Flower News Archive - Apr 2008

Daily India

The Kashmir Valley, India is known for its colourful gardens. Now Jammu too has a flower garden at the Bhour Camp.

MSN Money

For those who pay attention to such things, April is traditionally a good time for investors. There may be a number of factors to explain this phenomenon - at least in the normal course of events.

Telegraph News

The scent of flowers may become a thing of the past, say researchers, who suggest pollution is destroying the natural perfume.

Leduc Representative

Most people consider a bright yellow daffodil a striking signal that a bitter battle with unpleasant weather is over. To a cancer survivor, it's also a sign of hope.

Arizona Republic

Your flower garden looks great, but wouldn't you like to be able to tell where it starts and where it ends?

AHN

The Ontario Flower Growers Cooperative, Canada launched on Thursday, 27 March 08 a website and a new brand for its fresh-cut blooms.

Daily Express

FOR years men have been saying it with flowers.The reason? Air pollution caused by a whole variety of emissions is destroying flower's natural fragrance.

Tampa Bay

Spring is traditionally bulb-blooming time worldwide. In Thampa the daffodils, crocus and tulips are not "keepers." They can be grown if refrigerated for three months to simulate winter, but may not open with a bloom as large as if grown in the north.

The Daily Observer

A sign of spring in the form of daffodils is coming, just in time for Renfrew County residents who may be getting weary of winter.

Greater Kashmir

The Asia's largest tulip garden at the foot of the Zabarwan Hill, overlooking the famous Dal Lake here, is all set to be thrown open for public in the first week of April, officials said Sunday.

NJ

Many flower names lend themselves readily to terms of endearment. Who hasn't teasingly called a child or sweetheart "my little rosebud," "sweet pea" or "buttercup?"

Clay County Democrat

As spring rolls around, many people in the area are busy with yard and garden work. Whether a hobby or a residential beautification project, the numerous additions of flowers, shrubs and trees, along with those individuals in possession of an acute case of "green thumb," can be seen at several area residences.

icWales

THOUSANDS of daffodil bulbs planted in the Gnoll's Memorial Gardens are in bloom.

Marion Daily

A Daffodil grows toward the sun in a flower bed located in Marion's Tower Square.

Independent.ie

The flower is very distinctive, with five tubes, five pointed petals just behind and five long spurs from the flower.

All Africa

Earnings from the horticulture sector, which is the largest exporter of cut flowers to Europe, soared to 63 per cent last year to overtake tourism as the country's leading foreign exchange earner.

The Cheers

Visitors to the Kashmir Valley can have a visual delight by watching 1.2 million Tulips which have bloomed in the capital city. With the spring setting in, tulips are among the first to bloom here and captivate tourists from across India and abroad.

Daily News

As every flower lover knows, flowers have a language of their own. From time immemorial, sentiments of various kinds have been associated with particular flowers.

The Enid

Everything indicates a new season and a new beginning. Even though it has been cold and doesn't feel like it some days, spring is here.

Standard Freeholder

Now that Spring has officially arrived we can turn our attention to more pleasant weather which often leads us to think about home renovations and gardening projects. To help you in bringing your projects to fruition, Cornwall Public Library has plenty of lending materials for you to choose from.

allAfrica.com

While Kenya is traditionally known for its roses, carnations and hyperium type of flowers, demand for bouquets in the domestic and foreign markets is growing, according to research done by the Kenya Horticulture Development Programme.

ic Wales

THE wild plant restoration charity Flora locale is looking for farmers, smallholders, advisers and land managers to help re-create wildflower grasslands across Wales.

Myrtle Beach News

There is so much legend and urban myth in baseball that you have to learn to wait until you experience something in person before joining what appears to be a growing consensus.

Rome News-Tribune

With temperatures dropping to the 30s and 40s the next two nights, residents may want to cover their newly budded or planted flowers.

PR Newswire

Teleflora, the world's leading floral service offering the best choice in floral arrangements and convenient local delivery, announces the launch of its Flower Blog, an online community for anyone passionate about flowers.

The York Daily Record

That might have been what crossed many of our minds the first time we checked holidays on this year's calendar. Eating excesses of the winter holidays were barely past before the deep-fat-dough indulgences of Fastnacht Day ushered in the Lenten season and sidetracked our New Year's calorie-counting resolutions.

Chattanoogan

Spring is a time for scenic beauty as the flowers begin to bloom in profusion, shrubs and trees send out their blossoms and the world begins to green again.

Houston news

Texans never tire of their special rite of spring ? spotting the first bluebonnets by the side of the road.

The Sun Online

AFTER months of depressing, bleak weather we are all longing for spring to arrive and to get into the new season's latest trend - florals. Flowery pastels and leafy-green shades are hot, and with a range of colours and tones to pick from, this girlie look suits everyone from brunettes and blondes to redheads and darker skins.

People's Daily Online

The national flower industry development and exchange meeting was held on the 21st in Beihai City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. According to the 25 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) present, incomplete statistics show that by the end of 2007, there was more than 800 mu of land for planting flowers; and their production value reached nearly 480 billion.

Central Illinois

They're a symbol of spring, and this week they're bringing a little sunshine to cancer patients... They're daffodils! For 35 years the American Cancer Society has used the flower for a fundraiser.

delawareonline

Trilliums first found their way into the Mt. Cuba Center gardens during the 1960s, coming from wildflower nurseries, the generosity of friends and from propagation research. Many trillium species were planted and began to thrive in the garden.

Best Syndication

Gifting something as tender as flower is the most beautiful gift one can think of. A bunch of flowers are more than enough to speak your mind. It lets you express your deepest feeling to the one you care most.

Korea.net

With the perfect spring weather -- not too cold, yet warm enough to get out and enjoy the day -- many winter-weary people seem to have the strong urge to go out and celebrate the arrival of spring.

Telegraph newspaper online

Brunnera macrophylla, with its 20in-tall (50cm) airy sprays of blue forget-me-not flowers and dense mounds of neat foliage, is a mainstay of many shady gardens, but rarely receives plaudits.

LJWorld

Here comes spring. April showers bring May flowers, or so they say. Well, last year, they didn't in downtown because of budget cuts. Half of the downtown planters were empty. Lawrence has the most beautiful downtown setting in the state of Kansas. Flowers don't cost that much. So what can be done?

Processingtalk

The Sirane Flowerfresh flower pouch is made from a plant-derived biopolymer and sustainable cellulose-based material that can be produced in any colour - green, unsurprisingly being the most popular with customers.

Daily Mail

Wild flowers that were once abundant in the countryside are being overwhelmed by an epidemic of nettles and goosegrass.

Greater Kashmir

"This is the best season for selling plants, seedlings, and saplings and it starts from late February and lasts till May."

Salt Lake Tribune

Aficionados maintain that witnessing desert wildflowers is one of the most rewarding experiences in nature. Fall's dramatic leaf color change is guaranteed to happen every year. Desert wildflowers are far less predictable. If good spring rains are lacking, which was largely the case in 2006 and 2007, the flowers don't appear. When nature does cooperate, for two weeks or a month the desert looks as if it has been streaked by a giant paintbrush.

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.