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In the Know: Ruth Messmer Florist moves in Fort Myers for first time in 62 years - The News-Press

Florist co-owners Heather Messmer, daughter of the late Ruth Messmer, and Jessica Gnagey, a granddaughter, moved the shop to 1850 Boy Scout Drive, just west of U.S. 41 and east of Sam Galloway Ford on the far-right corner Sunview Business Center. They are in the former location of Golf Shoes Plus and have signed a five-year lease. The shop began on the front porch of Ruth Messmer’s home in 1952 on the northwest corner of Page Field near what is now the La-Z-Boy Furniture Gallery. It also had a satellite location for about 25 years at The Atrium off College Parkway, a building that was demolished earlier this year to make way for the new FineMark Bank headquarters. Next week, Nov. 11-17, the new location will celebrate its grand re-opening with daily specials on different flowers. “The building was 62 years old, so it was getting harder to maintain,” said Gnagey, floral designer and store manager, of one of the reasons for moving. Heather Messmer sold the two original buildings for a combined $600,000 in 2014, with the flower shop downsizing and continuing to lease back half the space for the past five years. An online traffic school owns the space now. ... https://www.news-press.com/story/news/2019/11/05/ruth-messmer-florist-moves-fort-myers-first-time-62-years/4075874002/

27th annual Autumn Elegance event supports Valley-Wide Recreation and Park District - Valley News

Wide staff and many volunteers,” he said in the evening’s program. He singled out a special thanks to Tom Wilson, Autumn Elegance Committee chairperson, Guy Excell, Brian Fox, Michele Fox, Missy Galloway, Elizabeth Grenier, David McDonough, Victor Mortazavi, Ken Price, Mike Record, Vince Record, the Soboba Casino staff, Elizabeth Snow, Maria Vivanco, Jeff Wall and Dean Wetter. Tony Ault can be reached by email at tault@reedermedia.com. ... https://www.myvalleynews.com/27th-annual-autumn-elegance-event-supports-valley-wide-recreation-and-park-district/

Bouquet for a neighbour who is going the extra mile - The Northern Echo

She is a really good person.” The flowers are kindly provided by the team at Heavenly Scent Florist, Bondgate, Darlington 01325-389933. https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/18597422.bouquet-darlington-neighbour-going-extra-mile/

Port Washington Florist: Coronavirus Decimated Floral Industry - Port Washington, NY Patch

PORT WASHINGTON, NY — Aretta Otis-Cohen, owner of Port Washington Florist on Main Street, has been in business over 50 years. She's operated through 9/11, the Great Recession and every other crisis in that time. She said she's never seen anything like the new coronavirus, which has decimated the floral industry in recent weeks, from major distributors and growers down to small shops. "It absolutely nearly killed the floral industry," a tearful Otis-Cohen told Patch in a phone interview this week. When the crisis began unfolding in New York, countless truckloads of tulips, hydrangeas, roses and more were thrown out by large wholesalers and even airports, she said. "I'm talking about millions of stems of flowers," Otis-Cohen said. She added: "It brought tears to my eyes. That's how many flowers were thrown out from all over the country." To sign up for free, local breaking news alerts in Port Washington, click here. Before the coronavirus forced Gov. Andrew Cuomo to issue a statewide stay-at-home order for all nonessential workers, Port Washington Fl... https://patch.com/new-york/portwashington/port-washington-florist-coronavirus-decimated-floral-industry

Downingtown’s Petals Please recycles wedding and funeral flowers into free bouquets for lonely seniors - The Philadelphia Inquirer

It’s such a little gesture,” founder Beth Adams, of Downingtown, said. “But it’s so uplifting.” And not just for bouquet recipients, added Tina Sauk, a retired florist who lives in West Grove and is among 140 Petals Please volunteers: “Even though I don’t know the recipients, it doesn’t matter. The bouquet is made with happiness and given out of love.” The seed that became Petals Please started germinating about two years ago, while Adams, a retired pharmaceutical marketing professional, was working at a hospice. “I went to a local florist and to a funeral home to ask if they had flowers that would [otherwise] be discarded,” recalled Adams, 64. “Myself and a staff member put together little bouquets for patients.” Adams also was inspired by the reaction of a family friend who had once been an avid gardener. “I sent over some flowers I had arranged, and he was so thankful,” she said. “He just missed his garden so much.” Doing research online, Adams found no national organization, let alone a template for putting together a sustainable, all-volunteer flower recovery and repurposing system. But a Northeastern Pennsylvania group was having great success with an approach similar to her idea. So she drove to Scranton, where the volunteers of Petals for Goodness Sake were “so generous and so helpful,” Adams said. “It was, OK, let’s do this.” She began networking from home, calling friends and neighbors. “Because I worked in hospice I knew all of the nursing homes and the assisted living places, and I knew a lot of staff there,” said Adams. “Unfortunately, I knew a lot of funeral directors.” In July 2018, a volunteer picked up the first donation and returned ”with so many flowers in her SUV you couldn’t even see her.” Petals Please has since shifted its arranging sessions from Adams’ dining-room table to a space at Downingtown United Methodist Church. Flowers and vases or other containers are donated, and everything gets recycled, including flower petals, which get taken to a chicken farm in Malvern. Amelia Wondrasch especially enjoys that task. A 15-year-old student at Episcopal Academy in Newtown Square whose family is close to the Adamses, she has been a volunteer pretty much from the beginning. “I’ve always been a big one for recycling and composting,” she said. “And I love the idea of being able to r... https://www.inquirer.com/life/petals-please-recycled-flowers-downingtown-20200720.html

Flower Power : Florists Send a Message of Hope with Rotary Trail Installation - Over the Mountain Journal

Journal photo by Caroline Rice.By Caroline Rice Birmingham was gifted with an arch of flowers on the Rotary Trail sign in the heart of the city June 5 after a group of local florists were determined to use their talents to show love to their hurting community.After a week that had begun with protests and shattered glass, Carolyn Chen, florist at Wild Things in Homewood, wanted to end it with something beautiful that could reunite the community. Chen began messaging her florist friends to see if her idea of a flower arch on Rotary Trail could be possible.Chen soon had more than 30 florists around Birmingham who were willing to donate flowers and supplies.Cameron Pappas, owner of Norton’s Florist downtown and one of the flower contributors, said that, although the total cost of the flower arch probably was about $20,000, florists coming together to help the community was priceless to him.“As a community, our hearts are hurting, and we know that flowers heal,” Pappas said.“Each person participating had their own reason,” he said. We all wanted to make the city shine. We wanted to give people beautiful flowers to look at, rather than broken glass and boarded u... https://www.otmj.com/rotary-trail-flowers/

Faced with too many flowers, florist chooses to brighten people's day - FOX 13 Tampa Bay

Florist spread beauty and joy A florist with extra flowers on her hands gave them away to brighten the lives of others.NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. - Bloomingdays Flower Shop owner Christine Vasconcelo was faced with a scary dilemma when customers started canceling flower orders.  "I kind of cried and said, 'This is horrible,' and I said, 'I don't know what I am going to do.'"  Christine had paid for the flowers and couldn't return them to the distributor. So, she put an ad on social media to give the flowers away. "I called my  friends and said, ‘Come in, we are going to make bundles of flowers and give them away,’" said Christine. "They said, ‘Are you crazy?’" The kind act brought sweet joy to the lives of others.  Advertisement "People were crying, you know, saying, ‘I needed this. I've been at home. I'm lonely.’" Christine believes she might have some blossoming future employees. "People send me picture  of palms on their doors. The flower arra... https://www.fox13news.com/news/faced-with-too-many-flowers-florist-chooses-to-brighten-peoples-day

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