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NW Indiana Business Owner Hopes to Re-Open Soon as Governor Mulls Modified ‘Stay-at-Home’ Order
Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb is looking at ways to allow some businesses in the state to re-open, that news comes just in time for one Merrillville florist. Cindy Lopez, who owns the Merrillville Florist and Tea Room, says that she knew she wanted to be involved in...
Florist’s message to LI hospitals, nursing homes: ‘You are loved’
Jeanine Amato donated 160 red roses to Momentum at South Bay Rehabilitation and Nursing in East Islip on March 20. Credit: Jeanine Amato Newsday is opening this story to all readers as we provide Long Islanders with news and information you can use during the...
Nassau Florist: Coronavirus Decimated Floral Industry
PORT WASHINGTON, NY — Aretta Otis-Cohen, owner of Port Washington Florist on Main Street, has been in business over 50 years. She's operated through 9/11, the Great Recession and every other crisis in that time. She said she's never seen anything like the new...
Coronavirus: Confusion whether floral shops can stay opened
With Mother's Day fast approaching, flowers are typically big business this time of year. SAN DIEGO COUNTY, Calif. — The coronavirus economic fallout is expected to hit one of California's leading industries - the floral industry. The devastating hit comes at a time...
Celebrating From Afar: How A Florist Is Coping With Coronavirus
Sales for Flower After Flower are down, but many more people are sending bouquets to each other to show they care. Flower After Flower in Massapequa has seen sales drop overall, but more people sending each other arrangements to show they care. (Rachel Nunes/Patch)...
Anzac Day orders hit record low for Cairns florist, who hasn’t made a single wreath
Photo: Tijn Meulendijks didn't get a single order for a wreath for this Anzac Day. (ABC Far North: Sharnie Kim) The lead-up to Anzac Day is usually a busy time for Cairns florist Tijn Meulendijks, who makes dozens of Anzac Day wreaths for the local council, RSL and...
Florist shows Kiwis how to create DIY floral wreaths from backyard scraps this Anzac Day
Florist Leisha Davies wants Kiwis to make wreaths while in lockdown to honour the Anzacs and she's showing people how to do it in a tutorial. A florist has devised a blooming great way to honour war veterans this Anzac Day and for Kiwis to show solidarity in the...
Stockton florist lives a lifelong dream
Jane Lethlean Correspondent Apr 18, 2020 at 9:01 AM FREEPORT — As a young child, Drew Groezinger of Stockton remembers planting a seed alongside his great-grandmother, Lillian, and feeling the joy of seeing that a carrot seed, tended to with love, could become a basic...
How to wear leaf prints
At the time of writing, we are still allowed to spend time outside. That is not a sentence with which I thought I would open a fashion column. But then, pretty much every sentence I write these days – in a column or on WhatsApp – feels like a sentence I never thought...