Roses are ideal cut flowers. The best time to cut them is just as the buds are starting to open. Few garden flowers make better cut-flower choices than the rose, and June is the peak month to cut them ...

Here are some tips for keeping cut flowers alive longer. All cut flowers have a finite life span once harvested. • Clean, green leaves. • Unbroken stems and petals that are neither battered nor ...

Tom Oder is a writer, editor, and communication expert who specializes in sustainability and the environment with a sweet spot for urban agriculture. Many homeowners face a dilemma when it comes to ...

Roses are known for being the most romantic of bouquets and are usually given and received on Valentine's Day. There are more than 300 species and tens of thousands of cultivars of roses available but ...

I now have a new garden duty that I really look forward to every Friday. I get to go out into the magnificent, mature perennial beds at Colette’s Bed and Breakfast and harvest whatever cut flower I ...

With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, many people will be looking forward to bouquets of freshly cut flowers. But while it can be tempting to stuff flowers straight into a vase, this could ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. If you’ve been seduced by the voluptuous English roses bred by British ...