The problem with an abundance of bloom by lily-of-the-Nile over the summer is that all the spent blooms need to be plucked about now. Fortunately though, not all of the spent blooms need to go to ...

The rainbow of blooms starts with red starflower and fades into mustard billy balls, green ferns and blue thistle. There are buckets of grasses and palms upstairs and even more flowers hang overhead.

Drying flowers is a simple, unhurried way to preserve the beauty of your garden ...

Dried flowers are not always beloved. Less colorful and fragrant than their former selves, they are, at their very worst, associated with dusty homes and death. But what if, like artificial flowers, ...

Five things to do in the garden this week: Flowers. Although the bloom period of annual statice (Limonium sinuatum) stretches from summer to fall and is long enough for this species to earn a ...

Many people grow flowers just for the sheer pleasure of enjoying them in the garden while they're in bloom. However, it's entirely possible to prolong the pleasure of your plants into the next season ...

Dried flowers can be a hard sell. I learned as much first-hand during a high school summer job as a florist’s assistant. After a customer rebuffed my suggestion to add some stems of purple statice – a ...

Dried flowers, berries and vines make for beautiful fall arrangements. Paul Epsom invites his assistant Susan to show you many ways to keep those garden remnants in your home all winter.

With a sweep of her hand, Frances Hiller takes in probably 10 dried floral arrangements arrayed in her Highland Park kitchen. ”Nothing in here cost anything,” she says of the collection of such ...

HAWTHORNE — Cathy Miller knew she was on to something when Pope John Paul II admired one of her dried-flower creations. Her husband surprised her with a trip to Vatican City, and she brought a shadow ...