Do you just love fresh flower arrangements for the table or even that single bloom in a vase by your bedside? Wouldn’t it feel great to just stroll out your back door, clip some blossoms, bring them ...

Cutting and arranging flowers is a fun way to exercise your creativity and bring the beauty of your garden indoors. The more you do it, the easier it gets, and you'll soon be sharing your flowers with ...

Tom Oder is a writer, editor, and communication expert who specializes in sustainability and the environment with a sweet spot for urban agriculture. Many homeowners face a dilemma when it comes to ...

Adding fresh flowers to your home is a great way to brighten your space. Whether picking flowers from your garden for an instant pick-me-up or opting for a beautiful store arrangement, they can make ...

Forestville landscape designer Christa Mone provides the plants and expertise, you provide the soil and labor for a colorful flower garden. Knowing how bewildering plant selection can be, a Sonoma ...

There are few things more beautiful than a vase full of fresh flowers in your home, though it can be a costly decoration to keep up with. Fortunately, you don’t need to go to the market every week to ...

Cut flowers sounded easy when I started gardening. Just plant some flowers and then cut them, right? Well, there is a lot more to it than that. Cut flowers are often grown from specific varieties that ...

David Kuchta, Ph.D. has 10 years of experience in gardening and has read widely in environmental history and the energy transition. An environmental activist since the 1970s, he is also a historian, ...

If you are picking from your own garden or a flower farm, by top tip is to always cut mature blooms. You will be able to identify them as they'll have visible seed pods forming. Younger stems are more ...