Even many landscape evergreens are good fodder for bouquets. Examples are the silvery-blue berry-like cones of junipers, the ...

Heat-stressed plants are weakened, and we often see an increase in disease and insect problems at the end of the summer. Here ...

Flower farms once dotted Long Island like freckles. Local growers produced roses in glass greenhouses and populated acres with mums for cutting, the vase-bound flowers a major commodity in the region.

Felco Snips, available at Amazon, are perfect for deadheading roses. Cut under the dead flowers and just a little above the first cluster of leaves. Look for an outward-facing bud.

But many of the most common flowers found in cut gardens are not native to North America. Tulips, sweet peas, baby's breath, tea roses, gladiolas, and carnations, all have their origins in Eurasia ...

Vase of Flowers in a Window, Ambrosius Bosschaert (1618) Public Domain Roses in culture and society A Roman murdered for his religion on February 14, AD 269, St Valentine was promoted by Geoffrey ...

Few garden flowers make better cut-flower choices than the rose, and June is the peak month to cut them. * READ: 3,500 roses are in peak bloom now at Hershey Gardens ...