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Mary L. Dyce - Clarksville Now

Mary Lou Dyce, age 90, of Clarksville, passed away Sunday, September 8, 2019, at Arcadia Senior Living.Mary Lou was born January 28, 1929, in Montgomery County, TN, to the late Lonnie Thomas Morrow and Lillie Blanche Thomas Morrow. She was also preceded in death by her husband, Sterling Houston Dyce; son, Thomas Dyce; four brother, Donnie Morrow, Ernest Morrow, Clyde Morrow, and Thomas Morrow; and three sisters, Fanie Mae Scott, Bonnie Chester, and Louise Scott.Mrs. Dyce was a nurse and a member of Walton’s Chapel United Methodist Church.A Celebration of Life Service will be held Wednesday, September 11, at 11:00 AM, at the Chapel of Neal-Tarpley-Parchman Funeral Home, with Rev. Craig Cross and Rev. George Adair officiating. Burial will follow at Resthaven Memorial Gardens. Visitation will be Tuesday, September 10, from 4:00 to 7:00 PM, and Wednesday, September 11, from 10:00 A.M. until the hour of service, at the funeral home.Mary Lou is survived by her daughter, Patsy (John) Peay of Clarksville; one brother, Carl Morrow of Clarksville; three sisters, Shirley Jarm... https://clarksvillenow.com/local/mary-l-dyce/

1 Dead After Car Goes Flying, Crashes Sideways Into Arcadia Flower Shop - CBS Los Angeles

ARCADIA (CBSLA) — One man is dead Thursday after somehow crashing a rental car sideways into a flower shop in Arcadia.The crash was first reported at about 3:15 a.m. at Arcadia Main Florist, 30 Las Tunas Drive. The impact of the crash left the red vehicle wedged on its side through a display window of the shop.Police say the car lost control and sheared a fire hydrant before flying into the closed flower shop.The male driver was pronounced dead at the scene. He was later identified as 42-year-old Carl Chandler of Alhambra.Witnesses told police they saw the car speeding just before the crash. Related... https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2019/08/08/arcadia-car-crashes-sideways-flower-shop/

Follow your nose to experience the corpse flower at The Huntington in San Marino

There is also a bonsai club that meets the third Thursday of each month (excluding August and December) at 7 p.m. at the Los Angeles County Arboretum, at 301 N. Baldwin Ave., Arcadia (626-821-3222). https://www.whittierdailynews.com/2018/08/25/follow-your-nose-to-experience-the-corpse-flower-at-the-huntington-in-san-marino/

Flourishing flowers - Lexington Dispatch

Mr. Bogard said. “As a consequence, it’s kind of growing exponentially now.”The garden is located on the acre behind the Bogards’ home in the Arcadia community.“It’s a valley back there,” Mr. Bogard said. “It was all wooded and originally we started the garden over on the right side, but as the trees grew up it started shading. We ended up moving the whole garden to this side of the valley. There’s a little stream that runs through there and normally it runs maybe three weeks out of the year total if you added up all the days.”Mrs. Bogard’s daylily purchase over two decades ago got Mr. Bogard interested in hybridizing the flowers. Since then, he has collected hundreds of varieties of daylilies and given seeds to people in 11 different countries and 28 different states through the American Hemerocallis Society.Both have had a passion for gardening since an early age. Mrs. Bogard talked about her experience growing up in rural Wisconsin.“My father was a country doctor and veterinarian so to speak and he used to take me out on the farms,” Mrs. Bogard said. “I lived outside basically and as young as I can remember I would get cinder blocks and put mud in them and find seeds and plant them. I didn’t know what I was doing, but I just always loved that.”Mr. Bogard, who lived in the top of a three story flat in Chicago until the age of 8, developed his love for plants while working in his grandfather’s garden.“I was interested in plants at a very early age too because my grandfather graduated from the University of Iowa at Ames with a degree in horticulture back then, and he had a florist shop in downtown Chicago that went under when the stock market crashed in 1928,” Mr. Bogard said. “He had a garden in the back yard and he encouraged all us kids and our cousins to take care of the garden. So he didn’t have to do anything because we did all the watering and the weeding and stuff like that, bu... http://www.the-dispatch.com/news/20170707/flourishing-flowers

Dig It Sells Plants and Nurtures Community in Phoenix - Phoenix New Times

August 2015, he and Tim Bishop founded Dig It.“Within the first couple days, I knew how it would look,” Jerrell says. Dig It is located on 16th Street in Phoenix.Evie CarpenterWhen Baker Nursery near Arcadia sold at the end of 2014, it left a hole in central Phoenix, Jerrell says. Before Dig It opened, the closest nurseries in the area were the Home Depot at 36th Street and Thomas Road and Whitfill Nursery near Seventh Street and Glendale Avenue.And the demand for a place like Dig It was growing. The previously 15,000-square-foot garden centers at stores like Lowe’s and Home Depot are now closer to 50,000 square feet, Jerrell says. But still, some had doubts when Jerrell and Bishop decided to open their nursery near 16th Street and Thomas Road.“I said I was going to open a garden center here, and people were like ‘Okay, good luck,’” Jerrell says. It’s been the surrounding community that’s most embraced Dig It, especially the Coronado and Cherry Lynn neighborhoods.“Within the first couple months, we were flooded,” says Jerrell’s wife, Jessica, who handles the nursery’s social media and marketing. The name “Urban Gardens + Nursery” isn’t just referring to the location in the heart of Phoenix. It also refers to what they sell: plants meant to thrive in a city, specifically Phoenix. The staff at Dig It makes it a point to only sell what will actually grow in the city’s desert environment. “We keep reminding people they live in Arizona,” Jerrell says. “We’ll turn people away if it won’t work.” A selection of succulents at Dig It.Evie CarpenterAt Dig It, the goal is for customers to succeed in growing their plants. The staff won’t sell something just because you ask for it.“We would rather help the plants stay alive than have a return policy,” Jessica says. Beyond stocking a wide selection of native plants, the team finds it crucial to stay in touch with architectural and design trends.Thanks to more than five years as a co-owner of Urban Cactus, a boutique landscaping business, it’s not hard for Jerrell to stay tapped in. The relationships he’s built with local growers help as well.“Ninety percent of our inventory comes from local growers,” Jerrell says like it’s no big deal. (It is.)In the short time Dig It has been open, it’s become a community hotspot and even a destination for out-of-towners. Jessica says people will spend hours looking around on the weekends, adding that one woman brings her grandson to see the tortoises and parrots almost weekly.“The community has the ability to support you, if you give back,” Jerrell says. That’s why when the owners of the Coronado came by to get some advice on what to do with their planters, Jerrell went over to the restaurant to see for himself what they neede... http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/arts/dig-it-sells-plants-and-nurtures-community-in-phoenix-9062381

Kimberly's Flowers of Boca Raton to Become Flowers of Boca Raton - PRUnderground

Florals (parent company of Flowers of Boca Raton) announced this week at that the company will officially be changing its name to Flowers of Boca Raton effective immediately. Boca Raton, Florida (PRUnderground) November 8th, 2019 Daniel Sanchez, the spokesperson for South Florals (parent company of Flowers of Boca Raton) announced this week at that the company will officially be changing its name to Flowers of Boca Raton effective immediately.Daniel explained that the new name reflects changing ownership, fresh new products, and a greater focus on customer service within the company, adding: Kimberly’s Flowers of Boca Raton has been a South Florida staple for four decades, and our intent upon acquisition is to preserve the commitment to community, along with enhancing the floral services offered.The same team of talented designers has proudly served Boca, West Palm Beach, and Fort Lauderdale through holidays, birthdays, and special events alike. New services include wedding flowers, yacht florals, and subscription based services for the hotels and other tourist destinations.Flowers of Boca Raton is already accepting orders under ... https://www.prunderground.com/kimberlys-flowers-of-boca-raton-to-become-flowers-of-boca-raton/00171336/

Rene Flowers snaps up first endorsement from would-be colleague - Florida Politics

Ken Welch.Long is the first sitting commissioner to endorse a candidate in that race.“I’ve known and worked with Rene Flowers during my tenure as a councilmember for the city of Seminole, on the Florida League of Cities Board of Directors ( where she served as President), as a member of the House of Representatives, and now as a County Commissioner,” Long said. “Whether it was supporting fluoride in the water, cleaning up our public parks, fighting for public mass transit, expanding affordable workforce housing units, or creating local business opportunities, Rene has always rolled up her sleeves to get the job done. Pinellas County will be a better place to live work and play when she is elected, that’s why I am fully endorsing Rene Flowers as the next District 7 County Commissioner.”Since entering the race in November, Flowers has been aggressively pursuing endorsements.Earlier in the week, Flowers added Democratic strategist Lisa Perry to her growing list of endorsers. Perry served as a consultant for former Democratic gubernatorial candidate Chris King.Flowers, a current Pinellas County School Board member, has also earned endorsements from St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Kriseman, St. Pete City Council member Lisa Wheeler Bowman, former St. Pete City Council member Steve Kornell and Gulfport City Council member Michael Fridovich. She launched her campaign in late No... https://floridapolitics.com/archives/315462-rene-flowers-snaps-up-first-endorsement-from-would-be-colleague

Tallahassee's florist to the Legislature - Florida Politics

Monday. (An aside to the aides: Those gardens will last throughout Session if they’re watered weekly and kept in a not-too-sunny spot.)Florida’s chiropractors will again be gifting each member of the House and Senate with sunflowers. Orchids are on hand, a favorite gift from lobbyist Ron Book, who always sends a large basket of the tropical blooms to his daughter, Sen. Lauren Book. Other flowers will be made into arrangements Monday, with an eye on a 5 p.m. deadline.Clark said after 9/11, restrictions were put in place when the chambers were open for deliveries. All arrangements must be delivered between 5 and 7 p.m. Monday. Her entire family will be pressed into service, and it will probably take four trips with the company van to get all the orders delivered. “We’ve always been the last flower shop down there,” she said.For most of its history, Elinor Doyle Florist was located downtown, in the shadow of the Capitol. But after she bought the business seven years ago, beset by high rent and a lack of parking, Clark moved to its current location, in the shadow of the Sheraton Four Points.For the most part, the clientele moved with her. “Our business is word-of-mouth,” she said. “Everybody knows where to call.”And if they ask for Elinor Doyle, the easiest answer often is: “Yes, may I help you?”Share this: ... https://floridapolitics.com/archives/314583-tallahassees-florist-to-the-legislature-2

Paul Burrell says wife cried over gay wedding revelation - Stock Daily Dish

While he decided to stay in Cheshire, Maria now lives in a luxury home in Florida.Burrell now runs his florist, Paul Burrell Flowers, close to where the family used to live in the village of Farndon.Last month he was pictured taking flowers inside the store and serving customers. Although he is not thought to work there on a day-to-day basis. Paul and Maria Burrell met while they were both working at Buckingham Palace, with Maria serving as the Duke of Edinburgh‘s maid, and married in 1984.An established tradition suggested one of them should give up their job with the Royal Family, but the Queen made an exception for them, allowing both to remain in Royal service.Mr Burrell started working for Diana four years later and went on to become one of her most trusted members of staff.He joined Prince Charles and Diana at Highgrove House in Gloucestershire in 1987 and remained there until her death in 1997.Mr Burrell then made millions from a series of books about his life with the princess and from appearing on reality shows such as I‘m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here.How William and Harry blasted Burrell‘s ‘betrayal‘ of their mum Princes William and Harry attacked former royal butler Paul Burrell for his ‘cold and overt betrayal‘ of their mother.In a 2003 statement unprecedented for its strength of feeling, William, then 21 and also speaking on behalf of his younger brother, showed his deep pain at Mr Burrell‘s revelations in his tell-all book.The Princes said the late Diana, Princess of Wales, would have been ‘mortified‘ at his actions if she were alive today.They called on him to put an end to his disclosures.Mr Burrell, who worked for the Princess, made a series of claims including one that Diana feared for her life and spoke of a plot to tamper with the brakes of her car.Prince William said in the statement released by Clarence House: ‘We cannot believe that Paul who was entrusted with so much could abuse his position in such a cold and overt betrayal.‘It is not only deeply painful for the two of us but also for everyone else affected and it would mortify our mother if she were alive today and, if we might say so, we feel we are more able to speak for our mother than Paul‘.In the international bestseller he claimed Diana described him as her ‘rock‘ and ‘the only man I can trust‘.In 2003 he wrote a tell-all memoir ‘A Royal Duty‘ that went into detail about his time serving the Prince and Princess of Wales, and featured letters to him from Diana.But in a rare public statement, Prince William and Prince Harry accused him of betraying their mother and said she would have been mortified by his breach of confidence. ‘We cannot believe that Paul, who was entrusted with so much, could abuse his position in such a cold and overt betrayal,‘ they said in 2003.‘If we may say so, we feel we are more able to speak for our mother than Paul. We ask Paul to bring these revelations to an end.‘With the proceeds of the book, he bought a property in Clermont, near Orlando, Florida, in 2004.The relocation came two years after he was accused of stealing 352 items from Princess Diana‘s estate after she died – cha... https://stockdailydish.com/paul-burrell-says-wife-cried-over-gay-wedding-revelation/