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Business is blooming at Belle's Flower Truck - Tifton Gazette
Wednesday, April 11, 2018Plantation 59 asked if she’d park the truck in front the boutique. Of course she would and that day, she said with a bemused laugh, was “stupid busy.”More businesses have asked for the truck. From Thomasville to Moultrie Belle’s Flower Truck is putting the miles in. She was also asked to arrange a bouquet for Lee Ann Womack for her show on March 28.“Having something like this here, I think it’s a unique experience,” she said. She and Justin are both interested in ushering in a new atmosphere for Tifton.“I like to bring culture to Tifton. That’s mine and my husband’s biggest thing,” she said.They both attribute Espresso 41’s popularity to the flower truck’s success. The truck is its own star.Belle said it got more attention at the Rhythm and Ribs festival than the flowers did (just to be clear, no, the truck isn’t for sale and no, they don’t want it painted).When customers approach the truck they are welcome to assemble their own bouquet. Belle is always there to help. Some people give her a budget and color preferences and let her create the bouquet. But no matter what, she wants the bouquets to feel personal, something pre-made bouquets lack.“I want people to be able to come pick out a bouquet and make their own rather than go to Publix and get a bouquet that’s already made,” she said. “You get to pick what you like. Make your own. Make it reflect who you are and your personality.” She keeps a variety of flowers and regularly integrates new flora like the anemone. Belle also provides the classics like roses and daisies. Sunflowers sell quickly. And then she has greenery like eucalyptus. After the customer assembles their bouquets she arranges and wraps it in brown paper and ties it with a string.One customer comes by every week for a fresh bouquet.“She looks forward to coming here every week and making her bouquet,” Belle said. “I like that I get to be a part of that, too.”It’s been a whirlwind from the beginning and grown faster than she could have imagined. Belle gets to create her own schedule, allowing her to balance her roles as wife, mother and business owner. And even though it can be stressful she knows she didn’t do it, and doesn’t do it, alone.“Without my wonderful husband this would not have been possible,” Bell laughed. “That’s for sure. Cause it’s his truck.”“I hope people know that we try to give our all with everything we do,” added Justin.“It’s been a blessing,” Belle said. “It’s just unreal.”#inform-video-player-3 .inform-embed { margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 20px; }... http://www.tiftongazette.com/news/business-is-blooming-at-belle-s-flower-truck/article_5311eaa6-321b-11e8-8c14-cf5020745e0e.html
Flowers museum on the company's 100-year anniversary horizon ... - Times-Enterprise
Tuesday, November 28, 2017THOMASVILLE — Almost a century ago, two brothers founded a Thomasville company that eventually swept the nation with food products.In 1919, brothers Howard and Joseph Flowers opened a bakery on Madison Street that is still in operation today.Today, Flowers Foods operates 49 bakeries and has more than 10,000 employees nationwide. More than 85 percent of the U.S. population has access to Flowers’ breads and snack cakes — Nature’s Own, Sunbeam, Wonder, Merita, Dave’s Killer Bread, Cobblestone Mill, Tastykake — on supermarket bread aisles. Flowers Foods is seeking donations of historical items, photographs, documents and stories from the early days of Flowers Baking Company and Flowers Industries for the Flowers museum to be housed in the historic building at 135 N. Broad St. The company also is collecting stories and memorabilia about the building, which was built in 1914 as a post office and later was home to the public library and the genealogical library.The permanent mu... http://www.timesenterprise.com/news/local_news/flowers-museum-on-the-company-s--year-anniversary-horizon/article_8c89ef58-c371-57e5-aeea-ae4716655c37.html
Flower industry expects losses 'in the millions' as Victoria's snap COVID lockdown affects weddings and Valentine's Day - ABC News
Sunday, February 28, 2021Valentine's DayOne Trentham flower grower lost 80 per cent of her stock in one dayGrowers are urging Victorians to support local growers and floristsShe had an abundance of freshly cut flowers to sell, and five weddings planned, when it all came to a sudden halt when the State Government announced a snap five-day coronavirus lockdown on Friday afternoon."At one o'clock, when it was announced, the industry went into a spin," Ms Roehrich said."Flowers were already prepared, ready to go for weddings, greenery had been picked and trucks were already delivering the product — it's done a lot of damage to our business.""The is the third time that we've had a large amount of flowers basically go to waste, and there's nothing we can do."Eighty per cent of her stock has been lost over the weekend, including flowers like hydrangeas, proteas and greenery. Ms Roehrich says it takes a year to grow flowers and prepare for sales on Valentine's Day.(Supplied: Cheryl Roehrich)'How many times?'Ms Roehrich is now questioning her next step."How many times can a small business take a cop like this and back it up again?" she said."After the first lockdown, we were very hesitant to replant for the next season."Eventually we did, and we got locked down again. Do we keep planting? Do we wait until this is all over?"In Melbourne's ... https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2021-02-15/victoria-flower-industry-expects-losses-millions-snap-lockdown/13154950
Hoover-Fisher Florists to Move from Four Corners to Kensington - Source of the Spring
Sunday, February 28, 2021Hoover-Fisher Florists, a Four Corners mainstay since the 1960s, will move to a new location in Kensington in January, 2021, according to an email to customers.The family-owned retailer was founded in 1954 and later moved into a two-story addition to the Woodmoor Shopping Center at the intersection of Colesville Road and University Boulevard.The company is owned and operated by Bill Fisher, the second-generation owner, with two of his children, Allie Salkeld and Mason Fisher, also part of the business.The new location will be at 4100 Howard Ave. in Kensington, which is currently under renovation. It will offer private parking and additional room for expansion, according to the announcement, which also is posted on the company’s Facebook page.The florist will continue to offer same-day delivery to the same areas of Maryland, Washington D.C and northern Virginia. They will continue to operate at 16 University Blvd. East until the move is complete.Photo by Mike Diegel... https://www.sourceofthespring.com/silver-spring/hoover-fisher-florist-move-four-corners-kensington/
Judge Says Florist Charged in Capitol Riot May Travel to Mexico - The New York Times
Sunday, February 28, 2021Jan. 6 siege, said she had planned a four-day “work-related bonding retreat” in the Riviera Maya with employees and their spouses.A federal judge said on Friday that a florist from Texas who has been charged with taking part in the riot at the U.S. Capitol last month may travel to Mexico for what she had described as a “work-related bonding retreat.”The judge, Trevor N. McFadden of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, granted the woman, Jenny Louise Cudd, permission to take the prepaid trip this month, saying she had no criminal history and there was no evidence she was a flight risk or a danger to others.Judge McFadden also said that Ms. Cudd’s pretrial services officer and prosecutors had not objected to her request to travel. Ms. Cudd must provide her itinerary to her pretrial officer and follow any other instructions the officer gives her, the judge said.Ms. Cudd, who was charged with violent entry and being in a restricted building or grounds, said in a court filing that she had “planned and prepaid” for the retreat with her employees in the Riviera Maya, south of Cancún, from Feb. 18 to Feb. 21.A grand jury has indicted Ms. Cudd, of Midland Texas, o... https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/05/us/politics/cudd-texas-florist-mexico.html
Longtime CEO of Wedel’s Nursery remembered for love of faith, family, fishing and flowers - mlive.com
Sunday, February 28, 2021KALAMAZOO, MI — George Wedel’s father, Harley Wedel, started Wedel’s Nursery Florist and Garden Center in 1946 in Westnedge Hill when George was just a small boy.For the past 60 years, George Wedel helped run the business, spending decades in the role of general manager and CEO, according to family.On Monday, June 15, one day before his 81st birthday, Wedel came into work like any other day. But his daughter, Terrie Schwartz, noticed he was walking crooked. She rushed Wedel to the emergency room, where she learned he was having a heart attack, as well as a stroke.George Wedel, who worked right up to his last week, died this past Sunday, June 21, at home in hospice care, Schwartz said.More than just someone with a green thumb and a shared love for landscaping, plants and flowers, Wedel will be remembered as someone who cared deeply about his faith, said both Schwartz and her brother, Andy Wedel.One of the founding members of Country Christian Evangelical Free Church in Scotts in the mid-1980s, George Wedel remained in an active leadership role with the church ri... https://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/2020/06/longtime-ceo-of-wedels-nursery-remembered-for-love-of-faith-family-fishing-and-flowers.html
El Paso, New Mexico florists create tribute to Walmart mass shooting victims - El Paso Times
Sunday, February 28, 2021Maria Cortes Gonzalez El Paso TimesA group of florists from El Paso, Las Cruces and other parts of New Mexico are creating a tribute to the 23 victims of the El Paso mass shooting using moss and dried flowers.The goal is to use 23 silhouettes to create a colorful, emotional and uplifting visual at this weekend's opening of the El Paso County Community Healing Garden through the beauty of sunflowers, cosmos, zinnias, roses, and larkspur.The moss represents the healing garden that is being created, and the flowers in all colors represent life, people and unity.Young victims such as 15-year-old Javier Amir Rodriguez, formerly of Horizon City, will have a silhouette covered completely in flowers as their lives were cut short and didn't get to bloom, the florists said. The teen was about to start high school in El Paso.Each of the silhouettes will be holding a star in one hand, representative of the Star on the Mountain in El Paso.The silhouettes will be displayed along the roads inside Ascarate Park lined with... https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/2020/07/31/el-paso-new-mexico-florists-create-floral-tribute-shooting-victims/5555190002/
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