Benken said. “I wasn’t making much of a living working for other people. It was [my husband’s] idea to buy the flower shop. I just wanted to come home.”At the time she opened N... https://www.ballstatedaily.com/article/2020/02/daily-lifestyles-normandy-flower-shop

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