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Bouquets as hot as a designer handbag: They're the 'it' accessory - Daily Mail

Bouquets from £50, larrywalshe.comTHE GREEN ROMANTICSHANE CONNOLLY Shane Connolly who was born in Belfast, is best known for romantic, English countryside flowers with a wild, fairytale twist (pictured) Shane was responsible for Kate's (pictured) wedding bouquet The Belfast-born, sustainable floral designer is a hit with the senior royals. ‘I was given the rather extraordinary title of Artistic Director of Flowers for the wedding of the Duke & Duchess of Cambridge,’ he laughs. ‘Everything was made the night before the wedding. Then, we were up again at 4am to check it all.’ In Kate’s bouquet (right) was ‘Lily of the Valley, a little touch of hyacinth, and some Sweet William, which was a bit of fun’. Not to mention the trees. ‘To add intimacy in the Abbey, the obvious answer to me was to use trees.’Steal his style: Romantic, English countryside flowers with a wild, fairytale twist. He adds ‘find flowers you love by visiting gardens, not flower shops.’ No non-recyclable foam or flown-in flowers. For floristry courses with Shane, go to:learningwithexper... https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-8573181/Bouquets-hot-designer-handbag-Theyre-accessory.html

In search of plants for annual Green Thumb sale - Republican Journal

The Belfast Garden Club needs help. Midcoast gardeners eager to start digging this spring are asked to remember the annual Green Thumb Plant Sale taking place Saturday, May 20, at Belfast Boathouse.The nonprofit garden club needs gardeners willing to dig and donate plants to the sale. For anyone with extra seedlings or divisions of perennials, it is easy to take part. Contact sale coordinator Bonnie Irwin at 703-9057 or bonnie.m.irwin@gmail.com. She’ll find the easiest way to help, whether that means sending a club member to a garden to help identify and dig, or providing simple drop-off instructions.Or pick up an extra six-pack of flowers, veggies or herbs while shopping at a favorite local greenhouse; the club would be grateful to receive those, too. Unusual perennials are also welcome.The Green Thumb fundraiser helps Belfast Garden Club give two annual scholarships to local students earning degrees in earth-friendly fields. It also helps the club maintain 12 public gardens in Belfast, d... http://waldo.villagesoup.com/p/in-search-of-plants-for-annual-green-thumb-sale/1645830

The man who created floral tributes for Violet, Queen of the Travellers - Belfast Telegraph

Belfast TelegraphThe man who created floral tributes for Violet, Queen of the TravellersBelfast TelegraphIt is not every day that a funeral attracts national headlines - not because of the identity of the deceased but because of the astonishing variety and scale of the floral tributes. But that is what happened when Violet Crumlish, known as the Queen of ... http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/life/features/the-man-who-created-floral-tributes-for-violet-queen-of-the-travellers-35128710.html

Devlin: Roadside flowers have different meaning for some - Green Bay Press Gazette

Bloody fighting continued until the 1990s, and taunting of one side by the other continues to this day in the British-controlled North. In Belfast and Derry and other towns, the Protestant Orangemen parade through Catholic neighborhoods on July 12 each year banging on huge bass drums.Orange Walks are held throughout England,Scotland, Canada, and in the Northeastern U.S. Men in suits and ties wear orange sashes while other carry massive banners.Critics claim the marches are sectarian. Supporters claim they're expressing ancestral pride.The climate where I was raised is a bit warmer than we experience in Door County.Winters are milder. Spring comes earlier. The orange day lilies begin blossoming a few weeks before they do here.In Western Pennsylvania, the last scragglers usually bloom around July 10. My mother would tolerate those appearing on the 11th. The buds of those that hadn't opened by then never did.Mum would pluck them, cut them, crush them. No orange flower would appear in the yard of  my Irish Catholic Mum on or after Orangeman's Day.It was an expression of hundreds of years of collective resentment over the way one people lorded over another, allowing millions to die.Understand this next sentence. I am not condoning violence: I am saying I understand that natives of the Middle East haven't forgotten the Crusades.Peter J. Devlin is a retired radio newsman who lives in the first house south of the county line. Contact him at (920) 487-3778 or at peterjdevlin@yahoo.com.Read or Share this story: http://gbpg.net/2a7kvcL... http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/story/news/local/door-co/opinion/2016/07/19/devlin-roadside-flowers-have-different-meaning-some/87138972/

If you pick these protected wild flowers in Northern Ireland you will face ... - Belfast Live

November 1, and the winning scheme will be ready to begin planting next spring.Members of the public are able to choose between creating a river of flowers spanning Derry, transforming Belfast into a city of wildflowers, and bringing two Coleraine communities - Ballysally and Millburn - together across what is currently an unused no-man’s-land.Belfast City Council wants to create a City of Wildflowers, bringing beautiful natural colour to a series of high-profile sites across Belfast, transforming the environment while also providing work opportunities for local people.The Cornfield Project would see an unused area of wood and grass between Coleraine’s Millburn and Ballysally estates transformed with wild flowers, revamping the area and also bringing the two communities together.Flowers of Foyle plans to plant a stunning “river of flowers” from Creggan Country Park down to the River Foyle, using wild flower meadows and nature paths to comprise a breath-taking flower trail.Voting is under way and runs until November 1 and it is to the public to allocate the funding, by supporting whichever project they think is best.MORE: In pictures: Police aim to root out Co Derry flower pot vandalsThis year will see the public in both Northern Ireland and Wales decide on their respective flagship projects. Both England and Scotland have already made their choice – with Tale of Two Cities transforming prominent spaces to connect Liverpool and Manchester, while a derelict sewage works in Barrhead near Glasgow has been redeveloped and filled with wild flowers.Grow Wild is in its third year of wild flower campaigning, aiming to bring pe... http://www.belfastlive.co.uk/news/belfast-news/you-pick-protected-wild-flowers-10312841

New York City's ‘Flower Flash’ Florist Designs a Display for Ralph Lauren - Architectural Digest

The whole idea of the flower flash is to give back, to give joy,” explains Lewis, who has created eye-popping arrangements for New York’s most revered cultural institutions (including MoMA, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the New York Public Library, and the Whitney) as well as a who’s who of fashion and media brands (Vogue, HBO, and Netflix). “We live in a crazy world and we’re a little bit starved for joy—if we can have a feel-good moment, that’s really important right now.”On October 23, his second installation will bloom outside Macy’s Herald Square. And in an engaging twist, the art is meant to be touched. Shoppers will be encouraged to pluck flowers to take home, part of an effort to spread love (and the #pinkpony hashtag) around the city.“It’s a gift to New York—take a picture or take a blossom,” Lewis says, emphasizing that the temporary nature of his flashes is what makes them so powerful: “You go from this larger-than-life still life to a scattering of leaves on the ground—that’s the life it was meant to live. There’s a strange beauty in the disarray as well.”Another Miller creation outside of a subw... https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/ralph-lauren-flower-flash

Philly florists bring beauty back to voting with public installations across the region - The Philadelphia Inquirer

What they do have are flowers — a lot of them. So to highlight the beauty of voting and nip the negativity in the bud, they’ve teamed up with 15 other florists across the Philadelphia region, New York, and New Jersey for United by Blooms, a nonpartisan outdoor floral installation event from Oct. 14-16 aimed at promoting voting. “By incorporating it with flowers, we bring back a positive connotation to the actual process of voting,” Lam said. #right-rail .newsletter-card,.newsletter-card.hidden-desktop{display:none} Inquirer Morning Newsletter Get the news you need to start your day United by Blooms is the brainchild of farmer-florist Kate Carpenter, co-owner of EMA (East Mount Airy) Blooms. Participating florists and growers, who donated their time and flowers to the project, were asked to provide a positive public experience while raising awareness about voting. Designers were encouraged to put their installations near mailboxes or ballot drop boxes (but not on them), to highlight voting by mail and the necessity of the U.S. Postal Service, which has faced its share of heavy criticism this year, too. “It’s an opportunity to thank the postal workers, who are essential workers, and to get the community engaged about participating in our democracy,” said Carpenter, 35. “Plus, it gives growers and designers the chance to take their talents to the streets of Philadelphia and give people something to enjoy right now.” Carpenter’s design, which she created with her business partner, Courtney Jewell, was inspired, in part, by the rainbows that people placed in their windows for children’s scavenger hunts during the height of quarantine. Several rainbow-colored chalk paths lead to the installation at Green Street and Carpenter Lane in Mount Airy, where flowers crawl up a stop sign and flow out from underneath the mailbox nearby. A QR code at the site takes visitors to a map with the locations of the oth... https://www.inquirer.com/news/united-by-blooms-art-flowers-philadelphia-voting-20201015.html

Sprawling Floral Installations Spill Over Garbage Cans and Phone Booths on New York City Streets - Colossal

Art#flowers#installation#New York#public art#street artAugust 7, 2020Grace EbertAll images © Lewis Miller Design, shared with permisisonThanks to Lewis Miller Design, those passing through New York City have gotten some respite from the rank smells and soggy refuse of streetside garbage cans. For years, the florist (previously) has been planting guerrilla installations of sunflowers, hydrangeas, and peonies in public areas, transforming trash receptacles, construction zones, and lampposts with sprawling assemblages. Check out some of the recent “Flower Flashes” below, and follow the designer on Instagram to see where the temporary bouquets pop up next.img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-133433" src="https://www.thisiscolossal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/lewis-miller-1.jpg" alt width="2000" height="2500" srcset="https://www.thisiscolossal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/lewis-miller-1.jpg 2000w, https://www.thisiscolossal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/lewis-miller-1-640x800.jpg 640w, https://www.th... https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/08/lewis-miller-designs-flowers/

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

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-speed bike. I sold my car. I was a taxidermist and had collections of all kinds of animals, and I just gave up everything and I went cross country from Long Island to San Diego.”  He went from Hawaii to Japan to Iran to France, learning about different religions and ways of life during his journey. He became connected to the Hare Krishna movement, a branch of Hinduism, while hitchhiking, and he saw Eastern religions and the lifestyle as something he wanted to bring back to the U.S. when he returned in 1987.  He found his way to Detroit, initially to do food distribution, he says. “In Hare Krishna, food is sacred, it’s sanctified. It purifies people’s consciousness, I was really behind that. I thought, what better city than Detroit could really use some help, especially in 1987.” He was drawn to the city’s spirit and resilience, and he knew he wanted to be a part of its revival, “but from a spiritual perspective.” From there, Milano got involved with and started up projects relating to food distribution. When he was traveling, he volunteered often with food distribution projects through the Hare Krishna temple, and wanted to bring that to Detroit. He took up farming, originally focused on edible crops, and started up the Jefferson Chalmers Community Food System on city-owned land. There, he grew edible crops for the neighborhood and for restaurants to promote a local diet and eliminate waste, as well as employed people in the area.  “I realized that, God, all this vacant land in Detroit can be such a tremendous asset, not a liability,” Milano says. “In neighborhoods, we would clean up lots, and have people take care of those lots, but then I realized why not go a little further and actually turn the lots into beautiful landscapes and productive landscapes that create jobs.” After six years, Milano was able to b... https://www.modeldmedia.com/features/detroit-abloom-flourishes.aspx