Gifting flowers for Valentine’s Day isn’t exactly groundbreaking, but it’s always nice. We’d be lying if we said we didn’t delight in receiving a beautiful bouquet. You can do better ...

CUNDINAMARCA, Colombia — Buying flowers on Valentine's Day is a classic gesture of love. But the beauty of these bouquets comes at a cost. In Colombia, high in the Andes Mountains, a delicate ...

Well, that’s what it’s like for us with flowers,” said Michael Black, who manages all the chaos. Somehow. Valentine’s Day is make-or-break for the flower industry, he said, even though he ...

But yes: Those Valentine’s roses do have an environmental cost. The majority of cut flowers this time of year are flown in from Colombia and Ecuador on refrigerated airplanes, burning through ...

Miami International Airport have processed about 940 million stems of cut flowers, according to U.S. Customs and Border Prote ...

Ordering flowers online is risky business, which is why I put 11 of the most popular services to the test — for, ya know, science. (Amanda Garrity/Yahoo) ...

PARIS — Those Valentine flowers might come with a bit more than vivid colors and a nice scent. France’s oldest consumer group is reminding people that any imported cut flower likely also ...

This year Americans are expected to spend $2.9 billion on flowers this Valentine’s Day alone, a record-breaking sum according to the National Retail Federation. The cost of romance may rise next ...

By January, extra drivers and employees had been secured ahead of Valentine’s Day, and Phipps and her staff were ready to spend early mornings at the flower market getting blooms and to ...

Love can come in all different hues and petals. Flowers and Valentine’s Day are practically synonymous. The holiday is the No. 1 annual occasion for florists and floral purchases, second only to ...