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This Chester County Greenhouse is Standing Strong Long After the Cut-Flower Industry's Heyday - Mainline Today
Thursday, March 12, 2020All the “snap” will bloom a second time in April, then be cut and shipped mostly to flower shows and fairs in Kennett Square, Oxford and Wilmington, Del.Years ago, Rosazza was selling flowers to the White House. He specialized in carnations, England’s “divine flower,” first introduced to our Eastern Seaboard in the early 1800s. New York’s Charles Willis Ward popularized the carnation in 1903 when he wrote The America Carnation—How to Grow It. The American Carnation Society was formed in 1892 and survived until 1981.Rosazza supplied carnations to presidents from Harry Truman to George Bush Sr. Since then, the cut-flower industry has shifted operations to South America, becoming too expensive to be profitable. This wilting of a low-key industry is a story throughout southern Chester County, which was once known as the Carnation Belt.The heyday for some 25 local family growers lasted from the 1920s into the ’30s. As late as the early 1950s, there were still 50 diversified flower greenhouse operations between Oxford and Chadds Ford—basically in the shadow of the famed Longwood Gardens. But Richard Nixon’s presidency introduced trade inroads into Columbia, which started exporting flowers here. Labor costs there were as low as 27 cents an hour. “We were paying over $1 an hour,” says Rosazza.The Rosazzas were cutting 1,500 carnations a day at one point, investing just 7 cents per flower. By the end, it was costing $1.17 per flower, and they were cutting less than 750. They finished in the red for two or three years before packing the last one in 2016.Over the years, Ralph’s sons, Ronnie and Danny, have helped keep the diversified family greenhouses alive, overseeing 13,000 square feet of indoor growing under glass and another 3,000 under plastic. There are six greenhouses on an acre of property. The other 4.5 acres is underwater and too low to grow on, but it’s fine for raising cattle.After 31 years with his father full time, Dann... https://mainlinetoday.com/life-style/this-chester-county-greenhouse-is-standing-strong-long-after-the-cut-flower-industrys-heyday/
Upper Dauphin’s Macklin Ayers, Steel-High’s Mehki Flowers selected to Pa. Football Writers’ Class 2A All-Stat - PennLive
Saturday, January 18, 2020Writers’ Class 2A All-State TeamOFFENSEQUARTERBACKAaron Tobias, Penns Valley – 6-2, 210 seniorKellan Stahl, Richland – 5-11, 190 sophomoreZack Swartz, Washington – 6-3, 200 seniorCaelan Bender, Wilmington – 5-10, 180 juniorLogan Pfister, Chestnut Ridge – 6-2, 178 juniorRUNNING BACKGaige Garcia, Southern Columbia – 5-10, 205 seniorJax Miller, Avonworth – 6-1, 183 seniorKobe Brish, Schuylkill Haven – 5-9, 205 seniorGavin Garcia, Southern Columbia – 5-8, 175 sophomoreKyrie Miller, Ligonier Valley – 5-9, 186 seniorDamien Landon, Troy – 6-0, 220 sophomoreWIDE RECEIVERRazen Reyes, Riverside – 6-3, 180 seniorJulian Fleming, Southern Columbia – 6-3, 210 seniorGabe Davis, Minersville – 6-1, 170 juniorZahmere Robinson, Washington – 6-0, 170 seniorTIGHT ENDJunior McConahy, Wilmington – 6-4, 205 seniorLogan Snyder, Penns Valley – 6-2, 220 seniorOFFENSIVE LINELear Quinton, Southern Columbia – 6-2, 235 seniorConnor Vass-Gal, Wilmington – 6-2, 289 juniorJack Imbt, Troy – 6-0, 286 seniorJake Chimiak, Wilmington – 6-3, 280 juniorJosh Elm, Avonworth – 6-4, 268 seniorWylie Spiker, Ligonier Valley – 6-3, 250 seniorATHLETECaleb Burke, Richland – 6-1, 180 seniorSteve Borgia, Dunmore – 5-10, 175 seniorDEFENSEDEFENSIVE LINECole Schankweiler, Southern Columbia – 6-1, 310 seniorMike Petrof, Ligonier Valley – 6-2, 275 seniorEvan Pellegrine, Bellwood-Antis – 6-1, 270 seniorDuane Knisely, Chestnut Ridge – 6-0, 236 seniorZahki Marshall, Washington – 6-0, 295 seniorp class="article__paragraph article__p... https://www.pennlive.com/highschoolsports/football/2019/12/upper-dauphins-macklin-ayers-steel-highs-mehki-flowers-selected-to-pa-football-writers-class-2a-all-state-team.html
Parsons and Rich Mar Florist partner for Dover doubleheader - Speedway Digest
Monday, August 24, 2020B.J. McLeod Motorsports (BJMM) announces today a two-race deal with Rich Mar Florist, a Pennsylvania-based organization, for the NASCAR Xfinity Series (NXS) doubleheader at Dover (Del.) International Speedway on the No. 99 Toyota Supra of Stefan Parsons. Jonathan Morrissey, vice president of Rich Mar Florist and fourth generation co-owner is no stranger to the NASCAR circuit. Rich Mar Florist debuted in the NASCAR world during the 2018 season when the organization partnered with Timmy Hill in the NASCAR Cup Series. Rich Mar Florist’s partnerships in NASCAR did not stop there. In 2019, Rich Mar Florist partnered with racers David Ragan, Josh Bilicki, and Garrett Smithley. Morrisey and Rich Mar Florist are excited to partner with Parsons and BJMM, due to the family legacy. “I’m most excited to brand out with Stefan. This is our first entry in the NXS and it is so exciting to get into the Series with someone who’s family has been racing for generations,” said Morrissey. “I can’t wait to welcome Rich Mar Florist on board our No. 99 B.J. McLeod Motorsports this week... https://www.speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/xfinity-series-news/57999-parsons-and-rich-mar-florist-partner-for-dover-doubleheader
‘Master florist’ Haruko Adkins, 90, had a passion for flower arrangements and tennis - The Washington Post
Monday, August 24, 2020Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, R.I., Morhart said, the trip was a “thrill for her.” Born in Nagoya, Japan, Adkins studied the art of floral arrangement and earned a four-year degree as a “master florist,” her friends said. She married Earl A. Adkins, a criminal investigator in the U.S. Army Military Police Corps. With his work, the couple traveled and lived in several places, including San Francisco and Germany, before settling in Arlington. He died in 1999.Adkins had a large group of friends and was known for helping others. If someone else wanted flowers she planned to use in an arrangement, she would happily give them away, Morhart said.“She was very, very generous,” Morhart said. “She was always willing to say: ‘Help yourself. Take that if you need it.’ She had a very sharing nature.”Adkins also did volunteer projects, including making sweaters and bags to carry food for those in need. She was once named Volunteer of the Year at Goodwin House.Valerie Burke, the chief philanthropy officer at Goodwin House, said Adkins also enjoyed working at a thrift shop on the property as a volunteer and was good at making displays.“She loved getting to know people and helping them find just the right trinket,” Burke said. In the dining room at Goodwin House, Burke said, Adkins would help if she noticed others weren’t eating enough or needed a hand.“She’d say, ‘You’re losing too much weight,’?” Burke said. “Then she’d go over and help them eat. She was a real connector.”In early May, Adkins came down to meet her weekly flower-arranging group but said she couldn’t stay because she didn’t feel well. A few days later she went to the hospital and tested positive for the coronavirus, according to friends. She died 12 days later. “We were all very, very sad,” Morhart said. “She was so easy to work with, so talented and just fun to be around.”Read more:... https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/haruko-adkins-coronavirus/2020/08/18/58bc3c7a-e13e-11ea-b69b-64f7b0477ed4_story.html
A Floral Designer Who Forages in the Hills of Malibu - The New York Times
Monday, August 24, 2020Indeed, Moreno-Bunge is part of a new wave of designers — among them the Berlin-based studio Mary Lennox and the New York-based Joshua Werber — for whom the term florist seems too narrow a definition; they’re artists who not only confirm the obvious appeal of blooms but also reveal the magnificence of their landscapes’ less flamboyant elements: leaves, vegetables, seedpods, weeds and humble grasses.The florist creates a wild, sculptural arrangement of plants including golden rain tree, oats, artichoke flowers and green persimmons.CreditCredit...Scott J. RossThis approach has made Isa Isa — Moreno-Bunge’s five-year-old floral design business, which creates effervescent, naturalistic arrangements and installations — the studio of choice for many of L.A.’s most interesting brands. Visitors to the Chinatown store of the clothing label Eckhaus Latta in 2018 might have noticed a single, ethereal white Iceland poppy emerging from a dense green cluster of beadlike dates, slatted areca palm leaves and the drooping, fist-size fruit of the silk floss tree, arranged by Moreno-Bunge in a pitcher on a table of accessories. More recently, she displayed three green tromboncino squash, coiled like snakes, alongside bouquets of black tomatoes, olive branches and unripened persimmons and lemons, at the women’s clothing boutique Shaina Mote in Highland Park. And Isa Isa’s florals add depth to every console and corner of the Kelly Wearstler-designed Proper Hotel in Santa Monica: spilling out from the narrow opening ... https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/10/t-magazine/sophia-moreno-bunge-floral-design.html
Middletown family florist: Mother dies 6 days after daughter’s death - Hamilton Journal News
Monday, August 24, 2020Tracy Armbruster, a 1985 Middletown High School graduate, was 49. She died of natural causes, her brother said. Her visitation and service were held Saturday.Now the florist family is planning another service.Funeral services are pending for Melinda at Baker-Stevens-Parramore Funeral Home.Melinda's husband, James Armbruster, owner of the business that was established in 1945 and a former city council member, died in 2010. He was 66. A 5.8-acre nature preserve in Middletown is named after the Armbruster family.Melinda is survived by two sons, Jim II and Matthew, and grandchildren.Despite the deaths, Matthew Armbruster said the business remains open and will continue serving the community for generations.“We haven’t skipped a beat and we’re not going to,” he said.He has received condolences from florists throughout the tri-state, he said.“The outpouring from the entire community has just been so overwhelming,” he said. https://www.journal-news.com/news/local/middletown-family-florist-mother-dies-days-after-daughter-death/VQINewRxtNKtHOlqOAEruM/
Man to be sentenced in Edmonton flower store owner’s mall death during robbery - theglobeandmail.com
Monday, August 24, 2020May, 2019, to manslaughter in the death of Iain Armstrong. Mr. Armstrong had tried to stop Mr. Cushnie from robbing a cash box from a cosmetic kiosk outside outside Armstrong’s Bunches florist shop at Edmonton’s Southgate Centre a year earlier. On Monday, Justice Eldon Simpson sentenced Mr. Cushnie to six years in prison. Story continues below advertisement Justice Simpson said Mr. Armstrong, who was 61, fell down and hit his head on a corner of another kiosk after he was punched six times by Mr. Cushnie. Sharon Armstrong, who was married to her husband for 37 years, said in a victim impact statement during Mr. Cushnie’s sentencing hearing earlier Monday that the morning of April 17, 2018, was a normal one as her husband headed off to work at their family-owned business. “In a few hours, my world would collapse,” she said, explaining she received a phone call from one of their employees and immediately called her husband’s brother and business partner. When she arrived at the mall, she saw the building surrounded by emergency vehicles, she said. “I felt my heart drop,” she told court. She was diverted to the University of Alberta Hospital, where she was met by police and called her son and daughter to meet her. “We were all so scared and confused,” said Ms. Armstrong, who added that doctors started using words like “dire, catastrophic” to describe her husband’s injuries. The family decided to take him off life support three days later. Story continues below advertisement Sharon Armstrong was one of eight family members and friends who provided victim impact statements. The couple’s... https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alberta/article-man-to-be-sentenced-in-edmonton-flower-store-owners-mall-death-during/
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