Month: June 2015

BloomNet®, an international wire service and world class business solutions provider, is proud to celebrate the passion local retail florists have for creating floral arrangements and going above and beyond for their customers. As a way of sharing the love of putting smiles on people’s faces across America and around the world through the beauty of flowers, BloomNet created its “Send to Win – I Heart FLORISTS” promotional sweepstakes with three of the prize winners receiving cruise vacations. …

Crops at the Hooper family farm don’t grow in neat rows. Peonies reach sky high. Ornamental greens and seemingly endless flowering plants bloom from the barn to the highway. The picturesque flower garden, Hooper’s Farm Gardens, 2399 Kroupa Road on Old Mission Peninsula, is a small part of a big industry. Michigan ranked third in the nation for value of wholesale floriculture crops sold in 2014. …

From automation to advanced inventory records, technology has proved fruitful, even in the business of producing flowers. …