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Check Out These 20 NEW Crocosmia Varieties from Holland That Are Cuter Than a Spotted Pup! Betcha’ Ain’t Seen These Yet! Don’t miss these 20 colorful stunners from the August 13th judging at the (KAVB) “Royal Association Of Flowerbulb Growers” at the CNB Tradecenter in Lisse, South Holland where top breeders enter their best of the... Read More   Share this FREE Newsletter with your team!   Rock Stars of the Industry PHOTO GALLERY: Meet the Artist Who Makes Floral Bouquets in Garbage Cans Have you ever walked by a garbage can in New York City, only to find it overflowing with a beautiful bouquet? If you have, the miraculous sighting was not the result of a date gone wrong, but that of the work of artist... Read More   Tricks of the Fresh Cut Trade Right HERE – The 6 Most Expensive Flowers in the World! “A far cry from the cheap and cheerful £5 bouquets you can pick up at your local supermarket or petrol station, some of these flowers are rare enough to demand hefty price tags," a spokesperson for BillyOh.com said.  Imagine spending £160,000 on this Shenzhen... Read More   Tricks of the Plant Trade SLIDE SHOW: They Don’t Own Homes. They Don’t Have Kids. Why Millennials are Plant Addicts Ten months ago, Tommy Engström quit his job in ad sales, packed up his Chicago apartment and drove to Los Angeles. He rented an apartment in Culver.... Read More     Industry Events Flower Expo Ukraine 2019; April 16-18; International Exhibition Centre (IEC); Kiev, Ukraine During the 2018 edition, 98 exhibitors from 9 countries participated and 8.940 visitors made their way to the exhibition to source new products, make... Read More   Career Builders 10 Podcasts That Will Make You Smarter What if you could feed your brain at the gym, in the car, or whenever you have a few minutes to spare? Hate your commute? Struggle to motivate yourself to hit the treadmill? Perhaps both these problems (and many more) have the same solution. Why not turn these... Read More     Colors and Trends Empowering Colors Top Pantone 2019 Spring Color Trend Report for New York Fashion Week Powering up with color seems to be the takeaway from the Pantone Color Institute’s spring 2019 fashion color trend report for New York Fashion Week. Attention-grabbing red-related and orange-y tones dominated the... Read More     Tech Tips 5 Big Trends Reshaping Retail Like many industries today, retail is in an extreme state of disruption. In five years, 25% of malls will be gone. The U.S. has way too much retail space per capita at 23.5 square feet, compared to 16.4 in Canada and 11.1 in Australia. And retail giants Macy’s and.... Read More     Retail Trends Farmer-Florists Are the Hot Growing Trend If you happen to be an Instagram user (and a gardener) you may have come across one of the growing number of “farmer-florists”: small-scale growers who serve local markets with unique flower varieties from their very photogenic floral farms. Often, they market... Read More   Science & Research PODCAST: Centuries-Old Plant Collection Now Online — A Treasure Trove For Researchers There’s a new effort underway to make hundreds of thousands of dried and preserved plants collected along the East Coast available through a digital database. For centuries, explorers, scientists, and amateur... Read More   Spread the Word! Do you know someone who would benefit from this newsletter? Please send it to them! Did someone else forward this newsletter to you? Subscribe to receive the Grand Central Floral newsletter sent weekly to your inbox!

Christina Burton-Fox AIFD floral artist & instructor