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Cashel florist goes digital to connect with customers
Michelle Kennelly says she is using the challenging restrictions as a time to move to more sustainable options Tipperary florists are enduring a tough year as the restrictions continue to wreak havoc on their custom.After the government closed all of Ireland’s...
Flower Power : Florists Send a Message of Hope with Rotary Trail Installation
Journal photo by Caroline Rice. Birmingham was gifted with an arch of flowers on the Rotary Trail sign in the heart of the city June 5 after a group of local florists were determined to use their talents to show love to their hurting community.After a week that had...
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...
