As well-intentioned a gift as they may be, big floral arrangements in tall glass vases tied with ribbons and stuck with a “Get Well” card in a plastic holder can add to a hospital patient’s woes.

CLEVELAND, Ohio – When I was in high school, you needed a date to go to the Homecoming dance. Maybe not technically. But in 1994, when I was a freshman at Revere, it was unthinkable for a group of ...

Cheer Santy of Fiori Flowers on Chestnut Street in San Francisco recently designed a Mother's Day tussie-mussie for The Chronicle, using appropriate spring flowers to match sentiments that a loving ...

What leads a person to want to collect things? Irene Deitsch, whose Palo Alto home includes museum-quality displays of teacups, rolling pins, paperweights, antique scent bottles and Victorian-era posy ...

Forget that old song that goes "M is for the many things she gave me, O means only that she's growing old." There's a better suggestion for Mother's Day: Express your feelings with flowers and revive ...

On the Bittern-Dromana Road in Merricks North, Tussie Mussie is smack bang in the middle of Mornington Peninsula. It feels secluded, on 11 hectares, but it seems close enough to be almost no more than ...

Floriography — isn’t that a gorgeous word? It means the language of flowers. People have attributed meaning to flowers for thousands of years. Plants and flowers are used as symbols in the Hebrew ...