2 Dozen Roses - $44.95 Yellow Roses indicate Friendship and Joy.     With this selection you receive two dozen elegantly wrapped Premium Long Stem Yellow Roses (18"-24"), with Filler Greens, a personalized card, and rose care information.     Your order is wrapped in decorative cellophane and carefully hand packed on ice in an attractive, fully insulated gift box, and shipped via Overnight Courier.

Bold & Beautiful - $36.95     This boldly colored bouquet is sure to fit any occasion! Six Mixed Roses along with three bright Gerbera Daisies and three stems of Mixed Asiatic Lilies are accented with greenery and will brighten any decor. Also included are a quality message card, floral preservative and flower care information. Your flowers come elegantly wrapped in a decorative sleeve and are hand packed in an attractive gift box.

Bountiful Basket - $79.95     Soft pink roses nestle with lilies and other dainty blossoms to create this abundant garden basket bouquet. This all-around arrangement is approximately 13 inches h x 12 inches w.    Based on season and availability this selection may contain: Roses, Veronica, Stock, Lilies, Candy Tuft, Thistle, Curly Willow, Fox Fern, Pittosporum.

Anchorage

Alaska

Date Of Statehood: January 3, 1959

Capitol: Juneau

Slogan: North! To Alaska

Web Site: http://www.state.ak.us/

State Flower: Forget Me Not Myositis alpestris

The alpine forget-me-not is Alaska’s state flower. It was chosen in 1949. This perennial grows 9-12 inches tall and has flowers with five connected salviform petals, colored sky blue, that are a quarter to a third of an inch wide. Their white inner ring and a yellow center form a distinctive eye. The best time to see the alpine forget-me-not is midsummer, from late June to late July. Several Myosotis species are available commercially for planting in climates in the lower 50 states. For more information visit www.springhillnursery.com

History of Juneau:
    History of Juneau: In the late 1800’s the local Tlingit Indians, who used the Gastineau Channel area as a fishing grounds, responded to a challenge from George Pilz, a Sitka engineer. He was offering a reward for gold. Having glimpsed gold from the area, Pilz sent prospectors to scout out the area. They made two tirps, on the second trip, they followed the gold to the source. They climbed Snow Slide Gulch at the head of Gold Creek and found Quartz Gulch and Silver Bow Basin. This turned out to be fertile mining ground indeed.

In October of 1880, they staked a 160 acre town site. Soon boatloads of prospectors arrived and the result was the Alaskan town of Juneau. Even when the loose gold in the stream beds ran out, the town thrived on large-scale hard-rock mining. Mining continued by the Treadwell and Alaska-Juneau gristmill companies until the mid 1900’s.

  In 1906, Juneau became the capital of Alaska, taking over that role from Sitka. Tourism is the largest private industry in the town today, though federal, state and local government is the largest employer in the city. Commercial fishing and mining are still present in the local economy, but are no longer the lifeblood of the city.