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Peckham store.From £30, sageflowers.co.ukRebel RebelFounded in 2000 by flower fans Mairead and Athena, Rebel Rebel’s flamboyant blooms have caught the eye of brands such as Aston Martin, Harrods and Dior, who have all enlisted the help of Rebel Rebel’s wizard florists. Alongside designing installations for weddings and events, the brand offers a selection of hand-tied bouquets crafted from seasonal flowers and foliage for delivery, with all flowers bought fresh from New Covent Garden Flower Market each day. Looking for something a little different? Opt for the Flowers in a Handbag bunch, which arrives in a vintage 1950s handbag.From £30, rebelrebel.co.ukJamJar FlowersFollowing a career as the founder and director of modelling agency Take 2, Melissa Richardson launched JamJar Flowers in 2009 as a hobby to keep her busy during retirement. Instead, the company became a full-time job, and today, with the help of co-director Amy Fielding, Richardson creates beautiful installations for venues such as Spring, Sketch and Chiltern Firehouse from her studio in Kennington, with individual bouquets also available for delivery. The brand’s signature aesthetic is inspired by the Sussex woodlands that surrounded Richardson’s childhood home, with each JamJar Flowers bunch reminiscent of wildflowers.From £50, jamjarflowers.co.ukThat Flower ShopSustainability is at the core of That Flower Shop, a Shoreditch-based independent florist founded by Hattie Fox in 2012. Operating its own farm and cutting patch in Kent, the brand uses slow and sustainable farming methods to grow a variety of flowers, which are either used in the east London boutique and studio, or sold wholesale to other florists. That Flower Shop offers a selection of made-to-order bouquets, from single stems to large, seasonal arrangements.From £10, thatflowershop.co.ukScarlet & VioletVic Brotherson started her floristry journey manning Wild at Heart’s Westbourne Grove flower stall, before founding her own company, Scarlet & Violet, in 2006. Located in Kensal Rise, the brand has a distinctly bucolic aesthetic, creating impactful bouquets... https://luxurylondon.co.uk/house/interiors/the-best-independent-florists-in-london

Event florist, home décor shop open in Easton. Barber, coworking space are on tap. - lehighvalleylive.com

Planning a wedding that requires huge, custom-made floral arrangements? Or is a small houseplant more what you had in mind?Either way, these two downtown Easton businesses have you covered.The special events florist Kraft & Co. has opened at 230 Ferry St. in the Stirner Arts building. Also, a plant and home decor shop called Learke has opened at 65 N. Fourth St. By the end of March they’ll be joined downtown by a new barber and a coworking space, demonstrating that business in booming in the downtown neighborhood.Tatiana Kraft and Erich Jones’ Kraft & Co. specialize in floral designs for weddings, everything from bridal bouquets to centerpieces to an archway, Chuppah or ceremonial arrangement. The Easton couple provides arrangements for large parties, milestones and events.The pair met on a blind date while Kraft was working at restaurants across New York City. They launched their floral design business in Brooklyn in 2013. Kraft transitioned to event planning from her culinary work. That work led her to floral design.“I always loved the creative side of things and a lot of it was self taught,” she said.They moved to Easton in 20... https://www.lehighvalleylive.com/easton/2020/02/event-florist-home-decor-shop-open-in-easton-barber-coworking-space-are-on-tap.html

Gardening: Succulents not only save water and money, but offer other benefits - OCRegister

San Marcos Growers are appropriate for firescaping.)Succulents are full of surprises, as in the variegated leaves of many species. At San Marcos Growers, I was astonished at the sight, which was new to me, of a green and gold striped ponytail palm (Beaucarnea ‘Gold Star’). I was also introduced to a whole new line of hybrids known as Mangaves (man-GAH-vays) that were created in Zeeland, Michigan, by plant breeder Hans Hansen at Walters Gardens. Mangaves are intergeneric crosses between Manfreda, a genus of deciduous sidereal succulents, and Agave species. While crafted in Michigan, these hybrids are meant for mild winter climates such as our own, although there is considerable variability among Mangaves and some do tolerate sub-freezing temperatures.The extradordinary Mangave ‘Kaleidoscope,’ for example, can survive temperatures into the mid 20’s. Arching, gently toothed, lance-shaped leaves show off bands of red, green, and yellow upon which congruous rosy red spots are scattered. If its foliage was not enough to recommend this cultivar, it also sends up lightly scented green flowers in summer than attract hummingbirds.It needs to be said that the growth rate of Mangaves is significantly faster than that of agaves. Mangaves, like agaves, also self-propagate by means of pups or offsets so that you will have more of your selected cultivar in due course.The challenge in designing a garden of succulents is to exercise restraint since the exotic looks of many succulent species make them ideal as accents or standalone subjects, like precious works of art. Given this embarrassment of horticultural riches, the ability to combine and balance their forms and colors is a rare talent.The Getty Museum roof garden is instructive when it comes to tastefully filling your yard with succulents. Although this garden is massive in size, the designer confined plant selection, primarily, to tree aloes (Aloe bainesii), apple cacti (Cereus spp.), candelabra trees (Euphoriba ingens), century plants (Agave americana ‘Variegata’), beavertail cacti (Opuntia spp.), and golden barrel cacti (Echinocactus grusonii) with patches of red and blue ground cover succulents added here and there for good measure.If you visit smgrowers.com, you will find a listing of retail nurseries near you which, upon request, will special order any of the plants grown by San Marcos Growers.Tip of the Week: Several plants with blue foliage that I had never seen before captured my attention at San Marcos Growers. Since blue is the rarest flower color, there is a gap in the horticultural color spectrum that is nicely filled by plants with blue leaves which may explain our attraction to them.Blue bush (Acacia covenyi) is an Australian native which, if relatively short-lived like many Acacia species, is hardy down to 15 degrees. This large shrub or small tree, growing quickly to a height of twenty feet, may be planted in all soil types, even clay, but should be watered sparingly, if at all. Eucalyptus ‘Moon Lagoon’ is another blue-leaved beauty. It does not exceed 12 feet in height and its foliage is perfect as a bouquet filler, as well as being highly suitable for an everlasting or dry flower arrangement. Next among the blue-leave... https://www.ocregister.com/gardening-succulents-not-only-save-water-and-money-but-offer-other-benefits

Community unites to brighten up Upper Gornal with flowers - Worcester News

THE community in Upper Gornal has rallied together to inject some colour on to the streets thanks to the addition of flower boxes. Councillors Keiran Casey and Adam Aston joined forces with the Oval and Tudor Tenants and Residents Association to install the flowers boxes at the The Arcade Shopping Precinct on Kent Street and on former derelict land on Eve Lane. It is the first time such a project, called 'Upper Gornal in Bloom' has been launched in the area, and it is hoped the project can be rolled out to Woodsetton soon. The community joined together to plant the flowers, with local residents, members of the TRA and members from 1st Upper Gornal Scouts and Cubs lending a hand. Joan Porter from Oval and Tudor Tenants and Residents Association said: "The new flower boxes look fantastic all planted up and will add some much needed colour to the local shopping arcade throughout the colder and darker winter months. "We are very happy that we have been able to work with Adam and Keiran on this project and it was brilliant to see the whole community come together including the local scouts and cubs group in Upper Gornal." Councillor Keiran Casey s... https://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/17923217.community-unites-brighten-upper-gornal-flowers/

At Harvard, glass flowers that perfect the imperfection of decay - The Boston Globe

One of the mold renderings is astonishing even by glass flower standards: enlarged 250 times, the offending buggers suggest the color and shape of seasick dandelions. Here the straddling between verisimilitude and imagination happily, if also creepily, topples over into the realm of the imagination.AdvertisementFRUITS IN DECAYAt Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford St., Cambridge, though March 1. 617-495-3045, hmnh.harvard.eduMark Feeney can be reached at mfeeney@globe.com. https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/art/2019/09/05/harvard-glass-flowers-that-perfect-imperfection-decay/SbW5FA3jqnOskov2WXxx8M/story.html

Coronavirus hits flower farms at the worst possible time - Chicago Tribune

Cousins Matt Ott, 17, left and Luke Ott, 16, pull the flowers off the hanging plants so the plants won't die March 24, 2020, at Cleveland Ott & Son, a wholesale nursery in Collegeville, Pennsylvania, that sells its flowers and plants to smaller garden centers in the region, most of which are closed. (Steven M. Falk/AP)... https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-nw-coronavirus-flowers-bouquet-20200407-h7t4shavzffllmiiy6gsmwno3a-story.html

A devoted florist gives each 9/11 victim a white birthday rose - The Gazette

I write this,” said Jennifer Glick in an email to the memorial. Her brother Jeremy was among those who rushed the hijackers on Flight 93, which crashed into a field in rural Pennsylvania. “With all the insecurity and chaos that we face right now, knowing that our loved ones are remembered gives me great comfort.”Kerry Irvine, an artist, used to visit the memorial often to think about her sister, Kristy Irvine-Ryan, a 30 year-old equities trader who had been married for just three months when she died. But in March, she told The Washington Post, “It was all chained off, and one of my first thoughts was, ‘Oh, God, her birthday,’ which was May 22nd.” Then she got a photo of her sister’s name decorated with a white rose. “To know they’re taking care of all of them, and giving them the respect they deserve,” she said, “it takes the load off the families a little bit.”The memorial grounds reopened July 4. The museum will begin allowing visitors inside again this weekend - first, family members only on Friday and then the public on Saturday, with drastically limited capacity.Collarone didn’t come up with the idea for the birthday flowers; that was a volunteer in the museum. But he’s the one who’s made it happen all these years, carefully selecting roses - he wants them to be a perfect white - from the city’s flower market and cleaning them and nursing them at his shop Floratech, in Manhattan’s Tribeca neighborhood. “I’m not looking for the cheapest roses,” he says. “I look for the best.”When the pandemic forced New York to shut down, halting inbound flights bearing hard-to-get white roses from global suppliers in the Netherlands and South America, Collarone knew instantly “that I had to take care of it,” he says. “I went into an immediate rescue mode for the 9/11 memorial.”Whereas roses had been coming in on 10 flights a day, there was now one flight a week from Europe. He worked connections (“My Holland guys helped me out.”), paid large markups as freight pricessoared, and sent drivers to the airport to pick up loads of roses directly from the source, circumventing wholesalers, because, he says, the city’s flower market, then and now, “is operating on life support.”His own shop, which used to supply flowers for Madison Square Garden and high-end hotels like the Mandarin Oriental, has hit dire straits. “We’re lucky if we make enough money to keep our electricity on,” Collarone says. He’s had to close all three of his retail flower shops, and lay off all of his employees, some of whom had been working with him for 20 to 30 years.Still, he wouldn’t dream of stopping the birthday-rose ritual, or asking for payment.He “grew up poor,” he says, in the firemen-and-cops enclave of Dyker Heights, Brooklyn, and worked in a flower shop before becoming an insurance salesman.It was a chance meeting with Andy Warhol at the legendary Limelight nightclub, he says, that got him to turn back toward his love of flowers. Warhol commissioned him to decorate his parties, Collarone says, because the art icon was amused by the idea of this big guy with a Brooklyn accent who rode his Harley around town and knew everything about roses and hydrangeas.His shop is near the World Trade Center,... https://www.thegazette.com/subject/news/a-devoted-florist-gives-each-911-victim-a-white-birthday-rose-20200911

These Valentine's Day Gifts Will Be At Your Doorstep In No Time, Even If You Started Shopping Last Minute - Yahoo Lifestyle

Uncommon Goods. Here's one example of a delightful little gift — a wine-shaped container filled with tasty truffles. Check out all of the small businesses and makers like this Pennsylvania-based baker, Neil Edley.Uncommon Goods Bottle-of-Wine Chocolate Truffles Box, $, available at Uncommon GoodsCheryl's CookiesThese are decorated and frosted with delicious buttercream icing. (Pssst, there's even an assortment of gluten-free options for our friends with food allergies.)Cheryl's Cookies Cheryl's Long Stemmed Buttercream Frosted Cookie Flower, $, available at Cheryl's CookiesPartake FoodsIndulge in this coveted black-owned brand that offers delicious cookies in every variety — you can even find vegan and gluten-free options here. Chocolate chips, cookie butter, and carrot cake flavors are abundantly available to ship right to your door. Partake Soft Baked Cookie Butter Cookies, $, available at Partake FoodsDavid's CookiesGive the people what they want; an entire tin of chocolate chunk cookies. No nuts, no teeny tiny chocolate chips, just the good stuff from this reliable, top-selling cookie lover's brand — that also happens to ship out delicious cheesecakes to pies, too. David's Cookies Fresh Baked Decadent Jumbo Cookies, $, available at David's CookiesDoughees By M.Dough.WMargo Wolfe’s Miami-based M.Dough.W features brownies, Oreos, caramel, rainbow cookies — you name it and they've stuffed it inside a gooey, fully-cooked, and ready-to-eat cookie dough.Doughees by M Dough W Build A Box (12), $, available at Doughees by M Dough WCarlo's BakeryFrom chocolate fudge cake and rainbow slices to ooey-gooey butter cookies and cannoli kits, you can find it all at Carlo's Bakery. Trust him — he was on Cake Boss. Carlo's Bakery Cannoli Kit - 12 Pack, $, available at GoldbellyMagnolia BakeryAsk almost any New Yorker, and we bet they will say that Magnolia Bakery sells some of the world's best-tasting cupcakes to banana pudding...like, ever. Available in a deliverable variety of flavors with seasonal frostings, this shop's sweets are prime Valentine's gifting material.Magnolia Bakery World Famous Banana Pudding - Party Sized, $, available at Magnolia BakeryBake Me A WishIn addition to brownies, you can send cheesecakes, cupcakes, giant cakes, traditional cakes, baskets, towers, and pies. Plus, 5% off all purchases goes to Bake Me A Wish's Small Business Empowerment Fund.Bake Me A Wish Gourmet Brownie Sampler, $, available at Bake Me A WishWicked Good CupcakesAs seen on Shark Tank, the family-owned team at Wicked Good Cupcakes offers up a fun way to serve and eat, cupcake-in-a-jar. They even have your gluten-free bases covered with a giftable GF package for two, four, and six.Wicked Good Cupcakes Cupcake Jar Custom Pack (12), $, available at Wicked Good CupcakesSugarfinaHome of the OG and ever-popular rosé gummy bears, Sugarfina boasts an equally tasty lineup of specialty treats — from sugar lips to peach bellini hearts, dark chocolate-covered scotch cordials, chocolate vodka shots, and much more — that can be shipped nationwide. Sugarfina XOXO 8 Piece Candy Bento Box, $, available at SugarfinaHarry & DavidAs stated in the brand's Insta profile, the folks over at Harry & David take gift-giving and entertaining pretty seriously. So much so that they offer what seems like hundreds of pre-wrapped items at a moment's notice, which comes in handy for some especially in last-minuting gifting dilemmas.Harry & David Valentine's Day Truffles in Keepsake Box, $, available at Harry & DavidRuss & DaughtersLocated in New York's historic Lower East Side for over 100 years, Russ & Daughters is an institution beloved for its appetizing bagel spread, a good schmear, and babka. The sweet yeasted cake is perfect for breakfast — or anytime.Baked By MelissaBaked By Melissa delivers cupcakes in innovative mini-form, so you can sample the best in seasonal flavor variety — from... https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/valentines-day-gifts-doorstep-no-141400857.html

A devoted florist gives each 9/11 victim a white birthday rose - Anchorage Daily News

I write this,” said Jennifer Glick in an email to the memorial. Her brother Jeremy was among those who rushed the hijackers on Flight 93, which crashed into a field in rural Pennsylvania. “With all the insecurity and chaos that we face right now, knowing that our loved ones are remembered gives me great comfort.” Kerry Irvine, an artist, used to visit the memorial often to think about her sister, Kristy Irvine-Ryan, a 30 year-old equities trader who had been married for just three months when she died. But in March, she told The Washington Post, “It was all chained off, and one of my first thoughts was, ‘Oh, God, her birthday,’ which was May 22nd.” Then she got a photo of her sister’s name decorated with a white rose. “To know they’re taking care of all of them, and giving them the respect they deserve,” she said, “it takes the load off the families a little bit.” The memorial grounds reopened July 4. The museum will begin allowing visitors inside again this weekend - first, family members only on Friday and then the public on Saturday, with drastically limited capacity. Collarone didn’t come up with the idea for the birthday flowers; that was a volunteer in the museum. But he’s the one who’s made it happen all these years, carefully selecting roses — he wants them to be a perfect white — from the city’s flower market and cleaning them and nursing them at his shop Floratech, in Manhattan’s Tribeca neighborhood. “I’m not looking for the cheapest roses,” he says. “I look for the best.” When the pandemic forced New York to shut down, halting inbound flights bearing hard-to-get white roses from global suppliers in the Netherlands and South America, Collarone knew instantly “that I had to take care of it,” he says. “I went into an immediate rescue mode for the 9/11 memorial.” Whereas roses had been coming in on 10 flights a day, there was now one flight a week from Europe. He worked connections (“My Holland guys helped me out.”), paid large markups as freight pricessoared, and sent drivers to the airport to pick up loads of roses directly from the source, circumventing wholesalers, because, he says, the city’s flower market, then and now, “is operating on life support.” His own shop, which used to supply flowers for Madison Square Garden and high-end hotels like the Mandarin Oriental, has hit di... https://www.adn.com/nation-world/2020/09/10/a-devoted-florist-gives-each-911-victim-a-white-birthday-rose/