Bainbridge Flower Shop News
Leesburg blooming: Flower and garden festival comes to town this weekend - Loudoun Times-Mirror
Tuesday, April 25, 2017Lovettsville-based Jumbo Bottom Barrel Works crafts outdoor furniture, bird baths and fountains from reclaimed wine barrels. Bainbridge Outdoor Design Build, a new vendor from Dulles, will display some of its landscape styles.The festival draws dozens of out-of-state vendors as well. Representatives from as far as Missouri, Wisconsin and New Hampshire will be bringing their crafts. Sprinklers by Mick, a New York craftsman who designs unique, globe-shaped copper sprinklers, usually proves a popular exhibit. Deer Defeat repellant, also based in New York, will help keep your new garden creations intact with its rain-resistant formula. Other vendors will be offering pottery, awnings, natural food items, lotions, candles and more. “That’s part of the fun of the show, to have that combination of local and out-of-area vendors,” Smith said.New this year are two special gardening presentations by Barry Glick, founder of Sunshine Farm and Gardens. Glick keeps more than 10,000 species of plants in his collection and breeds high-quality plants for garden centers and nurseries. On Friday, April 21 at 7 p.m., he will give a talk about local woodland plants at the Ida Lee rec center. The next day at 11:45 a.m., he will perform a demonstration about plant propagation on the Loudoun County Courthouse grounds.For those who may not be avid gardeners, the festival hosts 21 local restaurant vendors and the beer garden by the town parking garage offers samples from area breweries. Local musician Gary Smallwood and pop-rock band Sub Radio will be jamming on the main stage.Kids can find their niche at the festival, too. Along the west end of Cornwall Street is the children’s area, where families can enjoy live animals, theatre and magic performances, as well as a craft area. Smith said that the painting area, where children can help paint large wooden animal and flower designs, has been popular in past years.“It’s more than just the shopping. It’s a lot of great food, there’s great entertainment,” Smith said. “Hopefully people are excited to come again this year.”The festival is hosted by the town’s Department of Parks and Recreation and has several sponsors, including presenting sponsor Loudoun Medical Group. The event runs from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. To learn more, visit http://... http://www.loudountimes.com/news/article/leesburg_blooming_flower_and_garden_festival_comes_to_town_this_weekend432
Meet the state's secret 'ferry flower fairy' - KOMO News
Monday, October 12, 2015BAINBRIDGE ISLAND, Wash. -- Flowers may not grow on Washington State ferries, but apparently kindness does.Janelle Eller, a worker on the Bainbridge Island Ferry, buys fresh floral arrangements with her own money roughly once a week and then spends time setting them up in the women's restroom before her shift."It's a great feeling when you're noticed by the passengers. I've had written notes. I've had things left on the mirrors for me," Eller said. "I even had a lady bring me in a bouquet of flowers just for me to take home."Eller's official job title is 'ordinary seaman,' which means she does a little bit of everything on board the boat. Florist, however, was not in the employee description when she took the job six years ago."I was inspired by another worker that's been here over 30 years. She used to bring them from her garden and put them up," Eller said. "She's an inspiration."Passengers will notice the flowers and leave compliments on the ferry system's comment cards, said Ian St... http://www.komonews.com/news/local/Meet-the-states-secret-ferry-flower-fairy-331126311.html
Making Arrangements art exhibit explores the many moods of floral design at Goodyear Arts - CLTure
Saturday, January 18, 2020Goodyear Arts. The show will feature works from regional artists as well as artists from Philadelphia, Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, and Richmond. Curator Rebecca Henderson said of the show and its title, “I wanted to be able to communicate the duality of the work [the show] contains. Yes, there is a bouquet: the colorful beauty, a tantalizing expression and a bold optimism. But there are also those arrangements whose wilting marks the fragility and banality of living– that the days simply pass.” Henderson has made a name for herself in a variety of ways around Charlotte. She co-curated the 2016 show Unibrow with local sculpture artist Grace Stott, continues to co-curate a mobile and accessibility-driven gallery, Wheeling Art Dealing, and just last year started Southern Ladies Arm Wrestling (an inclusive arm wrestling league open to all femme-identifying folks). Henderson is active in the arts community and handpicked each artist based off the content, concept, or context of their work as it pertains to the Making Arrangements curatorial proposal. Art by Corey Pemberton“This is a group exhibition which reflects on the exquisite task of balancing living alongside the tender clutter of having lived. Beyond unifying floral imagery, themes of joyful resistance, common nostalgia and conflicted sentimentality also run through the work,” Henderson said. “This show was my opportunity to experiment with how to approach curatorial work as a kind of temporal bouquet. Many methods of floral design exist in this beautiful space between language and mathematics, and as a curator, I wanted to challenge myself to work within this same balancing framework.”Making Arrangements opens at Goodyear Arts on Friday, January 10 from 6 p.m. – 9... https://clture.org/making-arrangement-art-exhibit/
31 Best Flower Delivery Companies Near Me—Flower Delivery Services - Parade
Saturday, January 18, 2020Floom for an order—your flowers will be crafted and delivered from local sellers near your recipient’s delivery address. Floom also offers same-day delivery in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, San Diego, Boston and Houston, as well as in London, Edinburgh, Manchester and Bristol in the U.K.13. Florists.comRakuten members will get 18 percent cash back if they shop at Florists.com, which also offers deals of the day. In addition, if you don’t want to send just flowers, Florists.com also offers gift baskets, chocolate and fruit bouquet options.14. Florists’ Transworld Delivery (FTD)Chances are you’ve heard of FTD, but perhaps didn’t know what the actual abbreviation meant. It stands for “Florists’ Transworld Delivery,” and it means exactly what it says: They work with local florists worldwide and offers same-day and next-day delivery options, as well as 20 percent cashback for Rakuten users. They also offer cute additions like teddy bears and candy.15. FlowersFastIt’s midnight on February 14 (or Mother’s Day, your anniversary, your love’s birthday, etc.). Are you out of luck and out of time? Nope! Flowers Fast offers same-d... https://parade.com/978393/jessicasager/best-flower-delivery-companies/
Flowers are a great last-minute gift — but be sure to send the right message - Seattle Times
Saturday, January 18, 2020Make them personal, and possibly reflecting a certain flower the person loved. Then they can really evoke the sense of a warm hug.”New York flower designer and illustrator Cathy Graham says her go-to sympathy flowers include a paperwhite plant and a white or blue hydrangea plant that could bloom for a few weeks. “You don’t have to do all white, but I would not use bright, festive colors.”Don’t overlook household pets when you are creating a bouquet or arrangement to send to someone, says Graham. “Lilies and other flowers are bad for cats,” says Graham, who worries about that with her own two ginger cats, Reggie and Cheddar. The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals publishes a list of plants that are poisonous to pets. img data-ratio="1.50037" data-caption="Included in this Atelier Ashley Flowers design for a baby shower are ranunculus, which mean radiant charm. It never hurts to let a woman who is about to give birth know that she is radiant, owner Ashley Greer says. (SKC Photography)" class alt="Included in this Atelier Ashley Flowers design for a baby shower are ranunculus, which mean radiant charm. It never hurts to let a woman who is about to give birth know that she is radiant, owner Ashley Greer says. (SKC Photography)" src="https://static.seattletimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/design-flowers-ba15b5bc-00a9-11ea-8501-2a7123a38c58-780x520.jpg" srcset="https://static.seattletimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/design-flowers-ba15b5bc-00a9-11ea-8501-2a7123a38c58-300x200.jpg 300w, https://static.seattletimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/design-flowers-ba15b5bc-00a9-11ea-8501-2a7123a38c58-768x512.jpg 768w, https://static.seattletimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/design-flowers-ba15b5bc-00a9-11ea-8501-2a7123a38c58-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https://static.seattletimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/design-flowers-ba15b5bc-00a9-11ea-8501-2a7123a38c58-780x520.jpg 780w, https://static.seattletimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/design-flowers-ba15b5bc-00a9-11ea-8501-2a7123a38c58-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://static.seattletimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/design-flowers-ba15b5bc-00a9-11ea-8501-2a7123a38c58-1560x1040.jpg 1... https://www.seattletimes.com/explore/shop-northwest/flowers-are-a-great-last-minute-gift-but-be-sure-to-send-the-right-message/
How a Hawthorne woman's floral creations made it to the White House and the pope - NorthJersey.com
Saturday, January 18, 2020But when it came to hobbies, music would play second fiddle to the art of drying flowers after she and her husband, Charlie Miller, bought a farm in Ridgefield Springs, New York, a village 14 miles north of Cooperstown, in 1972. Soil at the 33-acre farm was rich in organic fertilizer, though Miller calls it something else. "The ground had so much cow manure that everything I planted came up gorgeous," Miller said. "I ended up doing five huge gardens." Miller wound up with a multitude of flowers, and at first she did not know what to do with them. "I just sat in the barn, and I said: 'What a waste. All of these flowers are going to die. Can't I try to make their life a little longer?' " Miller recalled. She tried different methods to dry her flowers, finding that some, such as cockscomb, could be dried out simply by hanging them upside-down. https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/passaic/hawthorne/2019/12/24/dried-flower-arrangements-are-cherished-by-u-s-presidents/2633684001/
