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Meet your neighborhood florist, Urban Buds: City Grown Flowers - St. Louis Magazine

Missouri—and the property’s 132 rosebushes—while they honeymooned. “I fell in love with horticulture,” says Davis. Within the year, she left New York and bought a farm in Ashland, Missouri, where she began growing and selling flowers. (In 2008, Davis earned a master’s degree in horticulture.) In 2012, Davis and her then-partner (now wife), Miranda Duschack, got word of a greenhouse for sale in Dutchtown. Feeling adventurous, they bought the greenhouse—designed by Lord & Burnham in the ’50s—with an acre of land, eventually acquiring eight more plots that were once the site of Held’s Florist, a flower farm, dating back to the 1800s. Today, the farmstead is known as Urban Buds: City Grown Flowers, where more than 70 varieties of flowers are grown. “We’re in the heart of the city,” says Davis. “Few people get to connect with farming, and [our shop] gives them the opportunity.” ... https://www.stlmag.com/design/urban-buds-flowers/

Hometown Hero | South Ashland Florist and Greenhouse - WSAZ-TV

ASHLAND, Ky. (WSAZ) -- For more than 70 years, South Ashland Florist and Greenhouse was a community staple. Sisters Mary Gifford and Donna Suttle are honored for their decades of work in their flower business that was a community staple for more than 70 years. But those days came to an end in early August when sisters Mary Gifford and Donna Suttle made the bittersweet decision to close their family business. "It started last year Valentine's Day," Suttle said. "We kept saying, 'Are you ready to quit?' 'No, are you?' We kinda joke about it." But friends, family, and longtime customers never thought the day would actually come. "It started 73 years ago," said Gifford. Dad had just bought this house. He started a pansy patch in the backyard, and people got into it ... he had such a vision." ... https://www.wsaz.com/content/news/Hometown-Hero-South-Ashland-Florist-and-Greenhouse-547804661.html

Mary L. Dyce - Clarksville Now

Foundation for Bonnie M. Chester Endowment, APSU Advancement, 318 College Street, Clarksville, TN 37044; or to the Walton’s Chapel United Methodist Church Building Fund, c/o Pauline Bagwell, 4451 Ashland City Road, Clarksville, TN 37043.Arrangements are entrusted to Neal-Tarpley-Parchman Funeral Home, 1510 Madison Street, Clarksville, TN 37040; (931) 645-6488. Online condolences may be made at www.nealtarpleyparchman.com. https://clarksvillenow.com/local/mary-l-dyce/

Ashland City woman opens new flower shop

On June 11, longtime florist Kim Bevels did something she’s wanted to do for years — she opened her own business in Ashland City. The timing was right — unlike three years ago, when she had another offer on the table — for Bevels to finally open her own shop, As You Wish Floral Designs, at 101 Stratton Blvd. The space became available a few months ago, she said. She mainly creates arrangements for big events, including birthdays, funerals and weddings — and holidays like Mother’s Day and Valentine’s Day — but said she wants to be flexible to meet customer’s needs. “I can make whatever you want,” Bevels said. “I can make it happen.” She noted that she can make deliveries locally, or in surrounding areas including Nashville and Clarksville. Learning the industry “fresh out of high school” in 1999, Bevels said the flower business is “in her blood” now. “It’s just making people happy, (and seeing) smiles on their face when they get an arrangement,” she said of her interest ... https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/cheatham/2018/06/27/ashland-city-woman-opens-new-flower-shop/738350002/

Andersonville Celebrates Earth Day Weekend With 4th Annual Flower And Garden Show - edgevillebuzz

The full list of participating businesses and organizations includes:Andersonville Antiques 5245 N ClarkAndersonville Galleria 5247 N ClarkBethany Retirement Community< 4950 N AshlandButterfield Alpaca Ranch at Andersonville Galleria 5247 N Clark, 2nd FloorCandyality 5225 N ClarkCity Olive 5644 N ClarkCowboys and Astronauts 1478 W SummerdaleCrossroads Trading Company 5127 N ClarkEdgewater Environmental Sustainability ProjectFoursided 5061 N ClarkFoyer Shop 1480 W BerwynThe Guesthouse Hotel 4872 N ClarkJerry’s Sandwiches 5419 N ClarkKOVAL Distillery 5121 N RavenswoodLakeshore Dental Studio 5505 N ClarkMartha Mae: Art Supplies & Beautiful Things 5407 N ClarkMercantile M 5409 ½ N ClarkMilk Handmade< 5137 N ClarkMurray & White 5416 N ClarkNorcross and Scott 1476 W BerwynPeterson Garden Project< 1101 W LawrenceScout 5221 N ClarkStudioUs 4806 N ClarkStrange Cargo Tees 5216 N ClarkSwedish American Museum 5211 N ClarkTransit Tees 5226 N ClarkWest Andersonville Neighbors TogetherWFCW Black Club 5100 N ClarkWest Edgewater Andersonville ResidentsWomen & Children First Bookstore 5233 N ClarkLet's block ads! a href="https://blockads.fivefilters.org/acceptable.ht... http://www.edgevillebuzz.com/news/andersonville-celebrates-earth-day-weekend-with-4th-annual-flower-and-garden-show

Tulip Fest had to be canceled, but Wooden Shoe Tulip Farm finds new life for flowers - OregonLive

Family members set up a farm stand, sold a few flowers, and figured they’d be forced to let the rest rot.The family then received an email from a West Virginia nursery owner who had an idea and wanted to pass it along to nurseries across the country. The idea: Take flowers in the fields to assisted living centers where residents were living in isolation.Emily Iverson, 21, a family member and Wooden Shoe’s social media coordinator, teamed up with Lexie Criscola, 22, the tulip farm’s marketing coordinator, to make it happen.They created a ticket order on the farm’s web page where, for $15, people could pay for a pot of tulips to be delivered anonymously to an assisted living center.So far, the farm has delivered 6,000 pots of tulips to assisted living centers in Mount Angel, Molalla, Canby, Albany and Eugene.“The farm will never see back the lost revenue from the festival,” said Iverson. “The $15 covers just a bit of the costs it takes to do this delivery. But this is not about money, this is about goodwill.”Criscola said a person can request tulips be delivered to a specific assisted living center or let farm officials figure out where the tulips would bring a bit of joy.“We reach out to a center and figure out the protocol for a delivery,” she said. “We make sure everyone in the center gets a pot. We deliver them to the front door, and then step back.”Iverson estimates all the tulips will be given away within the next couple weeks.“It makes us feel like we are doing something for the community,” she said.[embedded content]-- Tom Hall... https://www.oregonlive.com/hg/2020/03/tulip-fest-had-to-be-canceled-but-wooden-shoe-tulip-farm-finds-new-life-for-flowers.html

Feed the soul: In chaotic times, gardening becomes therapy - Sentinel & Enterprise

The virus scare could even usher in a new crop of gardeners who start from seed rather than risk the crowds buying starter plants.Kendra Schilling of Scott Depot, West Virginia, doesn’t have space for a sprawling garden, so she’s planting potatoes in a bucket and trying to figure out with her teenage daughter what to do with other vegetable seeds.“I usually go buy the plants and stick them in the dirt. But this year we’re going to try to do the seeds,” she says. “Thank God for YouTube.”___Associated Press writer Frank Jordans in Berlin contributed to this report. https://www.sentinelandenterprise.com/2020/03/31/feed-the-soul-in-chaotic-times-gardening-becomes-therapy/

Stuck inside? Tips for indoor gardening to bring green to your space while quarantined - USA TODAY

Gardening is... good for the soul," says Kevin Warhurst, vice president of the Merrifield Garden Center in Fairfax County, Virginia, one of the leading garden centers in the Washington metro area. Scientists say it's also good for body and mind."According to the Journal of Health Psychology, gardening is a great stress reliever, which most of us can use now more than ever," Warhurst says. "Just 30 minutes of gardening lowers cortisol hormones, the fight-or-flight response."Plants can remove allergens and produce oxygen in a room. And take it from NASA: Some indoor plants can clean the air inside, says Randy Schultz, gardening expert and content editor for HomeGardenandHomestead.com."A NASA study in 1989 proved that plants can remove (cancer-causing) toxins such as benzene and formaldehyde from indoor air," Schultz says. "Common houseplants such as pothos, gerbera daisy and peace lily are great air filters." Aloe vera plants are not only pleasing to look at, they're easy to grow and easy to transplant, and it's probably the most widely used medicinal plant in the world: Desert-dwellers have known for millennia it's a soothing treatment for minor burns. In the coronavirus crisis, it's a main ingredient of homemade hand sanitizer.Depending on where you live, you can probably visit your local garden center (and certainly its website) because it is considered an "essential" business still open during government-ordered shutdowns. As in the case of Merrifield, most gardening centers' products are outdoors on sprawling properties, so social distancing is possible.Here are some tips for indoor or urban gardeners provided by these experts:1. Get a seed-starter kitTender plants, including tomatoes, basil and peppers, or flowers such as marigolds, moon vine and salvia, can be started indoors and planted outdoors in pots or window boxes later in the spring, says Warhurst. "You can use a seed starting mix, plant the seeds in trays or small pots, and place the... https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/2020/03/31/coronavirus-quarantine-tips-garden-indoors-while-stuck-inside/2928016001/

How plants protect themselves from sun damage: Study reveals a mechanism that plants can use to dissipate excess sunlight as heat - Science Daily

Gabriela Schlau-Cohen, the Thomas D. and Virginia W. Cabot Career Development Assistant Professor of Chemistry at MIT.In a new study, Schlau-Cohen and colleagues at MIT, the University of Pavia, and the University of Verona directly observed, for the first time, one of the possible mechanisms that have been proposed for how plants dissipate energy. The researchers used a highly sensitive type of spectroscopy to determine that excess energy is transferred from chlorophyll, the pigment that gives leaves their green color, to other pigments called carotenoids, which can then release the energy as heat."This is the first direct observation of chlorophyll-to-carotenoid energy transfer in the light-harvesting complex of green plants," says Schlau-Cohen, who is the senior author of the study. "That's the simplest proposal, but no one's been able to find this photophysical pathway until now."MIT graduate student Minjung Son is the lead author of the study, which appears today in Nature Communications. Other authors are Samuel Gordon '18, Alberta Pinnola of the University of Pavia, in Italy, and Roberto Bassi of the University of Verona. advertisement Excess energyWhen sunlight strikes a plant, specialized proteins known as light-harvesting complexes absorb light energy in the form of photons, with the help of pigments such as chlorophyll. These photons drive the production of sugar molecules, which store the energy for later use.Much previous research has shown that plants are abl... https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/03/200310094246.htm