Susan Spradley, a volunteer for California Botanic Garden's Native Designs group, assembles a bouquet made from native foliage and flowers, including glossy hollyleaf cherry branches and sunflowers, ...

Can you grow your own wedding flowers? Yes, you can! Growing your own bridal bouquet can be a rewarding and economical project, as long as you know what you’re getting into. Keep reading to learn more ...

Ranunculus flowers are having a moment, and it’s easy to see why. These beauties unfurl like peonies and roses and do well in artistic-like arrangements, alone or mixed with other types of flowers.

Every spring, I cut fragrant lilac stems from the two bushes flanking my front gate and set them in a vase indoors, where their fragrance perfumes the entire first floor better than any scented candle ...

1. You can plant Swiss chard throughout the year. Its seeds, like those of closely related beets (they are varieties of the same species, Beta vulgaris), are formed in clusters, up to four seeds per ...

Attention, anyone who thinks native blooms are brilliant in the wild — or our yards — but don’t work in bouquets. Boy, are we wrong. This isn’t an invitation to trample wildflower fields to pick ...

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 ...

Do you want to make someone happy? Grow them a bouquet of sunflowers. The bright blooms are guaranteed to bring a smile. Sunflower varieties are now available that bloom rapidly. You can grow a ...

Attention, anyone who thinks native blooms are brilliant in the wild — or our yards — but don't work in bouquets. Boy, are we wrong. This isn't an invitation to trample wildflower fields to pick ...