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Flower farm Detroit Abloom fosters connection between nature and community - Model D

Manistique in Jefferson Chalmers, the flower farm and sanctuary garden on a recent summer day is in full bloom, with purple, red, and yellow flowers dotting the lush green landscape. Bumblebees and butterflies of all kinds dart from plant to plant. Benches and trellises sit in pockets between bushes of tall flowers. A rustic outdoor kitchen is starting to take shape — it has a firepit but is missing a sink and countertop at the moment. An 800-square-foot pond for local fish and vegetation is in the midst of construction; when completed, it will have two waterfalls and overflow into a stream underneath a bridge (a water feature is an essential part of a sanctuary garden, says director Tom Milano).  The pond, along with several other planned capital improvement projects, is a part of Detroit Abloom’s mission to evolve the farm into an outdoor wellness center, and the farm is looking to raise $120,000 to turn “Detroit Abloom into the paradise it was meant to be,” Milano says. Milano’s journey to becoming a farmer started in 1972, when Milano — who was 22 at the time — chose to leave his home in Long Island, New York, to travel the world in a search for a deeper understanding of the world around him.  “I was two weeks away from becoming a high school biology teacher, and something told me not to get plugged into the system, so to speak, because I was really concerned about the world and all this racial disharmony and the destruction of the environment,” Milano says. “So, I got a 10-spe... https://www.modeldmedia.com/features/detroit-abloom-flourishes.aspx

The Flower Bucket in Yarmouth County nurtures joy with flowers - TheChronicleHerald.ca

Bella and Ellie also helped their mother plant the field and the greenhouse.“They know how to cut flowers, how to plant, how to water seedlings, take them out of a tray with a butter knife and pop them into the ground. They’re very helpful and thank goodness because I needed some help this year,” says Fordham.The Flower Bucket is a family business, with Fordham’s husband, Darcy DeSutter, helping with tractor jobs and the spreading of compost. Neighbours help with their tiller attachment.The couple, formerly from British Columbia, have lived in Yarmouth County for seven years. Fordham’s love and enjoyment for making bouquets has grown steadily over that time.Creating bouquets with wild flowers and seedheads is one of Lisa Fordham’s passions. This bouquet features wildflowers and material collected oceanside.Lisa Fordham Photo - ContributedThree years ago she read The Cut Flower Garden by Erin Benzakein. Fordham was inspired by the fact that someone was making a living from a flower farm and says she was hooked.“I started really loving arranging the flowers and creating designs. I’m not a florist but I just practiced and practiced. I started growing things that are good for cut flower production. Some flowers are better than others, they have longer vase lives than others.”She likes letting flowers do what they naturally want to do in a vase, instead of trying to control them. She says her mother was like that too. Fordham is also in her element when it comes to arranging material that’s in season locally.“If it’s in bloom and it looks beautiful and it’s going to last in a vase, then I’ll cut it. I’ll cut anything!” she laughs.“I drive around with snippers in my car (for wild material or cultivated, and cut with permission.) You never know what you’re going to see.”Each morning she visits the flowers on their property, cutting those that have reached perfection. These are placed in buckets of water for the day’s arrangements.She custom designs each bouquet according to the price point supplied by each customer, sometimes including plants like basil and mint for their fragrance.Last Christmas season she held a highly successful wreath making workshop. It’s something she plans on doing in other seasons, when she has time.“Everyone made their own and every creation was beautiful and original. There was Christmas music playing, hot cider, it was so much fun.”Fordham says this is The Flower Bucket’s first serious year as a business.She’s learning to accept failures along with success, when it comes to growing specific flowers.“I’m so new to all this and learni... https://www.thechronicleherald.ca/business/local-business/the-flower-bucket-in-yarmouth-county-nurtures-joy-with-flowers-482841/

A vision of beauty in Ridgeland: Wildflowers, whimsical sculptures and community spirit - Clarion Ledger

Ridgeland, Richardson said. “It shows how important beautification is to a city,” she said.A plus for bees, birds and butterfliesThe wildflower field in Ridgeland came about three years ago after Keep Mississippi Beautiful, working with the Mississippi State Extension Service and other partners, established the Wildflower Trails of Mississippi beautification project. Wildflowers not only add beauty but also support bees, birds and butterflies.“We were thrilled that Ridgeland wanted to continue the wildflower field,” said Sarah Kountouris, executive director of Keep Mississippi Beautiful. “One reason is that it’s beautiful. When people see beautiful things it’s an invitation to visit. It says, ‘Come in and see our city.’"Colony Bistro & Wine Bar: Opening a culmination of 13-year dream for ownerAnd, it helps the tourism dollar. “With COVID-19 we need everything we can to have a brighter perspective on life in general. Beautification is one way to do that.”Wildflowers have a casual, natural look, but their success requires more work than simply tossing out seeds.“Prepping the ground is crucial for successful blooming,” Kountouris said. “If the ground is not prepared correctly, you’ll compete with weeds.”Tim Taylor, assistant superintendent with the Ridgeland Recreation and Parks Department, upped the game at the wildflower meadow this spring by giving it a park-like feel and adding reasons to visit and lake a look.Harry Day of Madison, a member of the Craftsmen’s Guild of Mississippi, created eight statues that are placed amid the mix of wildflowers that include Baby's Breath, Lance Leaved Coreopsis, Tall Blue Cornflower, Black-eyed Susan, Sulfur Cosmos, Indian Blanket and Clasping Coneflower.Unique sculptures highlight outdoor activitiesThe sculptures showcase activities such as tennis playing, Frisbee throwing, biking, cheerleading, kite flying, dog walking and fishing, all of which are possible in Ridgeland. Donations made the sculptures possible, said Richardson, who has been contacted by the city’s Challenger League Baseball about adding a sculpture to commemorate it.To ensure the landscaping project would have success, 23 loads of dirt were hauled in to improve the soil at the field before the wildflower seeds provided by Keep Mississippi Beautiful were sown and other plants were added. Love Irrigation, a Ridgeland business, installed at a reduced cost an irrigation system at the field that is owned by the Mississippi Department of Transportation.Berms were built, 30 small trees planted and a walking trail cut in.Keep Ridgeland Beautiful committee members donated perennials from their own yards as well as their time to plant them.Committee members faithfully meet on Tuesday mornings to pull up weeds and handle other maintenance tasks at the wildflower field. (Committee members include Rachel Bradley, Rachel Collier, Ginger Cocke, Claire Jackson, Lea Anne Stacey, Phyllis Parker, Polly Hammett and Richardson. Barbara Hunter recently rolled off the committee.)More: New $10M Ridgeland City Hall, including Veterans Memory Park, expected by year's end“We like to pu... https://www.clarionledger.com/story/magnolia/upside/2020/08/12/ridgeland-mississippi-wildflower-fields/5525016002/

Mill Pond Garden recommends hydrangeas for Cape Region - CapeGazette.com

Incrediball, likes full to part sun, has huge round white flowers totally covering the shrub, grows to six feet, is super hardy with flower buds surviving the worst area winters, and attracts butterflies and other pollinators. This hydrangea is native to North America. All of the arborescens type need a steel stake set close to the middle of the shrub to secure ends of a sturdy string looping out to support the canes, to keep them from flopping open, an ugly look. This is the only flopping hydrangea that is worth the effort of staking, and well worth it, for its spectacular bloom. Another beauty of the Incrediball is its very white canes in winter, which shine with the sun upon them.Hydrangea paniculata likes full or at least seven hours of sun, has pointy white flowers that often turn pink for a while, is fragrant, attracts pollinators, and has two excellent garden cultivars including Limelight which grows to 10 feet tall and bears white flowers from midsummer to fall, and Vanilla Strawberry, up to seven feet tall, which bears large clusters of white flowers that fade to strawberry pink from midsummer to autumn.Hydrangea quercifolia, the oak leaf hydrangea, likes part shade to sun but blooms heaviest in full sun. The best cultivar is one of the smaller sizes, Ruby Slippers, up to six feet tall, with abundant pointy white flowers, attracting lots of pollinators. The flowers turn pink then deeper red in fall, with beautiful maroon fall foliage. The oak leaf hydrangeas all have nicely exfoliating bark with great winter interest. https://www.capegazette.com/article/mill-pond-garden-recommends-hydrangeas-cape-region/203567

Welcome Mat: Ferndale florist hits the road with mobile flower cart - The Detroit News

Do your part to help pollinatorsNational Pollinator Week ended June 28, and if there was ever a time to support our pollinators, now is it. Pollinators -- such as bees, butterflies and birds -- move pollen from flowers of the same species, leading to fertilization and later seed and fruit production for plants. According to the Pollinator Partnership, roughly 1,000 plants grown for food, beverages, fibers, spices, and medicines need to be pollinated by animals in order to produce the goods on which we depend. But as pollinators' habitat disappears, threatening their existence, we need to help. One way to help butterflies is to plant native plants, such as milkweed for monarch butterflies. Ten milkweed species are native to Michigan – the most widespread of which are common milkweed, butterfly milkweed and swamp milkweed. If you'd like to plant milkweed in your own yard, Barson's Greenhouse, 6414 Merrimen in Westland, carries milkweed. To learn more about pollinators, click here. https://www.detroitnews.com/story/life/2020/07/02/mobile-flower-cart-ferndale/5351054002/

Flower Farming: Passiflora Farm specializes in flowers, from seed to centerpiece - Powell Tribune

South America.”She’s excited to bring the movement to rural Wyoming. Passiflora Farm is the only flower farm in the area. There are a few in Bozeman, Montana, and also one in Sheridan.“It’s fairly new, even in the region,” she said.In addition to doing flowers for weddings and events, Passiflora Farm does wholesale flowers, selling in Billings, Red Lodge, Cody and Powell. Local residents can become CSA (community supported agriculture) members, buying a “share” of the farm’s flowers.On a warm August afternoon, Urick walked through the field and hoop house, explaining each section and the flowers’ unique traits. She pointed to a row of coveted Cafe au Lait dahlias.“They’re dinner-plate size, so they’re huge, and they vary in color from ivory to cream to blush, even lavender,” Urick said.Nearby are sweet peas, which loved the cooler weather this season. She plans to save the seeds for future seasons.“It’s really hard to find these seeds,” she explained. “You’d have to go through England, so now we have some American farmers like myself who are saving our own seed and kind of hoping to build that stock up here in the U.S.”The heirloom flowers are kind of old-fashioned, Urick said, but becoming popular again.span clas... http://www.powelltribune.com/stories/flower-farming-passiflora-farm-specializes-in-flowers-from-seed-to-centerpiece,20631

How does Encore Boston Harbor keep its flowers so fresh? Meet the shrub whisperer - The Boston Globe

You’re at Encore.”If casino flowers as transformational sounds like a load of corporate hooey — and it does — spend an hour or two with Chadwick, a redwood tree of a man with a quiet demeanor, a Montana accent, and nearly 40 employees in his department.First, he’ll hit you with the numbers. There are 900 trees, 100,000 shrubs, and 55,000 flowers — and that’s just outside.Inside, mingling with the slot machines and table games, the conference space and hotel rooms, are 4,000 potted flowers, many of which are switched out daily, all of which are swapped every two weeks. Special color schemes are coming for the fall, Christmas, Chinese New Year, and spring.“The lobby also evolves as the seasons evolve,” he said.Mums surrounded a decorative urn in the lobby at the casino.(David L. Ryan/Globe Staff)Amid the array of flowers are 4,000 pots of foliage plants, including 95 kentia palms, native to Australia.Each of the casino’s 671 hotel rooms have at least one plant. More than 120 have a five-orchid arrangement. The top-end rooms have even more greenery.All the casino resort’s plant razzle-dazzle isn’t something you can just go and buy at Mahoney’s. Chadwick and his team of gardeners, florists, supervisors, and managers plan and plan and plan, he said.AdvertisementThey purchase flowers about a year in advance and work with a range of ve... https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/08/18/everett-casino-charge-green/0IdI0WQBNr1CF6KiDWeYtM/story.html

BBB consumer warning: Graduation gifts that never arrive - KTVZ

There are local, independent BBBs across the United States, Canada and Mexico, including BBB Northwest + Pacific, which serves more than 15 million consumers across Alaska, Washington, Idaho, Oregon, Montana, Hawaii and Western Wyoming. https://www.ktvz.com/news/bbb-consumer-warning-graduation-gifts-that-never-arrive/1083986113

'The Fire Within': 9 years of honoring Great Falls women in business - Great Falls Tribune

Crocker who kept his nomination a secret. "I was shocked...I had no idea," she said. "It was pretty humbling. There's a lot of pretty amazing people in Great Falls, Montana, and so to know people thought I was doing something awesome felt really good." The Good Wood Guys live by their words as "born ra... https://www.greatfallstribune.com/story/news/2019/04/01/the-fire-within-9-years-honoring-great-falls-women-business/3314905002/