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Get Your Floral Fix and Help Sustain the Rhode Island Flower Economy - Providence Media

Flower delivery and curbside pick-up seems to be the new normal,” says Jeffrey Kerkhoff of Jephry Floral Studio in Providence. Kerkhoff has been busy turning his Broadway store “inside out” to showcase every product from his shop windows enabling customers to browse from the safety of the sidewalk. “Change necessitates innovation, and we are working to adapt the way we do business to both keep our employees and customers safe, as well as continue to serve our customers and employ our staff through this crisis,” notes Kerhhoff, who has also been adding items to his online shop.In the East Bay, Anna Jane Kocon, owner of Little State Flower Company, has been ramping up for a season essentially put on hold. “We’ve been growing flowers and plants all winter preparing for spring,” she begins. “The flowers we are selling are visions of hard work, healthy grown product, and a women-owned business pushing hard to be creative under difficulty to offer something simple and positive: beauty. There is beauty in the now, and I can at least offer that,” says Kocon. “We are thrilled to share this beauty as safely as possible.”A sea of daffodils may be blooming in Bristol at Blithewold Mansions, Gardens & Arboretum but the venue has dutifully postponed all upcoming private events, classes, and programs. However, Blithewold welcomes online visitors and is assembling a series of workshops which will be live-streamed through their Facebook page... http://providenceonline.com/stories/ri-flower-farms-covid19,35379?

A New Flower Market is Opening in Providence - Rhode Island Monthly

Minneapolis and Sonoma.”Left: Semia Dunne, founder of the Floral Reserve. Right: wild Queen Anne’s Lace.The market is located in the same building as Dunne’s floral design studio, on Sims Avenue in Providence. Its December launch is strategic, she says.“We won’t have a ton of local products, but the idea is to get people aware of what we do have locally,” she says. “So come the spring, everyone is super familiar with where we are.”At this weekend’s launch event, attendees can browse foraged evergreens from New England; American-grown roses from California; and orchids, hydrangeas and ranunculus from the Netherlands.The market will cater to wholesale customers on weekday mornings. Retail customers can shop for flowers on Friday afternoons and Saturdays.It’ll be a boon for local flower farmers, too. Four have already signed on to sell to Dunne.“Their current model is they pack up their vans and deliver them to us,” she says. “When you’re a flower creative, you actually want to go into a place and touch and feel things. I got the idea that if I was wanting to see this, maybe other floral designers would, too.”A bouquet of local zinnia and dahlia with other locally foraged materials.Dunne estimates that local flowers make up at least 60 percent of her designs. She sources from flower farmers in New England and grows her own blooms on family land in Lincoln.In addition to the market, Dunne says she’ll also rent the space to floral designers who are flown in to Rhode Island for weddings. She notes that Newport is the number two wedding destination in the United States.For flower design hobbyists, Dunne says, the Floral Reserve “will be a lot of eye candy. Not only can [retail customers] support their local farmer, but we’ll also have some really interesting things coming from abroad.”To learn more about the Floral Reserve, visit thefloralreserve.com or attend the launch event this Sunday, December 10, from 10 to 4 p.m. at 1 Sims Avenue, suite 102, in Providence.RELATED ARTICLES Studio Choo Showed Us How to Make the Merriest Holiday Centerpieces3 Shop Owners Spill on the Best Gifts of the SeasonRhode Island Monthly‘s Favorite Things... http://www.rimonthly.com/new-flower-market-opening-providence/

R.I flower show wilts from withering attendance - News ... - The Providence Journal

Connecticut show. Ultimately, he thinks the Builders Association is the best hope for having a flower show in Providence."The Home Show was moving into the flower show business and I believe this is the only way for the event to succeed," he said. "We also tried to diversify but the Builders are bigger than we are."In recent years, Ryan tried adding a food show and music to attract new crowds. But he felt both failed.Both Ryan and John Marcantonio, executive director of the Rhode Island Builders Association, noted that combined home and garden shows are becoming more commonplace around the country.The show will have a "green" energy focus, show director Bob Yoffe of Yoffe Exposition Services, was quoted as saying in the news release.The Rhode Island Spring Garden & Flower Show was first put on in 1994. David P. Jackson, co-founder of the Northwest Flower and Garden Show in Seattle, and a sometime Rhode Islander, joined with George Little Management Inc. to create the show. Since that time, Boston's huge two-week horticultural show was greatly downsized, leaving Rhode Island and Connecticut as the region's major shows. http://www.providencejournal.com/news/20160620/ri-flower-show-wilts-from-withering-attendance

Sure sign winter is almost over: The flower show in Providence - The Providence Journal

For me, it’s an ideal design studio.”She’s been hard at work since Sunday, forgoing Valentine’s Day dinner with her boyfriend in Philadelphia for hotel room service in Providence.Page 2 of 2 - “It’ll be worth it,” she said. It’s her first time doing the show.Steve Topazio, from Tiverton, said he faced a challenge with this year’s theme. He’s a sand sculptor — something usually associated with the summer months. Through his company Sandtasia he makes elaborate designs completely out of sand and water.On Wednesday he was finishing a motorcycle, which has taken him about 20 hours to complete, as his partner put the final touches on a Point Judith replica lighthouse. They’ll use 20 tons of sand for the display, he said.“We had to think what do people in New England do in the spring?” Topazio said. “They drive to the coast, roll out their bikes, take a drive with the windows down.”The show will run at the Rhode Island Convention Center all weekend. For hours and tickets, visit flowershow.com. Admission costs $19 for adults and $7 for children.jtempera@providencejournal.com(401) 277-7121On Twitter: @jacktemp... http://www.providencejournal.com/article/20160217/NEWS/160219351

Blooming business: Florist offers curbside bouquets - wnky.com

Rhode Island wedding florist finds a unique way to keep her business afloat amid coronavirus cancellations. WJAR's Sam Read reports. June 19, 2020 WICKFORD, R.I. (WJAR/NBC News)  — A Rhode Island wedding florist has come up with a unique way to share her creations after coronavirus cancellations took a huge toll on her business.For the last two weeks Toni Chandler, the owner of “Wild Child Flowers and Gardens,” has set up shop on the side walk in Wickford.“These are peonies I wanted to make sure had a home,” Chandler says of her offerings. “Every morning, I come out around 9 a.m. with the flowers. I start with six to eight bouquets and then mid-afternoon, I’ll put more out if I need to put more out.” Typically, Chandler would be picking the peonies and designing bouquets for the several dozen weddings she had booked this summer, but because of COVID-19, a majority of them canceled.“Weddings I have this summer, probably five or six,” she says. “I still h... https://www.wnky.com/blooming-business-florist-offers-curbside-bouquets/

Local florists find ways to adapt, overcome as pandemic stretches busiest season - The Independent

For the past two months, Shea and florists like her have had to transform their way of thinking as, much like every part of the hospitality industry in Southern Rhode Island, the coronavirus pandemic has closed all floral shops to in-person sales.It might not seem like a major barrier to customer service in 2020 but with most of Shea’s clients coming through her doors as unplanned walk-ins — and with big floral events all canceled for the foreseeable future — it’s a disruption that will likely have a wide and long-lasting impact on the floral business, particularly in tourist-heavy South County.“It’s definitely changed the dynamic of our industry,” Shea said this week. “Never have I seen it like this. Ever. But it’s making us be more creative. We have to learn to be more descriptive when we speak to our customers over the phone. We’ve had to learn how to speak colors, speak vibrant colors instead of just saying something like ‘Oh yeah, I’ve got orange and yellow.’ It’s helping us to learn how to communicate better.”She is not alone.Ten miles south from Bert & Peg’s Tower Hill Road location in North Kingstown, Joy Rich works in her office at Flowerthyme in Wakefield fielding the same types of phone calls on a daily basis and doing her best to stay positive as she guides older customers through her freshly-updated website for online ordering and curbside pickup.But finding the silver lining is all in a day’s work for Rich, who says while things are tough now, they were a lot more difficult at the start of the pandemic. She points to the early days of shutdowns as the hardest as many of the region’s top suppliers – like Fall River Florist, Bay State Florist Supply Inc., RJ Carbone Wholesale Floral Distributors, Twigs & branches Floral and East Coast Wholesale Flowers – were low on inventory or incapable of crossing state border’s due to travel restrictions.“For two weeks I had to close because we had to figure things out... https://www.independentri.com/arts_and_living/article_83d8d81a-9007-11ea-9059-d38083c995f3.html

Get Your Floral Fix and Help Sustain the Rhode Island Flower Economy - Providence Media

There’s nothing like a bunch of flowers to infuse a bit of fresh cheer into any space. While social interaction protocols implore us all to hibernate just when spring is starting, Rhode Island flower farms and sellers have plenty of inventive ways to help you bear stay-home demands – and with weddings and events being postponed, these businesses could use a boost as well.“Flower delivery and curbside pick-up seems to be the new normal,” says Jeffrey Kerkhoff of Jephry Floral Studio in Providence. Kerkhoff has been busy turning his Broadway store “inside out” to showcase every product from his shop windows enabling customers to browse from the safety of the sidewalk. “Change necessitates innovation, and we are working to adapt the way we do business to both keep our employees and customers safe, as well as continue to serve our customers and employ our staff through this crisis,” notes Kerhhoff, who has also been adding items to his online shop.In the East Bay, Anna Jane Kocon, owner of Little State Flower Company, has been ramping up for a season essentially put on hold. “We’ve been growing flowers and plants all winter preparing for spring,” she begins. “The flowers we are selling are vision... http://providenceonline.com/stories/ri-flower-farms-covid19,35379?

Inside Jennifer Lawrence's show-stopping wedding location as red roses decorate mansion - Irish Mirror

Jennifer Lawrence's wedding location was a spectacle to behold.The Hollywood actress, 29, planned to tie the knot with Cooke Maloney, 34, at Belcourt of Newport, Rhode Island, an ornate Louis XIII-style mansion. Preparation was underway to ensure the wedding all of Hollywood is talking about was a show-stopping extravaganza. Florists were hard at work hanging spectacular red rose flower arrangements on the mansion's walls. Buckets filled with red roses were at the feet of the florist as she worked on decorating the building. The dream wedding venue has a minimum cost of $100 per head. Inside Jennifer Lawrence's show-stopping wedding location as red roses decorate mansion (Image: SplashNews.com) The Hollywood actress, 29, planned to tie the knot with Cooke Maloney, 34, at Belcourt of Newport, Rhode Island, an ornate Louis XIII-style mansion (Image: Getty) It has emerged the property has quite the spooky story to tell itself. The owner of the property, Carolyn Rafaelian, spoke to the New York Times in 2013 about having the place cleansed of evil spirits. She even had a shaman come in and perform ceremonies in the building to rid it of ghosts. "Th... https://www.irishmirror.ie/showbiz/celebrity-news/inside-jennifer-lawrences-show-stopping-20657786