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Roses Are Red, Sometimes: A Conversation with a Flower Expert
With Valentine’s Day looming, our digital editor Kathleen Yale called up Amy Stewart, author of Flower Confidential: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful, to talk about the ins and outs Continue reading

Meet the Zinnias Astronaut Scott Kelly Grew in Space
“ON MY FIRST MISSION I WAS so focused on what I was doing—I didn’t want to screw anything up—that I didn’t look out the window during launch. We were in space Continue reading

8 Botanical Artists to Watch
TO ROUND OUT FLOWER WEEK, we present you with a gallery of botanical art. The works below capture, preserve, impress, re-create, manipulate, and wonder at the influence of petals, stems, and Continue reading

Essence of Lavender
I mostly keep it bottled away, this three-year period of my life in which I obsessively sucked on breath mints, learned how to remove the smell of rancid almond oil from Continue reading

Choose Your Own Adventure with These 6 Nature-Themed Love Poems
Click on one of the images below for a surprise poem. We’ve been saying something like this For months: slow-ripened sounds Wafting out of our mouths Continue reading