The truth is that roses -- if you buy the RIGHT roses (old or new) for your location and climate -- are incredibly tough shrubs that can survive almost anything -- even the gardener's ignorance.
As Ann's garden became my own, I began to understand the passion that we humans have for transforming the earth with our bare hands, not to grow food, but to hold our memories. This is our way of putting ourselves into the earth.
Rose is a popular ingredient in skin care -- and with good reason! Extracts of this delicate flower may be used on all skin types but are often included in products for dry, sensitive, and mature skin. Now is a great time to highlight the many ways rose is used in beauty.
Red roses, really? You bought these online and didn't even go to a florist to hand pick them? That's the best you can do, boo?
Through a Rose-Colored Cactus... Here's another wolf in sheep's clothing for you, though this plant is hardly vicious at all: The Pereskia cactus bo...
Take some time to just be in your own head whenever you're walking to or from your next destination. You just might be surprised what wonderful, beautiful and (sometimes) top secret message the universe has in store for you.
This week, a war vet inexplicably landed on Mars, a musical soap opera upped the drama factor, and Emily Blunt went fishing in Yemen. Of course, n...
Just like the flowers in that Valentine's Day bouquet, some businesses can bloom a little too early. Florist Susan Occhino of Waterbury, Connecticu...
Think sappy couples on Valentine's Day are annoying? They don't hold a candle to those women who send themselves flowers: almost 10% of women actually...
This year's Art at Fairchild exhibition is dedicated to Will Ryman's oversized sculptures. It is Will Ryman's largest outdoor exhibition to date.
Flickr photo by Vicky TGAW In Random Recast, I find new ways to upgrade the ordinary things in our lives. And this week, it's all about coffee filt...
It was Marion's second date with Michael M. Smith, and he asked her whether she wanted to see his cemetery. She found herself at the Lent-Riker-Smith Homestead, the city's oldest house that's still used as a private home.
Morning, noon and by the light of the moon, they sweep till they drop, gathering their rosebuds -- and mine -- while they may. Alas, don't tell them that they've already had their day.
"Les Fleurs c'est la Vie!" literally means "Flowers mean life" in French. This is certainly the philosophy of Olivier Giugni, the legendary French floral artist.
Annie, Pickles and the organically grown, man-eating, fence-bending white Lady Banksai climbing rose. (Courtesy Bill Buzbuzian) Excerpted from Talki...
MoMA's exhibition of Warhol films brings you face-to-face with the likes of Allen Ginsberg, Lou Reed, and Dennis Hopper -- time creeping by in slow-motion silence.
While the temperatures hovered in the teens, I witnessed Will Ryman's playful urban Eden -- 25-foot stemmed cotton candy pink and Venetian red roses with grass-green colored foot-long thorns -- sprouting.
The dividers on Park Avenue have known many a decorations, from the famed tulips in the spring to the iron busts of fertility gods uptown. Now a n...
The impact of climbers, whether short or tall, is that they put the finishing touches on a garden. Plus, the garden appears larger when flowers bloom vertically.
I often hear people say they can't grow roses without chemicals, and to them I say "phooey!" Actually, I say, "of course you can!" All it takes is a l...
This Valentine's Day, embrace your wife, girlfriend, husband or boyfriend, and add love for your fellow man to the mix. It's a simple fact: acts of charity bring people closer together.
You don't necessarily have to go all the way to the tropics to explore some new modes of touching. For Valentine's Day you may want to do a different kind of 'ritual.'
Book Review: Roses by Leila Meacham Leila Meacham's new novel, Roses, falls somewher...
Every year for the past six decades, a shadowy visitor left roses and a half-empty bottle of cognac on Edgar Allen Poe's grave on the writer's birthday. This year, no one showed.
Seeing Ryman's art is a bit like walking up and down the grid streets of Manhattan, surrounded by buildings in various states of completion -- an architect's work, like an artist's, on display for all to see.
