Peckenpaughs Garden Center

Business name:

Peckenpaughs Garden Center

Address:

4512 Hogue Rd

City:

Evansville

State:

Indiana

Zip Code:

47712

Phone number:

(812) 425-9927

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Stinnett: Henderson floral shop marks 90 years

Larry Dixon was a journeyman union bricklayer who had also been trained in welding and blueprint reading. He had a good job with a company in Evansville. He was not intending to go to work for his father-in-law's florist shop, Shaw's Flowers. Except that the Tri-state was in the midst of one of two historic back-to-back winters that dumped prodigious amounts of snow, making outdoor construction work temporarily scarce. Walter Shaw, father of Dixon's wife, Cynthia, needed help and promised him a steady paycheck. "He said, ‘Cindy someday is going to take over the business. You need to learn it.' " Dixon agreed to try it, but said if the work didn't suit him, he wouldn't stay. More than 40 years later, Larry Dixon is still working at the shop with his wife (who started there full-time in 1972) and their veteran staff. But even that doesn't begin to touch the full history of Shaw's Flowers, which traces itself back to 1928 and this month celebrates its 90th anniversary, making it the oldest florist - and one of the oldest businesses - in Henderson. The Shaw history of gardening and selling flowers goes back at least six generations to 19th-century Germany, when the family name was spelled Zschau. Three Zschau brothers who had learned the trade immigrated to America in the early 20th century, finding work as gardeners for wealthy Chicago families and eventually each owning his own greenhouse. One of the brothers' sons, Walter R. Zschau (who changed his last name to Shaw as he became an American citizen and enlisted in the Marines during World War I), worked in and owned greenhouses befo...

Campbell Horticultural Society celebrates 90 years with annual flower show and tea

Sandra Strong also won in the cone flower section, this for double blooms.Linda Harper of Evansville won first prizes for her clematis, outdoor potted plant, and floating begonia, no foliage, while Roberta McMullan took home prizes for best snapdragons, hydrangea, listeria, and Best in Class for dahlias and perennials.Wilda Campbell of Mindemoya also won a Best in Class award, this for her orange gladiola. She also placed first for potted begonias, any colour except yellow.Mary White of Providence Bay won first prizes for pansies, coleus, house plant, and potted begonias with two or more plants in a pot while Ann McFarquhar of Sandfield won firsts for her ivy and prayer plants and Alana Lubenkov won for her collection of cacti and succulents.The judges for this 90th celebration of the Campbell Horticultural Society were Christine Liinamaa Osmond and Tina Hansen. The Flower Show Committee consisted of Diane Chmielak, Carol Lang, Carol Lee, Marie Sloss, Sally Blackburn-Sloss, Bev Webster and Mary White.The Society's executive is made up of President Sandra Strong, Secretary Sally Blackburn-Sloss and Treasurer Mary White. Meetings are held monthly, save July and August, and all are welcome to join.a...

After decades in business, flower shop owner is retiring

EVANSVILLE -- For decades, Joan Schmitt has helped local residents celebrate good times while offering compassion during the tough ones. As Schmitt put it: "I marry them, and I bury them." It's all part of the flower business. And at age 90 -- after working The Flower Shop on Kentucky Avenue for more than 60 years and running it since her husband Paul's death in 1974 -- Schmitt is ready to walk away. The property is for sale, and the business will close Jan. 30. The Flower Shop has been at the same location near Bayard Park for 140 years. That places its opening only 12 years after Abraham Lincoln's assassination. The business was owned by Paul Schmitt's parents, Edgar and Mary. Generations of loyal customers allowed The Flower Shop to thrive, despite being in a mostly residential area with little traffic. They are greeted by a spacious greenhouse, bursts of color, all sorts of seasonal decor, and, of course, those wonderful scents. "We have always had a wonderful reputatio... (messenger-inquirer)

90-year-old florist marries 'em, buries 'em

EVANSVILLE – For decades, Joan Schmitt has helped local residents celebrate good times while offering compassion during the tough ones. As Schmitt put it: “I marry them, and I bury them.” It’s all part of the flower business. And at age 90 – after working The Flower Shop on Kentucky Avenue for more than 60 years and running it since her husband Paul’s death in 1974 – Schmitt is ready to walk away. The property is for sale, and the business will close Jan. 30. The Flower Shop has been at the same location near Bayard Park for 140 years. That places its opening only 12 years after Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. The business was owned by Paul Schmitt’s parents, Edgar and Mary. Generations of loyal customers allowed The Flower Shop to thrive, despite being in a mostly residential area with little traffic. They are greeted by a spacious greenhouse, bursts of color, all sorts of seasonal décor, and, of course, those wonderful scents. “We have always had a wonderful reputation,” Schmitt sai... (Fort Wayne Journal Gazette)

Hoosier Gardener: Campaign underway to name butterfly weed as state wildflower

Butterfly weed won by a long shot, said Wallace, of Evansville, 10-year member of INPAWS. She met with Republican Sens. Vaneta Becker and David Long the day before Thanksgiving to begin the process. Becker likely will craft the bill, Wallace said. “It has been very challenging to do this during the holidays. But this just seems like the right year,” Wallace said. To support a bill, email or write Becker and Long and the representatives and senators from your area, Wallace said. Butterfly weed (Asclepias tuberosa) has become a very popular perennial the past several years, primarily because of its value as a food plant in the monarch butterfly’s lifecycle. A member of the milkweed family, butterflies slurp nectar from the bright orange flowers. Monarchs lay her eggs on milkweeds, which hatch and the larva eat the leaves before pupating and turning into butterflies. The Asclepias family is the only food plant for the caterpillars. The loss of natural habitats of butterfly weed has prompted gardeners, municipalities, highway departments, parks and others to plant the perennial as a way to support monarchs, whose numbers have seen sharp decline over the past decade. Coincidentally, butterfly weed is the 2017 Perennial Plant of the Year, named by the Perennial Plant Association, a trade association of breeders, growers, horticulturists and educators. Grow butterfly weed in full sun and well-drained soil. Once established, the plant, which gets about 2 feet tall and wide, is drought tolerant. The flowers and seed heads are great for bouquets. Deadhead the plant to reduce self-sowing. Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp (hoosiergardener.com) is treasurer of Garden Writers Association and co-author of “The Indiana Gardener's Guide.” Write to her at P.O. Box 20310, Indianapolis, IN 46220-0310, or email thehoosiergardener@gmail.com. Read or Share this story: http://indy.st/2jDNIeM ... (Indianapolis Star)

Coroner finds sister of Vietnam veteran who will be buried Tuesday near Casper

Services for Stephen Carl Reiman are planned for 10 a.m. Tuesday at the Oregon Trail State Veterans Cemetery in Evansville. The public is welcome. Flowers can be sent to Bustard’s Funeral Home, 600 CY Ave. Get news headlines sent daily to your inbox Casper police, along with Mills and Evansville police, will escort Reiman’s casket from Bustard’s Funeral Home to the cemetery. The escort will begin about 9 a.m. Tuesday and will follow the route outlined on its Facebook page. The Wyoming Patriot Guard Riders also planned to ride with the escort. Reiman took a three-day bus ride from a community for homeless veterans in Long Beach, California, and arrived in Sheridan on Nov. 8. A few days later, Reiman was taken to a Sheridan hospital from the motel where he was living. He was then taken to Wyoming Medical Center in Casper, where he died of an illness on Nov. 17. Jacobson said Reiman previously told a doctor that he had depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and alcoholism. His symptoms worsened after his only son died in combat in Iraq, he told the doctor, and had been unable to keep a job. About a tenth of people who were homeless in Wyoming in 2016 were also veterans, according to the most recent survey by the Wyoming branch of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. On one night in January 2016, there were 87 homeless veterans living in the state — the lowest number in the past five years. (Casper Star-Tribune Online)