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 ...

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 ...

Big flower arrangements can be expensive and may not be the effect you want to achieve. You may, perhaps, want a minimalist approach, something with japanese delicacy or an intriguing starkness. A ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While I have plenty of pretty napkins and beautiful dishes and glassware to use, and loads of hydrangea, ferns, and herbs from my ...

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 ...

I love to garden and entertain – cooking a big meal, making delicious cocktails and using flowers and greenery from my garden (with supplements from the flower shop) to make a flower arrangement for ...

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 ...