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Tip: How To Make Your Flowers Last Longer

We already know to cut the stems on a diagonal and change the water daily, but we didn't know this tip... (Hint: it has to with your fruit bowl.) ...

Look! Picking Farm Flowers

Our friends Ed and Jess were married over the weekend in Massachusetts, at the foothills of the Berkshires in farm country. On the morning of the wedding, we all set out to pick flowers for the cere...

Look! Recycled Plastic Flower Pots

We're not exactly sure what these blue plastic flower pots used to be, but they certainly served some other purpose. We saw them as we were walking to the grocery store yesterday afternoon and grab...

Happy Meals: Time To Buy (or Pick) Fresh Flowers

For those of us in chillier parts of the country, and that's at least half of our readership, we have been stuck in the deep depressing cave of winter, sans fresh local produce, or local flowers, for ...

DIY: Make Your Own Floral Preservative

We love flowers. What we don't like: their short life. So we use that little white package of floral preservative that accompanies some bouquets. Containing sugar, for nutrition; bleach, to keep th...

Organic Bouquet

While the farmer's market and Trader Joe's are usually the source for our own flowers, sending flowers can be a little more complex. Organic Bouquet is not only an easy way to make the effort, it's...