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While there is no truth to the rumor that Hallmark invented Valentine’s Day, there is no denying that many people think of it as a manufactured holiday designed to sell cards, flowers and chocolate...

California’s Monarch butterfly population hit a record low in 2018 after dropping a whopping 86 percent from the previous year. According to the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, the total population has declined...

While most Airstream renovations tend to go for a minimalist aesthetic to create the illusion of more space, surface pattern designer Bonnie Christine used her love of florals to convert her 1962 Airstream trailer into a...

Could wildflowers help us cut our use of pesticides? The Guardian reported that colorful strips of the flowers have been planted through 15 large arable fields in England - instead of just around them - as part of a Center...

Solar power is helping flower grower Hector Santiago get back on his feet in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria devastated much of the United States territory's electricity grid...

Finding the perfect gift for the eco-conscious Mama in your life is a little more labor intensive than just running out for generic cards or super-market flowers at the last second...

Poppies, dune evening primrose, lupine, and other wildflowers are blanketing California in a super bloom so immense you can see it from space. After an especially wet winter, most of the state is finally drought-free - and...

A stunning show for the eyes—and nose—has taken over the facade of a building in Milan. Local design studio Piuarch teamed up with landscape architect Cornelius Gavril to create ‘Flowerprint,’ a gardening facade installation...


 Set on a 100-hectare rose park that exhibited over 2,000 species of roses for the convention, the Beijing Rose Museum was designed to engage and overlook its stunning surrounding views...

Bialek told Inhabitat, "We are two students who share the same passions: technology and nature, especially the art of bonsai. We take care of our own little bonsai garden. We wanted to combine those seemingly separate worlds...

After the dreary landscapes of winter, the vibrant flowers are meant to hail the beauty of the coming seasons. Gerberas, chrysanthemums, carnations, orchid blossoms, hydrangeas, freesia, lisianthus, and roses were all donated...

American consumers spend billions of dollars on flowers every year, an industry which has proven to be environmentally destructive in more ways than not...

Are flowers one of the worst gifts you can give? Husbands the world over may be sighing in relief that finally, those roses may be just too ecologically insensitive to continue giving at Valentine’s Day and on other occasions...

Aracil hand-picks flowers, flattens them, and then weaves them together over a cone-shaped paper mold. After a couple of weeks, the flowers dry out to maintain a shape stable enough for the mold to be removed. Other than a...

There's something extraordinarily beautiful about fresh flowers in the depths of winter, especially if they're living plants that won't lose their vibrancy and fragrance after a couple of days in a vase...