As Armenia builds closer relations with the EU, Russia retaliates, withdrawing its ambassador and banning Armenian flowers.

Russian authorities destroyed 40,000 roses coming from Belarus earlier this week, claiming that the flowers had originated in Armenia and lacked “the required phytosanitary certificates or shipping documents.”

Every twelve years, the hills around the Mattupetty, India, work with the cosmos to seed a new generation.

We talk about “telling time” but it might be more accurate to say “time tells in us.” And before we will admit that, in wrinkled skin and

The Black Canary flies into action from her perch at Sherwood Florist.

Artistry, compassion, good-timing, industriousness, and enough forbearance to deal with brides. Such are the mighty virtues of florists. One might add humility, too, since flower shop owners tend to work anonymously, the unobtrusive

A Buddhist deity, patron of pilgrims and pregnant women, has become the modern day guardian of the unborn in Japan.

Kimimasa Mayama’s photographs today come from a Tokyo temple. On a hillside there, hundreds of chubby statuettes (or is it literally sentai — a thousand?)

Alpine plants in a region of Tibet have survived and diversified over millennia through a kind of floral courtesy.

You learned it in nursery school or, among siblings, even earlier. Nobody has to die over the Etch-a-Sketch because everybody will get to scribble. Just wait