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‘The power of flowers’: Alabama’s florists cope with pandemic, recovery - AL.com

Alabama. The life events where people expect flowers - hospitalizations, funerals - were suddenly in the news, but the demand for them was all but extinguished.Cameron Pappas at Norton’s Florist in Birmingham said the lockdown, and the reopening that followed, has reminded him of the “power of flowers.”“We’ve had a lot of reminders of how important flowers are to everyone,” he said. “They keep people sane.”The pandemic hit America right in a peak season for florists - the rush before Easter, proms and spring events. Pappas said business began to slowdown by about 40 percent one week before his shop closed for two weeks on March 23. The store laid off all of its employees for that period.Cameron Pappas delivered flowers to Birmingham-area restaurants during the coronavirus shutdown.Thousands of floral businesses around America were left with perishable goods that they couldn’t sell. Just three days before Norton’s closed, it had received a shipment of about $5,000 in flowers. Rather than throw them out, Pappas said, they made bouquets to give away at restaurants and nursing homes that would accept them. In some cases, he hand delivered them.“We wanted the flowers to still do their job, to bring joy to bad situations,” he said. “We wanted them to say that we’re not going to let this virus take away the heart of our city.”Morris, 86, said he was reduced to little better than a one-man operation for about five weeks, with his nephew keeping the books. Most of the business coming in was through funeral homes.Norton’s reopened on April 6, in time for Easter, which he said saw “decent” business. By Mother’s Day, 90 percent of the staff was back, and sales began to pick up. As with other businesses, online sales have surged; up 30 percent over the last two months, he said. Mother’s Day online orders ... https://www.al.com/business/2020/06/the-power-of-flowers-alabamas-florists-cope-with-pandemic-recovery.html

Flower Power : Florists Send a Message of Hope with Rotary Trail Installation - Over the Mountain Journal

Rotary Trail could be possible.Chen soon had more than 30 florists around Birmingham who were willing to donate flowers and supplies.Cameron Pappas, owner of Norton’s Florist downtown and one of the flower contributors, said that, although the total cost of the flower arch probably was about $20,000, florists coming together to help the community was priceless to him.“As a community, our hearts are hurting, and we know that flowers heal,” Pappas said.“Each person participating had their own reason,” he said. We all wanted to make the city shine. We wanted to give people beautiful flowers to look at, rather than broken glass and boarded up windows.” Protestors leaving a demonstration after attacking monuments in Linn Park had swept through downtown Birmingham, vandalizing storefronts along the way.The florists used the flower arch project to express themselves in their own ways. However, one key element in the arch was planned from the beginning.Pappas said that many people questioned whether the gap in the arch was created because they ran out of flowers. It was not.“Originally, it was going to be a lot more prominent for design aesthetics. We kept getting more and more flowers, so the gap ended up being relatively small. The gap was left as a sign for how far the community has to go,” said Pappas.Chen said the gap signifies the community being open to further conversation on race and justice.“It presents another point of reflection and calls for questions like, ‘What’s missing here?’ ‘How far are we from effecting change?’ ‘Can we close the equality gaps that are so bl... https://www.otmj.com/rotary-trail-flowers/

Best In Bloom: Nine L.A.-Based Florists to Brighten Anyone's Day - Hollywood Reporter

STYLE6:03 PM PDT 6/16/2020byAbigail Stone These reopened florists, a mix of entertainment-industry favorites and new names who have done weddings for the likes of Cameron Diaz, George Lucas and Ellen DeGeneres, all offer contactless delivery1. Bloom & Plume“If you’re looking for something magical, I’m your guy,” says Historic Filipinotown-based owner/artist Maurice Harris, star of the Quibi series Centerpiece and a judge on HBO Max’s upcoming Full Bloom. “The work we do really forces you to be present. It’s a big reminder how nothing is forever.” Harris’ creations, which he describes as “naturally opulent” are as exuberant, inspiring and free-spirited as his personality, with goals that reach far beyond decoration. “I’m hoping that by paving a path to the kind of creative life I didn’t have the privilege to see growing up, I will enable other Black kids to dream big dreams and see what they are capable of becoming.” He also runs an attached café, which features turmeric lattes, chagaccinos and Clark Street bread, which is open for pickup. From $200, 1640 W. Temple St.; bloomandplume.com2. Eric ButerbaughThe designer is beloved by such c... https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/best-bloom-nine-la-based-florists-brighten-anyones-day-1298836

Norton’s Florist ‘Doing Good’ for the Alzheimer’s Association - WBRC

Debby’s Delight.” It’s named after Debby Pappas, who worked there alongside her husband, Gus, and her son, Cameron, for 14 years. She was in charge of quality control. Cameron says, “She made sure every arrangement was perfect before it went out the door.”... https://www.wbrc.com/2019/05/08/nortons-florist-doing-good-alzheimers-association/

Longtime Waco florist dies at 97 - KWTX

In fact, the business grew in the coming years and at one point had retail shops and greenhouses in Temple, Belton and Cameron, he said.Whatever was necessary is what Reed did after he graduated from La Vega High School, took flying lessons and eventually joined the Army Air Force where he learned to fly the B-29 Superfortress and later trained other Air Force pilots. At the time Reed thought about making a career of flying, then after he came back to Waco’s James Connally Air Force Base to teach pilots to fly the B-25 Mitchell, he decided he’d stay and re-joined the family business. He married his school sweetheart, Glenda Pledger, finished his degree at Baylor and returned to the flower shop with his parents until they retired and he took over operations. Reed remained in the U.S. Air Force Reserve for 10 years and during the Korean War, was recalled to Connally where he trained radar intercept pilots and engineers who worked on the Superfortress. Reed loved to fly, but he found flowers would be his fortune. Reed, in his oral history with Baylor, explained Waco, in those days, was an important cog on the Texas floral business, the Texas State Florists' Association, the professional trade association for all branches of the floral industry including retailers, wholesalers, growers and manufacturers of floral products and supplies, was founded here in 1914 at the old Hotel State House at South 6th Street and Franklin Avenue. It’s now headquartered in Austin. Reed dedicated himself to a life of service when he became a Mason and later joined AAONMS, the Shrine, where he’ll celebrate his 72nd year of membership this year, records at the Karem Shrine Temple show, where he today is the oldest member on the rolls and is among the oldest active Shriners in the United States. Reed has a brother and a sister but neither has ever shown any interest in the flower shop, he said. ... https://www.kwtx.com/content/news/Well-known-downtown-businessman-Harry-Reed-passes-away-at-97-505939331.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,... 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]-... 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/

The Gardeners Who Planted for US Presidents - Prescott eNews

Bush.) When Rachel "Bunny" Mellon and Perry Wheeler designed the Rose Garden for President Kennedy, they handpicked Williams as their horticulturist to supervise the installation. The son of a West Virginia f... https://www.prescottenews.com/index.php/features/columnists/mountain-gardener/item/34856-the-gardeners-who-planted-for-u-s-presidents