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Lebanon woman wins Royer's Flowers contest

Royer’s Flowers & Gifts’ latest name-the-arrangement contest. But it ranked first overall when the judging was complete. Neuin, of Lebanon, won the contest with her submission of “White Satin” as the moniker for Royer’s new European-style arrangement. It comes in a clear glass cube and features three types of greens and white flowers: one-dozen roses plus alstroemeria, hydrangea, veronica and stock. Neuin will receive one of the arrangements after it debuts on Saturday. A similar contest during the summer generated more than 450 entries. Lebanon-based Royer’s (royers.com) operates 16 stores in Berks, Cumberland, Dauphin, Lancaster, Lebanon and York counties. Sister company Stephenson’s Flowers & Gifts has one Harrisburg store. Read or Share this story: http://ldne.ws/1jwXDSI ... http://www.ldnews.com/story/news/local/2015/12/01/lebanon-woman-wins-royers-flowers-contest/76598932/

Genius behind Temple Square's famed flowers dies

December. Sometimes the master gardener had to argue with Mormon bureaucrats. In 1949, the church had planted a cedar of Lebanon seedling, which grew on Temple Square into a large, sturdy tree, near the south entrance. After a harsh winter, the tree was sliced in half by ice sliding off a roof. To Lassig, though, “it (still) was beautiful and noble.” Then construction jeopardized the tree. “I promised to go to The Salt Lake Tribune,” he said in an oral interview, “and get them to photograph the little old ladies laying in front of the bulldozers with me.” The threat worked. The tree was saved. Lassig hired Esther Truitt Henrichsen, the first woman to work the grounds of Temple Square. He guided her as she pursued more education in landscape design. Henrichsen, now the garden designer at Lehi’s Thanksgiving Point, worked alongside him for years and is finishing a book about his techniques. But Henrichsen was scarcely alone in her estimation of Lassig as an exceptional teacher. A bumblebee buzzes around blossoms of Digitalis (or Foxglove) flower near the Joseph Smith Building in downtown Salt Lake City, June 4, 2003. (Al Hartmann/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP) “Every year, he taught a design course in the big room under the Tabernacle. Hundreds were his students in what he called ‘The February Design Course,’ ” she said, “a good time to have a class because most gardeners are not gardening in February.” Lassig mentored hundreds, maybe thousands, she said. “He couldn’t even finish his own garden, he was so busy helping others.” Lassig served as a Mormon bishop and longtime Scout leader, all the while nurturing the eight children whom he had with his first wife, Sylvia, who died in 1991, and five more with his second wife, Janet. Scores of friends and family already have sojourned to Utah to pay their respects to a man who planted in them a passion for the explosive cacophony of color, variety and fragrance found in nature. “He was,” Henrichsen said, “much beloved.” His funeral was held at the Rose Park LDS Stake Center in Salt Lake City. img alt="" src="http://1.gravatar.com/avatar/f044195d9153c38512d4dcec90dee9df?s=64&d=http%3A%2F%2F1.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F... http://universe.byu.edu/2015/11/11/genius-behind-temple-squares-famed-flowers-dies/

Mormon Temple Square's famed genius behind flowers dies

December. Sometimes the master gardener had to argue with Mormon bureaucrats. In 1949, the church had planted a cedar of Lebanon seedling, which grew on Temple Square into a large, sturdy tree, near the south entrance. After a harsh winter, the tree was sliced in half by ice sliding off a roof. To Lassig, though, "it (still) was beautiful and noble." Then construction jeopardized the tree. "I promised to go to The Salt Lake Tribune," he said in an oral interview, "and get them to photograph the little old ladies laying in front of the bulldozers with me." The threat worked. The tree was saved. Lassig hired Esther Truitt Henrichsen, the first woman to work the grounds of Temple Square. He guided her as she pursued more education in landscape design. Henrichsen, now the garden designer at Lehi's Thanksgiving Point, worked alongside him for years and is finishing a book about his techniques. But Henrichsen was scarcely alone in her estimation of Lassig as an exceptional teacher. "Every year, he taught a design course in the big room under the Tabernacle. Hundreds were his students in what he called 'The February Design Course,' " she said, "a good time to have a class because most gardeners are not gardening in February." Lassig mentored hundreds, maybe thousands, she said. "He couldn't even finish his own garden, he was so busy helping others." Lassig served as a Mormon bishop and longtime Scout leader, all the while nurturing the eight children whom he had with his first wife, Sylvia, who died in 1991, and five more with his second wife, Janet. Scores of friends and family already have sojourned to Utah to pay their respects to a man who planted in them a passion for the explosive cacophony of color, variety and fragrance found in nature. "He was," Henrichsen said, "much beloved." His funeral was held at the Rose Park LDS Stake Center in Salt Lake City. http://www.heraldextra.com/news/local/lds/mormon-temple-square-s-famed-genius-behind-flowers-dies/article_c9c87135-3a69-58a5-b560-332adf0c75d8.html