Multiple cup-shaped blooms grow on a single stalk and have a thin papery texture. They provide height to flower arrangements and are nice as cut or dried flowers. This compact evergreen shrub is ...

Green flowers, the ones that you have to get down on hands and knees to look at, have always attracted me. I don't know if it's their understated simplicity or the fact that I just like things as ...

Placing your shortest plants in the front and taller ones in the back will draw the eye through your flower bed naturally.

Colour – especially the use of colour in the garden – is a famously subjective thing. For example, hot pink, bright yellow, deep burgundy, or fiery orange will always be anathema for some, while for ...

What was a green rose? A real rose or some island plant or Polynesian cultivar? Why in English? Hawaiian songs are rife with flower symbolism and layers of meaning, the surface one innocuous, the ...

Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski / Amanda Benton, owner of the Tipsy Tulip in Altoona, creates a fresh cut bouquet of roses, mums and lisianthus. Flowers — either in pots, vases, flats or hanging ...

Simply sign up to the House & Home myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. A few years back I went to a swanky Cotswold wedding. Nick Mason, Jon Snow, Fergie, Simon Le Bon and Gary Kemp ...