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New flower shop showcases local artisans - Morgan Hill Times

Realm Flower Company.While her new endeavor is three weeks old, floral designer/business owner Becky Ruebsamen is a familiar face in Morgan Hill, previously owning a local salon before making the switch from hair to flowers.“I fell in love with doing flowers and here I am,” said the 55-year-old Morgan Hill resident of 24 years.She describes her Realm Flower Company as not just your traditional flower shop but also a gift shop—where she showcases many local and regional artists’ work for sale—and a workshop where she hosts weekly hands-on floral arrangement and arts-and-crafts classes. (The first Dec. 16 workshop sold out right away so she added a second that same day.)“We’re not your average type of flower shop. We have retail and gifts as well. We have something for everyone,” said Ruebsamen, who handpicks the products sold in her boutique and leads the floral services. “It’s been amazing. So many people are curious when they spot the shop and they just walk right in, which is what I want.”Ruebsamen hopes her business will benefit from plenty of foot traffic from established nearby destinations such as the Running Shop and Hops and The Grapevine. Her shop includes a “Beer can cactus garden” and “Bike-themed T-towels” in honor of nearby business, Bike Therapy.“It’s a cool space,” she said. “This courtyard is amazing.”The retail space of her shop also includes items that stick to her mantra of “Recycle, Reimagine... https://www.morganhilltimes.com/2018/12/20/new-flower-shop-showcases-local-artisans/

Where to find Bay Area wildflowers in 2017's 'Super Bloom' - The Mercury News

Bay Area parks and you’ll likely find patches of orange poppies, purple lupine and yellow mustard flowers.We’re expecting incredible tapestries of flowers from Henry Coe State Park near Morgan Hill to Mount Diablo near Walnut Creek to Wilder Ranch in Santa Cruz to Point Reyes National Seashore in Marin County.Two cautions when you get out there: Look, but don’t trample. And don’t pick the wildflowers.It may seem like everyone in the Bay Area is taking a hike this Easter weekend, so stay on the trails and let everyone coming behind you enjoy the view too.With that, here’s our map.And for more on the science behind the “Super Bloom,” watch:... http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/04/14/best-bay-area-wildflower-display-and-hikes-map/

Castle Rock florist to design 'Parasite' Oscars party - The Columbian

This is our ballgame now,” Vorse said of Pollen, the Castle Rock florist shop he opened July 2017. “I’ve worked with a lot of very large event production companies, but this is all Pollen. That’s the difference.”Event design and production company Gina Wade Creative met Saturday to decide who would design the party, Vorse said. None of the designers in L.A. fit their vision, and the company knew Vorse from working together on several past projects.“They got out of their meeting last Saturday and immediately they said, ‘We have to fly Pollen in,’ which is pretty neat,” Vorse said. “It was more than flattering, to say the least.”He declined to discuss how much he’ll earn or what the design costs.Vorse started his “creative process” almost immediately by watching “Parasite” for inspiration. Set in Korea, the dark comedy thriller follows one rich family and one poor family as their lives get unusually entangled.Pollen’s Oscar party design “pulls different moments” and “works off what the environment within the film looked like,” Vorse said. For example, all of the containers used in the design will be concrete, he said. He will fill the structures with “dark and sultry” colored flowers such as Japanese sweet peas.“It will all be very industrial, and the florals will be lush and romantic, but deep, dark, moody colors,” Vorse said.The Oscars party will feature suspended pieces and more avant garde decor than the weddings he’s designed in Cowlitz County, he said. But “pieces of Pollen” will shine through.“All that lushness and all the beautiful blossoms … the way we construct things here will be part of it. We will just add the extra flair once we get there.”Vorse will buy most of his flowers and design product once he’s in California, he said. But he also plans to take “a little piece of Washington with us,” because locally grown flowers are “just the best,” he said. Plus, some of those species aren’t readily available in Los Angeles. The Columbian is becoming a rare example of a news organization with local, family... https://www.columbian.com/news/2020/feb/05/castle-rock-florist-to-design-parasite-oscars-party/

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

Guys, Get Your Pre-Game Going for Valentines Day! - Patch.com

Being long-stemmed, they don't absorb as much water as many other flowers," she said. "It's OK to use roses as part of a Valentine's Day bouquet. Work with your florist to create a lively mixed arrangement that incorporates other flowers with different colors and textures." Knowing the recipient's favorite color, and matching it with flowers, shows extra sincere interest that will be noticed, Deaver said. If it's a newer relationship, and you're unsure exactly what to send, a florist can put together an enticing arrangement that conveys affection without going overboard. Love is love, too - don't forget Mom and Grandma in Valentine's Day outreach. And yes, Deaver noted, it's OK for a woman to send flowers to a man. Just make them eye-catching, without being "pretty." "Order your flowers sooner to get exactly what you want," she said. "A Valentine's calendar like this doesn't happen often, so enjoy the chance to extend Valentine's week into an extra memorable time." Located at 13458 Watertown Plank Road, in the heart of downtown Elm Grove, Snapdragon Flowers provides fresh, beautiful flowers and plants for people, events and occasions. Its team of floral professionals includes Lead Designer Jenn Breitbach, the Wisconsin Professional Designer of the Year for 2019. More information is available by calling (262) 782-8380, visiting www.elmgroveflowershop.com, or following Snapdragon Flowers on Facebook. https://patch.com/wisconsin/brookfield-wi/guys-get-your-pre-game-going-valentine-s-day

New Flower Shop to Open in Downtown Franklin - Williamson Source

A new flower shop called The Merry Stem will open in downtown Franklin at 117a 5th Avenue North. Since the closing of Franklin Flower Shop, which has since merged with Rebel Hill Florist in Nashville, this will be the return of a floral shop in downtown Franklin.The shop will offer unique, high-end floral designs for daily delivery, corporate accounts, events, and other special occasions, shared owner Lauren Bourgeois.Customers will also have the option to order online and request delivery. Walk-in service will also be available.“In addition to flowers, we will offer cards, candles, chocolates, houseplants, vases/pots, and other specially curated items including unique vintage prints, pieces, etc,” Bourgeois added.Bourgeois moved to Williamson County when she was four years old and her fond memories of Franklin are one of the many reasons why she chose to open The Merry Stem.“I’ve always loved Historic Downtown Franklin, and I’ve always loved flowers. The Lord put the desire in my heart years ago when I was working at an amazing flower shop in Nashville, and it was really just a dream until about five months ago when He started providing the means for it t... https://williamsonsource.com/new-flower-shop-to-open-in-downtown-franklin/

Gardening: The days and nights of blooming chrysanthemums - OCRegister

You can plant a florist’s chrysanthemum – the supermarket type – in the garden and it will live for three or four years. However, chrysanthemums are easily propagated from shoot tip cuttings, so you can perpetuate them for an eternity. When you first set eyes on your potted chrysanthemum, the flowers are enormous. Now that it’s planted in the garden, the number of flowers is much greater but they are much smaller, still richly petaled as if they were miniature dahlias.The reason for flower size difference is, once again, manipulation at the nursery. Those giant initial flowers were the result of pinching off most of the flower buds as the plant developed in the nursery; by leaving a small number of buds, the blooms that came out of them were quite large.Of course, you can always plant the same species of chrysanthemum, available as a bedding plant, where all flower buds have been allowed to develop and bloom.This same principle applies where fruit size is concerned. Apricots and plums should be thinned so that there is a space of two to four inches between them on the branch. Peaches and nectarines, due to their larger size, require a space of three to five inches between them in order to grow to a proper size. All of these fruits are produced one to a bud, but apples are different since they grow in clusters. Each cluster of apples should be thinned to one or two fruit, depending on the total load of fruit on the tree, and there should be a space of six to eight inches between clusters.Although their lifespan is short, florist chrysanthemums (Chrysanthemum x grandiflorum) have a potential growth rate unmatched by any other plant. It’s hard to believe, but a cutting taken from that potted chrysanthemum you received over the holidays can be trained into a mammoth specimen, albeit under hothouse conditions.By a Japanese tr... https://www.ocregister.com/gardening-the-days-and-nights-of-blooming-chrysanthemums

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