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Sep 7, 2020

The Slow Flower Movement Is Gaining Momentum - Architectural Digest

Amsterdam’s auction houses.Become an AD PRO MemberBuy now for unlimited access and all of the benefits that only members get to experience.Arrow“[These flowers] can be elevated so easily because the quality is so much better,” Ellen Vieth, who owns Little Pink House Gallery in Genesee, Idaho, told local news outlet Magic Valley about the Melliflora flowers grown half an hour away in Troy, Idaho. “They’re picked from the field one day, hydrated and on the market the next day.”While the U.S. still largely relies on imported flowers, USDA floriculture crop data shows that the wholesale value of production was $4.77 billion in 2018, significantly greater than at any point from 2009 to 2015. Simultaneously, the number of floricultural producers increased 8% from 2015 to 2018, suggesting a greater opportunity to source locally. With major foreign flower producers like Ecuador (literally) cutting their supply to address greatly diminished demand, there could very well be a short-term opportunity for slow flower production. For those with a desire to support smaller, sustainable businesses while standing out from the crowd, this movement might be worth catching onto quickly.

Sep 7, 2020

Heard of dyes made from bacteria or floral leather? Here's a look at brands using tech to disrupt sustainable fashion - Indulgexpress

Looking to fast-track technological and material innovation within the Indian supply chain, Amsterdam-based organisation, Fashion for Good — launched its first South Asia innovation programme earlier this year, with the aim to connect innovators and manufacturers so that they can implement and scale up various sustainable solutions. Now, into its second edition, the platform for sustainable fashion development recently picked nine brands out of 100 startups from the region, five of who are from India. We caught up with three of the innovators focusing on disruptive new materials and dyeing solutions to find out more. Hues to say Despite her doctoral degree in biotechnology, Vaishali Kulkarni spends a lot of her time poring over colour trends and forecasts. “But, employing the use of biodesign within the fashion industry involves not just understanding the science of things. It includes studying the directives that govern fashion and beauty trends,” explains the 32-year-old. Representational image of KBCols cosmetic trials Vaishali’s focus is on changing the dyeing process in the textile industry with the help of bacteria. “Today, when we think of natural colours, we think of fruits and vegetables. However, not only do they produce a limited palette, they are seasonal and land-intensive,” she says. At KB Cols, the biotech studio she founded in 2018, the Institute of Chem...

Jul 26, 2019

The heat wave is causing sunflowers to bloom early - CNN

Instagram post. A social media hit CNN Travel's Richard Quest takes an insider look at Amsterdam's favorite flower.Speaking of Instagram, it's no wonder that the image-conscious side of social media has taken a shine to the sunflower. Dave Diggs, owner of the Sunflower Garden in Westminster, Maryland, says he thinks Facebook and Instagram have helped catch people's interest and sustain a unique fascination with the bloom. "The sunflower is certainly a hot flower this year, and it has been for a while, perhaps more than any other flower I can recall," he said. Diggs says that sunflowers are affected by the heat, and it could definitely make them bloom sooner. But places like the Sunflower Garden plant several times a season, so a premature bloom isn't really that big of a deal. "However, we did have a cooler spring than normal," he said, "So that definitely slowed things down at first." It's not just the temperatures the sunflowers are susceptible to; they really do "follow the sun" throughout the day. Scientists have settled on a few reasons and mechanisms for this behavior. Is it so you'll always be in good lighting for your Instagram pics? No, but you're free to believe that if you want.

May 31, 2019

Rivers of Flowers Burst Into Bloom in Holland - Smithsonian.com

Amsterdam’s largest city park, the famous Vondelpark. Keukenhof has hosted its flower displays since 1950. This year’s exhibition, the 70th in the park’s history, carries the theme of “Flower Power.” Like this article?SIGN UP for our newsletter Let's block ads! a href="https://blocka...

Mar 29, 2019

Spring gardening provides inspiration - Renton Reporter

Nobody celebrates spring like the Dutch – but we can try. Garden to visit near Amsterdam – Keukenhof Steal from the French: Plan for pools of pastel colors Monet painted soft pinks, purples and blue color tones in his famous water colors and garden scenes and the highly developed artistic sense of the average French citizen means that even home gardeners pay attention to color echoes, color groupings and color families. You can make like Monet and float some hellebore blossoms in your bird bath or as a table centerpiece (hellebore blooms closely resemble Monet’s water lilies) or take a cue from the French paint box and plant a container or garden bed in ribbons of pastel colors. Think cool, blue delphiniums, pink phlox and lavender petunias with accents of white or purple. Yes you are painting with flowers and every gardener is an artist with a trowel. Garden to visit near Paris: Monet’s garden in Giverny Steal from the Italians: Formal Forms Mama Mia! You won’t see bountiful blooms in a traditional Italian garden as lack of water has taught Mediterranean gardeners to use form and symmetry to create the living masterpieces of classic garden design. In your own garden use balance and symmetry to add a more formal look to the front of a house with matching urns or container gardens. Do not try to grow the tall and narrow Italian cypress in our wet winter climate. Instead substitute the tall and skinny Ilex ‘Sky Pencil’ to create exclamation points in the landscape or to fill a classic terra cotta container with evergreen form. Garden to visit near Rome: The Vatican gardens -- -- ...

Dec 14, 2018

Brexit could wilt huge Dutch flower trade - Capital FM Kenya

Brexit. “We are preparing for all kind of disturbances along the way,” Pasma told AFP at the huge warehouse in Aalsmeer, near Amsterdam. “The worst is a hard Brexit and we are preparing for that as well.” The Netherlands has long been famous for tulips, and flowers remain a vital part of the Dutch economy, with seven billion euros ($8 billion) a year in sales. Britain is the third largest market for the Netherlands’ flower export business, after Germany and France, accounting for 850 million euros. As it is now, flowers are flown in from around the world before being sent seamlessly to Britain or other parts of the European Union’s single market. – ‘Fresh product’ – However, the political chaos around Britain’s impending exit from the EU on March 29, 2019 has left businesses unsure about what kind of trade arrangements — if any — will follow. Businesses across the continent have been worrying about this since Britain voted to leave in 2016, but nowhere is the problem as pertinent as in a business where only the freshest produce will do. A virtual Wall Street for flowers a few miles from Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport, Royal FloraHolland acts as both auction house and distribution centre, with more than 100,000 transactions a day. Wearing shoe covers and fluorescent jackets, 3,000 workers deal with crates full of flowers, which are then moved around the huge centre by forklift trucks moving with balletic precision. Around a third of world flower trade passes through the Netherlands, with about 20 percent flown in direct from Africa via Amsterdam ai...