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Review: ‘The Big Flower Fight’ takes gardening to another level
A scene from the Netflix reality competition show “The Big Flower Fight.” Photo: Netflix Alongside other indoor hobbies like puzzles and bread baking , urban gardening has taken off since shelter-in-place orders were announced. And it makes sense. Gardening sits at...
Florists slowly see business start to blossom again
Village Garden Florist and Gifts in New Concord shut down for nearly five weeks during the pandemic. The store recently reopened for delivery and curbside pick up services Submitted photo Hide caption By KRISTI R. GARABRANDT / The Daily Jeffersonian The COVID-19...
Mesa florist glad to be blooming again
Pop N Daisies Floral owner Jaime Mattson is flanked by best friend and store helper Sandy Mendenhall and her grandfather and delivery man, Andy Gladd. Flower shops have been feeling the sting since non-essential businesses were closed. Weddings, proms and other...
The coronavirus seemed to spell doom for flower shops across the country, but a Mother’s Day surge from customers missing their moms may offer salvation
Mohamed Azakir/Reuters Mother's Day is the single most important holiday for flower shops, with many businesses relying on strong holiday sales to survive the summertime slowdown in demand for flowers. Thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, spring 2020 got off to an...
Photographers, caterers and florists find alternatives as wedding season withers
Photographer Sarah Priestap Porter, of Tunbridge, photographs Anna Dechert and Josh Harwood, also of Tunbridge, at the fairgrounds in town on May 12, 2020. Having their engagement photos made, the couple are planning a 2021 wedding. Photo by Jennifer Hauck/Valley News...
Guiding wedding clients through flower selection
Recently, a florist asked me for advice: How could she guide her clients in choosing a color palette for wedding flowers instead of specific blooms? She knew that if she could
Servant of Flowers
Emily Thompson is an iconoclast, an anything-but-predictable designer and artist, and owner of the NYC studio and shop that bears her name, Emily Thompson Flowers. She describes her aesthetic as
Creativity May 2020
Life has a way of putting us on a journey, altering our course and providing us with opportunities that lead us to our true passion. For Adam Havrilla, AIFD, PFCI, ICPF,
Floral immersion
Taylor Patterson is a New York-based fl oral entrepreneur whose aesthetic is lush, elegant and seasonally inspired. Patterson developed Fox Fodder Farm over the past nine years,
