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Victoria's Mobile Flower Shop is always in bloom with a new brick-and-mortar store - Tribune-Review

Smith was running the business out of her Brookline basement, where she lives with her husband Josh and their dog Harris.Victoria’s Mobile Flower Shop now has a brick-and-mortar store in Avalon.It’s a bright and sunny space located at 643 California Ave. Years ago, the building housed a barber. When he retired from the hairstyling business, his wife transformed it into a flower shop.The shelves are relatively bare — lined with a few locally made products, including soaps, T-shirts and candles — but that will change after the holiday season when Smith has time to make the place blossom.Since opening in early December, she’s hosted classes on everything from block-printing and hand-lettering to wreath-making and cocktail mixology. The studio also is available to rent for private parties. There’s a large white table in the center of the store where people can work and mingle. Harris, a friendly pup who looks like a Muppet come to life, greets customers at the door.“More than anything, I want this to be a community space,” Smith says. “I even had a sign out front last week that said, ‘Don’t come in here for flowers. Come for conversation and a cup of coffee.’ ”Giving back to the community is important to Smith, which is why she launched an online Pay It Forward campaign. People can donate money through PayPal and, once the pot reaches $25, Victoria’s Mobile Flower Shop will deliver a bouquet to someone who could use a morale boost. Smith has already compiled a list of nursing homes and hospitals in the area.Aside from making deliveries, the truck will be parked for the winter. Smith is taking requests from individuals and businesses who want to book it for events when the warm weather rolls in.She hopes the Daihatsu – which boasts the license plate FLOWERS – is a welcome sight in every Pittsburgh neighborhood and inspires people to pick a bouquet.“A lot of times people think flowers are a luxury they can’t get for themselves,” Smith says. “But, when you make them accessible and it’s something you can grab one or 40 of, it makes your day.”TribLIVE's Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox.More Allegheny Stories... https://triblive.com/local/pittsburgh-allegheny/victorias-mobile-flower-shop-is-always-in-bloom-with-a-new-brick-and-mortar-store/

How this Forsyth County resident is making flowers cool again - Forsyth County News Online

JJ’s Flower Shop, named for her Golden-Doodle puppy, Jaxon Jones – anda hip vehicle – a 1968 Volkswagen Transporter.By September, she was selling flowers in Avalon, themixed-use development in Alpharetta. Soon she expanded her operation to KrogStreet Market in Atlanta.Though the shop was popular with customers, even Donjuanadmits she was surprised when she got a call earlier this year asking if shewas interested in opening a brick-and-mortar store, which is now located inPonce City Market at 675 Ponce de Leon Avenue in Atlanta. “I don’t think I ever imagined myself being here,” Donjuansaid. “I don’t think I even knew to dream about having a job at Ponce CityMarket one day but everything kind of just escalated, and I think we had a lotof really awesome support from the community and everybody loved it and wantedto get on board.”The business offers a variety of services not typicallyassociated with flower shops, such as a build-your-own-bouquet, coming toevents and deliveries through Postmates in the metro area.“I think a lot of flower shops, they’re very traditional. Itsounds like things your family would want to buy,” she said. “One of ourmissions is to make flowers cool again and put a fun spin on it for millennialsand people that want to see something new or unique.”... https://www.forsythnews.com/local/how-forsyth-county-resident-making-flowers-cool-again/

This Popular Flower Truck In Atlanta Is Opening An All-New Store This Summer - Narcity

Each flower is priced by the stem, so they are all different prices on the truck. Usually, you have to catch the truck at local festivals, weekend markets, or at Avalon on certain weekdays. Make sure to follow and keep track of where they will be on their social media. Now, JJ's just announced that they will be opening a storefront, JJ's Flower Shop, in the popular, Ponce City Market. The store will be opening in the summer months, but there has not been an official opening date released yet. They just posted on Instagram that they are looking to hire this summer to help with the store and the opening, and there is no floral experience required! Keep a lookout to see when their store will be opening, and where the truck will be during the week! JJ's Flower Shop Price: $10 and upAddress: Ponce City MarketWhy you should go: JJ's Flower Truck has been a hit around Atlanta, with the freshest flowers and the prettiest bouquets. The storefront will offer flowers every day, and not just at events and markets!Website... https://www.narcity.com/things-to-do/us/ga/atlanta/atlantas-popular-flower-truck-is-opening-a-new-store-in-ponce-city-market

Block of Stores Including Avalon Florist in the Process of Being Sold - Sunnyside Post

Avalon Florist at 47-06 Queens Blvd. The lot is in the process of being sold. (Photo: Queens Post)Dec. 7, 2018 Staff ReportAn iconic triangular lot at the corner of 48th Street and Queens Boulevard that houses three longtime businesses is in the process of being sold, the Sunnyside Post has learned.The two-story lot, with an address of 47-02 Queens Blvd., has been home to Optimo Cigars, The Veer Mailbox Inc. and Avalon Florist for decades.A “store closing” sign has already gone up at Optimo Cigars, the bodega at 47-02 Queens Blvd.Optimo Cigars at 47-02 Queens Blvd. (Photo: Queens Post)The owner, who would only identify himself as Jack, said he’s been running the store at the site for 36 years.The bodega owner was told by the building’s landlord, Peter Conte, that he had to leave by the end of the year.Conte, he said, had been looking to sell the site for some time.Despite the near four-decade run, Optimo Cigars will not be looking to relocate.The Veer Mailbox at... https://sunnysidepost.com/block-of-stores-including-avalon-florist-in-the-process-of-being-sold

Floral Art: The challenges of working in an ephemeral medium - Chippewa Herald

We have done flowers for a new baby, then their prom flowers, and now a wedding. We love working with a couple on their wedding and seeing their lives evolve and then seeing their family grow.”Avalon European FloralAvalon European Floral, like other Valley flower shops, is run like an old-school business. Call them and you won’t have to select one, then two, then one, and then forget what that last question was and have to begin again. People answer their phone, and their customer service just begins there, as a phone call begins by them listening so that they tailor floral arrangements for their customers. That’s especially key for a wedding, where Avalon Floral has arranged flowers from $200 to $25,000.Sandy O’Connell, owner, said, “We meet expectations by listening to their desires.”Weddings comprise about 20 percent of Avalon’s business, and it’s a fifth that has considerable challenges.O’Connell said, “When it comes to suppliers delivering needed flowers, weather and natural disasters can play big part.”Openings are narrow, as wedding dates don’t change and set-up has to happen the day before or the day of the wedding.“It gets tricky when the venue is not set up on time. We have to keep flowers from freezing in winter and relocate outdoor weddings due to rain. That means moving a natural, living produ... http://chippewa.com/business/businessreport/floral-art-the-challenges-of-working-in-an-ephemeral-medium/article_f8fc8b05-ec75-5716-b71f-a64fc7c75341.html

Flower power: Business continues to bloom at Skyway Creations in Colorado Springs - Colorado Springs Gazette

The business has seen many changes, Don says, though there’s also a lot that hasn’t changed. “You’re still dealing with the trucks and the delivery and the product.”That product comes largely from California, with flowers bred in that state, and from Florida, a conduit for flowers from South America.“We’ve always bought from California and Florida,” Don says. But he’s also had to look to producers closer to home to fulfill a growing desire for more unusual flowers.“We need so many varieties of flowers now. We used to be able to order a big case of this and that. Now we need this special flower.”A desire for more variety isn’t the only change he has seen in consumer tastes. “They say the rose will never die, it will always be a contender,” he says, But, “the rose has finally faded a little bit in the public eye.” One increasingly popular flower, particularly with “the younger crowd,” is the Gerbera daisy.Those younger buyers have also spurred plant sales.“The millennials,” he says, “have caught on to plants again. In some ways, green plant sales died for a while, but millennials really like what we do here. The succulents are quite popular.”At the same time, though, the corporate world is embracing artificial greenery as a way to cut down on maintenance costs, Don says.“We’re doing more artificial than we’ve ever done, and that’s definitely the wave of the future.” He admires how far the artificial greenery has come — “some of the artificial these days will totally fool you” — but cautions that even artificial plants need care, specifically dusting. Colorado Springs workshop teaches ancient craft of blacksmithingWeddings continue to provide steady business. “We do as many as 100 weddings a year, so two a weekend.”Corporate customers, such as local hotels, also remain key to the business.“The hotels are still strong,” Don says. “We’re not doing the centerpiece work, the party work, that we used to get with the hotels.”He calls the 2008 economic crisis “the 25% recession.”“We lost about 25% of our customers, and the rest were asking for a 25% discount. If you can’t do it, somebody else will, so what do you do? You sharpen your pencil and go for it.”That was just one of many economic downturns the business has survived over a half-century.“We’ve always been lucky, we’ve never laid anybody off,” Don says. There have been times where he has gone to his staff and warned them that either someone would have to go or everyone would need to trim their hours, “and everyone has always been willing to do that. That says a lot for my crew.”Other flower shops have not fared as well; Don has seen several vanish over the years. He looks at Skyway and Platte Floral, which has been around for nearly 100 years, as “the two big guns on the block as far as full service.”“We’re so lucky to both still be here in the town,” Lori says.Big-box stores and grocery stores emerged as competition 20 or 30 years ago, and Don thinks that is finally taking its toll a bit. “You see an awful lot of people lined up at the supermarkets at holiday time.”But, he said, “we still get them with the quality,” and the customer service.“We spend the time with people,” he says. He u... https://gazette.com/business/flower-power-business-continues-to-bloom-at-skyway-creations-in-colorado-springs/article_d5c342b4-5821-11ea-b62d-7be600878467.html

Flower Power: Farm-to-Vase Movement Takes Root on Chicago's South and West Sides - WTTW News

U.S., is more often than not Colombia or possibly Ecuador. The small slice of the market not dominated by imports is, in turn, almost entirely monopolized by California growers. Before they reach Chicago, the blooms, most of which are cultivated in greenhouses, will have traveled thousands of miles via energy-guzzling refrigerated planes, cargo ships and trucks, passing from farmer to exporter to wholesaler to retailer. Plenty won’t survive. What you wind up holding in your hand is less a natural wonder than a marvel of logistics and the modern global supply chain. All of which serves as a prologue to the story of Eco House. Eco House founder Quilen Blackwell. (Patty Wetli / WTTW News) Rain barrels are the sole source of water for the farm's irrigation system. (Patty Wetli / WTTW News) Beehives at the farm. (Patty Wetli / WTTW News) Lilies, biding their time before blooming. (Patty Wetli / WTTW News) Southside Blooms' floral studio, in the basement of the Blackwells' home. (Patty Wetli / WTTW News) What a Midwestern flower farm looks like, when spring bloomers are spent, and summer's are freshly planted. (Patty Wetli / WTTW News) Southside Blooms seasonal spring bouquet. (Southside Blooms) Eco House upends pretty much everything we just told you about the flower industry. Here’s a farm with land located not in South America but the South and West sides of Chicago. Flowers are grown outdoors in the dirt on formerly vacant lots in E... https://news.wttw.com/2020/07/08/slow-flower-movement-chicago-eco-house

Our favorite houseplant stores in Los Angeles. - Los Angeles Times

Newsletter Get The Wild newsletter. The essential weekly guide to enjoying the outdoors in Southern California. Insider tips on the best of our beaches, trails, parks, deserts, forests and mountains. You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. Advertisement The Los Angeles retail plant community is a collegial group with a generous spirit that extends beyond its customers. At Folia Collective, owner Danae Horst recommends Leaf and Spine for rare plants. At Leaf and Spine, Ernestine Segura refers clients to Planta for larger containers. Potted’s Annette Gutierrez is a big fan of Jenkins of the Plant Provocateur, who in turn suggests Sunset Nursery for full-sun plants. Now that stores are beginning to reopen, we decided to list a few of our favorites. Have a preference of your own? Let us know. Because of the pandemic, not all of the businesses on our list will be open, some may have limited hours and some will be offering curbside pickup only. So call or check online before heading out. Deep Roots This South Bay garden center sells indoor and outdoor plants, natives and floral arrangements. 207 N. Sepulveda Blvd., Manhattan Beach, (310) 379-3634. Advertisement Fig Earth SupplyOwner Conor Fitzpatrick stocks a wide variety of houseplants in addition to edibles and herbs including fiddleleaf figs, philodendron and calathea. Fitzpatrick also presents regular classes spanning houseplant basics to cannabis cultivation. And there’s always something lovely in the Domecil store. 3577 N. Figueroa, Highland Park, (323) 224-3938. Folia Collective in Eagle Rock. (Danae Horst) Folia Collective Every plant at Folia Collective, from Peperomia ferreyraeto to staghor... https://www.latimes.com/lifestyle/story/2020-06-15/la-hm-our-favorite-places-to-shop-for-houseplants

Berkeley Florist Remains Bitter That It Can't Do Curbside Sales While Whole Foods Sells Flowers Next Door - SFist

Governor Gavin Newsom made announcements about curbside retail being allowed to start last Friday, and now 18 rural counties across California are already moving into the second half of Phase 2 in which dine-in restaurants get to reopen. This acceleration is based on the relatively low prevalence of the coronavirus in those counties thus far — and based on their being able to document hospital capacity to handle a potential surge in cases, if it comes.As one Yuba County resident told a reporter last week, upon the reopening of a shopping mall there in defiance of the state, "It’s always the big box stores that can stay open, and not the small ones."Last week, Ms. Simon told a reporter from ABC 7 that she planned to reopen Ashby Flowers for curbside pickups on May 8 along with other florists in the state just in time for Mother's Day, in defiance of Alameda County. But she later relented and chose to remain closed.In announcing the loosening of retail restrictions in his county on Wednesday, San Mateo County health officer Dr. Scott Morrow said, "The virus continues to circulate in our community, and this increase in interactions among people is likely to spread the virus at a higher rate. Whether these modifications allow the virus to spread out of control, as we saw in February and March and resulted in the first shelter in place order, is yet to be seen."As of Thursday morning, San Francisco had 1,999 confirmed COVID-19 cases, with 65 people hospitalized, and Alameda County has 2,178 cases with 79 people hospitalized. San Mateo County has 1,536 cases with 63 in the hospital.Related: Mayor Breed Gives Green Light For Most SF Retail to Open For Curbside Sales and Delivery on MondayPhoto: Facebook... https://sfist.com/2020/05/14/berkeley-florist-bitter-about-curbside-retail-rules/