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Thriving Rothe's of Mount Airy, a century-old family firm, is a rare specimen these mass-marketing days. By changing with the times, they know, you grow the flower business.
One hundred years ago, a German immigrant named Max Rothe opened a little flower shop on Germantown Avenue in Mount Airy. In the decades since, it has survived war and depression, changing consumer habits, and competition on every front.
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The flowers that say you care - for the environment
- Roses continue to be the country's favorite cut flower, and red roses remain the top choice on Valentine's Day. But almost all of them, 92 percent, are imported. Regardless of color.
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Antiques: Pearls: Gem with a past, a still lustrous future
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Ah, pearls: lustrous to the eye, smooth on the skin, and very hard to resist. Maybe you're thinking of buying some for your valentine.
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Cheat Sheet: Tankless water heaters deliver hot on demand
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Some plumbers still are cold to the idea of tankless, or demand, water heaters, but the variety on the market seems to get wider every day. With help from the Department of Energy and the manufacturers listed, here are some specifics.
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Inspire romance on Valentine's Day, and long after, with tokens such as these. - Joy Deangdeelert Cho Let's tryst again
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Auctions: Affordable 'Freeman's Fridays' beckon beginning collectors
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Today, Freeman's launches a new series of sales intended to appeal to beginning young collectors and home buyers. Dubbed "Freeman's Fridays," they will complement the Center City auction house's big-ticket catalog sales, which over the last few years have achieved major-league status, particularly in the fields of Pennsylvania impressionists, books and Americana.
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Garden Calendar
- Monday, Feb. 11 Pollination and How to Protect Bees, program with beekeeper Bob Krayer at the Bux-Mont Organic Gardeners' meeting; 7:15 p.m. Free; donations welcome. Churchville Nature Center, 501 Churchville Lane, Churchville; 215-441-4596.
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Garden Q&A;
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Question: My houseplants are in a garden room, and I've used CO2, sold in a bucket with a tube for dispersal, to good effect. I've heard that something similar can be done with dry ice.
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'Project Runway' viewers are in suspense
- The finalists? Only the Bryant Park crowd knows now.Although the audience at Project Runway's Fashion Week runway show will find out today which designers, and how many, made it to Bryant Park this season, the rest of us will just have to be in suspense a few more weeks.
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Copper malleable as design medium
- Look for it in countertops, range hoods, cutlery, planters, fixtures and lamps, just to name a few.Once again, the Copper Age is upon us. The metal is warming up more and more homes, outshining the ubiquitous stainless steel and brushed nickel.
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Gourd lamps offer options for designers
- Gourd lamps have clear appeal: The shapely silhouette blends with different styles of decor, from modern to traditional and with everything in between.
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Bloomin' costumes
- Fiber arts meet flower arts as University of the Arts students and floral designers collaborate, jazzing it up for the Flower Show.Sometimes an unexpected pairing can send the creative process into overdrive, resulting in beautiful art. Who would think, for example, that a dress constructed of tea bags could inspire a show-worthy floral design?
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No need to plow a fortune into your plot.
- Nowadays, a green thumb grows a frugal gardenSharon Barkhymer uses words like thrifty and frugal to describe her penny-pinching gardening style, but other people call her just plain cheap.
MORE STORIES
Al Heavens
Some plumbers still are cold to the idea of tankless, or demand, water heaters, but the variety on the market seems to get wider every day. With help from the Department of Energy and the manufacturers listed, here are some specifics.
Inga Saffron
A wrecking ball began taking down two historic Broad Street buildings yesterday as part of the Convention Center's expansion, nine days after a Commonwealth Court judge issued a controversial ruling giving Pennsylvania officials the go-ahead.
Michael Martin Mills
Question: My houseplants are in a garden room, and I've used CO2, sold in a bucket with a tube for dispersal, to good effect. I've heard that something similar can be done with dry ice.
Karla Klein Albertson
Ah, pearls: lustrous to the eye, smooth on the skin, and very hard to resist. Maybe you're thinking of buying some for your valentine.
GARDEN SECTION
GARDEN SECTION: Share your bounty. Show off your garden and share a memory, tip or best find.
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Housing slump worries older sellers
- Many are postponing the wrenching move.More Americans are postponing the day when they exchange big houses filled with memories for smaller retirement homes - waiting into their 70s and sometimes their 80s to make the move, housing-industry officials and senior-living consultants say.
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Our house, the warehouse
- A North Carolina family lives large, turning a century-old cotton-stor- age structure into home.Most passersby saw an abandoned building. John Eller and Sarah Frisbey saw a century-old dream house and made it happen.
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On the House: Freezing out the ID thieves
- If you are a cable TV viewer, you've likely come across LifeLock's commercial, which seems to be repeated several times an hour.
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Philadelphia real estate transactions
- These transactions, recorded Jan. 18-24, 2007, are compiled from information on file with the City of Philadelphia. They represent sales of $78,000 or more.
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Shore real estate transactions
- These Atlantic and Cape May County transactions, recorded Jan. 4, 2007, to June 26, are compiled from information on file with the counties. They represent sales of $50,000 or more.
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