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HER | Local decorator helps get homes ready for holidays - Texarkana Gazette

PHOTO BY KATE STOW)Farmer's Bank in Texarkana is just one of the businesses Marie decorates this time of year. Others can be seen in Broken Bow, Idabel, Valiant and Hochatown."I've decorated several businesses in Southeast Oklahoma," Marie said, "including four banks, a phone company, some cell phone businesses and lodges at Beaver's Bend."But Oklahoma isn't as far as she is willing to go. "Every July I go to Dauphin Island, Alabama, where I have several clients. They get decor 'refreshers' each summer," she said. "When I go down there I also go deep-sea fishing for Red Snapper, so it's an annual vacation for me."When she isn't decorating for others, she and her husband Jerry reside on the Louisiana side of Caddo Lake where they enjoy entertaining. They are also very active at Trees Baptist Church. They have four children: Tony Campbell of Queen City, Dee Dee Wells and Misty Lutton of Atlanta, and Damon Donnell of Athens, Texas.Marie says she has never gotten too busy to take on more clients."I never turn anyone down," she said. "I just hire more people to do the work. We will do what it takes to make people happy." n... https://www.texarkanagazette.com/news/her/story/2019/dec/03/her-local-decorator-helps-get-homes-ready-holidays/806564/

The 5 best Valentine's Day flower arrangements online, in every price range - OregonLive

Oregon has a bounty of flower growers and creative florists turn to these farms year round for fragrant blooms and decorative foliage.For Valentine's Day, Feb. 14, Beth Syphers of Crowley House Flower Farms & Studio near Salem suggests gift givers think beyond red roses.“Good designers and florists can use what’s in season in the area – early blooms like tulips and anemones – and make a bouquet or arrangement look incredible,” says Syphers, who specializes in naturally grown, high-quality blooms, vines, foliage and berries.The goal: Treat someone you love to a happy moment.Florists will help write a card and explain the symbolism behind each flower.Enjoy FlowersHand-tied bouquets of seasonal blooms for $50.15For Valentine's Day, online flower companies connect customers to local florists who can deliver fresh-cut flowers, in traditional and modern arrangements, as well as live plants and edible gifts.Just in time to benefit from pre-Valentine's Day sales, we picked five online companies that specialize in flower arrangements, in ev... https://www.oregonlive.com/life-and-culture/j66j-2020/02/6382c9a0012712/the-5-best-valentines-day-flower-arrangements-online-in-every-price-range.html

The Best Flower Delivery Services, Just in Time for Valentine’s Day - Vogue

Although we’re sure you’d do a lot of things for true love, haggling with a florist over the phone because it’s 10 p.m. on February 14 and your delivery still hasn’t arrived isn’t one of them.Thankfully, Vogue’s got some answers. Below are 7 thoughtful and impeccably-designed arrangements you can order online, nationwide. There are romantic red roses, abundant astrantias, and even dried flowers for those seeking something different. (And fine, I also snuck a succulent in there. It is adorable and you will love it.)So without further ado—here are the best flower delivery services, and loveliest flora, for the day all about love.Farmgirl Flowers “Love Actually” Bouquetfarmgirlflowers.com$83Shop NowHow can you not adore for Farmgirl Flowers, a female-founded, sustainable, mission-driven company that delivers burlap-wrapped bouquets? This Valentine’s Day, their “Love Actually” bouquet is perfect for any hopeless romantic—just like the movie.H.Bloom “Pastel Whispers” Bouquethbloom.com$150Shop NowWhite calia lilies and overflowing green sprigs add a dramatic dash to this otherwise pastel arrangement. Order it for someone that always opts for the exotic.Vogue x Urban Stems “The Love Story” Bouquetur... https://www.vogue.com/article/the-best-bouquets-to-order-online-for-valentines-day

Valentine's Day Floral Arrangement Advance Pre-Sale through 2/13 - Patch.com

Valentine's Day flowers for your Honey. Please click the link to see the 3 types of arrangements offered by Cynthia Klebonis of CPK Floral Designs, a local studio florist.At check out, please consider donating an extra sum towards a community gift of rose bud vases and chocolates to each of the residents of the Loudoun Abused Womens' Shelter (LAWS). Please place your order now! Delivery is available at the Brambleton Town Center Small Business Pop-Up on Sun Feb 9th between 10a-1p or contact me by email CPKfloral@att.net for alternate pickup/delivery arrangements. Delivery to the local area is available for a $10 extra fee. https://patch.com/virginia/leesburg/calendar/event/20200114/742547/valentines-day-floral-arrangement-advance-pre-sale-through-2-13

Gardening: The days and nights of blooming chrysanthemums - OCRegister

You can plant a florist’s chrysanthemum – the supermarket type – in the garden and it will live for three or four years. However, chrysanthemums are easily propagated from shoot tip cuttings, so you can perpetuate them for an eternity. When you first set eyes on your potted chrysanthemum, the flowers are enormous. Now that it’s planted in the garden, the number of flowers is much greater but they are much smaller, still richly petaled as if they were miniature dahlias.The reason for flower size difference is, once again, manipulation at the nursery. Those giant initial flowers were the result of pinching off most of the flower buds as the plant developed in the nursery; by leaving a small number of buds, the blooms that came out of them were quite large.Of course, you can always plant the same species of chrysanthemum, available as a bedding plant, where all flower buds have been allowed to develop and bloom.This same principle applies where fruit size is concerned. Apricots and plums should be thinned so that there is a space of two to four inches between them on the branch. Peaches and nectarines, due to their larger size, require a space of three to five inches between them in order to grow to a proper size. All of these fruits are produced one to a bud, but apples are different since they grow in clusters. Each cluster of apples should be thinned to one or two fruit, depending on the total load of fruit on the tree, and there should be a space of six to eight inches between clusters.Although their lifespan is short, florist chrysanthemums (Chrysanthemum x grandiflorum) have a potential growth rate unmatched by any other plant. It’s hard to believe, but a cutting taken from that potted chrysanthemum you received over the holidays can be trained into a mammoth specimen, albeit under hothouse conditions.By a Japanese tr... https://www.ocregister.com/gardening-the-days-and-nights-of-blooming-chrysanthemums

Muncie Origins: Normandy Flower Shop continues family florist tradition - Ball State Daily News

Judy Benken, owner of Normandy Flower Shop, can be found in this room taking orders, making flower arrangements and calling suppliers. As a third-generation florist, Benken isn’t new to the flower business. She said she grew up in her father’s flower shop because it was attached to their house, and “there wasn’t any getting away from it.”  “I probably started working when I was around 12 [doing simple little things],” Benken said. “When I started [delivering flowers] after school, I was 16.”After Benken moved from Muncie to Ohio with her husband, she said, she thought she had left the flower business behind her. However, once the holidays rolled around, Benken said, she found herself working for a flower shop in Ohio because she missed the “chaos and crazy” of the season.  Although Benken and her husband started their family in Ohio, they wanted their children to grow up in Muncie. In 1982, the Normandy Flower Shop, which was established in downtown Muncie in the 1940s, came up for sale. The Benkens decided to make the shop their own.“It was the [floral] business that I knew,” Benken said. “I wasn’t making much of a living working for other people. It was [my husband’s] idea to buy the flower shop. I just wanted to come home.”At the time she opened N... https://www.ballstatedaily.com/article/2020/02/daily-lifestyles-normandy-flower-shop

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