Accessibility Statement Skip Navigation
  • Why PRWeb
  • How It Works
  • Who Uses It
  • Pricing
  • Login
  • GDPR
  • Create a Free Account
Return to PRWeb homepage
  • News
  • Resources
  • Contact
When typing in this field, a list of search results will appear and be automatically updated as you type.

Searching for your content...

No results found. Please change your search terms and try again.
  • News in Focus
      • Browse News Releases

      • All News Releases
      • Multimedia Gallery

      • All Multimedia
      • All Photos
      • All Videos
  • Business & Money
      • Auto & Transportation

      • Aerospace, Defense
      • Air Freight
      • Airlines & Aviation
      • Automotive
      • Maritime & Shipbuilding
      • Railroads and Intermodal Transportation
      • Supply Chain/Logistics
      • Transportation, Trucking & Railroad
      • Travel
      • Trucking and Road Transportation
      • View All Auto & Transportation

      • Business Technology

      • Blockchain
      • Broadcast Tech
      • Computer & Electronics
      • Computer Hardware
      • Computer Software
      • Data Analytics
      • Electronic Commerce
      • Electronic Components
      • Electronic Design Automation
      • Financial Technology
      • High Tech Security
      • Internet Technology
      • Nanotechnology
      • Networks
      • Peripherals
      • Semiconductors
      • View All Business Technology

      • Entertain­ment & Media

      • Advertising
      • Art
      • Books
      • Entertainment
      • Film and Motion Picture
      • Magazines
      • Music
      • Publishing & Information Services
      • Radio & Podcast
      • Television
      • View All Entertain­ment & Media

      • Financial Services & Investing

      • Accounting News & Issues
      • Acquisitions, Mergers and Takeovers
      • Banking & Financial Services
      • Bankruptcy
      • Bond & Stock Ratings
      • Conference Call Announcements
      • Contracts
      • Cryptocurrency
      • Dividends
      • Earnings
      • Earnings Forecasts & Projections
      • Financing Agreements
      • Insurance
      • Investments Opinions
      • Joint Ventures
      • Mutual Funds
      • Private Placement
      • Real Estate
      • Restructuring & Recapitalization
      • Sales Reports
      • Shareholder Activism
      • Shareholder Meetings
      • Stock Offering
      • Stock Split
      • Venture Capital
      • View All Financial Services & Investing

      • General Business

      • Awards
      • Commercial Real Estate
      • Corporate Expansion
      • Earnings
      • Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG)
      • Human Resource & Workforce Management
      • Licensing
      • New Products & Services
      • Obituaries
      • Outsourcing Businesses
      • Overseas Real Estate (non-US)
      • Personnel Announcements
      • Real Estate Transactions
      • Residential Real Estate
      • Small Business Services
      • Socially Responsible Investing
      • Surveys, Polls and Research
      • Trade Show News
      • View All General Business

  • Science & Tech
      • Consumer Technology

      • Artificial Intelligence
      • Blockchain
      • Cloud Computing/Internet of Things
      • Computer Electronics
      • Computer Hardware
      • Computer Software
      • Consumer Electronics
      • Cryptocurrency
      • Data Analytics
      • Electronic Commerce
      • Electronic Gaming
      • Financial Technology
      • Mobile Entertainment
      • Multimedia & Internet
      • Peripherals
      • Social Media
      • STEM (Science, Tech, Engineering, Math)
      • Supply Chain/Logistics
      • Wireless Communications
      • View All Consumer Technology

      • Energy & Natural Resources

      • Alternative Energies
      • Chemical
      • Electrical Utilities
      • Gas
      • General Manufacturing
      • Mining
      • Mining & Metals
      • Oil & Energy
      • Oil and Gas Discoveries
      • Utilities
      • Water Utilities
      • View All Energy & Natural Resources

      • Environ­ment

      • Conservation & Recycling
      • Environmental Issues
      • Environmental Policy
      • Environmental Products & Services
      • Green Technology
      • Natural Disasters
      • View All Environ­ment

      • Heavy Industry & Manufacturing

      • Aerospace & Defense
      • Agriculture
      • Chemical
      • Construction & Building
      • General Manufacturing
      • HVAC (Heating, Ventilation and Air-Conditioning)
      • Machinery
      • Machine Tools, Metalworking and Metallurgy
      • Mining
      • Mining & Metals
      • Paper, Forest Products & Containers
      • Precious Metals
      • Textiles
      • Tobacco
      • View All Heavy Industry & Manufacturing

      • Telecomm­unications

      • Carriers and Services
      • Mobile Entertainment
      • Networks
      • Peripherals
      • Telecommunications Equipment
      • Telecommunications Industry
      • VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol)
      • Wireless Communications
      • View All Telecomm­unications

  • Lifestyle & Health
      • Consumer Products & Retail

      • Animals & Pets
      • Beers, Wines and Spirits
      • Beverages
      • Bridal Services
      • Cannabis
      • Cosmetics and Personal Care
      • Fashion
      • Food & Beverages
      • Furniture and Furnishings
      • Home Improvement
      • Household, Consumer & Cosmetics
      • Household Products
      • Jewelry
      • Non-Alcoholic Beverages
      • Office Products
      • Organic Food
      • Product Recalls
      • Restaurants
      • Retail
      • Supermarkets
      • Toys
      • View All Consumer Products & Retail

      • Entertain­ment & Media

      • Advertising
      • Art
      • Books
      • Entertainment
      • Film and Motion Picture
      • Magazines
      • Music
      • Publishing & Information Services
      • Radio & Podcast
      • Television
      • View All Entertain­ment & Media

      • Health

      • Biometrics
      • Biotechnology
      • Clinical Trials & Medical Discoveries
      • Dentistry
      • FDA Approval
      • Fitness/Wellness
      • Health Care & Hospitals
      • Health Insurance
      • Infection Control
      • International Medical Approval
      • Medical Equipment
      • Medical Pharmaceuticals
      • Mental Health
      • Pharmaceuticals
      • Supplementary Medicine
      • View All Health

      • Sports

      • General Sports
      • Outdoors, Camping & Hiking
      • Sporting Events
      • Sports Equipment & Accessories
      • View All Sports

      • Travel

      • Amusement Parks and Tourist Attractions
      • Gambling & Casinos
      • Hotels and Resorts
      • Leisure & Tourism
      • Outdoors, Camping & Hiking
      • Passenger Aviation
      • Travel Industry
      • View All Travel

  • Policy & Public Interest
      • Policy & Public Interest

      • Advocacy Group Opinion
      • Animal Welfare
      • Congressional & Presidential Campaigns
      • Corporate Social Responsibility
      • Domestic Policy
      • Economic News, Trends, Analysis
      • Education
      • Environmental
      • European Government
      • FDA Approval
      • Federal and State Legislation
      • Federal Executive Branch & Agency
      • Foreign Policy & International Affairs
      • Homeland Security
      • Labor & Union
      • Legal Issues
      • Natural Disasters
      • Not For Profit
      • Patent Law
      • Public Safety
      • Trade Policy
      • U.S. State Policy
      • View All Policy & Public Interest

  • People & Culture
      • People & Culture

      • Aboriginal, First Nations & Native American
      • African American
      • Asian American
      • Children
      • Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
      • Hispanic
      • Lesbian, Gay & Bisexual
      • Men's Interest
      • People with Disabilities
      • Religion
      • Senior Citizens
      • Veterans
      • Women
      • View All People & Culture

  • Hamburger menu
  • Cision PRWeb provides efficient communication tools to continuously engage with target audiences across multiple online channels
  • Create a Free Account
    • ALL CONTACT INFO
    • Contact Us


      11AM ET Sunday – 8PM ET Friday

  • Send a Release
  • Sign up
  • Log in
  • Resources
  • RSS
  • GDPR
  • News in Focus
    • Browse All News
    • Multimedia Gallery
  • Business & Money
    • Auto & Transportation
    • Business Technology
    • Entertain­ment & Media
    • Financial Services & Investing
    • General Business
  • Science & Tech
    • Consumer Technology
    • Energy & Natural Resources
    • Environ­ment
    • Heavy Industry & Manufacturing
    • Telecomm­unications
  • Lifestyle & Health
    • Consumer Products & Retail
    • Entertain­ment & Media
    • Health
    • Sports
    • Travel
  • Policy & Public Interest
  • People & Culture
    • People & Culture
  • Send a Release
  • Sign up
  • Log in
  • Resources
  • RSS
  • GDPR
  • Send a Release
  • Sign up
  • Log in
  • Resources
  • RSS
  • GDPR
  • Send a Release
  • Sign up
  • Log in
  • Resources
  • RSS
  • GDPR

Slowflowers.com Kicks Off American Flowers Week 2016, a National Campaign to Showcase U.S. Flower Farms, Florists and Flower Gardens
  • USA - English


News provided by

Slow Flowers LLC

Jun 29, 2016, 01:10 ET

Share this article

Share toX

Share this article

Share toX

American Flowers Week's iconic red-white-and-blue flower 'fro
American Flowers Week's iconic red-white-and-blue flower 'fro

Seattle, Washington (PRWEB) June 29, 2016 -- All across the nation, from Alabama to Wyoming, Oregon to Maine, locally grown flowers will be highlighted and celebrated during American Flowers Week, a weeklong campaign inviting U.S. flower farmers and florists to showcase American-grown red, white and blue blooms on social media platforms (using #americanflowersweek) and in their own communities.

“Consumers are more conscious than ever about the origins of the goods they purchase, especially when it comes to food — and flowers.

Post this

American Flowers Week is the advocacy, education and outreach campaign co-produced by the Slow Flowers Podcast with Debra Prinzing and Slowflowers.com, the nationwide, online directory to American Flowers and the people who grow and design with them.

In its second year, American Flowers Week highlights the homegrown talents of more than 700 member floral businesses listed on Slowflowers.com, including Susan McLeary of Passionflower Events in Ann Arbor, Michigan, designer of the iconic "Flower 'Fro" depicted in the 2016 campaign poster. To create the majestic headpiece, the designer incorporated flowers donated by seven American flower farms in three states.

American Flowers Week Activities and Events
Participation in American Flowers Week involves all facets of the floral distribution channel, from flower farmers and wholesaler florists to grocery stores, floral designers, flower shops and online sellers. Here is a sampling of some of the activities and events taking place coast to coast:

Flower Farms: Dozens of farmers across the country are featuring "American Flowers Week" labels on bouquets and bunches delivered to farmers' market and CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) customers during American Flowers Week. In Portland, the Oregon Flower Growers Association hosts its first Design Invitational. Emerging and established florists are welcome to create a red-white-and-blue arrangement showcasing their skills using unique, Oregon-grown flowers and foliage available to the marketplace. In Greenville, South Carolina, the newly-formed SC Upstate Flower Growers kicks off its first season as a collective of nine flower farmers dedicated to bringing fresh, local flowers to the region's upstate area.

Floral Designers: Andrea K. Grist of Andrea K. Grist Floral Design in Lees Summit, Missouri teams with The Bloom Academy as guest instructor of an American Flowers Week design workshop using Missouri-grown flowers. In Portland, Oregon, LauraLee Symes of Sellwood Flower Co., teaches an American Flowers Week centerpiece design workshop on Sunday, July 3rd (Noon to 1 p.m.) Preregistration is required.

Flower Shops: Teresa Sabankaya of Bonny Doon Garden Co. in Santa Cruz, California, offers a "Quintessentially American" arrangement using only local flowers, designed in a mercury glass compote for $95 plus delivery and 10% off the store's popular weekly "bucket bouquet" collection. Libby Francis of The Modest Florist in Baltimore, Maryland, turns to her Instagram feed to post photos of her favorite Maryland flower farmers and their blooms, as well as red-white-and-blue bouquets on offer at her retail shop.

Online Sellers: Farmgirl Flowers is back for a second year with a "Firecracker" bouquet featuring 12 stems of all-American grown flowers delivered overnight anywhere in the U.S. The burlap-wrapped, red-white-and-blue arrangement is paired with an artisan chocolate bar to commemorate our country's birthday, $55 plus shipping. Bonny Doon Garden Co. and Sellwood Flower Co., two Slowflowers.com member florists, design special American Flowers Week arrangements with locally-grown, domestic flowers to sell through Bloom Nation, the online community marketplace for independent florists.

Grocery Stores: Two regional grocery chains adopt American Flowers Week as a vehicle to market locally-grown flowers during the Independence Day holiday week.Town & Country Markets Inc., a regional, locally-owned and operated independent grocery company founded in 1957 and based in the Seattle area, is participating with American Flowers Week signage and bouquets throughout its six-store chain. New Seasons Market, a Portland-based West Coast neighborhood grocery with 18 stores in three states, is showcasing flower bunches, bouquets and mason jar arrangements from Northwest and California farms. Both chains are using the unique American Flowers Week label to alert their consumers to the origin of the flowers.

Wholesale Florists: Los Angeles-based Mayesh Wholesale promotes American Flowers Week in all 17 of its branches across nine states, with programs tailored to each region's professional florist customer base. Included in the activities are special in-branch displays, company blog features about American flower farms and localized floral availability sheets developed for each market.

50 States of American Grown Flowers -- Gallery of Designs
American Flowers Week is collecting floral submissions to its gallery representing flowers and bouquets from as many states as possible. Throughout the week, flower farmers and designers will post and tag images of their blooms and bouquets on social media. You can see the full gallery at Americanflowersweek.com. On July 4, all participants are eligible for a giveaway drawing, with the pool of prizes contributed by the 2016 American Flowers Week sponsors.

Free Consumer Resource:
Young and old artists have the chance to express their coloring talents with the American Flowers Week USA Floral Map, available for free download at Americanflowersweek.com. The beautiful illustration was designed by Jenny Diaz, a Fresno, California, artist, and depicts the USA Map surrounded by popular American-grown flowers. Teachers have used the map for student activities and several florists are running "coloring contests" to involve their customers.

#AmericanFlowersWeek -- the hashtag that highlights flowers, florists and farmers in all 50 states
In 2015, the inaugural year, #americanflowersweek achieved more than 400,000 social media impressions on Twitter and Instagram during a 30-day period encompassing the campaign month. Slowflowers.com encourages everyone involved in celebrating American Flowers Week to use the hash tags #americanflowersweek and #slowflowers to help spread the news of American-grown cut flowers and the people who grow and design with them.

###

About American Flowers Week
Inspired by the success of British Flowers Week, now in its fourth year, American flowers advocate and journalist Debra Prinzing created the U.S. version of the domestic flowers promotion campaign. She has chosen to launch the campaign during the week culminating with U.S. Independence Day, from June 28th - July 4th, 2016.

About Debra Prinzing
Debra Prinzing is a Seattle-based writer, speaker and leading advocate for American Grown Flowers. Through her many Slow Flowers-branded projects, she has convened a national conversation that stimulates consumers and professionals alike to make conscious choices about their floral purchases. Debra is the producer of SlowFlowers.com, the online directory to American grown farms, florists, shops and studios who supply domestic and local flowers. Each Wednesday, approximately 1,000 listeners tune into Debra’s “Slow Flowers Podcast,” available for free downloads at her web site, debraprinzing.com, or on iTunes and via other podcast services. She is the author of 10 books, including Slow Flowers and The 50 Mile Bouquet.

Our Sponsors
American Flowers Week 2016 enjoys financial and in-kind support from Certified American Grown, Mayesh Wholesale, Longfield Gardens and Syndicate Sales.

Media Contact:
For more information on American Flowers Week and to request images of our 50 States of American Grown Flowers, our Flower Fro and other designs, please contact Debra Prinzing, Slowflowers.com at 206-769-8211 or debra(at)slowflowers(dot)com

Debra Prinzing, Slow Flowers LLC, http://www.americanflowersweek.com, +1 (206) 769-8211, [email protected]

Modal title

Contact PRWeb

  • 11AM ET Sunday – 8PM ET Friday
  • Contact Us

About PRWeb

  • About PRWeb
  • Partners
  • Partnership Programs
  • Editorial Guidelines
  • Resources

Why PRWeb

  • Why PRWeb
  • How It Works
  • Who Uses It
  • Pricing

Accounts

  • Create a Free Account
  • Log in
  • Contact Us

Do not sell or share my personal information:

  • Submit via [email protected] 
  • Call Privacy toll-free: 877-297-8921

Contact Cision

Products

About

My Services
  • All News Releases
  • Online Member Center
  • ProfNet
Cision Distribution Helpline
888-776-0942
  • Legal
  • Site Map
  • RSS
  • Cookie Settings
Copyright © 2025 Cision US Inc.