Spring has finally sprung and our Instagram feeds are filled with mood-boosting bouquets. But while fresh flowers are a dreamy edition to any room, they can also quickly become an expensive habit, ...

Decorating with fresh flowers is one of my favorite ways to update a room, but they don't always last as long as I'd like—which may be why dried floral bouquets have become increasingly popular over ...

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They don’t require any maintenance (Picture: The Happy Blossoms/Getty) With more hours to spare over the past few months, lots of us have been spending more time on Instagram. And, while we’ve been ...

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 ...

Buying “artificial” flowers for someone on Valentine’s Day may feel like you’re giving someone cubic zirconia when you could just buy the real deal. But the thing about options like felt, paper, or ...

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

If you have ever taken a floral design class, chances are you will have come across floral foam. Often in the form of a lightweight green brick, once soaked in water it acts as a foundation in which ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. “It’s the art of possibility,” says Lucy Philips. “As you don’t need water and the flowers are almost ...

David Kuchta, Ph.D. has 10 years of experience in gardening and has read widely in environmental history and the energy transition. An environmental activist since the 1970s, he is also a historian, ...