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.

THE first time I bought flowers for myself was about five years ago at the Greenmarket in Union Square, in the midst of the hottest, dullest days of summer. Feeling very alone that afternoon for a ...

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 ...

FREMONT – Learn from a professional florist how to create your own floral arrangement during a class offered as part of First Lady Lucy Hayes’ Birthday Celebration on Sunday, Aug. 20, at the Hayes ...