Flower News Archive - Oct 2009

America's favorite flower

Hundreds of people attended the first day of the Garden Club of Virginia's 71st annual Rose Show, and club members and the event's organizers hope that many more will visit Thursday.

18 additional flowers

The plants usually produce just one main flower, but temperatures of up to 92F (28C) caused a remarkable flurry of growth. Father-of-five Graham Whitlock, 62, planted the sunflower from seed in his garden late last year.

40 million potted flowers

The demand for flowers to dress up the city is said to have kept at least 10,000 Beijing farmers busy, and given a much needed boost to the floral industry. Feng Yanxin, Manager of Beijing Caoqiao Yangzhen Planting Base of Flowers and Trees, knows all too well the perks of getting involved in a major event.

Chrysanthemum

A gardener from Trowbridge who last year dedicated a new variety of flower to his late mother, has now grown another variety in memory of his father. Clive Webb, 66, of Wyke Road, Trowbridge, has called the white single variety of chrysanthemum.

Chrysanthemum and Roses

China is holding its seventh Flower Expo in the Shunyi district of Beijing. 1300 exhibitors from China and around the world have brought their local plants, seeds and latest gardening techniques to the show. The first three days have seen 270-thousand visitors.

World for Orchid Exploration

The Taiwan Orchid Plantation, located in Tainan County in the south of the country, is poised to become a mecca for tourists after being transformed into a leisure and tourism park.

Golden grass

RARE wild orchids growing on mountain cliffs are prized in traditional medicine, but not for their flowers, for their stems. Zhang Qian explores. An inconspicuous herbal tonic in many Chinese pharmacies is a small ball of what looks like twisted and wrapped straw, but it's one of the nine top "fairy herbs" of Taoism.

China Flower Association

The 7th China Flower exhibition kicked off Saturday in Shunyi, Beijing, marking the beginning of the ten-day-event. Chinese Vice Premier Hui Liangyu, and Liu Qi, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, attended the opening ceremony.

Flowers blooming

Each 1°C increase in temperature brings forward flowering by 11 days according to scientists who created a model using climate data. Temperatures are expected to rise by 5°C by 2080 which could lead to flowers blooming as much as two months early.

Order flowers

Fellas, if you're in the doghouse, you can now order flowers via your Android phone. Handy. 1-800-flowers.com have announced a downloadable storefront app for Android.

Floral display

A flower festival has been held at a Dunstable church as part of its centenary celebrations. Celebrations were the theme at the event, at the Methodist Church, on The Square.

Flower crop

In a year when every item that goes into Durga Puja has become extremely expensive, the burden of the flowers may be the last straw for many puja committees. Puja budgets have gone awry, thanks to the sharp rise in vegetable and bamboo prices. Now, flowers are also pricier and in short supply.

Garden city

The Christchurch economy was boosted by $19.7 million directly from hosting the Ellerslie Flower Show this year, an independent study has revealed. That is more than $3 million higher than the amount generated when the event was held in Auckland.

Varieties of sunflowers

The sunflower harvest in Western Canada has begun and while prices for the oil varieties of sunflowers may be easing, values for confectionery are expected to climb.

Local flowers

FROM dinner-plate sized dahlias to giant marrows, local gardeners gave their all at two local flower and produce shows. Both Colney Heath Autumn Show and St Stephens Gardening Club annual show were held on the same weekend and attracted hundreds of visitors and exhibitors.

marketwire

Travel retailer Hudson Group opens Petals -- a new flower shop -- at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) in the passenger meet and greet area of Tom Bradley International Terminal (TBIT) featuring flowers grown in Southern California.

dallasnews

It seems way too early to be thinking about spring, but it's the best time to decide which bulbs you'd like to see blooming in your garden next March. Although we're just two days into autumn, you can already find tulip and daffodil bulbs at some local garden retailers.

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Sometimes thought to be recession-proof, flower shops are starting to feel the pinch.

Flower arranging presentation

THE annual Balbriggan Horticutural Show was a great success with exhibitiors coming from far and wide to show their efforts. Held in the community college, the Cronin Trophy for best exhibit in the show was run by Oliver Clarke from Rush. Runner-up was Alec Brannigan from Summerhill, Co Meath.

$100,000 to stay in business

Australia's main horticulture lobby group says it's avoided going broke. Earlier this month, the Horticulture Australia Council revealed it urgently needed more than $100,000 to stay in business.

Cultivation of roses

An office of its own, as well as a trial ground to encourage rose breeders are amongst the foremost challenges before the Rose Society of Pune, president Sharad Gatne told TOI on Tuesday.

9ft sunflowers

TWO Scarborough youngsters are walking tall after growing giant sunflowers. Olivia Walker and Tyla-Jo Storey, both aged five, have each grown 9ft sunflowers and are proud of their efforts.

1,000 people attended

MORE than £4,000 was raised by generous villagers and visitors to Peopleton Autumn Show. Over 1,000 people attended the event - the first of its kind the in village for 20 years - which was in aid of St Nicholas Church.

Valentine's Day Flowers

The world's largest florist and gift shop 1-800-Flowers.com is enjoying benefits including cost savings, thanks to its deployment of VoIP communications services.

Kenya Flower Council

The bloom is off the rose with a vengeance - Kenya's once thriving flower industry shrank this year by 33 per cent. This was after experiencing luxuriant growth for over two decades.

Flower display

When the heavy rains come, the Clarksville Town Council meetings flood with concerned residents. Angela Smith and her mother, Becky Wadsworth, were on hand Monday night to share the dire situation facing their longtime floral business, Cannon's Florist.

Daliah and Begonia flowers

The city of Tel Aviv continued its year-long centennial celebration on Wednesday (September 16), with the installation of a sweeping carpet of flowers in the city's Rabin Square, received as a gift from the city of Brussels. The half-million flowers used to compose the colourful carpet arrived from Belgium on Wednesday morning, after being held-up in the airport overnight due to aircraft problems and bureaucracy.

Beautiful Garden

WE ARE a thriving club, dedicated to the appreciation of flowers and the 'art' of flower arranging. We are constantly seeking to develop Knaresborough Flower Club and are delighted to attract new members to join us at our packed and varied programme.

Flowers and Floral materials

An orchid design competition to be held Oct. 3 at an orchid biotech park in Tainan County, southern Taiwan will offer a first prize of NT$1 million, the organizers said Wednesday. The competition will be part of a series of activities to mark the transformation of the Taiwan Orchid Plantation into a leisure and tourism park.

Existing flowers

The Uttar Pradesh government has decided to provide sops to revive the Noida flower mandi and create a level playing field to ward off competition from the existing flower mandis in the national capital. The sops include exemption from mandi fee for one year and transportation subsidy for bringing flowers to mandi for auction and bulk sale.

Flowers and Vegetables

With the country witnessing rise in temperature due to global warming, greenhouse cultivation is the only way out to save flowers and vegetables, according to experts. The experts apprehended that global warming may impact flower cultivation and consequently affect the floriculture industry in the country.

Peak flower season

Kenya's biggest flower producers have scaled down production due to water scarcity. A water rationing mode currently effected in Naivasha, the bedrock for flower farming, is likely to deny the country the revenue from improved sales ahead of the onset of the peak flower season later this month.

Flowers to European countries

The Indian Society of Floriculture Professionals (ISFP) here has decided to set up a research centre for commercial floriculture to enhance research and development activities in the sector.

Fresh-cut flowers

Flower production in Kenya may fall about 20 percent this year as the global economic crisis causes a slump in export demand.

Colorful flowers

A pair of Los Angeles artists have teamed up with Toyota on an unusually functional art project: a set of large, colorful flowers.

Kenya Flower Council

Flower production in the country is expected to increase threefold once the industry is included under the proposed Special Economic Zones.

Pick flowers

Three gangmasters who used Polish and Lithuanian workers to pick flowers in Cornwall have had their licences revoked after an investigation.

Potted flowers

About 40 million potted flowers are decorating the streets of Beijing beginning today.

Floriculture Professionals

The Indian Society of Floriculture Professionals (ISFP) here has decided to set up a research centre for commercial floriculture to enhance research and development activities in the sector.

Flowers and decorations

For more than a decade Downers Delight has pleased palates with its food, but for the past few years the owners have brought a different delight to customers.

Parks and Gardens as tourism products

Malaysia will take part in China's annual flower and plant trade exposition in Xuchang next year to promote the country's parks and gardens as a tourism product, Tourism Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ng Yen Yen said.

Fresh flowers

Greenery Florists, a flower shop in Abingdon, MD, is pleased to introduce its newly redesigned Web site. The new online flower ordering Web site features beautiful, full-color photographs of a wide range of fresh flowers and floral arrangements. Visitors can browse the site and search for flowers by occasion, color and price.

Beautiful flowers

Chief Executive Officer of the 2010 Taipei International Gardening and Horticulture Exposition (or Flora Expo), said he hopes to create a beautiful and colorful new horizon for the Taipei event.

Development of Horticulture

The Centre has released Rs 80.56 crore for the development of horticulture in all northeastern states, Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand. The Centre has earmarked Rs 349 crore for the 2009-10 fiscal, of which Rs 280 crore is for northeastern states and Rs 69 crore will be disbursed to the three Himalayan states for overall development of horticulture in the region.

Floral creations

While customers and co-workers hail Dean Shover's floral creations as one-of-a-kind, versatile designs, he doesn't make too much of a big deal out of it.

A Rare Wild Flower

The rare flower, with its spear shaped leaves and small pinkish flowers, was discovered outside one of the homes, near Fairford.

Fernandez Flower Shop

Raleigh Florist

The English Garden Florist is pleased to announce that they have received the 2009 Standing Ovation Award in the category of Home Life - Florist by Metro Magazine.

Free roses to customers

Arlene's Flowers and Gifts in Richland is handing out free roses to customers Sept. 9 to help bring a little cheer. Customers can get a dozen roses, and are expected to keep one and pass on the rest to neighbors and friends to brighten their day.

Menagesha Flowers

New technology for Ethiopian horticulture producers and exporters was introduced during the workshop at the Hilton Hotel on Thursday, September 3 by Australian company, Peakfresh Pty Ltd.

Variety of roses

The Rose Society of Pune plans to set up an experimental station dedicated to researching how hardy, indigenous varieties of roses that consume less water, may be developed. Addressing a news conference on Saturday, Sharad Gatne, president of the Rose Society of Pune, said that while the organisation has worked towards the promotion and popularisation of the rose family for over 48 years now, it was in keeping with the need of the hour to address the issue of water shortage.

Floral show

The 68-year-old, of Station Road, Cheddleton, regularly enters shows in Stafford, Leek, Ashbourne and Cellarhead, but has never previously taken part in the Stoke-on-Trent Floral and Garden Produce Show. But the 60th annual event proved to be one he will never forget after taking prizes in each class he entered.

Flowers to Britain and Europe

Kenya's exports of 450,000 tons of vegetables, fruit and flowers to Britain and European markets have become the East African country's fastest growing economic sector.

Talent for floral design

Donald Schambach learned the florist business when he was still in high school, working after school and weekends at Schock's Greenhouse in Elgin. He worked at various greenhouses to learn all aspects of the business, then opened Fifth Avenue Flowers in St. Charles in 1975 when he was just 27 years old.

Lecture in International Floriculture

Dr. Michael P. Parrella will be the Distinguished Lecturer for the 7th Ellison Chair in International Floriculture Distinguished Lecture Series at Texas A&M University. The event, on Oct. 28, will begin with a reception at 2:30 p.m. in the Horticulture and Forest Science Building atrium. His address will begin at 3 p.m. in Room 102 there.

Leading grower of cut flowers

An Arcata flower grower is extending its search for agriculture workers to Colusa and surrounding counties as unemployment continues to skyrocket in rural areas. Sun Valley Group, the leading grower of cut flowers in the U.S., is hopeful that agriculture workers here will consider relocating to Northern California's coast for full-time, year-round employment.

Flowers and Fruits

The Punjab Government has decided to constitute a board to boost the production of vegetables, flowers and fruits in the state. A decision to this effect has been taken by Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal during a meeting with the Pears, Vegetables growers and florists from all over the state at Punjab Bhawan on Thursday.

Bunch of flowers

1300 FLOWERS has launched a new system allowing consumers to interact with the business via SMS. The new system allows customers to inquire about an order, request a quote for a bunch of flowers or apply for an advertised special.

Tulip Garden

Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today pitched for commercialisation of floriculture in Jammu and Kashmir, saying the sector provides rich potential for youth to launch ventures.

Springs in bloom

For the fifth consecutive year, Colorado College has won top honors in Colorado Springs' "Springs in Bloom" competition. CC received first place in the service organization category for the college's two showcase flower beds, located in the Cascade Avenue median between Uintah and Cache La Poudre streets.

Flower for 80 drams

Flower prices more than doubled overnight, although most of the flowers were already resold on August 31 for 30-50 drams more," one flower shop worker told "A1+". September 1 is the best occasion for florists to earn, as they saw, a little money.

Wedding Flowers

The Flower Exchange, http://www.theflowerexchange.com, is proud to announce the launch of a variety of different package options for wedding flowers. According to the Brides.com 2009 American Wedding Study, the average cost of a wedding has grown almost 50% in the last 10 years and more than 43% of couples say they spent more on their wedding than they had planned. The study reports that on average, couples spend around $1,819 on wedding flowers alone.

Oils from Rose

Do yoga among roses blooming in the wind; hold a wedding among thousands of roses and experience being a flower farmer on a rose farm that covers 10,000 mu. The Miaofeng Mountain in Mentougou District, which was silent in previous years, has been bustling this summer. Previously, only the rose dealers came here, but this year large quantities of visitors have flooded onto Miaofeng Mountain.

Summer flowers

THOUSANDS of green-fingered enthusiasts flocked to an Aberdeen park at the weekend to see colourful displays of flowers and vegetables. About 4,000 people attended the annual summer flower and vegetable show of The Royal Horticultural Society of Aberdeen (RHSA) on Saturday and Sunday.

Dahlia tubers

Dan Pearson started selling his family's dahlias by the side of the road; today, a large portion of his business comes from the information superhighway the Internet.

Once-in-a-lifetime prize

A RACING experience in an Aston Martin was among the top prizes on offer at Bisley's annual flower show and fete on Saturday, August 29.