Cut flowers are a wonderful way to brighten any room. Bringing cut flowers into your home can cheer up the rainiest summer days and the coldest weeks of winter. But how do you make sure they stay ...

We visited Sego Lily Flower Farm to learn about cutting gardens! It’s increasingly popular to grow your own food, but have you ever considered growing your own market bouquet of flowers? Flowers like ...

One of the joys of flower gardening is the byproduct of all that hard work: colorful, aromatic bouquets that brighten up the home. A cutting flower garden needs preparation and thought, and the ...

Roses are ideal cut flowers. The best time to cut them is just as the buds are starting to open. Few garden flowers make better cut-flower choices than the rose, and June is the peak month to cut them ...

"While this step is the most often overlooked, it’s also one of the most important keys to a cut flower grower’s success," writes Benzakein. After inspecting a sample, a lab will inform you of whether ...

Farrah Storr writes the popular newsletter/Substack Things Worth Knowing I became an eccentric flower woman sometime between my 40th birthday and the morning I was browsing an antique store in the ...

These tips on how to make roses last longer will help delay drooping stems and browning leaves. Roses look stunning whether they’re displayed on their own or added to a bouquet with other flowers. But ...

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Peter McNeil received funding on Luxury from The Leverhulme Trust. The opening of this essay has been workshopped with Prof Giorgio Riello. Before the creation of international systems of cultivation ...