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New Jersey Woman Delivers Flowers To Hospital Staff And Patients To Say ‘You Are Not Alone’ - CBS New York

BELLEVILLE, N.J. (CBSNewYork) – Countless people have come up with creative ways to help others during the coronavirus pandemic.One Franklin Lakes woman is working tireless to bring life to hospitals that have seen so much despair.Former nurse Amy O’Hara, along with Colony Florist and Red Bliss Design, has started the “You Are Not Alone” campaign, bringing flowers to doctors, nurses and patients at hospitals all over the Tri-State Area.“They’ve been talking about what a war zone it has been at the hospitals. They’ve been telling me about what it’s like for the patients. They’re in these rooms alone, they’re not allowed visitors,” O’Hara told CBS2’s Chris Wragge. “I thought this might brighten up their day and let them know we’re thinking of them.”O’Hara always loved the quote: “If you want a rainbow, you have to put up with the rain.”“The nurses have really enjoyed passing them out. It’s kind of like they’re bringing in something happy,” she said.CORONAVIRUS PANDEMICShe has delivered o... https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2020/05/01/new-jersey-woman-delivers-flowers-to-hospitals/

Team flower power | News, Sports, Jobs - The Adirondack Daily Enterprise

Store, Nori’s Village Market, the post office, Tri-Lakes Home Medical Equipment and Bitters & Bones have two barrels each. Rice Furniture, Saranac Lake Wine & Liquor, Blue Moon Cafe, Belleville & Associates insurance, T.F. Finnigan menswear, Edward Jones Financial Services, Small Fortune Studio, I.B. Hunt Agency insurance, Eye Care for the Adirondacks, Tri-Lakes Center For Dentistry, Cape Air, the vacant former Scheefer’s jewelry building, Borracho Taco, Goody Goody’s, Adirondack Loon Center, Fiddlehead Bistro and Left Bank Cafe each have one barrel. The village pays for 10 planters in full: four in Riverside Park, four in the parking lot beside Berkeley Green, one in Berkeley Green and one in the Main Street parking lot. ... http://www.adirondackdailyenterprise.com/news/local-news/2018/09/team-flower-power/

Grandpa wants to end five-year debate: Is it a flower or a weed? - Belleville News-Democrat

This year, it grew over 3 feet high and has lots of buds, which turned purple. If it is not a flower (tame or wild) and is a weed, as my grandson says, could you please identify it? A. B. of BellevilleA: Your plant is considered a weed, and your grandson is correct. The plant is commonly called burdock (Arctium minus). This plant starts the first year as a flat plant with the leaves somewhat hugging the soil and then the second year grows upward and forms flowers. It got taller this year, as we experienced more rain. The flowers are small, red-violet disk flowers, surrounded by numerous hooks, which later form a burr. There is a taller species of burdock that is larger in all respects, great burdock (Arctium lappa).Q: My neighbor and I just noticed yesterday morning that our bannisters and our plants are covered with some kind of clear, sticky substance. In some cases, it seems to be leaving black, greasy marks on my iris, and I think it is affecting my daylily leaves. We live in an old neighborhood and have large sycamore and tulip trees on our properties. What is causing this to happen this year? We’ve been living next to each other for a long time, and we’ve not noticed this before. Is it harmful? It seems to be affecting more than just the surface of my daylily leaves. My maple tree seems to have tiny, pink bugs on it — ... http://www.bnd.com/living/magazine/article156308839.html

Services today for Verona woman killed by car - New Jersey Hills

Adaline Grace, who was also killed in the crash. The baby was expected to be born in May. Her brother, Derek J. Longo, 30, was critically injured and hospitalized.Anthony V. Casale Jr., 25, of Belleville has been charged with first degree death by auto in connection with the death of Mrs. Villanella, according to Acting Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn A. Murray and Verona Police Chief Mitchell Stern.Casale was also charged with second degree assault by auto and possession of controlled dangerous substance paraphernalia. In addition, Casale was also issued traffic summonses for driving while under the influence, driving while under the influence within 1,000 feet of a school, careless driving, reckless driving and failure to maintain his lane.It is alleged that at about 7:45 a.m. on Friday March 3, Villanella and her brother were waiting at a bus stop at Lakeside Avenue and Pease Avenue when a 2006 white Mitsubishi driven by Casale struck the sister and brother.Casale was scheduled to make his first court appearance in Central Judicial Processing on Wednesday, March 8. He was held in the Essex County Correctional Facility in Newark pending arraignment.The investigation is being conducted by the Verona Police Department and the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office Major Crimes/ Crash Investigative Unit.Mrs. Villanella is survived by her husband of nine years, James J. Villanella, and their daughter Isabelle Ava, 22 months. Also surviving are her parents, Derek D. and Constance "Connie" Roscoe Long... http://www.newjerseyhills.com/cg-v_observers/news/services-today-for-verona-woman-killed-by-car/article_1e343be1-5c15-54c8-8201-f972e4cd554b.html

Gift search includes grand opening, open house, girls day out - Belleville News-Democrat

Here’s a fun way to spend a day with your girlfriends: Attend the Seventh Annual Girls Day Out at the National Shrine of Our Lady of the Snows in Belleville from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday. Check out 50 vendors, artisans, crafters and businesses. Admission to the shopping event is free. Lunch and a chance auction at 1 p.m., with a fashion show by Cato, is $25. You might still be able to get required reservations for that at snows.org/girlsdayout or call 618-397-6700.Ahner Florist & Greenhouses in New Baden will hold its annual Christmas Open house from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. Take 20 to 25 percent off Christmas items.Another year, another calendar. The Belleville Historical Society wants you to get ready for the new year with its 2017 calendar. The photo theme is another dozen Belleville saloons from bygone days. (The 2016 calendar started the theme, and was very popular.) The cost is $10, and you can pick one up at Eckert’s Florist, Happy Hop Home Brew, Circa, Local Lucy's and Peace by Piece, all in downtown Belleville, as well as Dill's Floral Haven, Eckert's Country Store, Miscellaneous House and Artiste de Fleur in Belleville. Or, buy online at bellevillehistoricalsociety.org.Walking through Ben’s in downtown Belleville after lunch on Wednesday, I spied a real deal for ... http://www.bnd.com/living/magazine/article115344948.html

For Livingston County nurseries closed over the coronavirus: 'May is make it or break it' - Livingston Daily

Her hanging flower baskets and flats of flowers are beginning to bloom as April nears its halfway point. However, like other nurseries and retail garden centers in Michigan, Morehouse's business, Tulip Tree Gardens, is not going to open for the season on time.The delay is due to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's stay home order, which she recently extended until April 30 with tighter restrictions. "If Gov. Whitmer keeps everything closed past May 1, she'll kill agriculture," Morehouse said. "Half of what I've prepared to sell would be sold by Mother's Day."She said she believes any more extensions of the stay home order would bankrupt nurseries like hers. MORE: New map shows where COVID-19 cases are in countyMORE: Former judge David Reader to run for county prosecutorMORE: No Livingston County residents charged with order violationsBefore the spread of COVID-19 in the state, Morehouse was planning to open Saturday. She said the season ends for her in July, but most of her business is done in May and June. She said she is worried she will have to toss plants she's been growing and tending for months. The financial loss in equipment and investment in plants could be at least $45,000, not accounting for lost sales. She continues watering her plants every day, hopin... https://www.livingstondaily.com/story/news/local/community/livingston-county/2020/04/17/livingston-flower-nurseries-limbo-may-make-break-it-garden-centers/2986553001/

Flower growers see sales wither as planting season launches - CBC.ca

Canadian production stems from Ontario. Neighbouring New York and Ohio have also forced garden centres to lock their doors, while Michigan and Vermont have banned retailers from selling non-essential products, including home gardening items. "If they don't open, the damage is going to be astronomical," said trade group head Andi Kuyvenhoven, noting garden centres' crucial role for bedding plants in particular. British Columbia — the second-biggest flower and plant producer — Alberta and Manitoba and have allowed garden centres to keep running, while Quebec deemed them essential along with nurseries as of April 15, though not in time for Easter. Kuyvenhoven, who with his wife co-owns a $2.5-million business selling potted Chrysanthemums and indoor calla lilies — largely to U.S. distributors — on a pair of farms west of Toronto, says clogged supply chains south of the border remain a problem. 'I haven't slept in five weeks' "U.S. customers for a time closed their distribution systems to floral and so the main grocery chains were not purchasing plants," he said, which was hard on growers of cut flowers such as roses and tulips. "If a truck can take 24 skids and four skids were flowers, the flowers came off the trucks and they put more food on the truck — which we completely understand. The only challenge is, when you're growing flowers as we do, they also have a shelf life," said Kuyvenhoven, who bought his business from his parents in 1990. "Now we're now facing liquidity issues...I haven't slept in five weeks." Flowers Canada Growers says exports to the U.S. make up about one-third of greenhouse flower and plant sales, which hit $1.6 billion in 2018, according to Statistics Canada. Nursery sales topped $500 million. While garden centres can continue to operate across much of the continent, growers wonder whether bouquets and flower pots will remain on the shopping list of consumers struggling to make rent amid soaring unemployment numbers and a looming recession. Kuyvenhoven is hoping that families confined to their homes for most of the day will choose to spend what they've saved from unpurchased vacations and lattes on plants for their vases and flower beds. "That's part of what's carried us through downturns in the past," he said. Growers associations are in talks with federal and provincial governments over potential financial relief, with Flowers Canada Growers asking for a "cash injection" as well as extended debt repayment plans secured in part by Ottawa, Kuyvenhoven said. So far, the federal government has extended a stay of default for eligible farmers until Oct. 31, giving flower and potted plant producers an extra six months to pay off federal loans that would have been due at the end of April. Ottawa has also granted exemptions on air travel restrictions to temporary foreign workers and invested $50 million to help farmers fly in labourers on charter trips. "New flights are being booked ever day," the agriculture department sai... https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/flower-growers-hamilton-1.5546023

9 Fabulous Flowers To Plant To Remind You Of Your International Travels - TravelAwaits

You can also spot these gorgeous blooms at festivals around the United States in the spring. Tulip Time in the aptly named Holland, Michigan, is the best known of them all.One of the great things about tulips is that they can be grown from bulbs. That means that once you plant them in your garden, they can come up year after year. Though most people think of single tulips in bright yellow, red, and pink hues, there are actually many varieties of tulips, including double, fringed, and multicolor.Pro Tip: Remember that to enjoy tulips in the spring, you’ll need to plant them in the fall.Where To BuySome large stores such as Costco and Home Depot carry tulip bulbs. If you want to order them online, Breck’s and Holland Bulb Farms offer large selections.2. Irises -- FranceThe national flower of France is the beautiful iris. These delicate blooms are the model for the symbol of the French monarchy, the fleur-de-lis. There are some 300 flowers in the iris family, with colors ranging from quite subtle to very vibrant. We especially love the purple and blue varieties.Areas around the Loire Valley offer many wonderful places to view irises; there is even a sightseeing circuit you can follow to see them.Like tulips, irises can be grown from bulbs.Where To BuyGilbert H. Wild... https://www.travelawaits.com/2493621/flowers-to-remind-you-of-international-travels/?pv=related_list

East Lansing flower shop customer honors late wife by giving anonymous gift - Lansing State Journal

TJ and Camille, Jocelyn, 13, and Katarina, 11.TJ was diagnosed with autism at age 2, Shuster wrote in his essay, and Jennifer, who had studied journalism at Michigan State University, put her career on hold to stay home with her children."If it wasn’t for my wife our autistic son would not be where he is today," Shuster wrote. "His success and progress is mostly because of his mama."Shuster's letter resonated.In an email, the anonymous customer told Van Ark his own marriage had come with "career disappointments and multiple re-locations across the country, problems with relatives, miscarriages, and health concerns.""The marriage itself never, ever wavered," he said. "We were going to be together no matter because no matter what we faced, we would face it together, and that’s how it was when she died: we were together."B/A Florist staff delivered the roses to Jennifer Shuster on Feb. 24 at East Lansing City Hall, where she is a clerk.She's never received a flower arrangement that "extravagant," Jennifer Shuster said in an email to the State Journal.The story behind it brought her to tears, she said."...it forced me to slow down during my busy life and think about the life of a woman I never knew," Jennifer Shuster said in the email.The anonymous customer has already discussed continuing to gift flowers to another couple next year, Van Ark said."I guess the way I see it is, she was truly the love of his life, and even though she's not here in body she's no further away in his heart," she said.Contact Rachel Greco at rgreco@lsj.com. Follow her on Twitter @GrecoatLSJ. https://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/local/2020/03/04/east-lansing-flower-shop-customer-honors-late-wife-anonymous-gift/4884506002/