Flowers

On April 20, 2003, CONSTANCE YOUNG, wife of Glen Flowers Sr, stepmother of Renee and Glen Jr., sister of Ruth, Madeline, Elaine, Loretta, Christine, Carrie, Lewis, Frank, Charlie, Albert and Beverly, Godmother of Carle and Demetrius. Friends may call at the FAMILY OWNED MARCH FUNERAL HOME EAST, 1101 East North Avenue on Thursday after 8:30 A.M. where the family will receive friends on Friday at 11:30 A.M. Funeral Services will follow at 12 noon. See www.marchfh.com

On September 30, 2006, JOHN G.; beloved husband of the late Genevieve M. Monieski Flowers; devoted father of Carole M. Scott and her husband Gary and Sharon A. Russell. Also survived by three grandchildren, Carrie L. Sales and her husband Shanon, Kristen A. Lynam and Scott Russell. A Christian Wake Service will be held at the Lassahn Funeral Home, Inc., 7401 Belair Road on Tuesday, at 3:30pm. A Mass of Christian burial will be celebrated at St. Michael the Archangel Church, on Wednesday, at 10am.

Spring will flower in earnest at the Johns Hopkins University during "Homewood in Flower: A Country House Spring."The neoclassical home of the Carroll family, now a museum on campus, will be decorated with cut-flower arrangements appropriate to the Federal period, using tulips, sea lavender, lilies and dozens of other flowers.Tours will be held from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., April 11-13; noon to hTC p.m., April 14. A brown-bag lunch, lecture and demonstration, "Planning, Cultivating and Arranging Your Own Flowers, 101" is scheduled for April 12 at noon under the homecoming tent in the Freshman Quad.

Food and flowers -- what a lovely combination in one event. Sean Driscoll of Glorious Food, the New York catering firm, and Barry Ferguson, floral designer and author of "Living With Flowers," are the draw for the St. George's Garden Club's benefit, "Putting on the Ritz."Mr. Driscoll's lecture will include a slide presentation of his food and the parties he's catered. Mr. Ferguson will create flower arrangements to be raffled off at the end of the demonstration.The cost, $65 a person, covers the two lectures and lunch.

If a smile is truly contagious, then residents of Havre de Grace were spreading the love July 20. That's the day 156 seniors living at The Graw and St. Johns Towers received fresh flower arrangements displayed in sunny yellow Be Happy Mugs, compliments of a local florist, floral wholesalers and a world-wide flower wire service. Flowers by Lucy in Abingdon and Aberdeen coordinated the arrangement giveaway during the floral industry's Make Someone Smile Week. Telefora donated the mugs, flower wholesalers donated fresh flowers and Flowers by Lucy owners Susie Mabe and Jim Weber donated the time and talents of Flowers by Lucy's employees to prepare and deliver the arrangements.

His bicycle laden with saddlebags and backpacks stuffed with roses, carnations and baby's breath, Gregory Thomlinson was a common sight pedaling in West and Northwest Baltimore communities for nearly 20 years.Mr. Thomlinson, 65, who died Saturday of cancer at his Northwest Baltimore home, was proprietor and operator of perhaps the only flower shop that journeyed through the city by bicycle.Affectionately known as "Mr. Rose," Mr. Thomlinson slowly steered his rusted and aging Schwinn through the main streets and alleys of Rosedale, Walbrook and Windsor Hills most mornings, stopping only for water breaks and sales.

Please don't eat the common daisies. But do try the English daisy and the violets and the nasturtiums and all the other edible flowers that decorate your garden. The fiery, sweet or herbal flavors of flowers add panache to any dish they grace. And flowers can command center stage, too.A friend once taught me to prepare the flowers of wild elderberry bushes the way people do in the Rhine River Valley of her native Germany.Pick each flower cluster -- they look like Queen Anne's lace -- along with a little piece of stem and dip it in a wine-thinned crepe batter.

The man who telephoned the florist said he wanted to send an arrangement to an acquaintance who was hospitalized.What kind of flowers did he request?Dead ones.The shop refused to accept the order, one of the more bizarre requests in Lee Wilhide's 40 years as a florist."Flowers should carry cheerfulness into a hospital room," says Mr. Wilhide, who owns four stores in the Baltimore-Washington area.Flowers have comforted the sick for centuries. They still do. Hospitals and home illness account for 15 per cent of the floral trade nationwide, with arrangements averaging $28 apiece.

While other farmers are turning their attention to fall crops such as pumpkins, Indian corn and even Christmas trees, Frank Rhodes Jr. still is tending his 2-acre field of flowers in Ellicott City.At the end of the fresh-flower season, customers still are stopping by Frank's Produce on Old Waterloo Road to troop through the blossoms, armed with shears to clip off those that strike their fancy. While there are a couple of cut-your-own flower farms in western Howard County, Frank's became the only one in Ellicott City when it opened five years ago just west of Interstate 95."