Akron, NY Florists

Akron Flower Shop News

Turning a new Leaf: Flower/gift shop helps to revitalize Akron's West Hill neighborhood - Akron Beacon Journal

Katie Byard   For the Beacon JournalMushrooms, blueberry vines and even small not-yet-ripe tomatoes have ended up in Akron florist Matthew Caleb Moore’s designs.Now he’s arranging for his flower/gift shop — Leaf Home and Blooms — to bloom in a much bigger space, and hopefully, he says, help to revitalize the stretch of West Market Street in West Hill.“There is a lot of potential here,” Moore said, noting the more developed Highland Square commercial strip just a little west on West Market.Leaf, previously called Every Blooming Thing, will move in early November to 449 W. Market St. in the site of the former longtime Stagecoach Antiques store.For now, while that space is being renovated, Leaf is operating out of the bottom of a house tucked behind the onetime antiques shop. Leaf moved to West Market from 1079 W. Exchange St., a little more than a mile away, late last year. Akron Mayor Dan Horrigan plans to attend a ribbon-cutting ceremony in the new location Nov. 10.“We are hoping we spark development here... connect this part of West Hill with Highland Square m... https://www.beaconjournal.com/story/news/local/2020/09/30/leaf-flower-gift-shop-helps-revitalize-west-hill-akron/3561752001/

Akron Ohio News - City Gardener & Florist offering flowers, gifts, more - Akron Leader Publications

Delivery is available to homes, businesses, schools, hospitals and funeral homes in various parts of Akron, with a full listing of those areas provided at citygardener.com.“We offer creative and quality designs and exceptional service that brings customers back to us,” said Thomas. “We are customer driven, and our relationship with our clients is important. We take care of families, from the birth of a child, to graduations, to weddings and in death.”The business also includes the Potting Shed, a shop housed in an old barn that offers a wide variety of gardening accessories and furniture, decorative planters, urns, statuary, benches and birdbaths. Also sold are gift items such as jewelry, photography, soy candles, artisan wind chimes and fairy gardens. Some items are displayed throughout a picturesque courtyard.The Potting Shed is open through late fall. For more details, visit gardenerpottingshed.com.In addition, the grounds include an outdoor space like a secret garden, according to Thomas. She added City Gardener & Florist has become a destination site, offering an opportunity to explore the unique 122-year-old home. Thomas added Mendenhall’s great, great, great granddaughter is using the site to make a documentary film.Thomas stated City Gardener is a community-oriented business and hosts a Porch Party for the City of Ravenna Memorial Day parade and luncheons for civic and community organizations.Store hours are Mondays through Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.For more information, visit the website or call 330-296-8681 or 800-867-4783. The business also includes the Potting Shed, which offers gardening accessories and furniture, decorative planters, statuary, benches and more, as pictured above. Staff photos Editor’s note: Advertiser features appearing in the West Side Leader are provided as a service to the advertiser and our readers. They do not serve as an endorsement of any company, person, product or service. All information contained in these features comes directly from interviews with company owners or their representatives and from additional materials provided ... http://akron.com/akron-ohio-business-news.asp?aID=41216

Not on the First Page of Google? You Might Not Be Seen - businessjournaldaily.com

It very directly relates to new business or new revenue,” says Joe Jorgenson, president of Robin Technologies in Akron. As of December, there were 1.94 billion websites, according to HostingFacts.com, and each day over 5 billion Google searches are made. HubSpot reports that 75% of users never scroll beyond the first page of search results.“Nobody wants to be the seventh page on Google,” says Kelli Hulea, project manager for Pecchia Communications in Canfield. “If you want to be noticed at all, you need to be aware of SEO.”SEO, or search engine optimization, is the process of increasing the online visibility of a website in search-engine results with the goal of being one of the first listings.“Everyone wants to be at the top of the search results; so that’s another reason why it is so difficult and time consuming because if everybody could be, everybody would be,” Hulea adds.While you can pay to have an ad at the top of a search engine page, most businesses need to work on their SEO organically to remain in the top positions.“SEO is how people find you,” says Chris Askew, director of digital marketing strategy at Prodigal Co. in Boardman. “If your content isn’t being ranked in Google, you’re not being found.”The most popular search engine is Google, which is responsible for 94% of total organic traffic, according to Web Presence Solutions. Google has more than 200 factors it uses in its algorithm to determine where a website is ranked on its search page, with the weight of each constantly changing. However, marketers agree there are a few key tactics a business can focus on to help with its ranking. No. 1 on the list: look at what your competitors are do... https://businessjournaldaily.com/not-the-first-page-google-might-not-seen-seo/

Former White House Chief Floral Designer Laura Dowling appearing at Akron Home & Flower Show (photos) - cleveland.com

I was responsible for outlining the decor and choosing linens, ordering flowers, staffing the production. It's a pretty big job."Dowling is appearing at the Akron Home & Flower Show, Friday through Saturday, February 23 to 25, at the John S. Knight Center. She'll present a slide show of her designs with an emphasis on the newest ideas, take questions from the audience, and share anecdotes about her time at the White House. Her appearances are at 12:30 p.m. and 4:30p.m. Saturday, and 1:15 p.m. Sunday.On the trend front, purple flowers will reign, so to speak, because "Ultra Violet" happens to be the hottest shade this year, according to Pantone, which annually chooses a leading color."Flower trends follow fashion trends, so the idea is that the Pantone Color of the Year is being incorporated in floral designs" says Dowling. "That would include sweet peas, hydrangeas, orchids. It's a bit controversial because not everyone likes that shade. But I think, with flowers, there is an incredible range of options. For example, one of my favorite roses is called amnesia. It's a pale lilac-gray-beige. It almost has a vintage feel."Grape tomatoes, turnips, limes and other edibles are lending a new look to floral arrangements, too."With an unusual mix of materials, arrangements are much more organic," says Dowling. "The look is very natural and free-flowing."The horizontal-shaped arrangement is a new trend as well.Dowling, who at one time was a part-time florist with her own design studio, and held jobs in government and public policy before then, was picked to be the official White House Florist after her husband, Robert Weinhagen, learned of the opening."I sent my resume in never expecting to hear back, and much to my surprise I heard several months later that I was one of 17 finalists," she remembers. "After several cuts it was down to three finalists. There was a four-hour, timed competition, in which we had to design for a state dinner and design an oval office arrangement. After an interview with Michelle Obama, I learned I got the job."To Dowling's knowledge, there have only been four or five official White House florists. First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy established the office of the Chief Floral Designer, she added.D... https://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2018/02/former_white_house_chief_flora.html

Pomeroy Alumni hold banquet

Sharon Douglas Swindell of Shade, Nancy Brown Strauser of Columbus, Howard Parker of Marietta, and Barbara Eskew Fields, Vince Knight and Phil Harrison, all of Pomeroy;1961 — Michael Roberts of Akron, Norman Price, Paula Sayre Welker, Wallace Hatfield, and Bill Young, all of Pomeroy, and Keith Barnitz of Kingston;1962 — Jean Casto Hilton of Parkersburg, W.Va., Mike Werry of Belpre, and Christine Faber Sauters of Pomeroy;1963 (55th anniversary) — Jerry Shamblin of Madison, Tenn., Mary Jane Douglas Daggett of Fairfield, Ohio, Sandra Wells McCallister of Cutler, Ohio, David Borden of Senoia, Ga., Tracy Schrinsher of Crossville, Tenn., William Murray of Columbus, Douglas and Sandra London Moore of Piketon, James Gilbert of Springfield, Donald Brown of Columbus, Jennifer Lohse Sheets, Charlene Diehl Rutherford, Rosetta Lisle Redovian, Judy Wehrung Sisson, Allen Downie and Roger Young, all of Pomeroy, George Starcher of West Columbia, W.Va., and Rick Crow of Syracuse;1964 — Jennifer Crew Solomon of Chester, S.C., Keith Whaley of Lancaster, Karen Miller Gilbert of Springfield, Danny Smith of South Point, Don Mayer, Yvonne Young and Donna Hatfield, all of Pomeroy;1965 — Hazel Phelps Cleland of Dupont, Ind., Susanne Arnold Fitzgerald of Olathe, Kan., Carla Werry of Belpre, Don Cullums, Donna Hauck Carr, Linda Darnell Mayer, Joan Hewetson Anderson, all of Pomeroy, George Harris of Middleport, and John Curd of Holly, Mich.;1966 — Gail St.Clair of Middleport, Mary Klein of Point Pleasant, W.Va., Dottie Phelps Will of Pomeroy, Bill Francis of Reedsville, and Don Napper of Pataskala;1967 — Ron Logan of Middleport;1968 (50th anniversary) — Beverly Beaver Smith of Marcellus, Mich., Pam Crew Napper of Pataskala, Carla Norton King of Mason, W.Va., Hilda Young Roush of Mason, W.Va., Maurisha Durst Nelson of Pickerington, Penny Hayes Holcomb of Lithopolis, Robert Murphy of Racine, Shelia Faulk Hollon of Chester, Jim and Becky Nease Anderson of Racine, Jennifer Menchini Kirby of Middleport, Sandy Bailley Mathews of Athens, Jane Wells Mitchell of Ravenswood, W.Va., Becky Hawley Ellis, Don Lambert, Jane Quivey, Janet St.Clair Peavley, Jerry Well, Paulette Hudson Harrison, John Goodwin, Sally Globokar Erwin, Loring Vaughan, Bonnie Banks Lightfoot and David Carr, all of Pomeroy.Officers elected for 2019 are William Young, President; William Francis, Vice President; Marcia Grueser Arnold and Thelma Davis Jeffers, secretary-treasurers.The executive committee elected includes Mary Scott Wise, April Shasteen Smith, Judy Wehrung Sisson, Lila Terrel Mitch, Charlene Diehl Rutherford, and Carol Strauss Kennedy.The advisory committee elected includes Norman Price, Carolyn Sisson Teaford, Jean Caston Hilton, Ed Kennedy and JoAnne Jones Williams.Ted Scott, Class of 1953, who lives in Westland, Michigan, was given a free ticket to next year’s banquet. The ticket was given by Madalyn Pickett Markham of Plantation, Florida. Markham graduated from Pomeroy High School in 1936. A second free ticket given by the alumni association went to Carolyn Brown Charles (1956), who comes to the banquet every year.Sara Hawk Cullumns (1938) celebrating her 80th anniversary and Belva Glaze (1943) celebrating her 75th anniversary were given purple and white flower arrangements.Many door prizes were given out and the ladies were given potted purple and white petunias at the conclusion of the meeting.Scholarship winners were also announced. (The winners will appear in a separate article).Singing of the Alma Mater and the benediction by Joe Kennedy closed the event. Group photos were taken of the reunion classes.Submitted by Marcia Arnold, secretary-treasurer. ... https://www.mydailysentinel.com/features/community/27230/pomeroy-alumni-holds-banquet

A devoted florist gives each 9/11 victim a white birthday rose - The Gazette

NEW YORK — Every Sept. 11, Michael Collarone, a Brooklyn-bred florist who goes by Mikey Flowers, has the same routine. In the hours before 8:46 a.m., the time the first plane struck the World Trade Center 19 years ago, he parks his truck in downtown Manhattan and, bearing buckets of angelic white roses, walks to the site where he once helped scour for victims’ remains in the twin towers’ smoldering wreckage.There, the burly 62-year-old meets up with “my guys” from the Port Authority police. This year, he will be wearing a mask for the first time and, for social distancing reasons, the victims’ names will be played from recordings on a loudspeaker rather than read aloud from a stage, but little else will change for him. “I’m going to hug my friends,” he says. “I’m going to hug my guys.”Collarone’s steadfast devotion to honoring the victims of 9/11 isn’t a once-a-year kind of thing, though. He’s been the de facto volunteer florist to Ground Zero since it was known around the city as the... https://www.thegazette.com/subject/news/a-devoted-florist-gives-each-911-victim-a-white-birthday-rose-20200911

RVC florist fills window displays with 'holiday pandemic' scenes - Newsday

People passing by Masters and Company Florist in Rockville Centre will see a holiday window display not unlike those found in New York City. Its decked-out windows are inspired by both the holiday season and the pandemic. "I feel like everything is so surreal and depressing, especially during the holidays," says owner Laurie Speziale, 60. "Why not create something a little whimsy?" The scenes created by the Woodmere resident include a Santa Claus sporting a face covering and a Christmas tree with medical masks mixed in among its ornaments. "I always do [the windows] up quite elaborate, for every season and holiday," Speziale says of her decorative handiwork. This year, COVID pulled the plug on the events that typically carry her business such as weddings, bar and bas mitzvahes and other parties, which gave Speziale some extra time to beef up her holiday display. "I really wanted to bring joy to others, so I thought ‘why not really do them up and I just want as many... https://www.newsday.com/lifestyle/fashion-and-shopping/rockville-centre-masters-and-company-florist-1.50091128

Can flowers live through a pandemic? | Herald Community Newspapers - liherald.com

Roses, lilies and daisies tend to live longer than hyacinths, tulips and lilacs, however, the maximum lifespan of cut flowers is still about a week with maximum care. Since Phase One of New York’s reopening plan began May 27, florists were able to open in a limited manner with hopes of restocking as much as possible. Face masks and a limited capacity were requirements made by New York State that Imperial Florist in Baldwin, Flowers by Mike in Oceanside and Duryea’s Flower Shop in Freeport are all following in order to continue peddling petals. Ann Marie Pierce at Imperial Florist in Baldwin has been operating her shop with only one in-store employee and one delivery driver since late May, accepting curbside and delivery orders. According to Pierce, for “at least six weeks we didn’t work at all.” Imperial Florist has recently opened its shop to customers with caution, putting up dividers, allowing one person inside at a time, requiring mandatory facial covers and accepting only credit cards. Similarly to Pierce, Susan Martin, whose family runs Duryea’s Flower Shop in Freeport, has taken precautions in the first few weeks after reopening. Martin wipes down everything in the store frequently, allows no one to enter the refrigeration unit and has employees “working limited hours.”Mike Graham, the owner of Flowers by Mike in Oceanside and East Rockaway, said one of the main challenges he faced was coming up with new marketing strategies to reach his cu... https://www.liherald.com/merrick/stories/can-flowers-live-through-a-pandemic,126506

Toilet Tissue Bouquet goes viral amidst cornavirus TP shortages - WCTV

Judging from the nationwide reaction the TP bouquet has received, they're succeeding.It even got a big thumps up from a caller in the Big Apple."Because in New York, she said it's very doom and gloom," said Bart Faulkner. "She said this is definitely making people smile up here."Faulkner says people across the nation have asked about ordering a bouquet, but sales have been limited to local customers.While the unique arrangement is making for a lot of snickering, the pair is seriously concerned about what the coronavirus is doing to their business, one that primarily depends on weddings."It's going to affect our business one way or another," said Bart Faulkner. "So, we're just trying to, right now, do like everybody and make the best of it."... https://www.wctv.tv/content/news/Toilet-Tissue-Bouquet-goes-viral-amidst-cornavirus-TP-shortages-568902351.html