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Emily Bender: the year-round flower lady - Roanoke Times

Emily Bender is Blacksburg’s flower lady. Yellow yarrow, rose dahlias, purple coxcombs, pink gladioluses – her bouquets and wreaths bring color to people’s lives at their highest and lowest times.Although she no longer sells flowers as a business, Bender makes and gives away nearly a hundred flower arrangements a year, friends say. Subscription Required An online service is needed to view this article in its entirety. You need an online service to view this article in its entirety. Choose an online service. 1PIZZA17: 7-Day Delivery + Digital Access $50.05 for 91 days $99.84 for 182 days $185.64 for 364 days Sign up today and get a 2017 Pizza Card ($80 Value) with your new subscription!7-Day... http://www.roanoke.com/news/local/blacksburg/emily-bender-the-year-round-flower-lady/article_6c71c90c-cf79-5540-9ad8-85bc123c1e73.html

Warm weather favors blooming flowers, trees, shrubs and bugs - Winston-Salem Journal

Triad and foothills to the mid 30s to high 40s in the mountain counties, said Jake Ruckman, a weather service meteorologist in Blacksburg, Va.“We aren’t usually this warm in February,” Ruckman said.Taking advantage of the warm weather are blooming plants such as cherry trees, flowering apricots, tulip magnolias and star magnolias as well as winter honeysuckle bush, witch hazels, daffodils and Lenten roses, said Hayden Shuping, the greenhouse manager at Reynolda Gardens in Winston-Salem.“All of the things that are blooming right now can handle a little frost,” Shuping said. “In nature, you have to take it as it comes. The climate, from the week to week, is always different.”Leslie Peck, a horticulturist with the Forsyth County Cooperative Extension Service, said people with flowering plants and shrubs should stay aware of the high and low temperatures in February and March.“Most of the stuff that is flowing is taking their cues from the warm weather,” Peck said.Gardeners should add water to their blooming plants to insulate their roots if the temperatures drop below freezing, she said. Friday’s forecast calls for a low temperature of 29 degrees.The warm weather also could bring some unwanted guests to the Triad — mosquitoes, said Louis Jackai, an entomologist and the chairman of the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Design at N.C. A&T State University in Greensboro.Mosquitoes breed around sources of water such as rivers and streams, Jackai said.However, mosquitoes and other biting insects likely will remain dormant during these final days of winter, he said.“Once it starts getting warm, they (mosquitoes) will be active,” Jackai said. “They could get their butts frozen if the temperatures drops below freezing at night.”Low temperatures at night in the low to high 30s or cooler likely will minimize activity among the mosquitoes and other insects, he said.“When it’s real good and cold, no self-respecting mosquito would be out,” Jackai said.#ndn-video-player-3.ndn_embedded .ndn_floatContainer { margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 20px; }... http://www.journalnow.com/news/local/warm-weather-favors-blooming-flowers-trees-shrubs-and-bugs/article_a9c4b464-954c-55fe-9251-8b399148a0bf.html

Green-blooded floral designer spruces up Virginia Tech - Roanoke ... - Roanoke Times

BLACKSBURG — Barbara Leshyn says she bleeds green.And she gets it honest: She said her passion for flowers and plants comes from her grandparents, Ukranian immigrants who owned three different florist shops in Chicago over the years.Subscription RequiredAn online service is needed to view this article in its entirety. You need an online service to view this article in its entirety.LoginChoose an online service.1 *Best Deal* 7-Day Home Delivery + Digital Access $16.90 for 30 days NEW SUBSCRIBERS: You'll get delivery of The Roanoke Times every day and access to all of our digital content, including roanoke.com and the eTimes at no additional charge.The first month's payment for your All Access package will be billed immediately to your credit card by PayPalPro, and you will receive instant digital access. Home delivery of the newspaper will begin within three to five business days, and The Roanoke Times will contact you to arrange future payment.2 Weekend (Fri-Sun) Home Delivery Plus Dig... http://www.roanoke.com/news/education/higher_education/virginia_tech/green-blooded-floral-designer-spruces-up-virginia-tech/article_c1e96dbd-d24a-5226-86ec-0f847712e41d.html

Volunteer flower garden in Blacksburg blossoms to benefit community - WSLS

BLACKSBURG (WSLS 10) – It started as a hobby.“That’s how this sort of emerged, just sort of this desire to raise money for the church and then take advantage of a hobby that we both really enjoy,” said Megan Dickhans of her and her husband’s love of gardening.Their hobby blossomed into much more.“It was trial and error and just playing at home. I mean really we just sort of went in headfirst,” she said.Megan and Jim Dickhans started a flower garden on about a half an acre of land at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Blacksburg. Along with the Dickhans, nearly 50 volunteers spend time each week planting, weeding, watering, cutting, wrapping and selling after weekend mass through the season.Handheld bouquets cost $8, while a bouquet in vase costs $10.The volunteers contribute where they can, Some spend two to three days tending to the garden, while others spend Saturday mornings cutting and arranging the bouquets. They also spend time outside the church after Saturday and Sunday Mass to sell... http://wsls.com/2016/08/31/volunteer-flower-garden-in-blacksburg-blossoms-to-benefit-community/

Church flower garden funds good causes - Roanoke Times

BLACKSBURG — Behind St. Mary’s Catholic Church where the land slopes toward distant Toms Creek and Brush Mountain rears up to fill half the horizon, flowers are blooming. Beds of zinnias, sunflowers, Shasta daisies, gladiolus, cosmos and other blossoms create lines of riotous color over almost half an acre.Though as pretty as a confetti-strewn carpet, this garden doesn’t host weddings, teas or parties. It is a working garden, a plot where church volunteers raise flowers to sell. Probably the only market flower garden run by a church in Virginia, it is the brainchild of parishioners Megan and Jim Dickhans. The couple sought a church fundraising project that dovetailed with Megan’s newfound passion for gardening.Subscription RequiredAn online service is needed to view this article in its entirety. You need an online service to view this article in its entirety.LoginChoose an online service.1 *Best Deal* 7-Day Home Delivery Plus Digital Acces $15.47 for 30 days NEW SUBSCRIBERS: You'll get... http://www.roanoke.com/news/local/blacksburg/church-flower-garden-funds-good-causes/article_5cfb3475-a896-52db-bc74-84314a907747.html

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

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/

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/

The Gardeners Who Planted for US Presidents - Prescott eNews

Here are the highlights.Charles Bizet (1817–1825, under James Monroe) was a gardener who knew three presidents. Born in France, Bizet was working in Virginia by 1810. For the Madisons at Montpelier, Bizet designed a terraced, horseshoe-shaped garden near the house. In 1817, Thomas Jefferson noted in a letter to Madison that "Besey" had stopped at Monticello for seeds. From 1817 until 1825, Bizet worked on the White House grounds. Bizet went back to Montpelier at the end of Monroe's term.John Ousley (Served 1825–1852, under John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, James Polk, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, and Franklin Pierce) An Irish immigrant who arrived in 1818 at Perth Amboy, New Jersey, he started at the executive mansion in 1825. John Quincy Adams mentioned Ousley several times in his diary during his presidential term. A lifelong scholar, Ousley often taught our presidents the botanical names of the plants used.John Watt (Served 1852–1862, under Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, and Abraham Lincoln) hailing from Scotland, Watt and his wife, Jane Masterson Watt, were both employed at the White House, he as head gardener, she as its first female usher. In 1857 he was the chairman of the Washington Horticultural Society. He bought palms from greenhouses in New Jersey. He ordered a giant water lily for the White House conservatory from Philadelphia in 1858.George R. McLeod (Served 1862–1865, under Abraham Lincoln) The second of three in a series of Scottish head ... https://www.prescottenews.com/index.php/features/columnists/mountain-gardener/item/34856-the-gardeners-who-planted-for-u-s-presidents