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Best Bets On Buying A Mother's Day Gift Bouquet Near Mount Vernon - Patch.com

Plaza, New Paltz5. Green Cottage, 1204 State Route 213, High Falls6. Osborne's Flower Shop, 30 Vassar Road, Poughkeepsie7. Hyde Park Florist & Gifts, 4204 Albany Post Road, Hyde ParkRockland1. Bassett Flowers and Gifts, 305 South Main Street, New City2. Petals and Stems, 55 Lafayette Avenue, Suffern3. West Nyack Florist, 726 West Nyack Road4. Dykstra Florist & Greenhouse, 165 North Middletown Road, Pearl River5. Tappan Zee Florist, 176 Main Street, Nyack6. Pine Knoll Florist, 85 Lafayette Avenue, Suffern7. Rockland Florist, 8 Old Haverstraw Road, Congers Get free real-time news alerts from the Mount Vernon NY Patch.

Foxgloves and Roses flower arranger Nicola Roberton from Letcombe Bassett, near Wantage, shortlisted for best in the ... - The Oxford Times

But it all comes down to a public vote and she has asked readers to champion her business before the deadline this week. Mrs Roberton, who lives with her husband, son and daughter in Letcombe Bassett near Wantage, said: "I'm not normally a big competition enterer, but I thought it would be good for my confidence. "For me it is a lifelong passion so it would be amazing to be recognise for doing it well." Mrs Roberton only set up her business Foxgloves and Roses six years ago but has already beautified 100 weddings. After going to St Swithun's primary in Kennington, where her parents Brian and Diane Moss still live, she went to Matthew Arnold School in Botley. Though she was always arty, she was encouraged to focus on something more serious and worked at a London PR firm, but still dreamed of becoming a florist. When she married David the couple moved back to Oxfordshire to raise their children and Mrs Roberton quit her city job. With a little more free time on her hands, she started growing flowers in the garden. She said: "I was digging up the lawn to grow more and more, then I started selling little bunches by the garden gate." When she started selling the cottage garden arrangements to other mums at the school, word rapidly spread and she was soon asked to do her first wedding. People fell in love with her natural style using seasonal flowers from her own garden in organic arrangements incorporating twigs and berries. She said: "After a couple of years doing weddings, I just s... http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/news/15074738.Mum_who_realised_lifelong_flower_arranging_dream_is_shortlisted_for_best_in_the_UK/

Best Florists For Valentine's Day Bouquets - Patch.com

The list features the top florists in the Hudson Valley, as rated by Yelp reviewers.If we missed your favorite florist, let us know in the comments below.Rockland1. Bassett Flowers and Gifts, 305 South Main Street, New City2. West Nyack Florists, 726 West Nyack Road, West Nyack3. The Little Flower Shop of Nyack, 79 Main Street, Nyack4. Dykstra Florist and Greenhouse, 165 North Middletown Road, Pearl River5. Petals and Stems, 5 Remsen Avenue, MonseyWestchester1. Rubrum's Florist Ltd., 154 South Highland Avenue, Ossining2. Johnston's Flowers, 334 Ashton Avenue, Dobbs Ferry3. Tarrytown Floral Designs, 7 South Broadway, Tarrytown4. Sunshine & Clover, 122 Grand Street, Croton-on-Hudson5. Blossom Flower Shop, 275 Mamaroneck Avenue, White Plains6. Mamaroneck Flowers, 615 East Boston Road, Mamaroneck7. Westchester Floral Decorators, 299 Wolfs Lane, Ste 1, Pelham8. Carriage House Flowers, 141 East Post Road, White Plains9. Hollywood Flower Shop, 7 Kirby Plaza, Mount Kisco10. Flower.n, 1969A Palmer Avenue, LarchmontPutnam1. Carmel Flower Shop, 1908 US 6, Carmel2. The Brewster Flower Garden, 14 Main Street, Brewster3. The Annex Florist, 28 Charles Colman Boulevard, Pawling4. Putnam Valley Florist, 15-A Morrisey Drive, Putnam ValleyMid Hudson Valley (Dutchess and Ulster Counties)1. Green Cottage, 1204 State Rte 213, High Falls2. Colonial Flower Shop, 20 New Paltz Plaza, New Paltz3. Jarita's Florist, 17 Tinker Street, Wo... http://patch.com/new-york/nyack/best-florists-valentines-day-bouquets

On the Bright Side: Newlyweds use flowers to cheer up Bassett patients - Oneonta Daily Star

Others allow their guests to take the flowers home. A husband and wife who were wed in Cooperstown over the weekend gave their arrangements to patients at Bassett Medical Center.Anna Politano and Tad Ruckert of Rochester, were married at the Otesaga Resort Hotel in Cooperstown on Saturday, according to Bassett officials. The next day, before leaving for Canada on their honeymoon, Politano and Ruckert collected the two dozen French bouquets from their wedding and delivered them to the Cooperstown hospital to be given to patients.The bride and groom have connections to the medical community, they said, so hospital patients are near to their hearts. Politano's mother, Denine Jacob, is director of compensation and benefits at Bassett. Ruckert is a third-generation obstetrician and gynecologist at his family’s Rochester medical practice, and he did his cardiology rotation at the Cooperstown hospital in his fourth year of medical school.His father, G. Theodore Ruckert IV, completed an internship at Bassett in the late 1960s and is vice president of the Bassett Medical Alumni Association. “I know from being around a hospital environment that the holiday time frame... http://www.thedailystar.com/news/local_news/on-the-bright-side-newlyweds-use-flowers-to-cheer-up/article_1739686f-ab7f-568b-8373-46362fe9638d.html

Flowers found in centuries-old books at Antiquarian Society - Worcester Telegram

Penn had signed his treaty with the Indians, and the Charter Oak in Connecticut. The leaves are stitched into the pages.A book of artfully arranged clippings of sea moss was a gift from Hannah Bassett to her sister, Lydia Kyte, in 1848. They were members of a Quaker family prominent in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. “The color is just gorgeous,” Ms. Cataldo said. “It is so delicate. You would think this is artwork and not an actual plant.”The society has four original poems by Emily Dickinson in its collection, and Ms. Cataldo showed one that the poet had sent to a friend in Amherst sometime between 1879 and 1881. “It was a poem about dandelions,” she said. “You can see here Emily or her friend pressed a dandelion in the poem itself. You can just see traces of it. It’s just the ghost of the dandelion.“You really do have this connection to the past through a living thing,” Ms. Cataldo said. “You really see that this was used and this was important to someone - a real sign of life.”These flowers, leaves and locks of hair are relics, small pieces of the lives experienced by people now long gone, she said.“A lot of the hair we have in the collection appears in school albums,” she said. “Young girls would pass along beautifully braided hair to a friend, and then sign their name, and maybe include a short poem about memory. A lot of these poems have to do with death. They were really thinking ahead: This was me, this was who I was.”Mrs. Bocian-Pellicane recalled her own experience picking wildflowers on a trip to Ireland, pressing them into her guidebook.“It gives you a sense of smell and seeing. It rejuvenates that memory more than just the words could.“It’s a piece of life, a piece of history, a piece of memory.”Let's block ads! a href="https://github.com/fivefil... http://www.telegram.com/news/20161112/flowers-found-in-centuries-old-books-at-antiquarian-society

Ham Lake couple trust God as they grow family flower farm business - The Catholic Spirit

When they began researching farming, they planned to grow organic food. They were inspired by the writings of Joel Salatin, a Christian farmer in Virginia who has become the godfather of a movement favoring small-scale, sustainable, family-based farming. The Carlstroms were thinking produce and chickens when, in the winter of 2019, Kristen came across a book titled “The Cut Flower Garden” by Erin Benzakein, a florist farmer in Washington.“Basically, I just fell in love with it,” Kristen said. “It was kind of out of the blue for me.”She had always kept a small flower garden with sunflowers and zinnias, but nothing large-scale. But once she began to think about flowers, she became convinced that was the direction she wanted to move.“I knew we were going to take on something really big,” she said. “It was really important for me to be really passionate about it. And so, this was something that just really took a hold of me. And I had so much energy with thinking of doing really hard stuff to make it happen.”She and Jonah took Benzakein’s online course on flower farming, and dove into researching what would grow well in Minnesota’s climate. “Before we knew it, we’re like, we’re really doing it,” she said.Jonah gives Kristen all the credit for the flower focus. “I never thought I would be a flower farmer — I don’t think many men do think of that,” Jonah said, sitting near the field. He agreed to the online course, “and I was just sort of open with the Lord; ‘Wherever you lead us.’”“Ever since leaving school, I wanted to do something in nature. I love working outside. I’ve been praying along the way” for God’s guidance, he said. “Basically, I want to come home and I want to work from home.”The Carlstroms don’t know any other young farmers, but they’re not alone among Catholic millennials. Jim Ennis, executive director of St. Paul-based Catholic Rural Life, said there are like-minded young Catholics across the United States who are exploring and adopting a rural lifestyle, including small-scale farming. Many are drawn to a slower, family-focused pace of life away from the demands of city living and corporate work.Like the Carlstroms, many don’t have farming backgrounds, Ennis said, and it’s hard work without the guarantee of financial sustainability. But it’s rewarding, he said. Farming is creative work, where people can work in nature, with their hands, alongside family members, for the benefit of their own tables and their community. And even young children can see, understand and participate in their parents’ work, he said.“There’s something very innate in many people’s DNA to connect with God’s creation in a closer way,” he said, “and I think that’s very Catholic and very Christian.”Kristen admits that sometimes she’s thought the idea of turning stay-at-home mom to cut-flower florist is “crazy.” But, “there was a lot of discouragement that came whenever I tried to let it (the idea) go, and a lot of joy that was there when we kept pursuing it,” she said, so they forged ahead.The field is easily accessible from the Carlstroms’ house through a path in the woods. Kristen spends patches of time throughout the day tending its 20, 100-foot rows as she learns to orchestrate timing their harvesting with flowers’ longevity onc... https://thecatholicspirit.com/news/local-news/ham-lake-couple-trust-god-as-they-grow-family-flower-farm-business/

‘Master florist’ Haruko Adkins, 90, had a passion for flower arrangements and tennis - The Washington Post

She would say that some were “too edgy compared with her formal training,” Morhart said. [Those we have lost to the coronavirus in Virginia, Maryland and D.C.]He said Adkins’s arrangements were unique because she “understood the idea of negative space.”“Others fill up all the space” in a vase, he said, whereas Adkins “understood that you didn’t have to crowd things in. She was an artist. She was definitely talented.”Morhart recalled Adkins as “totally sharp,” saying, “You would guess she was 80.” She was an avid tennis and ping-pong player and played both games well into her 80s, her friends said. When she and a friend visited the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, R.I., Morhart said, the trip was a “thrill for her.” Born in Nagoya, Japan, Adkins studied the art of floral arrangement and earned a four-year degree as a “master florist,” her friends said. She married Earl A. Adkins, a criminal investigator in the U.S. Army Military Police Corps. With his work, the couple traveled and lived in several places, including San Francisco and Germany, before settling in Arlington. He died in 1999.Adkins had a large group of friends and was known for helping others. If someone else wanted flowers she planned to use in an arrangement, she would happily give them away, Morhart said.“She was very, very generous,” Morhart said. “She was always willing to say: ‘Help yourself. Take that if you need it.’ She had a very sharing nature.”Adkins also did volunteer projects, including making sweaters and bags to carry food for those in need. She was once named Volunteer of the Year at Goodwin House.Valerie Burke, the chief philanthropy officer at Goodwin House, said Adkins also enjoyed working at a thrift shop on the property as a volunteer and was good at making displays.“She loved getting to know people and helping them find just the right trinket,” Burke said. In... https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/haruko-adkins-coronavirus/2020/08/18/58bc3c7a-e13e-11ea-b69b-64f7b0477ed4_story.html

Business at local flower grower Three Little Buds is blooming - My Buckhannon

Three Little Buds owner Joanna Webb, who is a chemistry professor at West Virginia Wesleyan College, talked to My Buckhannon from her beautiful gardens, located around her home in downtown Buckhannon.Webb said this is her fourth official growing season, but she has been growing flowers for a long, long time. She said her husband jokingly told her she could not grow any more flowers until she took part of her bounty to a local florist to see if they would be interesting in purchasing some of her blossoms.A market-style bouquet of flowers grown and arranged by local flower grower Joanna Webb. / Photo courtesy Joanna Webb“I had always kicked around the idea of selling flowers to local florists,” Webb said. “So, I took some of my dahlias to Anita’s Flowers of Buckhannon, and they told me they would love to buy local flowers.”She said she learned on the fly about growing flowers and started growing ones she found most beautiful.“I like the market bouquet-style of flowers,” Webb said. “With COVID coming in when most of the flowers were blooming, most of the florists were closed, and I had all of these flowers, so I offe... https://www.mybuckhannon.com/business-at-local-flower-grower-three-little-buds-is-blooming/

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