Author: Jill Brooke
Fleurs de Villes Back at Hudson Yards with 14 Star Florists
By Jill Brooke Fleurs de Villes is bringing back its floral installation extravaganza to the lobby of New York’s Hudson Yards starting Oct 6. I will be one of the judges along with Corrine Heck of Details Flowers. We will be asked to judge the floral installations in categories such as Most Realistic, Most Creative and …
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AGRS Best Performing Roses 2024: Here are Winners
By Jill Brooke If you are lamenting how some of your roses didn’t grow well, you will love this story. The American Garden Rose Selections (AGRS™), the leading organization dedicated to promoting exceptional garden roses, just announced the winners of its highly anticipated 2024 AGRS garden rose selections. The winning roses embody all the characteristics …
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Rose Lover Photo Contest Winners Announced for 2023
By Jill Brooke Garden roses are so lush and perfect for photography. This is why Alexandra Farms, one of the world’s most prolific growers of roses, started a Garden Rose Design Contest. It’s been going on now for six years and here are the 2023 winners. What do I observe as far as the winning …
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Deer Problems? Master Gardener Offers These Tips
By Lawrence Leaf Here’s a three-step theory to keep Bambi’s white-tailed butt out of your garden! The first thing to remember is we are the intruder and not the deer. In reality, we may be the wild animals building our single and multilevel homes. Building our pathways traveled by fast-moving pieces of metal transporting us …
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Lawrence Leaf’s Fall Gardening Tips: 3 Best Flower to Plant
By Lawrence Leaf Who does not love spring bursting in an array of colors that spring flower bulbs deliver? After the duel days of winter leafless somber end, to see this is uplifting to every positive emotion a human can ever have. Flowers inspire romance, hope, and physical well-being like nothing else in this wonderful …
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Why Is Crayola Crayons Getting into Flower Biz?
By Jill Brooke Crayola Crayons announced it is launching an online flower shop with a percentage of profits going to good causes. Considering Caribbean green and cerise are popular crayon colors, luckily they also are found in nature. It does sound very altruistic. However, let us not forget that Crayola is owned by Hallmark, the …
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Planting Tulips WITHOUT Digging? Yup – Cornell Study Surprises
By Linda Lee We’ve found an obscure tip for planting tulips this fall. Don’t dig holes at all. That’s a method called “Till and Fill.” Or defy instructions about digging holes that are 6 inches, 7 inches deep. Just dig holes two inches deep. We hear you saying huh? But the Cornell Flower Bulb Research …
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Effortless Tulip Planting: The No-Dig ‘Till and Fill’ Method for Stunning Spring Blooms
We’ve found an obscure tip for planting tulips this fall. Don’t dig holes at all. That’s a method called “Till and Fill.” Or defy instructions about digging holes that are 6 inches, 7 inches deep. Just dig holes two inches deep. We hear you saying huh? But the Cornell Flower Bulb Research Program discovered this more than ten years ago, and somehow the news never got out.
For a Wedding Above the Clouds: What Would You Make?
By Jill Brooke The theme for Interflora World Cup 23 was connecting to nature with an emphasis on sustainability. As part of the competitive trials, the top floral artists in the world, each representing their country, were asked to create a bridal bouquet. But this was not an ordinary bouquet. Of course not. Titled, “Our …
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Floral Fashions at Interflora World Cup 2023
By Jill Brooke That flower feeling definitely was in full force at the Interflora World Cup 2023 in Manchester, England. This is the floral world’s version of the Olympics which happens every four years. Florists compete with other design stars in their home country to achieve the honor of being part of the World Cup. …
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