Everyone knows that fresh flowers are an easy way to bring color, subtle fragrance and life into a room. Unfortunately, I'm notorious for plopping flowers into a vase and thinking nothing more of it.

Flower arranging. A skill that all Swiss finishing-school attendees should master, along with proper table placement and etiquette, but not one I ever felt compelled to have under my belt. As a ...

Twice a week, Masako Gibeault steps into Resobox, a sunlit Japanese culture center in the East Village, with a bundle of flowers in her arms. There, she teaches ikebana, the ancient art of flower ...