The number of births in the United States and globally is declining, but houseplants are booming. Since the pandemic, Gen-Z and millennials have taken on gardening, and it seems that the trend is here ...

In Victorian times, many women made wax flowers as a hobby. After melting white wax into sheets and adding pigment for color, they painstakingly separated flowers petal by petal, traced the shapes on ...

The Bay Area is a truly cosmopolitan area, drawing on many cultures for its rich diversity. It is also, thanks to our Mediterranean climate, home to diverse flora from similar climates around the ...

A Thibodaux artist is preserving an endangered artistic tradition her mother used to sell from a plantation. As a child, Sabina Miller's mother, Albertine Louis-Miller, sold waxed-paper flowers to the ...