If the idea of making a floral arrangement makes you nervous, start small. Bud vases let you bring nature into your home in little, easy-to-manage pieces. They fit smaller spaces that a larger vase ...

Ceramics will always be near and dear to our hearts (and our open shelves). But when we spotted these paper vases by Octaevo—some with graphic, colorful patterns across them, others perforated, and ...

This expert advice on how to arrange flowers is so easy to follow that you'll find yourself bookmarking it to come back to every time you snip some blooms from your garden or grab a fresh bunch from ...

Walter Hagen once said, “You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry. Don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.” The lifespan of a beautiful vase of flowers can be extended with ...

From origami to kintsugi, Japanese crafting has a way of transforming the everyday into something really special. In flower arranging, there’s the centuries-old art of ikebana. The term, which means ...

Flower vases come many ways: tall and wide, small enough only to hold a single sprig, and everything which way between. The only catch is that they must be able to hold flowers. But recently, we've ...

This year, I’ve been keeping track of what blooms for me and when. So far I’ve recorded more than 100 species of flowers (plus many more named varieties of the same genus) and 40 species of flowering ...

Arranging flowers? We know. It's scary. Which is why it's so easy to go for the pre-made bouquets at a flower shop, or to stick to one, simple type, or to forgo flowers altogether and dive into ...

When I was in high school, I was a straight A student. My only B all four years was in Driver’s Education. (And that was a miracle, seeing how I got into a car accident the first day of driver’s ...

Swinburne University of Technology provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. Every Thursday, I go to the Prahran Market in Melbourne and buy, among other things, cut flowers. Since moving ...