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1 Dead After Car Goes Flying, Crashes Sideways Into Arcadia Flower Shop - CBS Los Angeles

ARCADIA (CBSLA) — One man is dead Thursday after somehow crashing a rental car sideways into a flower shop in Arcadia.The crash was first reported at about 3:15 a.m. at Arcadia Main Florist, 30 Las Tunas Drive. The impact of the crash left the red vehicle wedged on its side through a display window of the shop.Police say the car lost control and sheared a fire hydrant before flying into the closed flower shop.The male driver was pronounced dead at the scene. He was later identified as 42-year-old Carl Chandler of Alhambra.Witnesses told police they saw the car speeding just before the crash. Related... https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2019/08/08/arcadia-car-crashes-sideways-flower-shop/

Mary L. Dyce - Clarksville Now

Mary Lou Dyce, age 90, of Clarksville, passed away Sunday, September 8, 2019, at Arcadia Senior Living.Mary Lou was born January 28, 1929, in Montgomery County, TN, to the late Lonnie Thomas Morrow and Lillie Blanche Thomas Morrow. She was also preceded in death by her husband, Sterling Houston Dyce; son, Thomas Dyce; four brother, Donnie Morrow, Ernest Morrow, Clyde Morrow, and Thomas Morrow; and three sisters, Fanie Mae Scott, Bonnie Chester, and Louise Scott.Mrs. Dyce was a nurse and a member of Walton’s Chapel United Methodist Church.A Celebration of Life Service will be held Wednesday, September 11, at 11:00 AM, at the Chapel of Neal-Tarpley-Parchman Funeral Home, with Rev. Craig Cross and Rev. George Adair officiating. Burial will follow at Resthaven Memorial Gardens. Visitation will be Tuesday, September 10, from 4:00 to 7:00 PM, and Wednesday, September 11, from 10:00 A.M. until the hour of service, at the funeral home.Mary Lou is survived by her daughter, Patsy (John) Peay of Clarksville; one brother, Carl Morrow of Clarksville; three sisters, Shirley Jarm... https://clarksvillenow.com/local/mary-l-dyce/

Follow your nose to experience the corpse flower at The Huntington in San Marino

There is also a bonsai club that meets the third Thursday of each month (excluding August and December) at 7 p.m. at the Los Angeles County Arboretum, at 301 N. Baldwin Ave., Arcadia (626-821-3222). https://www.whittierdailynews.com/2018/08/25/follow-your-nose-to-experience-the-corpse-flower-at-the-huntington-in-san-marino/

Flourishing flowers - Lexington Dispatch

Mr. Bogard said. “As a consequence, it’s kind of growing exponentially now.”The garden is located on the acre behind the Bogards’ home in the Arcadia community.“It’s a valley back there,” Mr. Bogard said. “It was all wooded and originally we started the garden over on the right side, but as the trees grew up it started shading. We ended up moving the whole garden to this side of the valley. There’s a little stream that runs through there and normally it runs maybe three weeks out of the year total if you added up all the days.”Mrs. Bogard’s daylily purchase over two decades ago got Mr. Bogard interested in hybridizing the flowers. Since then, he has collected hundreds of varieties of daylilies and given seeds to people in 11 different countries and 28 different states through the American Hemerocallis Society.Both have had a passion for gardening since an early age. Mrs. Bogard talked about her experience growing up in rural Wisconsin.“My father was a country doctor and veterinarian so to speak and he used to take me out on the farms,” Mrs. Bogard said. “I lived outside basically and as young as I can remember I would get cinder blocks and put mud in them and find seeds and plant them. I didn’t know what I was doing, but I just always loved that.”Mr. Bogard, who lived in the top of a three story flat in Chicago until the age of 8, developed his love for plants while working in his grandfather’s garden.“I was interested in plants at a very early age too because my grandfather graduated from the University of Iowa at Ames with a degree in horticulture back then, and he had a florist shop in downtown Chicago that went under when the stock market crashed in 1928,” Mr. Bogard said. “He had a garden in the back yard and he encouraged all us kids and our cousins to take care of the garden. So he didn’t have to do anything because we did all the watering and the weeding and stuff like that, bu... http://www.the-dispatch.com/news/20170707/flourishing-flowers

Dig It Sells Plants and Nurtures Community in Phoenix - Phoenix New Times

August 2015, he and Tim Bishop founded Dig It.“Within the first couple days, I knew how it would look,” Jerrell says. Dig It is located on 16th Street in Phoenix.Evie CarpenterWhen Baker Nursery near Arcadia sold at the end of 2014, it left a hole in central Phoenix, Jerrell says. Before Dig It opened, the closest nurseries in the area were the Home Depot at 36th Street and Thomas Road and Whitfill Nursery near Seventh Street and Glendale Avenue.And the demand for a place like Dig It was growing. The previously 15,000-square-foot garden centers at stores like Lowe’s and Home Depot are now closer to 50,000 square feet, Jerrell says. But still, some had doubts when Jerrell and Bishop decided to open their nursery near 16th Street and Thomas Road.“I said I was going to open a garden center here, and people were like ‘Okay, good luck,’” Jerrell says. It’s been the surrounding community that’s most embraced Dig It, especially the Coronado and Cherry Lynn neighborhoods.“Within the first couple months, we were flooded,” says Jerrell’s wife, Jessica, who handles the nursery’s social media and marketing. The name “Urban Gardens + Nursery” isn’t just referring to the location in the heart of Phoenix. It also refers to what they sell: plants meant to thrive in a city, specifically Phoenix. The staff at Dig It makes it a point to only sell what will actually grow in the city’s desert environment. “We keep reminding people they live in Arizona,” Jerrell says. “We’ll turn people away if it won’t work.” A selection of succulents at Dig It.Evie CarpenterAt Dig It, the goal is for customers to succeed in growing their plants. The staff won’t sell something just because you ask for it.“We would rather help the plants stay alive than have a return policy,” Jessica says. Beyond stocking a wide selection of native plants, the team finds it crucial to stay in touch with architectural and design trends.Thanks to more than five years as a co-owner of Urban Cactus, a boutique landscaping business, it’s not hard for Jerrell to stay tapped in. The relationships he’s built with local growers help as well.“Ninety percent of our inventory comes from local growers,” Jerrell says like it’s no big deal. (It is.)In the short time Dig It has been open, it’s become a community hotspot and even a destination for out-of-towners. Jessica says people will spend hours looking around on the weekends, adding that one woman brings her grandson to see the tortoises and parrots almost weekly.“The community has the ability to support you, if you give back,” Jerrell says. That’s why when the owners of the Coronado came by to get some advice on what to do with their planters, Jerrell went over to the restaurant to see for himself what they neede... http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/arts/dig-it-sells-plants-and-nurtures-community-in-phoenix-9062381

Upper Dauphin’s Macklin Ayers, Steel-High’s Mehki Flowers selected to Pa. Football Writers’ Class 2A All-Stat - PennLive

Fleming, the nation’s top recruit who signed with Ohio State last week, is one of eight Tigers to be selected, including a trio of linebackers in Michigan State-bound Cal Haladay, Preston Zachman (Wisconsin) and Max Tillett (New Hampshire).Southern Columbia won its third straight PIAA championship earlier this month, defeating Avonworth 74-7 at Hersheypark Stadium.Fleming caught 72 passes for 1,538 yards and 23 touchdowns in his final season to become the state’s all-time leader in yards and receiving touchdowns.Since 2009, sports writers who cover high school football around the Commonwealth have overseen the all-state process. Players are nominated in all six classifications, and then a statewide ballot is issued to afford all writers the opportunity to cast their votes.Upper Dauphin’s record-setting athlete, Macklin Ayers, joined Steel-High’s Mehki Flowers on the team’s defensive side. A tremendous two-way talent, Ayers accounted for 3,230 yards (1,960 rush) and 48 touchdowns at quarterback.The Tri-Valley League player of the year also contributed 107 tackles, five sacks and three interceptions as a linebacker, guiding the Trojans to a District 3 title and state quarterfinal berth against Southern Columbia.Ayers set single-season and career marks for rushing yards and combined yards.Flowers, who starred as a wide receiver and defe... https://www.pennlive.com/highschoolsports/football/2019/12/upper-dauphins-macklin-ayers-steel-highs-mehki-flowers-selected-to-pa-football-writers-class-2a-all-state-team.html

The 5 best florists in Washington - Hoodline

York FlowersPhoto: York Flowers/YelpYork Flowers, a florist and floral designer spot in Friendship Heights, is another go-to, with four stars out of 56 Yelp reviews. Head over to 5023 Wisconsin Ave. NW (between North Fessenden and North Garrison streets) to see for yourself.5. House of FlowersPhoto: Mary A./YelpFinally, if you're Downtown, check out House of Flowers, which has earned four stars out of 51 reviews on Yelp. You can find it at 710 14th St. NW (between North New York Avenue and North G Street). https://hoodline.com/2019/02/the-5-best-florists-in-washington

Police logs: Flowers stolen from grave - Wisconsin Rapids Tribune

Karen Madden Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune Published 1:44 PM EDT Jun 18, 2019 Wisconsin Rapids » At 8:33 a.m. Monday, a Wisconsin Rapids woman reported someone tried to use her credit card to purchase shoes.  » At 8:53 a.m. Monday, a caller reported someone camping in the woods at Ward Johnson Park, 3100 North Ave.  » At 9:46 a.m. Monday, a caller reported a traffic crash near the intersection of Lin... https://www.wisconsinrapidstribune.com/story/news/2019/06/18/wisconsin-rapid-police-logs-flowers-stolen-grave/1485530001/

Capital - Why are flowers so expensive? - BBC News

Jeanie McKewan, who has been growing flowers for 13 years in the US states of Illinois and Wisconsin, points to insect damage as a big challenge, saying there’s a “zero tolerance” policy: “It is through constant vigilance and the use of integrated pest management that we keep the little buggers from getting the best of our crops,” she says.Then the flowers have to bloom on schedule. In the case of Mother’s Day tulips planted in January or February, they have to bloom by early May in time to be picked and shipped.Labour costs are already high – according to the 2012 US Agricultural Census, contract and hired labour accounted for 10% of total agricultural operating expenses in the US, but that number soared to 40% for greenhouse, nursery and floriculture production because of a tighter farm labour market and rising wages. Then you add extra costs for peaks.McKewan hires extra hands during peak periods but says cutting flowers “requires experience and cannot be done by just any part-time employee”. Chris Drummond, a Philadelphia-based florist, says wages average around $13.25 (£10.16) per hour in the US. “In order to ramp up production to meet holiday demand, growers are required to pay far above that average,” he says.In developed countries like the Netherlands or Germany, Stewart says that there are greenhouses with automated technology like sophisticated watering machines or robot transplanters and harvesters, where fewer workers are needed. But in poorer nations with cheaper labour, there’s less use of technology.  Then it’s time for shipping. While flowers are waiting on the runway or in the back of a lorry, temperatures can’t be too cold (for Valentine’s Day) or too hot (for Mother’s Day). When they arrive at the wholesaler, they must look perfect. That means no bug bites, no missing petals, no dead buds. Otherwise, they get thrown away. “It has to be flawless,” Stewart says.Complicated logisticsChris Drummond, the florist, estimates that the holiday volume “is usually nearly 20 times the everyday volume”. He says many farmers nurture flowers all year long to ensure enough blooms for the handful of holidays. During the other months on the farm, he says, flowers are sold at cost, below cost or discarded and turned into mulch.“So, of course farm price increases as demand increases,” he says. “Consumers are paying a premium to make sure that grower is compensated for their expense and effort to maintain the plants year-round, thus ensuring the wide variety of flowers is available at each holiday.”He highlights costs across the supply chain, saying industry participants must “rent temporary space, pay fuel surcharges, find space on airlines, hire independent drivers, find more refrigerated trucks, pay overtime to staff” and more. Roses flown from Bogota to Miami are hit with a 15-cent (£0.12) importer’s fee to clear customs and inspection. Domestic refrigerated shipping can vary, but that’s another eight cents (£0.06) per rose.It also depends on what kind of flower you’re shipping – Drummond says 300 carnations can fit into the same box as 150 roses, so the transport price per stem is halved. Transit time from field to florist can be up to a week (though it can wildly vary depending on where the flowers are coming from), and the blooms must be carefully handled every step of the way.Hans Larsen is a cut flower grower in the US state of Wisconsin and has ... http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20190507-why-are-flowers-so-expensive