Dried flowers are not always beloved. Less colorful and fragrant than their former selves, they are, at their very worst, associated with dusty homes and death. But what if, like artificial flowers, ...

Five things to do in the garden this week: Flowers. Although the bloom period of annual statice (Limonium sinuatum) stretches from summer to fall and is long enough for this species to earn a ...

The rainbow of blooms starts with red starflower and fades into mustard billy balls, green ferns and blue thistle. There are buckets of grasses and palms upstairs and even more flowers hang overhead.

When I was a little girl, I loved to dry flowers. I vividly remember keeping my eyes peeled in the garden, at the park, and at school in search of pretty blooms to immortalize. Some I pressed between ...

Dried flowers can be a hard sell. I learned as much first-hand during a high school summer job as a florist’s assistant. After a customer rebuffed my suggestion to add some stems of purple statice – a ...

HAWTHORNE — Cathy Miller knew she was on to something when Pope John Paul II admired one of her dried-flower creations. Her husband surprised her with a trip to Vatican City, and she brought a shadow ...