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Slideshow: The Vermont Flower Show 2019 - Seven Days

Hundreds of spring bulbs — along with flowering trees and shrubs — sprouted at the Champlain Valley Exposition during the 19th Vermont Flower Show. From Friday, March 1, through Sunday, March 3, more than 10,000 visitors experienced the tantalizing colors and smells of early spring.The Vermont Nursery and Landscape Association/GreenWorks produces the show every two years, relying on sponsors, VNLA members and associates to fund the show — and contribute hundreds of hours of volunteer effort. It takes roughly 350 volunteers to set up, staff and take down the show.Imaginative displays evoked this year's theme: "Wonder — A Garden Adventure for All Ages." Vendors from across the region brought their wares. The full schedule of programming included demonstrations, seminars, and activities for gardeners, along with family-room performances by Magician Tom Verner, Mr. Chris and Friends, and No Strings Marionette Company. A plant sale at the conclusion of the show helps send the plants and shrubs to new homes. Learn more about the show at greenworksvermont.org. https://www.sevendaysvt.com/vermont/slideshow-the-vermont-flower-show-2019/Content?oid=26338241

Flower Show gives visitors a taste of spring - BurlingtonFreePress.com

Neverland." ELIZABETH MURRAY/FREE PRESSBuy PhotoVermont Flower Show attendees on Sunday, March 5, 2017, gaze at and photograph plants displayed as part of the "Neverland" grand display at the Champlain Valley Expostion.(Photo: ELIZABETH MURRAY/FREE PRESS)Buy PhotoESSEX JUNCTION - During some of the colder days Vermont has seen in several weeks, the Vermont Flower Show this weekend offered a welcome, spring-like sight for visitors. More than 8,000 people attended the event, which was held Friday through Sunday at the Champlain Valley Exposition in Essex Junction. The event is held every other year, said Ashley Robinson, a member of the board of directors with Green Works, which organizes the event. More than 100 vendors and about 10 nonprofit organizations were also in attendance.Each year, the event features a "grand garden display" and a number of vendors. This year's theme was "Neverland," drawing inspiration from the magical place described in the famous children's story "Peter Pan," Robinson said. At the end of the show, many of the plants from the display are sold.The display spanned most of one room, and visitors walked by Wendy's house, a clock tower, a waterfall and lagoon with a skull-shaped rock, and more. Colorful and fragrant flowers and trees adorned the giant display.Buy PhotoVermont Flower Show ... http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/local/2017/03/05/flower-show-gives-visitors-taste-spring/98781824/

2017 Vermont Flower Show is March 3-5 at Champlain Valley Expo - vtdigger.org

Kristina MacKulin, Green Works, Vermont Nursery & Landscape Association [email protected] or (888) 518-6484Join us in “Neverland” where dreams come alive from March 3rd through the 5th at the Champlain Valley Exposition in Essex Junction, Vermont for the 2017 Vermont Flower Show!The Vermont Flower Show is an event where attendees spend the entire day and take advantage of the numerous activities offered as part of the admission fee. Highlights include: The Grand Garden Display, over 100 vendors related to the horticultural and gardening industry, 35+seminars and workshops, a Family Room with hands-on activities and entertainment, a local bookstore, food/flora/fresh demonstrations, the St. Albans Garden Club and VT Railway Society displays, and VT Certified Horticulturists and Green Works members on hand to answer any gardening and landscaping questions.The show is open to the public on Friday, March 3rd from 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. Saturday, March 4th from 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. and Sunday March 5th from 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. The daily cost of admission is $16 for adults, $12 for seniors (60+), $5 for children (ages 3-17), and free for children under the age of 3. Two-day passes are $25 each and three-day passes are $35 each. Tic...

Centenarian celebrates with family, friends, flowers and food. - Plattsburgh Press Republican

PLATTSBURGH — On a bright, sunny day, with a gentle breeze from Lake Champlain, Thelma Neveu smiled softly as her guests sang "Happy Birthday" to honor the 100 years she has lived.The serenade was followed with a toast of sparkling white grape "champagne." Licking her lips, she smiled and nodded her head in approval.More than 20 friends and neighbors stopped by throughout the day with gifts of flowers, candy, cards and well wishes. She was happy to see them all. Everyone received a party favor — a collection of nuts, fruit and chocolate wrapped in a red-checked tea towel, adorned with embroidered birds — thoughtfully created by her niece, Sylvia Morelli.TOP STUDENTOne hundred years is a long time.Thelma McAllister was born on Aug. 4, 1916, in Mooers Forks.That year, Charlie Chaplin had signed on with Mutual Studios, earning an unprecedented $10,000 a week; the Professional Golfers Association of America was created; a Boeing aircraft flew for the first time; and construction was nearly complete on the Hell Gate Bridge in New York City.Her parents, Steph... http://www.pressrepublican.com/news/local_news/centenarian-celebrates-with-family-friends-flowers-and-food/article_84c9e92b-7660-5643-b6d7-6f7d42a58d56.html

Growing Together: Everything's coming up roses - INFORUM

Very floriferous white.• Morden Sunrise—Vivid yellow-orange.• Prairie Joy—Medium pink. Good hedge rose.• Prairie Snowdrift—Creamy white.• Winnipeg Parks—Medium red.• Alexander Mackenzie—Deep red.• Champlain—Dark red.• J.P. Connell—Lemon yellow.• John Cabot—Medium red.• John Davis—Medium pink.• Quadra—Dark red.• Pavement series—Purple, scarlet, white types.• Henry Kelsey—Rosy-red. One of the best climbers.• William Baffin—Rose-pink. Excellent climber.• Ramblin' Red—Red climber.• Other older hardy types: Hansa, Persian Yellow, Therese Bugnet, Topaz Jewel, Wild Woods Rose.Where can we find these roses? Our best bets are locally-owned garden centers who cater to our regional needs better than national chains seem to.Rose-growing tips• Roses appreciate well-drained soil high in organic material. Add 3 or 4 inches of compost, peatmoss or manure and incorporate into soil.• Potted roses can be planted all season. Planting by mid-summer gives them more time to establish. Give late-planted roses protective mulch during the first winter.• Roses bloom best with at least six hours of direct sun daily.• Mulch soil around roses with 3 inches of shredded bark or cocoa bean mulch to keep soil cool and moist.• Landscape rock is less preferable for roses, because of its tendency to trap heat.• Roses prefer 1 inch of water weekly from rain or sprinkling. Water only the soil, Avoid wetting the leaves to help prevent foliage disease.• Fertilize at least monthly beginning in April, but ending in late July so plants "harden off" by winter.• Trim off withered blossoms down to the first five-leaflet leaf below the flower, which results in a greater flush of new buds.Diseases and insectsRoses can be troubled with fungus diseases including powdery mildew (white coating on leaves) and black spot (black circular lesions and yellowed foliage) plus foliage-chewing insects. Best control is a regular weekly preventative spray or dust program with combination fungicide/insecticide rose products before symptoms appear.Own-root vs. graftedIn the past, most roses were grafted, as evidenced by the visible graft knob between stems and roots, which is still used on some roses. But if the tops winter-kill, the variety is lost. However most of the Canadian and other hardy roses are grown from cuttings, and called "own-root," meaning that even if the tops suffer injury, the regrowth from the base will be true to form. Planting the crown (spot between stem and roots) below soil level helps protect the growing points.Don Kinzler, a lifelong gardener, worked as an NDSU Extension horticulturist and owned Kinzler's Greenhouse in Fargo. Tune in to his weekly radio segment at noon Wednesdays on WDAY Radio 970. Readers can reach him at forumgrowingtogether@hotmail.com. He also blogs at growingtogether.areavoices.com. http://www.inforum.com/variety/4069616-growing-together-everythings-coming-roses

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

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

The Best Gift for a Flower Lover Is Moda Operandi's Flash Flower Box - TownandCountrymag.com

Moda Operandi Co-Founder Lauren Santo Domingo and Lewis Miller, florist extraordinaire and the man behind the exuberant flower arrangements that have shown up around New York City, bursting out of trash cans and perched next to subway entrances. Each box—there are two you can choose from, Country Wildflower, or Beach Bloom—contains enough blooms for several generous arrangements. They're also accompanied by a series of breezy instructional videos starring Miller himself, explaining how to trim, hydrate, and arrange your flowers.The gift here is not just the gorgeous blossoms but the chance to spend an hour arranging them. My box arrived, neatly packed with 15 creamy white peonies, 10 stems of upright bouvardia, 10 stems of soulful, green helleborus, and 20 stems of cheerful white spray roses. I arrayed my collection of vases, pulled out my clippers, and for a brief moment in time I thought about nothing more than color, proportion, and the balance of green and white. It was a tonic. Here's a sampling of my handiwork: Elizabeth Angell(My only complaint is that I do not own a lazy susan for properly positioning my vase as I work to fill it. I may have to upgrade my set up for future floral-arranging sessions.)The incredible arrangements are available for one more week; a Standard Box is $265 and a Delux is $425. Even better, Moda Operandi will donate $15 from the sale of each Standard Box and $25 from each Deluxe Box to The Loveland Foundation, in support of its mission to bring opportunity and mental health services to Black women, girls, and communities of color. div clas... https://www.townandcountrymag.com/style/home-decor/a32910308/moda-operandi-lewis-miller-flash-flower-box/

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/