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Master Gardener: Four Generations Bloom at Adeline's Peonies - Yakima Herald-Republic

This year, peonies will be picked from early-May into mid-June.Fidel Ramos was there, harvesting peonies for the McCarthys as he has for over 40 years. Moving quickly through the fields, the pickers choose buds that are just beginning to show color, and feel like a marshmallow would if you gave it a gentle squeeze. The well-orchestrated crew knows that time is of the essence, and that the cut flowers must make it into the cooler quickly. They processed 10,000 peonies that day, most of them destined for the wholesale market, largely in Western Washington.Varieties like Coral Charm, Lemon Chiffon, Paula Fay, Mons Jules Elie and Pink Hawaiian Coral are recent introductions, prized in today’s cut flower market. Brides dream of flowers like these in their wedding bouquets.Do you crave fresh flowers in your life? Are you drawn to a just-picked, fragrant blossom like a bee is to nectar? The flowers from your neighborhood florist or the grocery store are picture-perfect and lovely enough. But they were likely bred for their suitability as freight rather than for their delicacy, grace, or scent. One hundred years ago, almost all the cut flowers sold in the United States were also grown here. Now, nearly three-fourths of our flowers are imports, mostly from Colombia or Ecuador.Forget flowers grown on the other side of the world. Seasonal, local bouquets are “in.” Take a short ride to Adeline’s and find real flowers, grown and harvested by hand in rich garden soil that’s been in the same family for generations. If you take a deep breath, you can smell the peonies, even before you see them. https://www.yakimaherald.com/magazine/home_and_garden/master-gardener-four-generations-bloom-at-adeline-s-peonies/article_ec0be22a-95ab-5a3d-bfdc-667652c6bd8a.html

Sang, Cuffe rule Bridge of Flowers

Saturday’s race. He moved into the lead heading up the daunting 1-kilometer Crittenden Hill, pushed the pace and broke free from a pack of five runners. That’s when Chicopee’s Amos Sang came charging, however. Sang, the 2014 champion, closed the gap on the downhill portion following the summit, and eventually took the lead as he and Leibold turned onto the brief spell of Route 112 just before Mile 4. It was tight down the stretch, with the pair swapping spots twice, before Sang broke free late and crossed with his second Bridge of Flowers title in 25:13. Leibold settled for second place, nine seconds back in 25:22.“Today was more about conserving speed,” began Sang of the race. “After (Crittenden Hill), it’s a gradual downhill so I was able to pick up momentum and speed. I didn’t want to do anything crazy the first mile and a half. Just keep (Leibold) in sight and try and reel him in later in the race.”Leibold, who starred at Georgetown and was eventually an All-American at Stanford, said his strategy was to make a move on the uphill portion of the race. Growing up in Virginia, he said Crittenden Hill reminded him of jaunts through the Shenandoah Valley near his grandparents’ house.“(Crittenden) was longer and steeper though,” he said with a laugh. “I used it as a place to go for the win. I was trying to get away on the hill and keep pressing down the hill. I was able to get some momentum and open up the pack a bit. (Sang) kept the pressure on.”Indeed, Sang’s closing speed in the final mile-plus was the difference. The 29-year-old 2014 champion is part of the Western Mass. Distance Project, and he’s fresh off a New England 5-mile championship back in June.“I really made a point of having that closing speed,” explained Sang. “I was able to pick it up around Mile 3 and then that fifth mile, it was a sprint.”Framingham’s Benjamin Groleau finished third overall in 25:37, as he was in the lead pack for much of the first half of the race before Sang and Leibold separated themselves. Two-time champion Glarius Rop of Agawam was fourth in 26:03, followed in fifth place by Teague O’Connor of Burlington, Vt. (26:10). Sh... https://www.recorder.com/Bridge-of-Flowers-19415790

New Urban Farm Brings Cheer to Deserving Community

Purviance said.To supply those people who deserve flowers, What Cheer Flower Farm has partnered with Amos House, the Ronald McDonald House of Providence, and Meals on Wheels of Rhode Island. The women deliver bouquets and buckets of cut flowers to these institutions and other partners.About 90 percent of the flowers currently being grown at the farm were started from seed by Purviance in her kitchen and in a friend’s basement. The rest of the plants were donated by Green Animals Topiary Garden in Portsmouth.The farm doesn’t plan on growing vegetables, because it doesn’t want to compete with Southside Community Land Trust and other urban farmers.Besides brightening people’s lives with free flowers — 1,000 have so far been donated — the nonprofit’s mission also includes reversing urban blight, creating a job training center for Rhode Island residents to help them enter the state’s $2.5 billion “green” economy, and making Providence famous for urban flower farming.Chicken manure from Scratch Farm and horse manure from a gentleman farmer in Rehoboth, Mass., have been used to build soil. The property’s 70,000-square-foot monstrosity will be dealt with after another raised flower bed is installed. The farm rents a meter from Providence Water, which allows it to use a fire hydrant for watering. The water is stored in donated tanks of various sizes.Where the dilapidated building now stands, the co-founders envision a barn, classroom space, an office, and space for lease. The footprint won’t be anything near the building's current 70,000 square feet.What Cheer Flower Farm has applied for a brownfield remediation grant with the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management. An ongoing inventory assessment didn’t find elevated levels of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). The owners have worked with the National Resources Conservation Service and David Foss of Wilcox & Barton Inc., a Vermont-based environmental consulting firm.The property is in better toxic shape than the new owners predicted, but there’s still much work to be done. Much of that work will revolve around fundraising. As a 501(c)(3), the organization will rely on grants, donations, volunteers, and kindness. They also plan to host fee-based workshops for hobby gardeners and amateurs. https://www.ecori.org/smart-growth/2018/8/3/new-urban-farm-gives-back-to-community-literally

Deep field set for Bridge of Flowers 40th anniversary

Scott Mindel, of Burlington, Vermont, also returns.Rop is a member of the Western Mass. Distance Project, and will have four teammates joining him. One of those is Amos Sang, of Chicopee, who won the 2014 Bridge of Flowers. Sang won the New England 5-mile championship this season with a time of 24:36.Northampton’s Ben Groleau, another Western Mass. Distance Project runner, is the UMass record-holder in the mile with a time of 4:01. Groleau was fourth at the New England 5-mile championships in 25:27. Dennis Roche, of Springfield, another WMDP runner, finished fifth last year at the Bridge of Flowers.The women’s field will be just as deep. Last year’s champion, Holly Rees, of Cambridge, is returning. Rees ran an average of just under 6 minutes a mile in winning the women’s crown in 37:05.Rees will be challenged by Semehar Tesfaye, of West Roxbury. Tesfaye won the Bridge of Flowers in 2016 in 39:03.Another major challenger is newcomer Aisling Cuffee, who graduated from Stanford but now lives in North Grafton and runs for Saucony under coach Ray Treacy. Cuffee has a 15:11 personal record in a 5K.The third, fourth and fifth-place finishers from a year ago also return in the women’s field. Apryl Sabadosa, of Westfield, took third. Karen Bertasso, of Albany, New York, is a two-time Bridge of Flowers winner. She was fourth last year. The fifth-place finisher from a year ago was Jenna Giglioti, of Northampton, who joins Sabadosa as two of the top female runners in the Western Mass. Distance Project.Another person to keep an eye on is newcomer Kim Nedeau, of Leverett, who is a top hill runner in New England and placed second at the Mount Washington Road Race in 2016.Ashley Krauss, of Easthampton, recently placed eighth at the James Joyce 10K in Dedham, which served as the U.S. championship for the Master’s (ages 40-49) Division. Sidney Letendre, of Florence, returns after running an 8:11 pace on the course last season at the age of 62. https://www.gazettenet.com/Bridge-of-Flowers-19387803

'Utter chaos': ICE arrests 114 workers in immigration raid at Ohio gardening company

And everyone was just crying. It makes me really sad knowing that they’re going to take some people away,” she told the TV station, weeping. Rosa Ramos, whose stepfather was taken into custody, shared with WNWO a text exchange with her stepfather, who sent a picture of himself as he rode an ICE bus headed to Michigan. “Are they going to take away your cellphone now?” Ramos asked her stepfather in Spanish. “No, but it will run out of battery,” he responded. “Okay, I love you,” she said. “Me too,” he replied. The 114 people arrested Tuesday were taken to detention facilities in St. Clair County, Michigan; Seneca County, Oh... https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/06/06/utter-chaos-ice-arrests-114-workers-in-immigration-raid-at-ohio-gardening-company/

Florist delivers $4,000 worth of flowers to long-term care facilities - CityNews Edmonton

COVID-19 pandemic is giving back in a big way.Florist Myriam Binette is donating $4,000 worth of flowers to “red zone” long-term care facilities, where most of Quebec’s fatalities have taken place.It’s the exact amount her flower shop Binette et Filles made in sales over the last month. “Today we have 125 bouquets, and yesterday we had about 75 bouquets,” said Binette. “It’s a way to say thanks, a big thanks.”Binette started working at the flower shop in Montreal’s Jean-Talon Market 50 years ago with her father.“It’s the first time the Market is closed for Mother’s Day weekend,” she said. “I never remember the market closed for this day.”Meanwhile in Montreal’s east end, Mario Lento is finding his own way of spreading joy on Mother’s Day – while still respecting physical distancing rules and guidelines.Lento, a singer, drove down to his mother’s seniors residence and serenaded her outside.“I just want to sing for my mom and for the rest of the people that I know,” said Lento. “So I said, let’s go and have them smile and sing along with me.”Lento has been singing in restaurants for over 20 years. He says there’s nothing like music to help make this year’s celebration unlike any other... https://edmonton.citynews.ca/2020/05/10/florist-delivers-4000-worth-flowers-long-term-care-facilities/

Flower growers see sales wither as planting season launches - CBC.ca

British Columbia — the second-biggest flower and plant producer — Alberta and Manitoba and have allowed garden centres to keep running, while Quebec deemed them essential along with nurseries as of April 15, though not in time for Easter. Kuyvenhoven, who with his wife co-owns a $2.5-million business selling potted Chrysanthemums and indoor calla lilies — largely to U.S. distributors — on a pair of farms west of Toronto, says clogged supply chains south of the border remain a problem. 'I haven't slept in five weeks' "U.S. customers for a time closed their distribution systems to floral and so the main grocery chains were not purchasing plants," he said, which was hard on growers of cut flowers such as roses and tulips. "If a truck can take 24 skids and four skids were flowers, the flowers came off the trucks and they put more food on the truck — which we completely understand. The only challenge is, when you're growing flowers as we do, they also have a shelf life," said Kuyvenhoven, who bought his business from his parents in 1990. "Now we're now facing liquidity issues...I haven't slept in five weeks." Flowers Canada Growers says exports to the U.S. make up about one-third of greenhouse flower and plant sales, which hit $1.6 billion in 2018, according to Statistics Canada. Nursery sales topped $500 million. While garden centres can continue to operate across much of the continent, growers wonder whether bouquets and flower pots will remain on the shopping list of consumers struggling to make rent amid soaring unemployment numbers and a looming recession. Kuyvenhoven is hoping that families confined to their homes for most of the day will choose to spend what they've saved from unpurchased vacations and lattes on plants for their vases and flower beds. "That's part of what's carried us through downturns in the past," he said. Growers associations are in talks with federal and provincial governments over potential financial relief, with Flowers Canada Growers asking for a "cash injection" as well as extended debt repayment plans secured in part by Ottawa, Kuyvenhoven said. So far, the federal government has extended a stay of default for eligible farmers until Oct. 31, giving flower and potted plant producers an extra six months to pay off federal loans that would have been due at the end of April. Ottawa has also granted exemptions on air travel restrictions to temporary foreign workers and invested $50 million to help farmers fly in labourers on charter trips. "New flights are being booked ever day," the agriculture department said in an email. Back at the greenhouse, VanZanten mulls the overripe lilies and orchids. "Flowers do make you happier, they do actually lift your spirits...but there are farms that can't bounce back from this," he said. "This all happened at the wrong time."... https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/flower-growers-hamilton-1.5546023

7 Flowery Spots In & Around Montreal You And Your Bestie Have To Discover This Spring - MTL Blog

To plan your trip, click here.Espace Pour La Vie; Jardin Botanique  Where: 4101, rue Sherbrooke E.When: Every day; 9 a.m. — 5 p.m.Cost: Adults: $21; Quebec Resident: $16.25; Quebec Student: $12.50 Check out the calendar for your favourite flower blooms!Atwater Market Where: 138, ave. Atwater When: Every day (check the website for times) Cost: Free Learn more about the flowers and vendors!May your spring be filled with millions of colours, Montreal!... https://www.mtlblog.com/things-to-do/canada/qc/montreal/7-flowery-spots-in-and-around-montreal-you-and-your-bestie-have-to-discover-this-spring

Timeless Flower Design Proudly Presents Their Signature Collection - Elegantly Preserved Floral Arrangements and Flower Bouquets to Make Spring and Summer Last Longer - Benzinga

She launched her company, Timeless Flower Design on February 14, 2020 and has been selling her preserved flower bouquets online ever since.Montreal, Quebec, Canada, April 02, 2020 --(PR.com)-- Caryn Lim, floral designer/owner of Timeless Flower Design, has been involved in the wedding industry in Montreal, Quebec for more than 15 years. Over the past eight years she has provided full floral design services for numerous local and international clients.At the end of each wedding or social event, she has always felt wistful discarding fresh flowers that were only on display for a few hours as table decor at the venue. It seemed such a waste to throw away elegant fresh floral arrangements that had been artfully designed and meticulously stored in a refrigerated cooler to await the special occasion.“Why not make bouquets people will enjoy for longer than just one evening?” This one thought inspired Caryn to design an entire collection of preserved floral bouquets that will last far longer than any fresh flower arrangement. She launched her company, Timeless Flower Design on February 14, 2020 and has been selling her preserved flower bouquets online ever since.Knowing that preserved flowers are a growing current trend, Caryn researched the preserved & dried floral design industry. She discovered that preserv... https://www.benzinga.com/pressreleases/20/04/r15724293/timeless-flower-design-proudly-presents-their-signature-collection-elegantly-preserved-floral-arra