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Valentines Likely to Get Early Gifts

SPARKS, NV - A florist's busiest day of the year is traditionally on Valentines Day, but not this year. Take a look at your calendar and you'll notice the holiday falls on Saturday. That change means a shift in operations for local florists. They're still delivering flowers on Valentine's Day, but not as many as usual. On a normal Valentine's Day, Sparks Florist delivers about 3,500 bouquets. This year they think they'll sell far fewer on February 14th and instead make the bulk of their deliveries on February 13th, when they can still be delivered to business offices. "Typically Valentine's happens mostly on the 14th. This year with it falling on a Saturday we're doing lots of deliveries on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and even Tuesday and Wednesday," said Suzanne Shepherd, Director of Internal Operations at Sparks Florist The flowers are the same either way, but the experts at Sparks Florist say there's something special about making deliveries at work as opposed to at home. "Everyone c... http://www.kolotv.com/home/headlines/Valentines-Likely-to-Get-Early-Gifts-291792161.html

Unity Blooms as the Election Looms: Commuters Nationwide Brought Together by Flowers

Flowers have the power to make people happy, even in the midst of this year's divisive presidential campaign," said Jennifer Sparks, SAF Vice President of Marketing. Sparks noted survey findings that people report the best reason to get flowers is 'just because.' "That's why florists across the country are sharing happiness and spreading joy and goodwill—two bouquets at a time," she said. "We anticipate a lot of smiles today."For more information on the benefits of flowers, visit www.AboutFlowers.com  and www.AboutFlowersBlog.com . Follow the event happenings on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram using #PetalItForward.For a list of Petal It Forward events by city/state, go here.div class="img-mas... http://sports.yahoo.com/news/unity-blooms-election-looms-commuters-nationwide-brought-together-040100391.html

Marin Master Gardener: Bees, flowers have electrifying connection

It’s the same basic science. Only it’s much cooler when bees do it. The sparks keep flying as bees zip through the air to forage on a feast of flowers, unwittingly losing electrons and gaining a positive charge. Flowers on the other hand, have weak negative charges. Since opposite charges attract, the negatively charged pollen adheres to the positively charged bee, which sets the stage. The stigma of a flower, that’s the female part, has a sticky substance that catches the pollen as the bee brushes by, and that’s when pollination happens. This can occur on the same plant, or on another plant of the same species that a bee visits — that’s called cross-pollination. Static charge also helps a bee decide which flowers to visit. When a bee lands on a flower, its strong positive charge switches the weak negative charge of the flower into a positive charge for about 100 seconds. Amazingly, that’s how long it takes a flower to refill its nectar glands that were just emptied by the bee. If another bee comes along in that 100 seconds, it will feel the flower giving it the brush off. That’s because the nectar-generating flower has a positive charge instead of the negative charge the bee was expecting. Think of it this way: when you played with magnets as a child, what happened when you tried to put two positives together? They wouldn’t join. But positive and negative magnets? They stuck together perfectly. Advertisement You don’t have to be a scientist to appreciate bees, yet the science is pretty remarkable. What’s equally remarkable is the importance of bees, which account for one out of every three bites of food we eat. To learn more about these fascinating creatures, how to attract them to your garden and how they are under threat come to my free talk at “The Secret Life of Bees” 11 a.m. Oct. 15 at the Novato Library at 1720 Novato Blvd., Novato, and 7 p.m. April 6 at the Larkspur Library, 400 Magnolia Ave., Larkspur. The UC Marin Master Gardener column is written by UC Marin Master Gardeners, who are sponsored by the University of California Cooperative Extension. For questions about gardening, plant pests or diseases, call 415-473-4204 from 9 a.m. to noon, and 1 to 4 p.m. weekdays, bring in samples or pictures to 1682 Novato Blvd., Suite 150B, Novato, or email helpdesk@marinmg.org. http://www.marinij.com/article/NO/20161007/FEATURES/161009846