Monday, November 19, 2012
Candles, fresh flowers, supplies, a step-by-step guide for creating a stunning holiday centerpiece for your Thanksgiving table.
Thanksgiving brings families, friends and neighbors together, reminds us to be grateful for all we have and to be generous toward others. One way to make guests feel special is to include a Thanksgiving centerpiece on the dinner table. Lori Treffens, floral designer at Pesche’s Flower Shop and Garden Center, 170 S. River Road in Des Plaines, has 30 years of design experience. Treffens showed Patch step-by-step how to create a beautiful Thanksgiving “long and low centerpiece” with candles, fresh flowers and other products that will add a festive decoration to your party, and give your guests one more thing for which to be thankful. The same concepts and techniques presented here about how to create a Thanksgiving centerpiece can be applied …
Monday, June 11, 2012
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A customer walks through the aisles of flowers in a greenhouse at Pesche’s Flower Shop and Garden Center, 170 S. River Road, on Friday afternoon. Pesche’s has a wide variety of plants for sale including flowers, vegetables, herbs, bushes, trees, grass and hanging plants. Earlier: Teens can read for Starbucks gift card. Pesche’s has been contributing garden tips on Des Plaines Patch. If you would like to contribute on Patch, click here. Related: Check out all the photos of the day. The last one was of the River Road bear. Stay connected: Stay connected: Receive an email from Des Plaines Patch with headlines in the morning for free. Adding Events and Announcements to Patch is a breeze. Simply click, type and click again. Join the …
Saturday, April 28, 2012
The family-owned business has been in operation for more than 80 years.
The winner for best florist in the 2012 Readers’ Choice, taking the title with 63 percent of the vote, is Pesche’s Flowers and Garden Center! Pesche’s flower shop, greenhouse and garden center, a family-owned business founded in 1923, is a Des Plaines classic. Whether you need grass seed and flowers in the spring, or pumpkins and Christmas trees later in the year, Pesche’s is a full-service store for flowers and plants for every occasion, season and landscape. Earlier: Click to find out which martial arts program took the Readers’ Choice title for 2012. Pesche’s also offers how-to seminars, and contributes garden tips on Patch. Check out all of the Garden Tips by Pesche to turn your thumb green. C.R. Flowers, 1932 S. River Road, also drew …
