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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...
Yellow flowers meant for Boston Marathon left outside hospitals for health care workers
The calls come in sometimes quicker than Jan Goodman can answer them. Sitting inside her Pembroke, Massachusetts home, this life-long florist has suddenly found herself juggling a small army of volunteers, all in an effort to bring hope to hospitals across the region....
Where Have All the Flowers Gone?
There are no hugs, but there are flowers. My days have been spent inside mostly. But when I’m out for my daily walk, I delight in seeing flowers in the park by my apartment. Some are wild, a rarity for New York. Others have been planted by the city, a vital sign of...
