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Yahoo
18-05-2025
- Climate
- Yahoo
Flower Day returns to Detroit Sunday as thousands fill the Eastern Market
Spring was in bloom Sunday as shoppers flocked to Detroit's Eastern Market to get the best deals on hibiscus, petunias, tulips and daisies as the annual Flower Day returned to the Motor City. The market, filled with the aroma of food from dozens of vendors, drew thousands of customers as they pulled wagons filled with children, flowers and plants to find the next best deal. "Our most popular flower today has been the geranium (Crane's-bill), it seems like that has been going the fastest," said Missy Christiansen of DC Farms & Greenhouse, a flower shop based out of Columbus Township in St. Clair County. As shoppers lined up to look at the bright colorful flowers, elephant ears, ice-cold lemonade, hot dogs and french fries, among other food items, were available for purchase from vendors. Temperatures stayed around 65 degrees for most of the day. "It's a lot of fun being down here. We have about 13 stalls, so we're all throughout the market", said Christiansen. Additionally, vendors selling jewelry, clothing, purses, lanyards and more filled the crosswalk outside of each shed. For metro Detroiters who missed Flower Day, there are still two Flower Tuesdays left this month, May 20th and 27th. To learn more, visit Species of flowers in Michigan counties range from 1300-1700, according to the University of Michigan. Variables, including climate and habitat diversity, influence the the type of flower that grows in individual counties. Michigan's native wildflowers include ironweed, several varieties of aster, wild columbine, swamp milkweed and marsh blazing star, Visit Detroit says. The sweet crabapple was designated as the state flower in 1987, according to the state's website. Sponsors said the flower, native to Michigan was 'one of the most fragrant and beautiful flowered species of apple.' A member of the rose family, the crabapple tree ranges from 15 to 30 feet tall when fully grown. Winter buds have reddish scales and when fully bloomed in the summer, the tree produces smooth light pink and white petals. The tree also produces apples that turn yellow when ripened, according to the Glen Arboretum. Iris lacustris, also known as the dwarf lake iris was designated as the state flower in 1998, the state website says. Also native to Michigan, the endangered flower grows alongside the northern shores of Lake Michigan and Huron. According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, botanist Thomas Nuttall discovered Dwarf lake iris in 1810 on Mackinac Island. Most dwarf lake iris flowers are blue, but some vary from pale to dark lilac shades. Jalen Williams is a trending reporter at the Detroit Free Press. Contact him at jawilliams1@ This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: Flower Day in Detroit fills the Eastern Market with colors, carnival food smell.
Axios
16-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Axios
Things to do this weekend in Metro Detroit: May 16-18
🌸 Flower Day — Eastern Market's vibrant annual tradition — is Sunday from 7am-5pm, with flower growers and vendors from all over the Midwest. Free to attend. 🦸 Motor City Comic Con returns this weekend to Suburban Collection Showplace in Novi to celebrate all things comics, pop culture and entertainment. Celebrities slated to appear include Jeremy Renner and Leslie David Baker of "The Office." Friday-Sunday; daily passes start at $35 for adults and $5 for children. 🎤 Post Malone's Big Ass Stadium Tour, with Jelly Roll, is Sunday at 6:30pm at Ford Field. Available tickets start at $77. 🤠 Toy Story, the 1995 animated classic, is showing at the Redford Theatre on Saturday at 1pm. 🎮 Drink and drive (legally!) at Detroit Shipping Company's Mario Kart game night on Friday from 6-10pm. Tickets, $5. 🎭 The Central Park Five, an operatic adaptation of the true story, is playing Friday at 7:30pm and Sunday at 2:30pm at the Detroit Opera House. Tickets start at $30. 💕 Anthony Hamilton, Robin Thicke and Vivian Green will be performing at the Fox Theatre on Sunday at 7pm.
Wall Street Journal
04-04-2025
- General
- Wall Street Journal
‘Flower Day' Review: Counting the Hours, Bloom by Bloom
In my neck of the woods, the eaves have finished dripping and long chilly evenings of poring over seed catalogs have prepared the ground for firmer plans. Gardeners will appreciate something new to read during their breaks from weeding. Sandra Knapp's 'Flower Day,' evocatively illustrated in black and white by Katie Scott, describes 24 flowers, one for each hour. 'Flower Day' begins at midnight, with an exploration of one of my own favorites: the twining white moonflower, whose high-sugar nectar attracts night-flying moths. Ms. Knapp reveals that moonflower nectar was an important component of Mesoamerican rubber hundreds of years before rubber's 'supposed invention' by 19th-century scientists. At 4 a.m. she offers blue-flowered chicory because, she tells us, that's when it opens in midsummer in Uppsala, where the great Swedish botanist and taxonomist Carl Linnaeus suggested it could be used to tell the time. Imported to the New World, this cousin of lettuce is famous for the bitter note its root imparts to coffee. Have your coffee at 9 a.m. if you want to investigate that hour's selection, Helianthus annuus—the common sunflower, which is really a composite of many little flowers, each eventually producing a single oily seed. The young sunflower is heliotropic: It turns toward the sun, pointing east in the morning and west by the evening. 'A sped-up video would show them seemingly waving at us,' Ms. Knapp notes. As their stems mature, helianthuses stop tracking the sun—they stay pointing east, optimizing morning visits from pollinators. Midafternoon offers four-o'clocks, of course—the brilliantly colored South American flower that opens toward the end of the day's heat and stays open for business all night. Many night-bloomers are white, but the bright pink, yellow and red hues of four-o'clocks increase their desirability to those pollinators that 'can perceive a greater range of light,' especially moths. Ms. Knapp includes plenty of less familiar plants—New Zealand flax (used for cloth, but no relation to European Linum), the Amazonian giant waterlily that traps pollinating beetles inside its petals, the inch-high Antarctic hair grass that reproduces both sexually and asexually—all described and investigated for both plant amateurs and the botanically knowledgeable.
