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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

Grow Wild and pick a favourite flower in Northern Ireland - Belfast Telegraph

Belfast TelegraphGrow Wild and pick a favourite flower in Northern IrelandBelfast TelegraphCan helping our natural surroundings improve our society? The answer is yes. For the past two years, I have been a part of Grow Wild in Northern Ireland and seen the massive benefits that have bloomed locally.Coleraine, Derry and Belfast 'grow wild'U.TVall 3 news articles »... http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/news-analysis/grow-wild-and-pick-a-favourite-flower-in-northern-ireland-31603251.html

Meet your neighborhood florist, Urban Buds: City Grown Flowers - St. Louis Magazine

Karen “Mimo” Davis was a 31-year-old social worker, living in New York City, when her mother and stepfather asked her to look after their greenhouse in Missouri—and the property’s 132 rosebushes—while they honeymooned. “I fell in love with horticulture,” says Davis. Within the year, she left New York and bought a farm in Ashland, Missouri, where she began growing and selling flowers. (In 2008, Davis earned a master’s degree in horticulture.) In 2012, Davis and her then-partner (now wife), Miranda Duschack, got word of a greenhouse for sale in Dutchtown. Feeling adventurous, they bought the greenhouse—designed by Lord & Burnham in the ’50s—with an acre of land, eventually acquiring eight more plots that were once the site of Held’s Florist, a flower farm, dating back to the 1800s. Today, the farmstead is known as Urban Buds: City Grown Flowers, where more than 70 varieties of flowers are grown. “We’re in the heart of the city,” says Davis. “Few people get to connect with farming, and [our shop] gives them the opportunity.” ... https://www.stlmag.com/design/urban-buds-flowers/

BACK IN TIME: Flowers by Telegraph in Englewood, 1933 - Pascack Press & Northern Valley Press

Printed in the Brooklyn Times Union newspaper 150 years ago, a classified from 1870 advertises property for sale in Tenafly. In those days, estates in the rural Northern Valley were marketed to New Yorkers, who could live in the country and commute to the city. For this reason, the ads typically mentioned the proximity of the railroad station. This house had nine rooms, stable, outbuildings and fruit trees on 5 acres. The cost to buy: $9,000. ... https://thepressgroup.net/back-in-time-flowers-by-telegraph-in-englewood-1933/

Sunnyside Florist, Which Has Served Neighborhood for 80 Years Shuts its Doors, Future is Uncertain - Sunnyside Post

Sunnyside Florist,” said owner Greg Psitos in a Facebook post yesterday.“This is a sign of the times and a crushing blow for small business owners across New York City,” he wrote.Worried friends and customers reached out to Psitos on Facebook and he replied saying that “it may be a while,” before he re-opens but that he hoped to be open for Mother’s Day, which is Sunday, May 10.The front window is now plastered with various signs, old photos and memories accumulated over the years including the shop’s “welcome wall,” which contains autographs from customers and friends. 29 CommentsClick for Comments ... https://sunnysidepost.com/sunnyside-florest-which-has-served-neighborhood-for-80-years-shuts-its-doors-future-is-uncertain

Black-Owned Philly-Area Wedding Planners, Florists and Decor Pros to Know - Philadelphia magazine

Allure Events The East Brunswick-based boutique wedding planning and design firm focuses on creating a stress-free experience for couples throughout the Philly region and New Jersey (as well as New York). Founder and principal planner Melissa Brooks and her team are driven by creative and modern designs, but ultimately dream up a day (and related celebrations) that is unique to you and your love. Custom packages range from à la carte options to full-service planning and design; engagements, day-after brunches and unions of all sizes (elopements, micro-weddings or large bashes) are among the events they skillfully guide. Even virtual consultations via Zoom or teleconference are on offer. Event Loft/... https://www.phillymag.com/philadelphia-wedding/2020/06/09/black-owned-philly-area-wedding-vendors/