Flower food typically comes in a small packet, which you can stir into your bouquet’s water to help the flowers stay fresh, ...

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 ...

Local cut flowers are hot stuff these days as farmers and small-scale growers cash in on the popularity of fresh bouquets, and home gardeners continue a trend that caught on during COVID-19 cocooning.

One of the joys of gardening, especially raising flowers, is creating a bouquet using blooms and greenery from garden beds and pots. You’d be surprised at what you can find in your yard and along the ...

Why do some cut flowers and bouquets seem to die immediately? How can you prolong them once you get them home in a vase?—Grand Floral Charade I have the same problem, Floral—my blooms are fine in the ...

Personal experience has taught me a lot about keeping cut flowers looking their best in hot weather. I did all the floral arrangements for my son’s wedding in Boston, and then acted as sous chef for ...

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 ...

After a rare April storm smothered Oregon with snow Monday, Portland flower hobbyist Kishra Ott was called to rescue lilacs shaken from a toppled century-old tree. She filled floral buckets with the ...