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Flowers To Go celebrates people's milestones - Kitsap Daily News

Flowers to Go in Port Orchard is located at 981 Bethel Ave. They also have shops in Bremerton, Silverdale, Gig Harbor, Poulsbo, Shelton and Tacoma. http://www.kitsapdailynews.com/news/flowers-to-go-celebrates-peoples-milestones/

Local florists surviving in the Internet era - Kitsap Sun

By Tad Sooter of the Kitsap SunFeb. 12, 2016 0 BREMERTON — This was a busy week at Paul's Flowers, but you wouldn't know it from a peek inside the store.The Pacific Avenue shop was all but empty on Thursday afternoon, even with Valentine's Day fast approaching. The bustle was all behind the counter, where Earl Bowers and floral designer Debbi Kong deftly assembled fresh bouquets.Flower orders were piling up, but not from customers coming through the door."It's not about brick-and-mortar anymore," Bowers said. "The bulk of our sales are online or on the telephone."In decades past, there may have been a line of Valentine's Day customers stretching around the block outside Paul's. But times have changed for the 80-some-year-old floral shop, and others like it. Customers are buying online and local florists jostle for Internet exposure amid a tangle of discount retailers and virtual middlemen. The New York Times reported this week nearly 40 percent of floral businesses nationwide have gone under since 2000.Paul's is hanging in there, B... http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/local/local-florists-surviving-in-the-internet-era-2b9b855f-4804-04e4-e053-0100007fdd4e-368694941.html

Local florists find niche in thorny market - Kitsap Sun

Credit: LARRY STEAGALLEarl Bowers, owner of Paul’s Flowers on Pacific Avenue in Bremerton, works on a rose bouquet for Valentine’s Day. Local florists are surviving, although nearly 40 percent of florists nationwide have gone under since 2000.Credit: LARRY STEAGALLEarl Bowers, owner of Paul’s Flowers on Pacific Avenue in Bremerton, works on a rose bouquet for Valentine’s Day. Local florists are surviving, although nearly 40 percent of florists nationwide have gone under since 2000.Credit: LARRY STEAGALLInternet and telephone orders provide Paul’s Flowers in Bremerton with most of its business.Credit: LARRY STEAGALLSandy Corbit of Flowers D’Amour in Bremerton puts our flowers in front of her shop on Fourth Street in downtown Bremerton on Friday. Corbit says that while Internet and “wire service” purchases pay the bills, she’d rather work with customers face-to-face.BREMERTON — This was a busy week at Paul's Flowers, but you wouldn't know it from a peek inside the store.The Pacific Avenue shop was all but empty on Thursday afternoon, even with Valentine's Day fast a... http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/local/local-florists-surviving-in-the-internet-era-2b9b855f-4804-04e4-e053-0100007fdd4e-368694941.html

The second-best flower shop in Naperville, Ill., is struggling to survive. Along with the American Dream. - The Washington Post

Moe Zoyarifor The Washington Post In Naperville, Ill., Jenny Latham is struggling to pay the $3,800 monthly rent for her shop, Celidan Creations Florist. Her mom Karin Jacobs, who founded the store in 1992, passed away last month. Florists dream of spring, when shops burst in a colorful riot of blooms while ledgers pool in black ink. First Communions, Palm Sunday, Easter, proms, charity events, weddings, more weddings and the flowery grail of Mother’s Day.But spring has been brutal for Jenny Latham, owner of Celidan Creations Florist in Naperville, Ill.Flowers are a luxury dependent on the health of other businesses. Ordinarily, Celidan, founded in 1992 by Latham’s mother, Karin Jacobs, supplies churches, restaurants and corporate offices in the city of almost 150,000, west of Chicago. All were closed due to covid-19. Celidan’s front door locked, too. The shop remained open to phone and online orders and was permitted to make deliveries for what has become known in the industry as ring-and-run.Florists... https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/florist-ppp-small-business-naperville-illinois/2020/05/26/65cec788-9a09-11ea-ac72-3841fcc9b35f_story.html

Contactless flower delivery ensuring Mother's Day smiles despite outbreak - The Courier

Geneva Curren. Curren has a past with flower shops in Washington D.C., New York City, and operating three shops across Arkansas and Chicago. Her knowledge of flowers stems from her childhood in visiting her family in the South where she would spend hours and hours picking wildflowers.While the company’s main objective of creating designs that inspire and bring joy to the recipients, the employees are trained to help with selecting the best flowers for you. Under this circumstance, Curren said, “Working as a florist has been wonderful, challenging, exhausting, inspiring, hectic, fun, maddening, and fantastic!” Orders as of right now are piling in for Curren and her staff, causing everyone to feel overwhelmed. As it is described as part of the job as a florist, understanding customers mean well and only want to stay local. With a minimum of $75 for fresh arrangements and $40 for plant deliveries, Halsted Flowers plans to make multiple rounds a day for their customers. Even though hours of operation are limited each day, the employees are finding themselves working around the clock in order to finish their customer’s requests. Delivery drivers are out until late in the night and up early in the morning to make their rounds and to clear out the shop to make room for more orders. Saville Flowers: https://savilleflowers.com/ Phone: (847)864-0632Halsted Flowers: https://halstedflowers.com/ Phone: (773)883-8600... https://codcourier.org/13169/features/contactless-flower-delivery-ensuring-smiles/

Coronavirus hit California's cut-flower industry at the worst time - Los Angeles Times

Valentine’s Day through Mother’s Day. Chain groceries were among the first to cancel orders, said F.J. Trzuskowski, vice president of sales for Washington-based Continental Floral Greens, which grows the “supporting cast” green foliage for bouquets on three California farms. Advertisement “There was no forewarning of this. It was like, ‘Hey, stop all shipments starting now,’” Trzuskowski said. “Then with social distancing, all of a sudden the wholesaler can’t be open to the public. It was a very quick stop to the industry.”Mellano said he also was hit hard by cancellations of events such as conferences, particularly in Las Vegas. Weddings were put off, along with their roses, said Eufloria’s Nelson.“Maybe they didn’t happen right now, but they’re going to happen, right?” he said. “We just don’t know what size they’re going to be when they do happen. Budgets are going to be different.” Advertisement The California Cut Flower Commission has told its members that floriculture is protected under the agricultural exemption to closure orders. But with the collapse of the distribution pipeline, the clarification amounts to a technicality. Los Angeles’ historic flower market, like others around the nation, is a ghost town. “We’ve got wholesale companies closing down and retail stores, which in some cases have business, are losing their normal lines of distribution,” CEO Pruitt said. “We’re in the process of trying to put that back together.”Pruitt said it’s hard to predict how many farms will fail and which ones will have enough funds left to reboot once demand increases. Growers could switch crops or hedge their bets, as some of the financially strapped greenhouse operations did by leasing space for cannabis cultivation when that crop was added to the California agricultural portfolio in 2016.Cut flowers are a $1.3-billion industry nationwide, though most of that revenue comes from the sale of imported flowers, predominantly from Colombia, according to the UC Davis Agricultural Issues Center. Domestic growers account for about 27% of national sales, down from 37% roughly a decade ago. California-grown flowers account for three-quarters of the national domestic sales, according to the UC Davis researchers. Advertisement Trade deals that favored Andean nations in South America as part of the war on drugs are largely responsible for the decline of California’s flower industry. While Colombia and Ecuador dominate the market for bouquet mainstays such as carnations, chrysanthemums, gerbera and roses, California growers shifted to species that can’t be grown in the cool upland valleys of the Andes.Longtime California growers switched to Continental’s specialty — the “supporting cast” of greenery in traditional bouquets including ferns, eucalyptus and Israeli ruscus, as well as Christmas trees and holly. That stock can be sustained through the shutdown. Eufloria’s roses, likewise, can survive. But they all have to be nourished, pruned and protected from weather and insects.“As long as we irrigate and we do pest control, they’re still in good shape for sales when this opens up,” Mellano said. “Probably 35% of our crop mix are annual crops, and those have to be picked when they’re ready, within days, or else they’re lost.”Among the victims are the ranunculus that carpet the Flower Fields near the San Diego Freeway in Carlsbad — a working farm that also is an important agritourism destination. It closed on March 17, two weeks into its season. Advertisement “We are absolutely dependent on the partnership between both tourists and cut flowers in order to make that work,” Mellano said of the Carlsbad farm. “And this year, all of our orders for the ranunculus got canceled by the supermarkets. And the tourism was shut down due to social distancing requirements.”Only a small portion of the fields will survive in hopes tha... https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-04-04/coronavirus-californias-cut-flower-industry

Watch These Six Flower Bloom Events From Your Couch - Smithsonian.com

I want every gallery to be a different color experience, like looking into a kaleidoscope.” National Cherry Blossom Festival, Washington, D.C. Thomas Jefferson Memorial in Washington D.C. (National Cherry Blossom Festival) With the arrival of spring, the National Mall in the nation’s capital becomes synonymous with cherry blossoms, and this year is no different. Presented by the Trust for the National Mall and the National Cherry Blossom Festival, along with the National Parks Service, Bloom Cam is exactly what’s needed during this solemn time and serves as a way to transport viewers virtually to the city’s lush forest of 3,800 cherry trees that shrouds the Tidal Basin in a canopy of pink-and-white blossoms. The trees have been an iconic part of the landscape since 1912 when Yukio Ozaki, Tokyo’s then-mayor, gifted more than 3,000 cherry blossoms in an act of friendship between Japan and the United States. This year’s virtual festival celebrates that symbolic exchange through a range of online-specific events, including an opening ceremony featuring music by Japanese singer-songwriter Naotaro Moriyama and a tour of the Tidal Basin with a National Park Service ranger. Keukenhof Gardens, Lisse, Netherlands Keukenhof Gardens (yisris - Flickr/Creative Commons) Every fall, gardeners plant approximately seven million tulip bulbs at Keukenhof, considered one of the largest flower gardens in the world. Located 25 miles southwest of Amsterdam, the “Garden of Europe” has been drawing crowds to its prolific fields of blooms since it opened to the public in 1950. While seeing the fields this year is a bit different than in years’ past, the gardens are still drawing viewers, albeit virtually, through a series of videos and other online activities, including colorful posts on the Tulip Festival Amsterdam’s Instagram and Facebook pages. Highlights include a tour with the garden’s managing director, who discusses the different types of tulips (parrot tulips, double tulips, etc.), and a walk around the Willem-Alexander Pavilion’s 1,000 flowerbeds with a gardener who has been working there for more than two decades. In addition to tulips, Keukenhof also features daffodils, hyacinths and other flowers. Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve, Lancaster, California Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve (Courtesy of California State Parks, 2019) Cruising through Lancaster, a city located about 80 miles north of Los Angeles, poppy fields are a common sight come spring. But one location is particularly fruitful when it comes to the orangish-red blooms: Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve. Encompassing more than 1,700 acres, poppy blooms carpet the property’s undulating hills... https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/watch-these-six-flower-bloom-events-from-your-couch-180974562/