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Florist loses hundreds in sophisticated email hack
THE owner of a small business has described feeling ‘violated’ and as if ‘someone had broken into her home’ after becoming a victim of a sophisticated email hack. Clara Barthorp Florist Clara Barthorp, who runs Wilde Thyme, said she had lost...
Preserved flowers are back. You can thank the pandemic
When Elleni Pearce thought she’d lost everything, it was, ironically, a product that has had the life sucked out of it that saved her.“Every event in my calendar got wiped within a week,” says Pearce, a Melbourne event stylist, about what happened to...
PMA announces Fresh Summit as a virtual experience October 13-15, 2020
Newark, DE – Produce Marketing Association announced Tuesday, June 30 that the 2020 Fresh Summit Convention & Expo will be a virtual experience instead of an onsite event in Dallas. VIDEO: A Message on the Status of PMA Fresh Summit In a message to members and...
In Bloom: Why flowers were so important to Autumn de Wilde’s adaptation of ‘Emma’
In the opening scene of Autumn de Wilde’s adaptation of Emma , released in cinemas earlier this year, a white-gloved Anya Taylor-Joy points out the flowers in her greenhouse that she would like a waiting servant to pick, in order to artfully arrange in a vase...
23 years in business taught me to be adaptable
Peris Njeri founder of Pien Florists. Peris Njeri was an employee at a big-time florist business in the city for six years. By the end of the sixth year, she had gotten restless and having mastered the art of floral arrangements, figured she could do it on her own....
Glasgow Lives in Lockdown – Cora, 28, Kilmarnock, florist and stylist
(Image: Elaine Livingstone) Generally when I tell people that I’m a florist they give me a funny look, which always makes me laugh. I think it’s because people have an image of a florist in their head, being a lady wearing a fleece standing in a shop...
A dream home, a vintage school bus and quirky roller skates: What couples are buying with their pandemic wedding funds
Andrew Harmon’s dream of a lavish wedding in Philadelphia was dashed when the coronavirus pandemic upended his plans for a November ceremony.It would have been an elegant, black-tie affair with a red carpet at the entrance of The Lucy, a ballroom located in...
It’s American Flowers Week and you’re invited to celebrate the blooming fun
What better way to celebrate United States’ independence than to support the most Americana of businesses, a local farm?In the week leading up to the Fourth of July, flower seed and bulb producers, growers, floral designers and lovers of fragrant blooms are...
Business is Blooming!
The words ‘shop local’ are more than important in these testing times for local businesses. With the COVID-19 affecting many businesses over the last few months. Last week non-essential shops began to open up again with social distancing measures in place....
