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Some people using gardening as therapy during the Coronavirus Pandemic - KCRG

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - Some people across Eastern Iowa are getting a green thumb during the Coronavirus pandemic. Workers at Pierson’s Flower Shop in Cedar Rapids say they have been getting calls about people wanting to start their gardens. Experts say getting some fresh air is a good way to take care of your mental health during the pandemic. Workers at Pierson's say gardening is a good way to be outside while social distancing. They say working with soil can be a form of connecting with nature. While seeing something bloom is a sign of life during these tough times. Workers say people are still ordering flowers to send to loved ones or coworkers. They say it's a way to let people know that they are appreciated. "I think it's very important to stay in touch,” said Al Pierson, owner of Pierson’s Flower Shop. “You... https://www.kcrg.com/content/news/Some-people-using-gardening-as-therapy-during-the-Coronavirus-Pandemic-569918081.html

Pierson's Flower Shop and Greenhouses in Cedar Rapids is ringing in its 90th holiday shopping season - The Gazette

Long Para:1 Long Pra Total: 9 Total Para Total: 12-- It’s beginning to look — and smell — like Christmas at Pierson’s Flower Shop and Greenhouses in Cedar Rapids.Long Para:2 Long Pra Total: 9 Total Para Total: 12-- “Our staff enjoys the colors and scents of Christmas by helping customers decorate their homes and helping fulfill gift lists,” owner Allan Pierson said. Long Para:3 Long Pra Total: 9 Total Para Total: 12-- “With our greenhouses filled with thousands of poinsettias, it really is a colorful sight and combined with the scent of evergreens and flowers it is a festive time.” Long Para:4 Long Pra Total: 9 Total Para Total: 12-- Shoppers drop in early in the holiday season to gather decorating ideas for home and office, Pierson said. Long Para:5 Long Pra Total: 9 Total Para Total: 12-- “We are doing a lot of porch pots with fresh evergreens, birch logs, berries, birch branches and pine cones,” he added. “Fresh evergreen wreaths, swags and boughs are also customer favorites.” Long Para:5 Long Pra Total: 9 Total Para Total: 12-- Through December, he estimate... https://www.thegazette.com/subject/news/business/piersons-flower-shop-and-greenhouses-in-cedar-rapids-is-ringing-in-its-90th-holiday-shopping-season-20181122

The Art of Flowers: Carolyne Roehm will speak about her career in fashion, design and gardening

The author of 13 books on topics that include design in the garden and home will speak at a fundraiser luncheon for the Cedar Rapids Garden Club on Nov. 7.“Obviously, flowers have been a very, very important part of my life,” Roehm said. “I’ll be speaking about flowers and gardening, in the context of every medium in which I have worked.”Her love of all things floral started when she was young. Growing up in Missouri, she remembers playing on her grandparents’ farm, in the garden and with the animals.“As a little girl I played dress- up and played florist,” she said. “My heart and soul is really in the outdoors and nature.”Roehm, 67, started her career as a fashion designer in New York City, working for Oscar de la Renta before opening her own fashion house. But the love of nature never left her, and after 22 years she took a hiatus from the world of fashion to learn a new craft, taking an unpaid stint working at a flower shop in Paris.There, she learned the intricacies of designing perfect bouquets and floral arrangements.“I kind of took a sabbatical and decided I wanted to do things I’... https://www.thegazette.com/subject/life/books/the-art-of-flowers-carolyne-roehm-will-speak-about-her-career-in-fashion-design-and-gardening-20181027

Winter Garden Fair previews flowers, spring planting - The Gazette: Eastern Iowa Breaking News and Headlines

They are sold at most box stores and hardware stores. Most of the smaller, local greenhouses, like Pierson’s Flower Shop and Greenhouses in Cedar Rapids or Culver’s Garden Center and Greenhouse in Marion, will have their own suggestions and breeds of flowers, along with knowledgeable staff to help customers plan the perfect mix of flowers.Long Para:4 Long Pra Total: 5 Total Para Total: 8-- For those who want to dream of flowers now, here are some of her 2018 suggestions:Long Para:5 Long Pra Total: 5 Total Para Total: 8-- PerennialsChantilly Lace AruncusPink Lemonade BaptisiaStand By Me ClematisRed Hot Vanilla CoreopsisSanta Fe EchinaceaTuscan Gold Heliopsis False SunflowerStorm Shelter HemerocallisWildberry HeucheraCherry Choco Latte HibiscusWaterslide HostaBlue Paradise Ornamental GrassMidnight Masquerade PenstemonLeading Lady Orchid MonardaCat’s Pajamas NepetaCloudburst PhloxBumblesnow SalviaLemonjade SedumCutting Edge TiarellaWizard of Ahhs VeronicaAnnualsGolden Butterfly Marguerite DaisiesFireburst BidensLady Godiva Orange CalendulaCrushed Crimson DahliaSeNorita and PequeNa CleomeRoyale LantanaMexican HeatherDouble Moonglow OsteospermumRed Hot PhloxDeep Purple SalviaStormburst VerbenaBlue My Mind EvolvulusPerfectly Pink AngeloniaSurefire BegoniaPetite Pink GauraIf you go:What: Winter Gardening FairWhere: Kirkwood Community College, 6301 Kirkwood Blvd. SW, Cedar RapidsWhen: 8:30 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. March 3Cost: $59, which includes lunchFind details and register online: extension.iastate.edu/linn/content/winter-gardening-fair or call (319) 377-9839.l Comments: (319) 398-8339; alison.gowans@thegazette.comLong Para:5 Long Pra Total: 5 Total Para Total: 8-- Long Para:5 Long Pra Total: 5 Total Para Total: 8-- ... http://www.thegazette.com/subject/life/home-and-garden/winter-garden-fair-previews-flowers-spring-planting-20180225

Your flowers have had an easy April - KCRG

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG-TV9) -- People who got an early start on spring flowers haven’t had to bother covering their plants every other night. While the past few mornings have been a bit cool, they stayed above freezing – a common situation throughout this month.On average, Cedar Rapids has seven days each April with a low temperature of 32 degrees or colder. Dubuque has seven or eight, while Iowa City has five. Waterloo has an average of nine or 10 such mornings. Of course, it does vary from year to year, and 2017 will go down on the low end of the range.Through April 24, Cedar Rapids has had just two mornings with a freezing temperature. That’s the fewest since 1999! Dubuque and Iowa City have also had just two freezing mornings. Waterloo has had three.The average last 32-degree low of the season comes in the last week of April, but it sometimes holds off until early May. While the next several days ought to remain above freezing, we’re not out of the woods just yet. http://www.kcrg.com/content/news/WWC-Your-flowers-have-had-an-easy-April-420282553.html

Some people using gardening as therapy during the Coronavirus Pandemic - KCRG

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - Some people across Eastern Iowa are getting a green thumb during the Coronavirus pandemic. Workers at Pierson’s Flower Shop in Cedar Rapids say they have been getting calls about people wanting to start their gardens. Experts say getting some fresh air is a good way to take care of your mental health during the pandemic. Workers at Pierson's say gardening is a good way to be outside while social distancing. They say working with soil can be a form of connecting with nature. While seeing something bloom is a sign of life during these tough times. Workers say people are still ordering flowers to send to loved ones or coworkers. They say it's a way to let people know that they are appreciated. "I think it's very important to stay in touch,” said Al Pierson, owner of Pierson’s Flower Shop. “You can't get out... https://www.kcrg.com/content/news/Some-people-using-gardening-as-therapy-during-the-Coronavirus-Pandemic-569918081.html

Benos Flowers and Gifts wants to bring fun, happiness - The Gazette

By Deborah Neyens, correspondent Long Para:0 Long Pra Total: 11 Total Para Total: 25-- IOWA CITY — A new Iowa City business aims to spread happiness.Long Para:1 Long Pra Total: 11 Total Para Total: 25-- Benito Ocampo Campos opened Beno’s Flowers and Gifts on Nov. 15 in downtown Iowa City, realizing a longtime goal to own his own flower shop. Long Para:2 Long Pra Total: 11 Total Para Total: 25-- “Flowers bring happiness, with their smell and their colors, when people receive them,” Ocampo said. “Everyone loves flowers.”Long Para:2 Long Pra Total: 11 Total Para Total: 25-- Ocampo, who grew up in Mexico, opened his first business in that country at the age of 19.Long Para:3 Long Pra Total: 11 Total Para Total: 25-- “It was a small gift shop — only about 300 square feet,” he recalled. “I did decorations with balloons for parties and a few weddings with flowers but not much. I had no experience.”Long Para:4 Long Pra Total: 11 Total Para Total: 25-- A year or two later, Ocampo moved to... https://www.thegazette.com/subject/news/business/iowa-city-benos-flowers-floral-shop-florist-flower-20190121

Benos Flowers and Gifts wants to bring fun, happiness - The Gazette

By Deborah Neyens, correspondent Long Para:0 Long Pra Total: 11 Total Para Total: 25-- IOWA CITY — A new Iowa City business aims to spread happiness.Long Para:1 Long Pra Total: 11 Total Para Total: 25-- Benito Ocampo Campos opened Beno’s Flowers and Gifts on Nov. 15 in downtown Iowa City, realizing a longtime goal to own his own flower shop. Long Para:2 Long Pra Total: 11 Total Para Total: 25-- “Flowers bring happiness, with their smell and their colors, when people receive them,” Ocampo said. “Everyone loves flowers.”Long Para:2 Long Pra Total: 11 Total Para Total: 25-- Ocampo, who grew up in Mexico, opened his first business in that country at the age of 19.Long Para:3 Long Pra Total: 11 Total Para Total: 25-- “It was a small gift shop — only about 300 square feet,” he recalled. “I did decorations with balloons for parties and a few weddings with flowers but not much. I had no experience.”Long Para:4 Long Pra Total: 11 Total Para Total: 25-- A year or two later, Ocampo moved to... https://www.thegazette.com/subject/news/business/iowa-city-benos-flowers-floral-shop-florist-flower-20190121

Citizen of the Year: Catlins fantastic florist - Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette

She also worked at J.C. Penney in Danville, where she met her husband, Tim, then a manager trainee.She and Tim married in May 1987. That October, Tim's job with the department store took them to Iowa and then Nebraska, Kansas, Wyoming and Minnesota. In Nebraska, Welsh — who continued to work as a florist out west — directed community theater, served on the Miss Nebraska Pageant board of directors and directed the pageant for three years. In Wyoming, she was involved with the Cheyenne Frontier Days, billed as the world's largest outdoor rodeo and western celebration.In 2004, the couple and their young son, Tanner, moved back to Catlin to be near family. A couple of years later, Welsh opened Floral-n-Flair, a flower shop and event-planning business, in the same downtown building she started out in. She and business partner Kay Smoot also own and operate a gift boutique called Pauline's Attic.Welsh was working one evening when Stutsman popped in."Who got it, and how are we going to decorate?" she asked, thinking he'd stopped by to discuss the Citizen of the Year banquet at the Methodist Church, which she decorates.She was floored by his answer."It still hasn't sunk in," she said, the day before the banquet.While honored, Welsh was quick to acknowledge her "crew," including local high school students and residents who help her set up for community events, weddings and parties — and family. Tanner, who turns 21 this month, has autism, and Tim is his full-time caregiver and still finds time to help out at work."I wouldn't be able to do any of this without him," she said."It's always been a team effort," she continued, adding she learned that from her dad who helped out in many ways at the shop and home before he passed away a couple of years ago.Welsh recalled sitting at the family table years ago after her brother became a 1,000-yard rusher on his high school football team."My dad pointed to his picture on the front of the sports page and said, 'He wouldn't have done that without his line that blocked for him.' I've always remembered that. You can't do it alone. You have to surround yourself with good people and work as a team."... http://www.news-gazette.com/noelle-mcgee/2018-11-01/citizen-the-year-catlins-fantastic-florist.html