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Flowers are abloom for this week's celebrants - The Durango Herald

Toledo, Glenn Rodey, Mary Brown and Buff Rogers. HHHThe daffodil blossoms are dancing in the spring breezes for the anniversaries of Paul and Jigger Staby, Tim and Dianne Williams, Blake and Pat Chatfield, Bill and Pam Brown, Vi and John Kessell and Gordon and Diane Calfas Cheesewright. HHHCheck back at durangoherald.com for more Neighbors stories and photos. Click on the word “Neighbors” to make sure you haven’t missed any stories. Neighbors runs in the Sunday print edition of The Durango Herald.Here’s how to reach me: neighbors@durangoherald.com; phone 375-4584; mail items to the Herald; or drop them off at the front desk. Please include contact names and phone numbers for all items. Follow me on Twitter @Ann_Neighbors.I need photos for all Neighbors items, but they must be high-quality, high-resolution photos (at least 1 MB of memory) and include no more than three to five people. I need to know who’s who, left to right, and who to credit with the photo. Candid photos are better than posed, and photos should be submitted as JPG or TIF attachments.

Stretching your dollar on Mother's Day flowers - WTNH Connecticut News (press release)

Flower food, sugar, aspirin, everyone has their preference to maintain the life of flowers but what actually works?Fleur De lys florist Jennifer Ford-Chatfield helped us put it to the test. We picked out 4 sets of the same flower with plans to treat them differently.“Really what stunts the growth of the flower is the bacteria builds up in the water and essentially seals the pores at the bottom of the flower so they can not effectively drink,” Ford-Chatfield said.Since bacteria is enemy number 1, for the first set we changed the water everyday, the second got the flower food packet, the third we didn’t do anything to and just for fun the last one gets aspirin tablets.We gave them a week, away from sunlight in the newsroom. After just a few days, the results started to show. The aspirin seemed to actually kill our flowers faster, the water turned purple. The “set it and forget it” flowers weren’t far behind. We had arguably two winners, flower food and the flowers for which we changed the water everyday.Ford-Chatfield says changing the water is the key to success, the flower food essentially works to keep your water clean.“It’s a perishable product, the flowers themselves start a decomposition process,” she said. “The idea of the flower food is to keep the water clearer and slow that decomposition down.”So, after our experiment we found stretching your flower dollar further may mean changing the water daily. If that’s too time consuming, the flower food is a go... http://wtnh.com/2016/05/05/stretching-your-dollar-on-mothers-day-flowers/

South Jeffco Crime Blotter: Floral funny business - The Denver Post

Boulevard and West Bowles Avenue in the Littleton area. Deputies were unable to find the man.4 Guest punches window.On March 5, deputies responded to a disturbance at a home in the 9000 block of West Chatfield Avenue in the Ken-Caryl area. The homeowners had gotten into an argument with a troublesome guest who left, but returned looking for a ride. Hearing that his friends had left, he became angry and punched a window, causing it to break. He offered to pay for the damage.Advertisement5 Magazine fraud reported. On March 2, a man called deputies from the 6000 block of South Estes Street in the Littleton area to report that his information had been stolen to obtain a magazine subscription. http://www.denverpost.com/blotter/ci_29642120/south-jeffco-crime-blotter-floral-funny-business.html

Barronelle Stutzman, Christian florist, again appeals to Supreme Court over same-sex wedding refusal - Washington Times

And a film studio in Minnesota has been fighting a legal battle to enter the wedding business in a way that conforms to their Christian view of marriage. “Religious people should be free to live out their beliefs about marriage,” Ms. Stutzman’s attorneys argue in her appeal to the high court. “Only this court can resolve the numerous First Amendment conflicts these issues have created,” the petition reads. Sign up for Daily Newsletters Let's block ads! a href="https:... https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/sep/11/barronelle-stutzman-christian-florist-again-appeal/

St. Paul woman offers fresh bouquets from Little Free Florist stand - Minneapolis Star Tribune

Little Free Library movement and the unmanned produce stands you sometimes see in rural Minnesota. Except Hankerson wasn’t selling anything. She just wanted to do something neighborly for her Hamline-Midway community. In June, she installed a small, roofed box in front of her home and stocked it with mini bouquets of twine-tied cuttings from her garden. An arrangement of zinnias might be spiced up with elderberries, bluestem grass, Thai basil, potato flowers, even chard or kale leaves. “I put a lot of different things in these bouquets,” she said. ... http://www.startribune.com/seen-the-little-free-libraries-how-about-the-little-free-florist/559369902/

'No regrets': Longtime Sioux Falls florist leaves legacy of success - Argus Leader

Pat Gustaf, who owned and operated Gustaf's Greenery in Sioux Falls from 1986 until 2018, died Monday at age 67. Gustaf decided to close the Minnesota Avenue flower shop last year after battling renal cell carcinoma for two years. "No regrets. Truly no regrets at all," he told the Argus Leader in December. "I think we've made our mark on the world." Gustaf grew up on the north end of Sioux Falls and attended O'Gorman High School, according to his obituary. Early on, his love for flowers and plants was already flourishing: He began working at Earl May Garden Center in Sioux Falls while still in high school. After starting his own business at the Western Mall in the early 1970s, Gustaf and his sister Jean opened Gustaf's Greenery in 1986. "He was probably the most social person I ever met," Jean Gustaf said of her brother. More: Gustaf's Greenery flower shop closing after 42 years The Gustaf siblings used their respective skills in running their store. Pat, ever the social butterfly, handled the marketing and public-facing duties, while Jean, who worked as a nurse at the Veterans Administration, kept things going behind the scenes. "He'd say yes to everything. I'd say, 'No, we can't do that,'" Jean said, laughing. Gustaf's daughter, Karlee Bathke, echoed her aunt's sentiments. "He would make friends wherever we went because he wanted to know everyone’s story," she said. "He wouldn’t just make small talk; he truly connected with each and every person he met." Pat always valued spending time in his community, Jean said. In addition to running his own... https://www.argusleader.com/story/news/business-journal/2019/10/31/longtime-sioux-falls-florist-leaves-legacy-success-gustafs-greenery/2501479001/

Longtime florist Pat Gustaf passes away - KSFY

Sioux Falls and then returning, he and his sister Jean Gustaf opened Gustaf’s Greenery in January 1986. They closed the flower shop at 1020 S. Minnesota Ave. in December 2018. Visitation for Gustaf will begin at 4:30 p.m. Friday at St. Mary Catholic Church. A funeral mass will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the church. ... https://www.ksfy.com/content/news/Longtime-florist-Pat-Gustaf-passes-away-564057251.html