To me, apricot cut flowers are reminiscent of hazy summer days, and bring a relaxed and romantic touch to a bouquet. Their ...

Sophie joined the Ideal Home team as Gardens Editor in June 2024. After studying English at Royal Holloway, University of ...

Dahlias can provide you with blooms from spring through summer, but these tall, flowering beauties need a little help to ...

BEHOLD, BEAUTIFUL DAHLIAS and daylilies during dreary damp December days — how delightful! That is absolutely correct!

Debra Kroon's ‘petting garden’ invites visitors to touch and interact with the plants and explore the many scents and ...

The intensely fragrant grape hyacinth produces compact carpets of bright purple in early to midspring. Tiny flowers stand about 6 inches tall and spread easily. Snowdrop. One of the first flowers to ...

There is another figure whose role in the second Viking Age was equally pivotal: Thorkell the Tall. Arguably the most successful viking of the early 11th century, by the end of his life Thorkell had ...

New author Nora Dahlia tells how a big sister can change your life. Dahlia was chatting with other parents outside school when the idea for her first Romance novel Pick-up came in a flash. “I was ...

Poinsettia (Euphorbia pulcherrima) is an attractive house plant with dark green leaves and leafy red 'bracts' that surround the green-yellow flowers in December and January. They're commonly used to ...