Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo credit: Zuzi at Stella Photography (country_living_645) The below is an extract taken from Joseph Massie's The Flower School ...

They can turn a simple Trader Joe’s bunch into a florist-quality Valentine’s bouquet with a few smart choices and easy tricks ...

Most of the time, DIY floral arranging involves bringing home a bouquet or two of cut flowers, depositing them in a generic glass vase scrounged from under the sink and then wondering why they look a ...

This expert advice on how to arrange flowers is so easy to follow that you'll find yourself bookmarking it to come back to every time you snip some blooms from your garden or grab a fresh bunch from ...

Traditionally, it’s considered a good idea to clump smaller blooms together. Tiny flowers are easier to hold and manipulate as a bunch, anway, and if they’re kept together they have a real presence in ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." I love to garden and entertain—cooking a big meal, making delicious cocktails, and using flowers and ...

Floral arrangements typically include greenery, filler flowers, support flowers, and focal flowers. To arrange flowers, stick to a simple color palette and choose the right vessel. Secure your stems ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Valentine’s Day is responsible for about one-third of all floral sales in a year, including 250 million roses, according to the Society of American Florists. That means a lot of ...

A few months ago, I wrote about the not-so-pretty side of the floral industry. I learned, in addition to the fact that it’s not all a bed of roses, and that the quality of flowers we can buy at Costco ...

When I was a journalist in England, I became unlikely friends with a one-time high-flying, then disgraced financial public relations guru called John Addey. He had a passion for vases of cut flowers t ...