Houseplants For The Holidays

November 29, 2010 Staff Reporter, Chicago Now

Are houseplants on your Black Friday Shopping list? They should be! Soon you will be looking for ways to make your home or office look more festive, or trying to think of an inexpensive gift idea for the last minute holiday party invitations and the crazy plant lady in your office you got stuck with in Secret Santa. Here are three houseplants I recommend you buy and suggestions on who to give them to.

Gordy Establishes Endowed Horticulture Positions At Mississippi State

November 29, 2010 Mississippi State University

A 1963 Mississippi State University alumnus has created two endowments to ensure the future of floral management and horticulture education in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

Scentsicles Makes Cents For Company

EnviroScent took a turn into the mass market when FTD called and said it wanted to bring more scent to bouquets which, through years of engineering to produce flowers for longer shelf life and more color, had lost much of their fragrance. Sherwood met the demand by creating ScentStems, which are placed inside floral arrangements. The fragrance-maker is heading into its big season, as the holidays drive demand for one of its main products, ScentSicles.

2011: The Year Of The Zinnia

The National Garden Bureau (NGB) has declared the zinnia as the flower of the year for 2011.

Obama Orders Pastries To Go At Gingerbread Bakery

President Barack Obama has a live-in pastry chef, but he quickly gave in to the temptations staring back at him from the display cases at a local bakery.