{"id":113367,"date":"2026-02-13T20:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T20:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/113367\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T20:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T20:52:10","slug":"stop-and-smell-the-flowers-on-valentines-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/113367\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop and smell the flowers on Valentine&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Florists and flower shops across the region, including Central Park Flowers in Clarks Green, operate in high gear ahead of Valentine\u2019s Day on Saturday.\u00a0The National Retail Federation reports Americans will spend $29.1 billion on the love holiday this year, with 41% of those celebrating planning to buy flowers.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Flowers in the cooler at Central Park Flowers in Clarks Green on Thursday, Feb. 12, 2026. (REBECCA PARTICKA\/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)\" width=\"3000\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/STT-L-CENTRALPARKFLOWERS-021225-02.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"1551121\" \/>Flowers in the cooler at Central Park Flowers in Clarks Green on Thursday, Feb. 12, 2026. (REBECCA PARTICKA\/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Owner Dorian Butovich arranges flowers at Central Park Flowers in...\" class=\"size-article_inline\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/STT-L-CENTRALPARKFLOWERS-021225-04.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Owner Dorian Butovich arranges flowers at Central Park Flowers in Clarks Green on Thursday, Feb. 12, 2026. (REBECCA PARTICKA\/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A vase full of roses sits on a counter at...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/STT-L-CENTRALPARKFLOWERS-021225-05.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/STT-L-CENTRALPARKFLOWERS-021225-05.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A vase full of roses sits on a counter at Central Park Flowers in Clarks Green on Thursday, Feb. 12, 2026. (REBECCA PARTICKA\/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Owner Dorian Butovich arranges flowers at Central Park Flowers in...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/STT-L-CENTRALPARKFLOWERS-021225-03.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/STT-L-CENTRALPARKFLOWERS-021225-03.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Owner Dorian Butovich arranges flowers at Central Park Flowers in Clarks Green on Thursday, Feb. 12, 2026. (REBECCA PARTICKA\/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The display at the entrance of Central Park Flowers in...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/STT-L-CENTRALPARKFLOWERS-021225-08.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/STT-L-CENTRALPARKFLOWERS-021225-08.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The display at the entrance of Central Park Flowers in Clarks Green on Thursday, Feb. 12, 2026. (REBECCA PARTICKA\/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Employee Cecelia Ferraris works on an arrangement at Central Park...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/STT-L-CENTRALPARKFLOWERS-021225-07.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/STT-L-CENTRALPARKFLOWERS-021225-07.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Employee Cecelia Ferraris works on an arrangement at Central Park Flowers in Clarks Green on Thursday, Feb. 12, 2026. (REBECCA PARTICKA\/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Flowers in the cooler at Central Park Flowers in Clarks...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/STT-L-CENTRALPARKFLOWERS-021225-01.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/STT-L-CENTRALPARKFLOWERS-021225-01.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Flowers in the cooler at Central Park Flowers in Clarks Green on Thursday, Feb. 12, 2026. (REBECCA PARTICKA\/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)\n<\/p>\n<p>Show Caption<\/p>\n<p>1 of 6<\/p>\n<p>Owner Dorian Butovich arranges flowers at Central Park Flowers in Clarks Green on Thursday, Feb. 12, 2026. (REBECCA PARTICKA\/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"icon-enlarge mng-gallery-fullscreen-expand\" aria-label=\"Expand fullscreen slideshow\">Expand<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florists and flower shops across the region, including Central Park Flowers in Clarks Green, operate in high gear&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[182,139,178,180,179,181],"class_list":["post-113367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-top-stories-stt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}