Flower News Archive - Jan 2008

Area nursery representatives, horticulturalists and landscape designers will answer questions about gardening. Tulsa Garden Center's affiliate gardening organizations will provide information and resources on specific gardening topics. The free, public fair is 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Feb. 16 at the garden center, 2435 S. Peoria Ave.

BD Africa

Florists have incurred heavy losses in ongoing post-election violence that has rocked the country since Sunday.

Vendors said the absence of buyers has forced them to dispose of large quantities of fresh produce even as the supply chain remains blocked.

Instead of the floral aroma that characterises Nairobi?s City Market, a heavy stench of rotting foodstuff wafted through the air...

The article board

Horticulture involves the knowledge of growing fruits, vegetables, garden plants and flowers. The location could be a small garden at home or may even be a part of the house. Some people learn horticulture to create a beautiful garden of their own as a hobby or way to make the home look more appealing.

How To Become A Horticulturist?

Many universities and colleges offer certificates in horticulture. A certificate makes a business operation more credible. To be a horticulturist, you need to be knowledgeable in Chemistry, Botany, soil types, written and oral communication, plant pests and diseases and business management. The courses provide information on health benefits, food safety, gardening-techniques and ecologically sound lawns...

Hindu

If one thought only buildings and forts get a heritage tag, here is a historic monument with a difference: a tree which houses a record number of beehives!

A unique banyan tree near Nandagudi in Hoskote taluk that has the world's largest number of beehives as many as 600 is being pegged for an International Heritage Site tag.

The Institute for Natural Resources Conservation, Education, Research and Training (INCERT) is making efforts to get this matchless tree get recognised as an International Heritage Site so as to create awareness about the importance of this bee colony...

PR-Inside

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in: 1. Growing nursery and floriculture products (e.g., nursery stock, shrubbery, cut flowers, flower seeds, foliage plants) under cover or in open fields and/or 2. Growing short rotation woody trees with a growing and harvesting cycle of 10 years or less for pulp or tree stock (e.g., cut Christmas trees, cottonwoods)...

Express India

To promote chrysanthemum flower, a floriculturist at Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) has developed a miniature chrysanthemum that can be grown in a three-inch pot and attain a height of about ten inches.

These flowers owing to their ornamental value are much in demand especially during winter season. These flowers are used for decorating party halls and marriage palaces. But then owing to their short life span these flowers had very limited usage period, says floriculturist Dr Mandhir Singh Aulakh...

Equi search

Alternative therapies can sometimes be a complement to--never a replacement for--conventional veterinary care. Here are two of the more unusual ones.

Bach flower essences and similar products are produced in a similar way to the method used for homeopathic remedies, says veterinarian and holistic practitioner Dr. Joyce Harman. (However, flower essences are not homeopathic remedies.) The essences contain plant extracts diluted beyond the point where you can detect the original ingredient...

Sun Times

With the Christmas season over, do not throw the gift out with the gift wrapping.

Some of the most popular plants given as holiday gifts are amaryllis, paper white narcissus, cyclamen, Christmas cacti and, of course, poinsettia, according to several local nursery retailers. Although some people toss out these gift plants, you can keep these plants healthy and enjoy them throughout the year...

American chronicle

Flower remedies are made by floating the freshly picked blooms in bowls of spring water and leaving them in sunlight on a cloudless day. In this way, the water is “potentized” by the essence of the nower, which is believed to have entered the liquid. The potentized water is then mixed in fixed proportions with brandy, which acts as a preservative, and stored in a dark glass bottle.

Although there are now many varieties of flower remedies made around the world, most are prepared in this way. Unlike many modern herbal medicines, flower essences do not contain any artificial chemical substances, except for the brandy preservative...

BD Africa

It may have had its share of breath taking scares across the year, but players in the robust horticulture industry are looking up to success in the coming year.

First to rattle the sub-sector was the food miles concept that threatened to lock local producers from key markets especially in Europe on grounds that shipments from far flung areas were contributing to global warming through carbon emissions...

US Stock

RTP-based Bayer Advanced won its eighth consecutive trophy with its Salute to the Rose Parade float during the January 1, 2008, Rose Parade. Bayer Advanced makes consumer rose care products that make it easy to grow Rose Parade-quality roses in your own backyard...

Obarskis

A gift will have a sentimental value and of meaning when it comes from the heart. Giving for the sake of giving is nothing but a piece of box being wrapped with paper. It is very important then when you do give something it is given with sincerity and with love as well. No matter how cheap or expensive it is, what matters the most is the thought and the love that you have given being symbolized by the gift. A gift whether may it be consumable or non-consumable, it does not matter as long as it is the heart that dictates to give a gift...

Saigon times

With only one month until the Lunar New Year 2008, or Tet 2008, many tour operators have launched special tours for tourists to relax and enjoy the special atmosphere of the Vietnamese holiday.

Of the numerous options available, many foreign tourists are selecting tours that take them to rural regions to see local people celebrate Tet in a traditional way. Among them is the tour to flower gardens in Sa Dec Town, Dong Thap Province, around 140 kilometers southwest of HCMC...

This is cheshire

A SPECTACULAR floristry demonstration has raised £1,331 for Macmillan Cancer Care.

Stunning designs were created by award-winning Runcorn florists.

“Every penny spent on tickets has been passed to Macmillan,” said Amanda Canning, of Flower and Plant Works in Church Street....

Geta face lift

Flowers are the most beautiful things Mother Nature has gifted us One can express his emotion through a beautiful bouquet of flowers. Every woman desires to be gifted a bouquet of flowers because flowers shower love and care. With people realizing what flowers truly represent, the demand for flowers and florists are growing incredibly...

Tha Indian

To protect the three local rare and unique flower species?Mysore Mallige (Jasmine), Udupi Mallige, and Hadagali Mallige of Karnataka have been patented.

The GI (Geographical Indication) status has provided excusive rights to the local community to cultivate these three crops and continue to grow for 10 years and more.

All the three flowers are household names in Karnataka and known around the world. The new status helps protect its commercial interest too...

Seattlepi.nwsource

It's that dreamy time of year, when all things are possible in the garden. We page through seed catalogs or browse online and see a world of potential.

As you dream of the garden to come, consider new or unusual annuals that provide a season of color for just the price of a seed packet.

Annuals are a great way to try something new or uncommon. They cost little and you invest only a year's worth of time, because these plants will grow, flower, set seed and die by next Christmas...

Telegraph

British companies have moved to protect hundreds of thousands of staff in Kenya amid signs that growing violence is threatening the country's economy.

More than 60 British companies - including Barclays, Unilever and GlaxoSmithKline - have operations in Kenya, a former British colony where the UK is the country's largest foreign investor, with investments worth an estimated £1.5bn...

Slice of the day Wordpress

Queen's Wreath (Petrea volubilis) is a native of the Caribbean Basin with large, rough-surfaced, dark green leaves and a very showy display of purplish blue, star-shaped flowers arranged in foot-long, slender, hanging clusters. Blooming several times a year, this rapidly-growing, evergreen, twining vine produces its best bloom in spring. Flowers literally cover the vine for several weeks.

It can be trained to grow on an arbour, trellis or fence in a sunny garden spot. The blue flower colour is spectacular and perhaps second to none for a subtropical landscape. Flowers resemble wisteria. Preferring full sun but tolerating light shade, Queen?s Wreath will grow in any reasonably good soil...

Your Elegant House

Your local flower shops can make dreams come true. When you buy a new home, friends and relatives can express their delight and best wishes with housewarming gifts from your local flower shops. Decorate the new home with freshly arranged, beautiful flowers.

Avoid cheaply designed flowers from grocery stores or gas stations. Generally they sit in a refrigerator long past their prime. Wilted flowers, surrounded by dried leaves send a message, just not the one you were hoping for. Take few extra minutes to buy from local flower shops...

UK Press.google

The male orchid bee has to create its own individual perfume to attract the female of the species, new scientific research has shown.

Professor Scott Armbruster, of the University of Portsmouth, has been studying the relationship between euglossine bees and flowers in South America and found that each bee has to blend its own perfume in order to find a mate.

He explained that the female euglossine bee, also known as the orchid bee, has the job of home-building by collecting resin from dalechampia flowers to help create nests for their offspring.

But because the flowers visited by these bees do not produce edible pollen or nectar, Prof Armbruster wanted to find out how they become pollinated.

And he discovered that the male bee has to visit a variety of flowers, decaying wood and sap in order to make its “personal” perfume and at the same time pollinate the flowers...

South of boston

When revelers count down the minutes tonight to usher in the new year, Susan Hands will be sound asleep.

The 61-year-old Scituate florist wants to be wide awake on Tuesday when the two floats that she helped design are on display before millions worldwide at the Rose Bowl Parade.

'When you're working in a shop and doing small arrangements, that's one thing. But coming out here is just the ultimate,' said Hands, a floral designer at Valente's Florist in Plymouth who has helped create floats for 11 years for the extravaganza in Pasadena, Calif...

Vail daily

New Year's Eve, that seems like an appropriate time to give you a glimpse of what is new in plant material for 2008, except that what's new has been around for most of last year.

There's a reason for the delay between the plants being introduced and you being able to buy them; I'm just not sure what it is. See, the last days of March is when the new plants for 2009 will be reviewed at the mellifluously named Pack Trials a series of corporate fetes held up and down the length of California where the latest in plant breeding is unveiled each spring. This year's new plants were brought out last March...

Baltimore sun

This is gardening's hot-stove season, when, just as in baseball, planning and daydreaming replace the action in the field.

Soon, garden supply, seed and flower catalogs will fill the mailboxes so recently vacated by Christmas cards.

But increasingly, experts say, gardeners are turning to the Internet for everything from purchases to conversation, from advice to landscape designs...

Khaleejtimes

With the winter season setting in, flower business in the capital is in full bloom.

Flower and natural plant lovers can find a complete range of landscape solutions for their villas and houses indoor and outdoor decorations, plants for gardens, carpet grasses and maintenance equipment at the Irani market in Port Zayed in the capital.

Flower lovers throng the shops everyday these days to buy new saplings and flowers for decorating interiors, exteriors and balconies. In a country where most of the time people have to fight hot and humid weather, the natural beauty of plants and flowers is too compelling to resist...

Edinburgh news

While the Capital's shops are full of traditional poinsettias, many will this year have received a graceful white orchid for Christmas.

“?People always associate poinsettias with this time of year,” says Edinburgh freelance landscape gardener, Jason Forrest. “but the classically elegant orchid is quickly becoming a more popular choice at Christmas.” ..

Loreleiweb

Floral arrangement is an art of arranging flowers to look more elegant and beautiful. Floral arrangement is also a way of making to look more suitable on a specific occasion or celebration. Those that practice the art of arranging flowers are called Florists.

Florists are the specialists when it comes to floral arrangements. They are responsible in making flowers more elegant and more fitting on a special event. Florists can be seen on any flower shop in any country especially here in the Philippines.

Like any other flower shops in the world, Philippine flower shops also have their own Philippine Florists that specializes in arranging flowers. Philippine Florists are commonly seen on any flower shops here in the Philippines, particularly in a place called Dangwa Flower Market...

Santamaria times

Joe Guggia, owner of Camfeldt's Flowers & Gifts in Santa Maria, and two fellow members of the American Institute of Floral Designers are in Pasadena decorating three floats for Tuesday's Tournament of Roses Parade.

The three were asked to work for Fiesta Parade Floats, a company world-renowned in float design, according to Joe's wife, Dawn Guggia.

The Pasadena company has such clients as AT&T Corp., American Honda Motor Co. and Better Homes & Gardens...

Canada

A breed of orchid that blossomed for the first time ever in a Spruce Grove-area greenhouse 11 years ago will soon be seen all over the United States.

The hybrid flower grown in 1996 by horticulturalist Gordon Heaps and photographed by his wife, Janet Heaps, is one of four Canadian hybrid orchids featured on a set of Canada Post stamps issued Thursday...

The Hindu

Exotic in beauty and elegant in radiance. Flowers are words which even a child can understand. And if properly arranged they can take your breath away.

It is roses all the way at Jubilee Hall in Public Gardens where the 32nd annual rose show organised by the Hyderabad Rose Society opened on Saturday. One can see roses of different hues, sizes and variety. Flower design can be very easy and unfussy. This impression comes across after seeing the way the expression of nature is captured here...

Seacoast Online

The canna, the old-fashioned bedding flower, is coming back into favor after having been banished for awhile with Victorian houses.

The Star Online

It is a plant with an awful stench but its beauty is enough to stop nature-lovers in their tracks.