A contestant in last year’s Sylvia Cup Design Competition works on a design piece. The competition is an opportunity for designers to test their technical skills, flex their creativity muscles, and open themselves up to feedback. When designers take their...
Dozens of teachers are taking a summer field trip to horticultural destinations around Indianapolis to broaden their understanding of careers in the industry and take those insights back to the classroom. Thirty high school science teachers were selected from 153...
Soon after Holly Haveman bought into her family business, Kennedy’s Flowers and Gifts in Grand Rapids, Michigan, she realized something had to change to protect her personal time. Prior to buying into the business with her brother three years ago, she had backpacked...
As Wendy Rockcastle left Talmage McLaurin’s 2023 Flower Trends Forecast presentation at the Society of American Florist’s annual convention last year, her mind was already swirling with ideas for new floral designs. She felt challenged to take on trending color...
Wilton Hardy, AAF, AIFD, PFCI, an award-winning designer, well-known educator and the 1994 recipient of the Society of American Florists’ Tommy Bright Award, died April 19. He was 86. A towering figure in Florida’s floral industry, Hardy’s work as an education...
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