Flowers bought from a florist or cut in your garden don’t have to be here today and gone tomorrow. You can extend their vaselife with a little special care. Cut garden flowers early in the morning or late in the evening, when they are crisp with water. During the heat of the day, they lose [...]

All roses are beautiful, but add the dimension of fragrance and you have exceptional roses. The ten roses listed here were chosen by the ‘All America Rose Selections’ (AARS) as having ‘Fabulous Fragrance’.The AARS sorts through all the new rose introductions each year and chooses only one to a handful of the top performers to [...]

Remember: Flowers are highly perishable Fresh flowers are highly perishable, delicate, and time-sensitive products which require a very different set of conditions than other goods such as produce. If your flowers arrive boxed unpack them as soon as possible and place them into fresh water to rehydrate. If the flowers are arranged in a vase [...]

There is no flower more suitable for cutting than the rose. Strong, sturdy stems, buds that open slowly and elegantly and the bonus of fragrance make roses a favorite in a cutting garden. Hybrid teas especially lend themselves to cutting. Hybrid tea roses generally produce one perfect blossom at the end of the each stem. [...]

Beautiful bouquets of cut flowers can turn any room into a garden. Whether you receive them as a gift, buy them yourself or grow your own, sometimes even the best gardeners have trouble keeping their cut flowers fresh and blooming indoors. A lot depends on how fresh the flowers were when you bought them, but [...]

Summer time is a time of brilliance and beauty with flowers in the garden. The season requires special care and attention for the maintenance of plants. Many flower gardens look great in spring and early summer but begin to flag when summer heat hits and the sun beats down day in and day out. Sadly, [...]

Spring Flowers Spring Flowers indicate a season of new beginnings and delights after a long winter. It is an ideal time for weddings and nature trips, as numerous flowers are found everywhere throughout the season. Spring flowers add color to the landscape. Daffodils, Oxeye Daisies, Dianthuses and Thymes list among the most popular names of [...]