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Rio Roses announces the launch of its Mothers Day Video contest, which will accept video submissions via Facebook through April 21, 2011. The contest calls for individuals to send in a short video answering five questions on what makes their Mom, or another Mom in their life, extraordinary and why they deserve to receive Rio Roses for an entire year. Rio Roses will send free roses every month for a full year to the Mom nominated in the Grand Prize winning video. …

For nearly 20 years, its owners, John Salventi and Tom Purviance, have attracted orchid hobbyists and neophytes, alike, with hundreds of different varieties of orchids from Hawaii, Asia and South America. …

Craving eye-popping garden container combos? It couldnt be easier with the following recipes, designed by Tesselaar Plants in its ongoing efforts to make gardening easier. …

Whole Blossoms, the popular wholesale flowers suppliers, team participated in a reality show called Wedding Wars organized by music channel VH1 very recently in the month of March, 2011. …

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is advising the public it has prepared a draft plant pest risk assessment and an environmental assessment (EA) to address a request from Florigene Pty., Ltd seeking a determination of nonregulated status for roses that have been genetically engineered (GE) to produce novel flower color. …