Flower Power

Traditional quilting has been a large influence most of my life. In the past few years, contemporary quilting and art quilting has become a large part of my work. Analyzing the hippy generation of the late 1960s inspired the quilted coat “Flower Power.” The coat that was created serves a duel purpose; it is wearable art as well as wall art

Flower Power

The Huntingtons run the state\u27s largest horticultural busines

Flower Power Finals Week

Have a groovy finals week at Roesch Library! Take a break in our living indoor Mary Garden and enjoy a variety of stress relief services and events

Flower power!

You must have heard the term "She's not just a pretty face."? This term can also be applied to the lovely marigold flower, which is not just beautiful to look at, but is also a useful diagnostic tool where Botrytis grey mold is concerned. Botrytis grey mold (BGM) is a disease, caused by the fungus Botrytis cinerea, that mainly attacks the reproductive structures of plants, especially the chickpea plant. Flower abortion is a common symptom of the disease. The disease remains undiscovered until the signs of damage become visible on the flower canopy (Fig. A). As a result, fungicides cannot be applied early enough to control the disease..........

Geographies of Flowers and Geographies of Flower Power

The world is changing under the pressure of environmental and health crises, and in this context, location choice and political choice become of even more poignant importance. Following a Culture-Based Development (CBD) stand, our paper highlights the link between political voting and the cultural and ecological valuation of a place. We start from the premise that the individual utility functions of the urban inhabitant and the urban voter coincide, since they both express the citizen’s satisfaction with the life in a place. We suggest that the unified citizen’s utility function is driven by a trade-off between the availability of virtual and physical spaces for interaction. We expect that this trade-off can lead to dissatisfaction with the place and consequent political discontent if the incumbents’ access to green areas and artistic environment in a place is simultaneously hampered for a long time. Our operational hypothesis is that the political sensitivity of citizens is related to the local availability of green areas (geographies of flowers) and cultural capital endowments (geographies of flower power). Using individual-level data from the WVS from the period close before the pandemic—2017–2020, we test empirically this hypothesis. We use as an outcome of interest the individual propensity to active political behaviour. We explain this propensity through the geographies of flowers (i.e., green areas) and geographies of flower power (i.e., cultural and creative industries). We compare the effects for urban and for rural areas. We find strong dependence of politically proactive behaviour on the geographies of flowers and geographies of flower power, with explicit prominence in urban areas. We find a more pronounced effect of these two geographies on the utility function of incumbent than migrant residents. We also crosscheck empirically the relationship of this CBD mechanism on an aggregate level, using data from the Cultural and Creative Cities Monitor. The findings confirm the Schelling magnifying effect of micro preferences on a macro level