Author: Jill Brooke
Debra Prinzing’s Slow Flowers Summit Comes to Westchester
By Jill Brooke Like nepeta complimenting pink roses in a garden, the indefatigable and inspiring Debra Prinzing has joined forces with the folks at the award-winning restaurant Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture in Pocantico Hills to create one of her engaging educational Slow Flowers seminars. Prinzing, a Seattle bases gardening writer, speaker and …
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Arab-Israeli Students Create Coexistence Garden
By Jill Brooke Gotta love the idea of a “coexistence garden.” Because we started as a way to heal people’s anxiety and polarization through flowers – I couldn’t help but love this story of how Arab and Jewish kids in Israel planted a “coexistence garden” to find what roots them together. Diana Bletter reported on …
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Hooray! Philadelphia Flower Show Returns to Indoor Event
By Jill Brooke Flower lovers can breathe a sigh of relief that the Philadelphia Horticultural Society just announced it will return to holding its Philadelphia Flower Show event indoors next March 4-12, 2023. Due to Covid-19 concerns, the Flower Show transitioned outdoors to South Philadelphia’s FDR Park for the past two years for the month …
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U.S. Farm Metrolina WINS International Grower of Year Award
By Jill Brooke Not only is the family-owned flower farm Metrolina Greenhouses celebrating its 50th year – which is enough of a reason to bring out the champagne – but now the VanWingerden family has won the prestigious International Grower of the Year Award. This coveted award was presented by the judges at GreenTech Amsterdam, …
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L.E.A.F. Flower Festival Floral Highlights
L.E.A.F. Flowers Festival, now in its second year, may have collectively had over a million flowers from all the artists creating installations but the event also sparked as many more smiles. It now is on its way to becoming a New York tradition since it helped bring business and fun to the community. “I am …
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Landscape Trends from Philadelphia Flower Show 2022
By Jill Brooke The PHS Philadelphia Flower Show, which is the nation’s largest, and the world’s longest-running horticultural event since 1827, is now taking place until June 19th. Since last year, the show has shifted from being a floral extravaganza to more of a landscape design showcase since moving outdoors due to Covid. Titled “In …
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L.E.A.F. Festival 2022 Returns to NYC June 10th
By Jill Brooke Good news for flower lovers in New York who missed the Chelsea Flower Show in London because the team behind L.E.A.F flower show is having an encore in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District starting Friday. Over 100 – yes 100 floral designs – will be assembled by talented florists ranging from Lewis Miller to …
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Flowers for the Queen: Celebrating 70th Jubilee and Reliability
By Jill Brooke Celebrations for the 70-year reign of the unflappable Queen Elizabeth II start today with the Trooping the Color, a parade, Saturday concerts from megastars like Alicia Keys, Diana Ross, and Duran Duran and on Sunday, people across the country will take part in 16,000 street parties. Starting with Winston Churchill, she has …
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Cannes Film Festival 2022 Floral Fashion Winners
By Jill Brooke The film, “Triangle of Sadness” may have been awarded the coveted Palme d’Or at the two week 2022 Cannes Film Festival but here are some floral fashions that won from our judges. After all, these awards shows are also opportunities to showcase fashions as well as films. Sharon Stone never disappoints and …
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David Bowie Floral Installation Part of Chelsea in Bloom
By Jill Brooke Any David Bowie fans here? At Chelsea in Bloom, an outdoor flower festival where stores collectively agree to design floral arrangements based on an annual theme, Peloton honored David Bowie as its selection of an English icon. Florist Jess Runciman looked for red and blue color patterns from Bowie’s iconic thunderbolt and …
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