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Jul 6, 2021

Climate change in the garden | The JOLT - The Journal of Olympia, Lacey & Tumwater - The Jolt News

A wise elder once said to me, “Grieve your losses and then move on.” The “moving on” part of that challenges us to gather our wits, and to use all our skills as gardeners and citizens to adapt to our changing future, and to push for making that future livable. Jill Severn writes from her home in Olympia, where she grows vegetables, flowers and a small flock of chickens. She loves conversation among gardeners. Start one by emailing her at jill@theJOLTnews.com Adblock test (Why?)...

Apr 4, 2021

Lessons learned: A florist shares how she stays connected to customers during COVID-19 - Battle Creek Enquirer

Elisha Hodge, guest writer Battle Creek EnquirerThe pandemic created many challenges for Plumeria.Stay-at-home orders affecting our ability to have staff. Closing the storefront, which drastically decreased walk-in business. Supply chain interruptions limiting our ability to get the products we rely on to conduct business.We decided to identify what we were able to do and what resources we could find to create solutions. We had to scour the planet to find temporary alternative sources for many of the flowers, plants and gifts that we normally stock. The staff assisted from home, making connections to new vendors and brainstorming new ideas to stay relevant while we were closed. We felt what mattered most was to stay connected with our amazing customers.We started Facebook Live videos. Our audience could purchase flower kits, we would ship, and they would make flowers virtually. This helped give people who were stuck at home a chance to feel connected. We provided safe activities that stretched beyond the walls of their living space, even if only in a virtual m...

Apr 4, 2021

Gardening With Allen: Perennial flowers offer early color - The Columbian

Allen Wilson is a Vancouver gardening specialist. Email Allen Wilson at allenw98663@yahoo.com. Photo I plan to plant more perennial flowers this spring so I don’t have to replant every year. Could you share with us some of your favorite perennial flowers? How do they bloom in comparison to annuals? Perennial flowers are becoming more popular every year as gardeners look for ways to reduce gardening maintenance. Some perennials bloom before it is even warm enough to plant annuals. So they give a welcome addition of early color to supplement our spring-blooming bulbs like daffodils and tulips. Other perennials bloom late in the season, continuing past the time when most annual flowers have finished blooming. However, there are only a few perennials that bloom for as long a period as some of our most popular annual flowers. I have planted a lot of early- and late-blooming perennials, but I have some favorite summer-blooming perennials also. I particularly like the ground...

Apr 4, 2021

Gardening with Allen: Hardy flowers, veggies to plant now - The Columbian

Allen Wilson is a Vancouver gardening specialist. Email Allen Wilson at allenw98663@yahoo.com. Photo The warm, sunny weather stimulated me to visit a garden store to look for flowers. It was so busy that I had to wait to find a parking space. Yet the weatherman says it is too early to plant flowers because we had a low of 28 degrees. Are there flowers or vegetables that are safe to plant now? Yes, there are both flowers and vegetables that are hardy down to 26 degrees that can be safely planted now. Vegetables are much easier to categorize so we will do those first. If you eat the leaves, roots or flower buds (lettuce, carrots, broccoli) it is a hardy vegetable. There are two exceptions to this rule. Potatoes are not hardy. However, they are often planted at the same time as hardy vegetables because seed potatoes that are planted in the ground don’t come up for about three weeks when temperature is warmer. The second exception is peas and fava beans, which are very ha...

Apr 4, 2021

Wild Orchid Florist in El Cajon passed down to former apprentice who is taking it to the next level - The East County Californian

I have strength in creativity and is passionate about it. She absolutely loves what she does from her customers to the many challenges this business brings to her every day. “Someone comes in on Friday at four o’clock and needs a $200 arrangement delivered, I just say, ‘Let’s see what I can do,’ and pulling it off, it’s awesome,” she said. “It’s so fun, even with all the challenges. Weddings are a lot of work but they are so rewarding at the end of the day when you see how much love is put into this one event and you get to be the decorations and you just made this bride cry because she walks in and you just made all of her floral dreams come true.” Now that she is owner of this 26-year-old business she said she has many other roles and is passing the same chance to another young apprentice, training her to be the artist. “It is so rewarding to be in the position to take someone that has the passion and give them the knowledge and confidence to become a great designer,” she said. “There are so many aspects of this business that I absolutely love. She loves it as much as I do. We get excited about sticks. It was David’s baby, he started it on his own and for him to pass it on to me I know how proud he already is and is going to be to see his passion and love for his baby and what I’m going to do with it. I’m going to take this place to the next level.” “I love what I do,” she said. Many times she will deliver herself to see the reaction that she gets from people. She said making the arrangements is a personal thing and she gets to be creative. “But when I get to see how it makes the people feel it’s more than wonderful. We are a luxury. You don’t need us so you have to want us. So we want to be great,” she said. Remember Me Brozowski and her family were out delivering flowers at an assisted living home. She had given this man flowers. He was in his bed and they said, “These are for you. Please enjoy.” He said thank you and then a bit later they were on the other side of the building and saw him in his wheelchair with the flowers between his legs. Brozowski asked, “Where are you going sir?” He said, “My wife is in this home and I haven’t been able to go get her flowers in years. I’m taking them to my wife.” This was the beginning of her non-profit (501c3) organization that she began in 2004 after her grandmother began living in an assisted living home in El Cajon. She began realizing the truths of living in an assisted living home and realized how important flowers could be to those that live in them. After her grandmother passed, the family had the idea of sending all of the nurses and doctors flowers after all the wonderful support they gave her grandmother and the family. span...