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Thursday, February 15, 2007

Greenfingers sharpening (Flower sympathy) skills

SEVENTEEN gardens and residential compounds have been entered into the Bahrain Garden Club's (BGC) Best Kept Private Garden competition. The competition is one of the events lined up at the BGC's Annual Amateur Flower and Vegetable Show taking place over four days next month.
It was a heartless day for Wall Street to try and break off its once-hot love affair with 1-800-Flowers. The Valentine's Day downgrade of the flower seller's stock yesterday by Goldman Sachs coincided with the online florist's busiest day of the...
Some local flower shops may not be able to make all their deliveries Wednesday. Drivers are having problems getting through poorly plowed neighborhoods.
Traditional roses and all other red flowers are in demand at the Aalsmeer flower auction in The Netherlands, one of the world's biggest, where the approach of Valentine's Day means sales are soaring.
Britain's International Development secretary has condemend a move led by supermarkets in the United Kingdom to reduce stocks of imported flowers from Africa.
Every good plan requires a back-up, and florists in Benton worked with Plan B on Wednesday as they searched for addresses. Tom Stephens, a designer with Flowers by Dave, said Valentine's Day deliveries were made a bit more difficult by the weather.