Saturday, June 25, 2005

Monticello (US News & World Report)Monticello is open (Wedding Flowers Blog)


Monticello (US News & World Report)
Monticello is open to the public every day of the year except Christmas, but visit in the spring or fall when the flowers and trees are at their peak colors. General admission is $14, which buys you a ride up the hill in the shuttle bus and tours of the home, plantation, and gardens. During the summer months, Monticello offers special educational tours for children and their families, six times a

Crazy over euphorbia (Sun Star)IT IS confirmed. The (Wedding Flowers Blog)


Crazy over euphorbia (Sun Star)
IT IS confirmed. The flower-mad people of Negros Oriental and Dumaguete City have shifted their romance with flowers from bromeliad to euphorbia. And the mad fever is catching on. A house is poorer without euphorbia milii that its household equates with good fortune.

Monticello (US News & World Report)
Monticello is open to the public every day of the year except Christmas, but visit in the spring or fall when the flowers and trees are at their peak colors. General admission is $14, which buys you a ride up the hill in the shuttle bus and tours of the home, plantation, and gardens. During the summer months, Monticello offers special educational tours for children and their families, six times a

Arboreal pleasures Apart from providing welcome shade and respite for bleary eyes, trees also save energy and help the (Bangkok Post)
Summer is now behind us, if the trees along Bangkok's streets are anything to go by. With the exception of the flame tree and some pradoo (Pterocarpus indicus, or angsana), most have shed their flowers as new leaves have emerged. But who cares: Even without flowers, trees are beautiful.

ILLINOIS STYLE: Age and loss of a leg don't slow down dedicated florist (Belleville News-Democrat)
DANVILLE, Ill. - George Mabis has a passion for both people and flowers, and together they've kept him in the floral business for 56 years. "I tried to retire once, but it only lasted five months. I was antsy to get back to my flowers," he said, laughing.