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.

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Drying flowers is a simple, unhurried way to preserve the beauty of your garden ...

Flowers that bloom today were the same ones blooming 99 million years ago – when dinosaurs roamed the Earth. A study published Monday in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Plants examined perfectly ...

Since its classification in 1872, scientists have bestowed a special record to a flower that has been frozen in time for more than 33 million years. For over a century, it has been known as the ...

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, ...

Dried flowers are a simple, no-fuss way to preserve the beauty of your blooms, whether they're harvested from your garden, picked up from the farmers' market, or a special occasion bouquet. Knowing ...

You'd be surprised by how many things you can use dried flowers for besides potpourri... not that making potpourri isn't riveting on its own. Dried flowers often retain the same beauty benefits that ...