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Apr 4, 2021

Spring Festival of Flowers to include flowers, edible plants, trees and activities - Pensacola News Journal

Spring Festival of Flowers is returning April 9-11 at the Pensacola State College Milton campus. Now in its 23rd year, the festival continues as a vernal convention for local growers, garden clubs, and commercial nurseries. It’s also a marquee event for the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS).“The festival is a partnership with the Pensacola State College Milton campus,” said Robin Vickers, administrative support assistant with UF’s West Florida Research and Education Center.In turn, the festival supports IFAS agricultural programs and allows the UF Student Club to sell trees donated by area growers.“The proceeds provide scholarships to University of Florida and PSC’s Milton Campus students,” Vickers continued. “The student club sales go directly to the club to fund activities and student field trips each year.”Ted Ciano's closes: End of an era: Ted Ciano's Used Cars closes shop after 53 years in Pensacola's car cityNew steakhouse: 'Something that Pace needed:' Izaeh's Steakhouse set to open on Woodbine RoadAdditionally, the festival will include a variety of booths with arts and crafts, nature-minded nonprofit organizations such as the Boy Scouts, and such children’s...

Jul 5, 2019

Top 5 Reasons We Love Roseville - Rocklin & Roseville Today

Open Spaces Great egrets, flocks of turkeys, grazing goats and other resident animals rely on Roseville’s open space for their existence. Vernal ponds and creeks help to nourish the open spaces and provide food and a home to our fellow creatures. Spend just a little time out here and you’ll surely be rewarded with a visit. Dawn and dusk are the perfect time to spot animals or to capture a spectacular California sunset. 3- City Services Roseville is the only full service city in the region. Budgetary challenges aside, residents enjoy an exceptionally cared for and well maintained community that can be evidenced at the clean local parks, open spaces, and public areas. In our experience, we’ve witnessed a city that is more responsive to its citizens than most communities. That’s not so common. Kudos! 4- The Weather We love the heat of summer, the evening chill of autumn nights, the mild rains of winter, and the technicolor of spring. Consistent and often predictable year in and year out, Roseville area weather is spectacular on many fronts. If warm sunshine is your thing and adverse weather conditions are not, Roseville is your place. 5- Central Location Looking at a map of California, you’ll be hard pressed to find a city more conveniently located for those that enjoy exploring the Golden State. Whether it’s a simple morning hike in the Sierra Nevada Foothills, a day trip to the San Francisco Bay Area or a more expansive trip beyond, Roseville’s location provides a centrally located home base. Quick access to and fro Sacramento Airport is an extra benefit. Sweet! 6- The People We regularly receive opportunities to meet people across a wide and diverse spectrum of backgrounds and in every walk of life. We love to hear other people’s stories. Most of the people we encounter in Roseville, come across as reserved, respectful of others and friendly. If the younger generation of teens and twenty-somethings ar...

Nov 28, 2018

Tropical Gardening: Brighten fall gardening with flowering plants, trees - Hawaii Tribune Herald

Fall is officially here in the northern hemisphere, since the sun moved south of the equator. The autumnal equinox for us is the vernal or spring equinox for those south of the equator. As the sun moves farther from us, days are shorter and plants tend to slow their growth. This brings on the rainier season in East Hawaii and the drier season in West Hawaii. ADVERTISING Even though we do not see the brilliant fall colors ablaze in the forests and gardens of the mainland, we can improvise. This year, with all the rain, even West Hawaii is green. So now is the time for nursery and garden store shopping. You can find some great ideas for bringing the feeling of fall into our gardens. Where nights are cool and days frequently cloudy, try some of the fancy new impatiens hybrids. The New Guinea hybrids are especially attractive. These new hybrids are much more compact and flower abundantly. They come in all flower colors and have multicolored leaves, as well. Other impatiens on the market are the traditional types hybridized to be compact and floriferous. Fall in Hawaii is colorful with Hawaiian wiliwili...

Apr 20, 2018

PARK VIEWS: Flowers, Weeds and Birds

Remember when bush honeysuckle hid the vernal pool? Today the pool is visible, it’s surrounded by wildflowers, and it’s a great place to watch resident and migrating birds. Last week, Golden-crowned Kinglets were gleaning insects from the brush piles by the pool and this week you might see warblers stopping for a rest and a morsel to eat as they continue their journey north! Visitors on Saturday reported seeing a Brown Thrasher, Tree Swallows, a Northern Mockingbird , Red-winged Blackbirds and Eastern Meadowlarks at the Park. Eastern Bluebirds also are nesting and a Song Sparrow was singing in the garden.If you forego the walk in the woods, check out the flowering “weeds” in the grass and along the path to the butterfly garden. A bit of Purple Deadnettle, with its vase-shaped flower head, is growing through a crack in the sidewalk. Deadnettle is a winter annual. The seeds begin to grow in the fall and continue slowly throughout the winter until, with just a touch of warmth, the Deadnettle springs into bloom and covers farm fields in a haze of purple!Another winter annual weed that is popping up all over is Hairy Bittercress. The plant has a basal rosette of leaves, tiny four-petaled white flowers and seed pods that are held high above the plant. When the pods are dry and/or disturbed, seeds explode from the pod and are scattered hither and yon. If they are in your garden, pull them out now or pull more later!Persian Speedwell is a delicate, lovely flowering weed. The blue flowers are so small that a number of “weed” fanciers have been thrilled to find them. Park visitors are lucky. A showy patch of Persian Speedwell grows by a rock at the fire pit and a smaller patch grows in the gras...

Apr 6, 2018

Down To Earth: Spectacular Colors And Winter Flowers Make Witch Hazel A Garden Delight

H. mollis, the Chinese witch hazel, which grows to 10 to 15 feet in height and spread. Hamamelis vernalis is a native species that is quite hardy (zone 4) and can be found along streams from Missouri to Louisiana. Finally, the species Hamamelis virginiana, another native, can grow quite large—to 18 to 20 feet. It’s also found throughout much of the eastern US.Most of these plants grow to 5 to 6 feet in the average landscape, although they have the potential to get larger, depending on the cultivar chosen. Their broadly upright habit makes them ideal for use in most gardens and they work well even in a small space. They respond well to pruning and can be kept to 4 to 5 feet easily. They also add spectacular fall color, as do many plants in their family (Hamamelidaceae). Leaf colors in the fall can range from yellow to orange, gold and bright red. Fall color alone makes these plants worthy of use. They have spectacular foliage during the summer months as well, with rounded, slightly wavy leaf margins and a nice, clear green color.If you’re looking for a good resource for this genus, try Michael Dirr’s “Manual of Woody Landscape Plants.” He has a great chart listing all the relevant cultivars of each species. Arnold Arboretum in Boston has a wonderful collection and they should be in flower now, if you can make the trip.There are 33 cultivars listed in Michael Dirr’s manual. In searching through nursery catalogues, typically you’ll be hard-pressed to find more than two to three listed. However, during a quick online search of Broken Arrow Nursery in Hamden, Connecticut, I found they list 38 cultivars and many are quite spectacular. I may have to make a trip this spring!...

Jun 8, 2017

A Man and His Flowers

Due to temperatures, we lost an entire crop recently in Pennsylvania because it was 26 degrees in April. ... North Carolina didn’t get vernalization and didn’t have peony crops for two years.”He said one windy site has a microclimate that is 10 degrees cooler than the others nearby, and gets its buds later due to the cooling effect.As the flower industry has shifted and changed over the years, Currie has had to change and adapt as well.The large flower markets in New York and Boston are a major outlet for Currie’s peonies. Event planners, florists and other buyers come to the markets to see the quality and condition of what they are buying (as opposed to buying a box of flowers via telephone) and can tell if the flowers are high quality and fresh, he said. The visual aspect of the flower markets is important, he said, since buyers are willing to pay more for a flower they can see.“We cut softer,” he said, which guarantees the bloom will open in a timely way. “We have varietal mixes that are more interesting.” With peony names like Diana Parks, Ann Styer, Glowing Candles, Coral Charm, Reine Hortense and many others coming from Styer’s Peonies, buyers have a broad range to choose from.But the New York markets were slow after the tragedy of 9/11, Currie said. “Nobody could celebrate, and there was little floral demand. Businesses went bust,” he said. The whole flower industry was affected, according to Currie. So, he sold to just a few big buyers during that time, and didn’t reach out to the numbers of customers he’d sold to before.He keeps a close eye on the competition. Currie said the price of peonies is lower than it used to be, due to flowers from places like Israel, France and Holland. But he differentiates his business from others by constantly planting more unique varieties, and providing the highest quality of fresh-cut peony. His aim is the high-end buyer.He also grows peonies in accordance with standards set out by Whole Foods, controlling weeds primarily by having to “mow and mow and mow.”He is experimenting with planting clover between the rows for weed control. Based on his own observations and what he hears from others, Currie said he believes that Roundup (glyphosate) damages the roots of the plants. He acknowledges that this opinion is based on experience, not science.“We just dig up and replant if we get disease,” he said. “We are constantly bringing in new varieties that are differ... (Lancaster Farming)