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  Traders dump unsold stock of vegetables, flowers on the road                 Traders dumping unsold flowers on the road at Koyambedu wholesale market complex on Tuesday. They say there has been a 30% drop in demand in Koyambedu With slump in demand, about 10% of the vegetables and flowers at the Koyambedu wholesale market was wasted. While some traders dump the unsold stock on the roads inside the market, some sent the stock to the bio methanation plant. On an average, the market gets 400-500 truckloads of vegetables every day. Wholesalers said sales had dropped by 20%-30% as it was not a festival season and there were very few functions such as weddings organised now. Most vegetables sold between ₹20 and ₹30 a kg except for a few like carrot, which is priced ₹50 to ₹60 a kg at the wholesale market.  S. Chandran, president, Koyambedu Market Licensed Merchants’ Association, said the demand from commercial establishments, hotels and catering services had dropped by 50%

  Man delivering flowers attacks woman in her Buckhead home A woman said a flower delivery man attacked her inside her Buckhead home. The woman claims he used a Taser on her. She is sharing security footage of the attack in hopes of helping other women. ATLANTA - Sabrina Wynn shared a home surveillance video on social media of the man she said attacked her after delivering flowers to her Buckhead residence. The 32-year-old mother of two said she was sharing her story to alert other women.  The Atlanta resident told FOX 5's Deidra Dukes she is still concerned for her safety a month after the frightening encounter. Wynn said the man knocked on the door of her home on the 900 block of Canterbury Lane in northeast Atlanta , with flowers in hand, the morning of August 11. He asked if she was Sabrina and told her he had a flower delivery for her. "He said he can bring them in to lay the flowers down, they were pretty heavy.  I said, ‘Yes,’" said Wynn. "He c

  You're Invited: Students with special needs hosting flower sale for the public this week Today, students at Jardon Vocational School are opening their general store with a flower sale at 2200 Woodward Heights Avenue. Jardon Vocational School, a part of Hazel Park Schools, serves adults ages 18 to 26 with special needs. The students come from 14 districts in Oakland County. Jardon focuses on teaching young people adult living skills. Traditionally, that includes finding work within the community. But the pandemic put hands-on training on hold -- and students had to get creative. "They just really flourished with their ability to try new things ... it was really amazing to watch them grow," Principal Megan Papasian-Broadwell told 7 Action News. Students took matters into their own hands, teaming up with educators to create Jardon's first-ever general store, open to the public. You'll find doormats made by students with autism, along with plants grown at the school

  14 Unique Flowers for Your Garden There are many plants that boast floral beauty, but to qualify as having  unique flowers , a plant must go beyond the call of duty: Its blooms must be  unusual  in one way or another. In some cases, it will have bicolored flowers; in others, the blooms will be unusually large or oddly shaped.  Growing these plants  is a wonderful way to set yourself apart from your neighbors.   01 of 14 Bird of Paradise   Bird of paradise  isn't only bicolored, but also uniquely shaped. A tropical plant  indigenous  to South Africa,  Strelitzia reginae  grows in the jungle, where it can enjoy hot and humid conditions. It's perennial only in  USDA plant hardiness zones  9 to 11, so Northerners will have to grow it as an  annual . It becomes five feet tall in the wild and sports leaves like those on banana trees. Grow it in  full sun  to  partial shade  in rich soil. It's one of the  plants that like acidic 02 of 14 Himalayan Poppy