Some 20 million flowers are sold each day at the historic Aalsmeer Flower Auction in the Netherlands—more than half the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Flowers feed pollinators, conserve soil, purify water, and even remove toxins from the air. But the thing many of us adore the ...

Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, they say. No one knows this better than the gardener who plants flowers to fill the world with beauty. As a professional gardener, I usually design gardens ...

Deep within tropical rainforests grows a flower so enormous and rare that it defies nature's norms. Blooming without leaves, ...

The world’s largest flower, known as Rafflesia arnoldii, can be found in the rainforests of Asia. It can grow up to 3 feet in diameter and weigh as much as 15 pounds. Rafflesia arnoldii is believed to ...

The Victorian era is famously regarded as a period of restraint—restraint in clothing, social norms, emotional behavior, communication … the list could go on and on. As a result, folks living during ...

Many homeowners insist on always having fresh flowers in the house. Their delicate presence and refreshing scent make the simple day-to-day that much brighter. While the flowers available differ ...

Deep in Southeast Asia’s rainforests blooms a giant flower that smells like rotting flesh. Rare, parasitic and short-lived, Rafflesia arnoldii survives against the odds, but for how long?

This remarkable flower is as notorious for its fragrance as it is for its size. Commonly, known as the ‘corpse flower’, it produces an odour resembling that of rotting flesh when in bloom. This stench ...

Thousands of visitors flocked to The Huntington Library, Art Gallery, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino on Monday as words spread like wildfires overnight: the world’s largest single-stem flower ...

April showers bring May flowers! With spring in full swing, Mother's Day nearly here and wedding season about to kick off, here is a look at some of the trendiest blooms for this season – both for ...

Opening “Black Flora,” a new title from Timber Press, is like unboxing a bouquet of flowers. Quite different from what I expected. When I was invited to review the book, I imagined that it was a ...