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Third-generation owner seeks to turn retail plant shop into lifestyle brand - Crains New York Business

Guests love it. Now I am working on a hotel concept. I'm trying to find a location for a farmstead, greenhouse and inn in the Hudson Valley or the Catskills. PlantShed would own it, and it would be something really unique, bridging biophilia and hospitality.It's definitely something we could bring to New York City or another city down the line. We have found that incorporating plant life in an urban setting is appealing to people. We assume these travelers want a city vibe, rather than a country or tropical feel. So it would be a matter of incorporating plants and flowers in a way that accentuates the look and feel of a city. https://www.crainsnewyork.com/asked-answered/third-generation-owner-seeks-turn-retail-plant-shop-lifestyle-brand

Third-generation owner seeks to turn retail plant shop into lifestyle brand

Guests love it. Now I am working on a hotel concept. I'm trying to find a location for a farmstead, greenhouse and inn in the Hudson Valley or the Catskills. PlantShed would own it, and it would be something really unique, bridging biophilia and hospitality.It's definitely something we could bring to New York City or another city down the line. We have found that incorporating plant life in an urban setting is appealing to people. We assume these travelers want a city vibe, rather than a country or tropical feel. So it would be a matter of incorporating plants and flowers in a way that accentuates the look and feel of a city. https://www.crainsnewyork.com/asked-answered/third-generation-owner-seeks-turn-retail-plant-shop-lifestyle-brand

Flower shop petals for a good cause - Hudson Valley 360

Sparks said. “We want to give people the surprise and delight of receiving flowers.”Shop employees will be on the road to Cairo, Catskill, Coxsackie, Greenville and Windham by 9:30 a.m. today and wrap up at about 5 p.m., Gallo said. Gallo’s shop will close today at 3 p.m. instead of the usual 5 p.m.Specific locations and times have not been determined because Gallo and her staff want to make the florid appearances unexpected for residents, she said.“If it’s in Greene County, we’ll be there,” Gallo said. “The only thing we have a plan on is who’s taking what areas.” Flowers make people happy, Gallo said, and Petal It Forward originated in 2015 as a way of brightening people’s day by giving them flowers.“They always bring a little joy,” Gallo said. “It gives people a sense of nurturance and caring.”The Society encouraged its members to participate in Petal It Forward and Gallo, who is a member, was happy to get involved, she said. The shop receives no funding for its participation.Gallo, who is promoting the day on Facebook, has heard both cheerful and sad stories from people who received the flowers.“We got such positive feedback from the people,” she said. “It has nothing to do with politics. It’s just a random act of kindness.”Flowers reduce stress and make people happy, according to research by the University of North Florida, Sparks said. For that reason Petal It Forward is held on Wednesday this year to add a bright spot to the mid-week slump.“Flowers are certainly aesthetically beautiful, but they are scientifically proven to improve your well-being,” she said. “It’s kind of a win-win here.”The society encourages florists nationwide to stick with the mission of giving each person they see two bouquets of flowers, but some add their own spin, Sparks said.“Some members have gotten their police officers involved — it’s really neat to see the unique spi... https://www.hudsonvalley360.com/article/flower-shop-%E2%80%98petals%E2%80%99-good-cause

Flower shop petals for a good cause

Sparks said. “We want to give people the surprise and delight of receiving flowers.”Shop employees will be on the road to Cairo, Catskill, Coxsackie, Greenville and Windham by 9:30 a.m. today and wrap up at about 5 p.m., Gallo said. Gallo’s shop will close today at 3 p.m. instead of the usual 5 p.m.Specific locations and times have not been determined because Gallo and her staff want to make the florid appearances unexpected for residents, she said.“If it’s in Greene County, we’ll be there,” Gallo said. “The only thing we have a plan on is who’s taking what areas.” Flowers make people happy, Gallo said, and Petal It Forward originated in 2015 as a way of brightening people’s day by giving them flowers.“They always bring a little joy,” Gallo said. “It gives people a sense of nurturance and caring.”The Society encouraged its members to participate in Petal It Forward and Gallo, who is a member, was happy to get involved, she said. The shop receives no funding for its participation.Gallo, who is promoting the day on Facebook, has heard both cheerful and sad stories from people who received the flowers.“We got such positive feedback from the people,” she said. “It has nothing to do with politics. It’s just a random act of kindness.”Flowers reduce stress and make people happy, according to research by the University of North Florida, Sparks said. For that reason Petal It Forward is held on Wednesday this year to add a bright spot to the mid-week slump.“Flowers are certainly aesthetically beautiful, but they are scientifically proven to improve your well-being,” she said. “It’s kind of a win-win here.”The society encourages florists nationwide to stick with the mission of giving each person they see two bouquets of flowers, but some add their own spin, Sparks said.“Some members have gotten their police officers involved — it’s really neat to see the unique spi... https://www.hudsonvalley360.com/article/flower-shop-%E2%80%98petals%E2%80%99-good-cause

Feeling, Florist, and Finding Space to Be Quiet - Noisey - Noisey

Enter: Florist's The Birds Outside Sang, which came out last January. Emily Sprague—the songwriter behind the "friendship project" birthed in New York's Catskill Mountains—wrote it while recovering from a cycling accident that left her with a broken arm and a neck brace. Most of the songs are built around minimal guitars, synth lines, and soft, layered vocals that bristle with fragility whether or not you take into account the fact that it was written in a period of physical restriction. To call it skeletal or sparse is wrong, though; the space created is intentional and there's a lot happening in it. Full of references to color and light, "tall trees, cold lakes, quiet dreams," Florist's music is intrinsically tied to nature, the body, and the relationship between the two. In a track that's straight up called "Thank You", Sprague delivers a monologue in a voice that croaks like an old branch under the weight of itself: "This beautiful thing happens every day it's called the sun, it's called my blood, and it's the only thing making us want to be alive / I'm really grateful for the people I've met but that won't make me die any less / A mound of dust that light somehow seeps through and creates you / Thank you." Nature appears in a very emotional way, helping to articulate the details of a time that Sprague identifies as "full of confusion, physical emotional pain, loneliness and hope." Incidentally, the artwork resembles Ness' bedroom in EarthBound, which is probably one of the most visually lush and emotionally-driven RPGs ever developed. The Birds Outside Sang often views big feelings through a kaleidoscope, picking up all their intricacies: love is splintered into memories and gratitude, death becomes more about impermanence in general, sadness manifests itself in sensory detail ("Please come quick, I've stuck my head in the banister again / But I just wanted to know what it would feel like / With one part of my body alive"). The best way I can describe it is the way your skin starts to prickle after you've been lying in the sun for too long, or walking into a warm room after you just plunged your hands into a bucket of ice. It is vague and precise, big and small, at once; feeling the room to grow or fade in real time rather than trying to pin it or own it in any way.There are plenty of reasons to like Florist aside from the ones I've just mentioned, not least because they make good-ass songs, plain and simple. This album resonates with me as the sort of person who absorbs micro-detail before anything else; if we are best friends I may not remember your date of birth but I will know exactly which quotes you will pull out of a viral video to WhatsApp me in all caps. If we made out I will struggle to remember exactly what your face looks like but I will take the brand of gum you chew to my grave. Most of all, though, everything about it—the precision, the patience, the fact that it just feels slow in the way that vast landscapes and daytime naps and floating on your back in a large body of water do—feels like a gift from a future where VR is used as a form of therapy. It's like my San Junipero.I revisited The Birds Outside Sang after Florist recently announced their next album If Blue Could Be Happiness, which comes out at the end of September. Recorded in a schoolhouse near where Emily Sprague spent her childhood, If Blue Could Be Happiness remembers her mother who died unexpectedly earlier this year and is described as "both a goodbye to a past life and a declaration of great love to a new one. A long mourning song for the death of a mother, and a quiet celebration of the endless struggle that is being alive."I listened to an advance copy on...

How an Urban Flower Farmer Spends Her Sundays - The New York Times

I currently have black-eyed Susans, zinnias, cosmos, snapdragons, and chocolate lace flowers blooming.Harvesting black-eyed Susans in a backyard in Brooklyn.Credit...Aundre Larrow for The New York TimesSOCIAL DISTANCING I spend from two to four hours in each yard. During the pandemic when everyone was at home, I saw people more often than I did previously. Sometimes they would stay behind their door, and I would talk to them. Sometimes they would come out and maintain a distance. People are lonely and craving human interaction.Ms. Clum sells her flowers through a subscription service and to two stores.Credit...Aundre Larrow for The New York TimesBEAT THE HEAT On Sundays I’m usually able to get to two houses before the heat of the day comes. You don’t want to cut flowers... https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/31/nyregion/urban-gardening-nyc.html

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

A Floral Designer Who Forages in the Hills of Malibu - The New York Times

Indeed, 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 o... https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/10/t-magazine/sophia-moreno-bunge-floral-design.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/