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Historically Speaking: Florists a big part of Dover - Seacoastonline.com

Colonial Wars (perhaps the male equivalent of the Daughters of the American Revolution?).In 1921, Howe sold the business to Elwill Shortridge, a prominent Dover entrepreneur, owner of the C.E. Brewster Co., wholesale druggists, which was located in a building at the corner of Chestnut and Fourth streets, now the site of St. Mary's Parish Hall. At one time Shortridge also served as president of Merchants National Bank and president of the Dover Realty Co. He and his wife, who had been Ada Massingham, lived at 4 West Concord St., and he remained active in the business until his death in 1946. Ada then took over and with her nephew, Tom Massingham, managed the operation until her death in 1958.Tom Massingham had been born in England, but at age 5 was sent by his family to Dover to live with the Shortridges. As a young man he worked in the business, served in World War II, and upon his return and at Ada's death, became the owner of the Garrison Hill Greenhouses. In 1950, he was one of the first to construct a building on the nascent Miracle Mile, at what was then called Page's corner, opposite Glenwood Avenue. It was originally intended to be a retail flower and gift shop, but on Nov. 25-26 Mother Nature intervened at the Garrison Hill site with close to hurricane force winds that shattered greenhouse glass, entirely uprooting one building which landed on another, and causing an estimated $50,000 damage, well over a half million dollars in today's money.As a result, production at that location was limited and a much-reduced greenhouse space was grafted on to the building at Central Avenue. Over time the original greenhouse structures were dismantled and removed, the space eventually covered by apartment buildings, and the only reminder we have of what was there is the name of the street, Floral Avenue. (The business remains in operation, however, with the next generation, Thomas Massingham as owner, located in the small plaza at the corner of Chestnut and Fourth streets.)This was not the only florist operation in town. Recently we mentioned the Elliott Greenhouses set back some distance from the Dover Point Road (the location of the present Ponte Place development). This was a major producer of roses, with a national, even international, clientele. For a time there was a retail store, Thornwood, in the building now occupied by Patty B's restaurant.Bob and Barbara Drew had a small greenhouse on Tolend Road. There was Bob's Flower Shop, Robert Ham proprietor, at 2 Central Ave. In the mid-1940s, there was Brown's Flower Shop (Aaron and Ralph Brown, owners) at 107 Washington St., which advertised being open on Sunday morning.The Whatnot Flowers and Gifts was at 517 Central Ave., owned by Edward ... https://www.seacoastonline.com/news/20200823/historically-speaking-florists-big-part-of-dover

Sep 13 | Brewster Carmel Flower Show | Southeast-Brewster - Patch.com

On Friday, September 13 from 2:00 to 4:00 pm and Saturday September 14 from 10:00 to 3:00 pm, the Brewster Carmel Garden Club will be hosting a flower show at Trinity Lutheran Church 2103 route 6 in Brewster.There will be flower designs, horticulture specimens and educational exhibits for the public to enjoy.We will also have homemade and plant related items to raffle. Free event!If you like gardening, if you like flowers, if you like designing with plant material, this is for you.On Friday, September 13 from 2:00 to 4:00 pm and Saturday September 14 from 10:00 to 3:00 pm, the Brewster Carmel Garden Club will be hosting a flower show at Trinity Lutheran Church 2103 route 6 in Brewster.There will be flower designs, horticulture specimens and educational exhibits for the public to enjoy.We will also have homemade and plant related items to raffle. ... https://patch.com/new-york/southeast/calendar/event/20190913/627136/brewster-carmel-flower-show

Brewster Carmel Garden Club's Flower Show - HamletHub

On Friday, September 13 from 2:00 to 4:00 pm and Saturday September 14 from 10:00 to 3:00 pm, the Brewster Carmel Garden Club will be hosting a flower show at Trinity Lutheran Church 2103 Route 6 in Brewster.There will be flower designs, horticulture specimens and educational exhibits for the public to enjoy.This is a Free event! We will also have homemade and plant related items to raffle. https://news.hamlethub.com/carmel/events/2495-brewster-carmel-garden-club-s-flower-show

Carmel Flower Shop Celebrates Small Business Saturday - HamletHub

Need to find a gift?  In addition to our large selections of flowers and plants, the Carmel Flower Shop carries hundreds of gift items.Carmel Flower Shop Offers:Delivery to Carmel, Brewster, Mahopac, Stormville, Somers, Baldwin Place, Croton Falls, Patterson, Pawling, and Danbury100% satisfaction guaranteed35 years of business and design experienceWedding and Funeral work that makes a lasting impressionBest quality and selection of cut flowers from premium growersPersonalized service that only a family can offerCorporate accounts are welcomeEvery order is treated with careCarmel Flower Shop is  More Than Just A Florist.Fine Body Care & JewelryHandbags & ScarvesGourmet ItemsCandlesStuffed AnimalsBalloonsHome AccessoriesSilk & Dried ArrangementsCarmel Flower Shop is located at 1908 Putnam Plaza Shopping Center, Carmel Hamlet, NY 10512Phone: (845) 225-4623carmelflowershop.comPlease join us for theCarmel Flower ShopHoliday Open House   FRIDAY Nov. 30SATURDAY Dec. 1SUNDAY Dec. 230% OFF Holiday Items20% OFF Everything Else* ORIf you can't make it that weekend,  A One Day Shopping Spree(Also 30% OFF Holiday Items & 20% OFF Everything Else*) through FRIDAY Dec. 7Come in, browse, and enjoy some holiday savings! Happy Holidays, Ed and Diane*Excludes PLANTS AND FLOWERS. ... https://news.hamlethub.com/carmel/life/862-carmel-flower-shop-celebrates-small-business-saturday

Business is blooming at local flower farms - Toledo Blade

Jane Berry, of Posey Jane in Ottawa Lake, and Laura Brewster, of Barn Swallow Farm, said they hear similar positive comments about their locally grown bouquets at farmer’s markets.“We’re kind of following the paradigm of local food,” said Lindsay Daschner, who supplies area florists with a comparatively larger operation in Fairest Flowers. “People are like, ‘I want to know where my food comes from.’ The next thing is: Where do my flowers come from?”But there are practical reasons to look local, too, as growers like Ms. Daschner and florists like Mrs. Geiman are quick to point out. Local growers can often provide a wider variety of blooms, including more delicate ones that would not weather an overseas journey well.Vibrant and multi-petaled dahlias, which have been blooming in local fields and greenhouses recently, stand as one example.Local growers can also test out less-than-common varieties, and in turn offer those to florists at a reasonable price, with a versatility that larger overseas farms often cannot.“Maybe we can grow just a little patch of something that might be expensive to ship in,” Mrs. Brewster said. “For us it’s no big deal. [Florists] can afford to play with it.”And, as both florists and consumers tend to appreciate, local growers can generally offer fresher and consequently longer-lasting blooms than their out-of-country counterparts. Whereas an imported flower might be cut immaturely, so that its petals will be ready to open by the time it’s unpacked from a dry box, growers like Ms. Daschner or Miss Van Houtte can afford to wait for ideal conditions.“Our flowers are at peak ripeness,” Ms. Daschner said. “There’s no compromise in color or fragrance or vase life.”Local operations range significantly in scope. Fairest Flowers, which began under Dean Miller about 30 years ago, operates as a full-time business year-round through heated greenhouses. Ms. Daschner, who works with Mr. Miller, said they supply about 75 area florists.That compares to Ms. Berry, of Posey Jane, who first planted her half-acre or so of flowers beside her home three years ago. Her interest was piqued when she and her sister did their own floral arrangements for a handful of family weddings. Ms. Berry sells primarily at farmer’s markets and considers her flower business something of a hobby and side job.Somewhere in between those two is Barn Swallow Farm, where Mike and Laura Brewster tend fields totaling 2 to 3 acres with the help of their five children. The children range in age from 5 to 15, and each keeps an eye on their own special crop.The Brewster family has been supplying local florists since the late ’90s and, this year, began selling their own bouquets at a farmer’s market in in Whitehouse. (Mrs. Brewster and 10-year-old Rosemary are the family floral designers.) It’s a full-time operation for the family in the summer, when Mr. Brewster, who is a science teacher at Otsego High School, can dedicate the time to fields of dianthus, lisianthus, celosia, and the always popular sunflowers.The Associatio... http://www.toledoblade.com/Gardening/2017/08/08/Business-is-blooming-as-buy-local-movement-spurs-growth-at-flower-farms.html

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

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/

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

There is a local flowers movement going across the country,” she said. “There is a farm called Floret Flowers out of Washington, and the founder is the poster child for specialty-cut flowers. She is getting a show on Magnolia Network through Chip and Joanna Gaines this fall. It’s kind of now a big thing to not only support local foods, but to support locally grown flowers.”When starting her business, Webb said growing and selling her flowers locally just spoke to her.“I want to be able to supply people with local flowers,” she said. “They are so beautiful, and they smell so good. I thought there was an advantage there versus a supermarket bouquet. I didn’t realize before getting into this just how many people love having flowers in their homes and how it brightens their day.”Webb said she is blown away by the support of the Buckhannon community.Webb with some of her colorful creations / Photo courtesy Joanna Webb“It’s kind of been encouraging during hot summer days when I am out here covered in bug bites, knowing that people love it and enjoy it and that it is valuable to them,” she said. “It is awesome and is the boost to keep going and it has been awesome this year.”Webb said additional information is available on Instagram and Facebook by searching ‘Three Little Buds,’ and her website is www.threelittlebudsflowers.com. Let's block ads! (Why... https://www.mybuckhannon.com/business-at-local-flower-grower-three-little-buds-is-blooming/

Hannah's Flowers relocates, expands business - Midland Daily News

Hannah Tiffin, owner of Hannah's Flowers in Midland, poses with some lilies at her shop, located at 1531 Washington St. (Ashley Schafer/Ashley Schafer@hearstnp.com) Hannah Tiffin, owner of Hannah's Flowers in Midland, poses with some lilies at her shop, located at 1531 Washington St. (Ashley Schafer/Ashley Schafer@hearstnp.com) Image 1 of / 3 Caption Close Image 1 of 3 Hannah Tiffin, owner of Hannah's Flowers in Midland, poses with some lilies at her shop, located at 1531 Washington St. (Ashley Schafer/Ashley Schafer@hearstnp.com) Hannah Tiffin, owner of Hannah's Flowers in Midland, poses with some lilies at her shop, located at 1531 Washington St. (Ashley Schafer/Ashley Schafer@hearstnp.com) ... https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Hannah-rsquo-s-Flowers-relocates-expands-business-14941666.php

Historically Speaking: Florists a big part of Dover - Seacoastonline.com

Tolend Road. There was Bob's Flower Shop, Robert Ham proprietor, at 2 Central Ave. In the mid-1940s, there was Brown's Flower Shop (Aaron and Ralph Brown, owners) at 107 Washington St., which advertised being open on Sunday morning.The Whatnot Flowers and Gifts was at 517 Central Ave., owned by Edward and Natalie Duffy, with "a full line of religious articles."Perley Lee and his wife Mabelle had a greenhouse and retail store at 120 Stark Avenue next door to their home. In the mid-’80s the Siranian family at 103 Stark Ave. had a small greenhouse, and just down the road, beyond the current Dover Chevrolet complex, John Viola, who worked many years for the Lees, had two small greenhouses behind his family home.A larger, longer-lived business was Meader's Greenhouses at 21 Back River Road (the remains of some of the greenhouse buildings are still visible). The Meader family had deep roots in the Dover area. John lived at the corner of Back River and the Durham Road. Herbert lived just beyond the greenhouse property at 31 Back River Road (the house with the stone wall), and his son, David, lived at number 43. (Herbert, for a time, was a trustee of the Merchants Bank.) For many years, Meader's retail flower shop was at 10 Third St., then a large addition was built in front of the greenhouses, under David's management, and later became Sweet Meadows. The business was sold to William Hopkins, and subsequent owners have been at the current Portland Avenue location for many years since. (The original Sweet Meadows space is now Deco Dogs dog day care and grooming.)Just across the line in Madbury, close by the Durham Road, was Colpritt's Nursery, and much of the area today is likely supplied by the Wentworth Greenhouses in Rollinsford, which has grown over the years as other wholesale dealers in the area have declined and new neighborhoods have been developed with landscaping becoming a major business enterprise. Locally, in addition to the still active Garrison Hill and Sweet Meadows, there is the Flower Room on the Upper Square, guaranteeing at least that Dover's flower retail remains alive and well.Tony McManus is a Dover native. He is a former trustee of the Woodman Institute and an amateur student of Dover’s past. He can be reached at mcaidan73@gmail.com ... https://www.seacoastonline.com/news/20200823/historically-speaking-florists-big-part-of-dover