I arrived at work with a handful of flowers wrapped in a soggy paper towel and asked a colleague if I could borrow a vase. I explained that I'd just come from a flower-arranging class. My co-worker ...

Holiday decorations in the U.S. are often symmetrical: Two candles on either side of the mantel, a round wreath in the center of the door, a centerpiece with matching sprigs of holly and pine on each ...

The North American Sogetsu Seminar is like the Olympics of flower arranging (though, of course, only for North America). Held once every four years in a different North American city, the five day ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Flowers are the universal language of love in cultures around the world. “Flowers have power. Sharing ...

BALBOA PARK — For more than half a millennium, the Japanesehave been practicing the flower-arranging art of ikebana.Translated as “the way of flowers,” ikebana is a discipline ofsimplicity in which ...

PORTSMOUTH — "One is given a warning against arranging flowers in a state of anxiety, hostility or spiritual depression because an arrangement is a mirror of the soul," states a 12th century Japanese ...

MOUNT DORA — Betty Horsford’s love for flowers and her respect for nature is evident in the delicate, classic Japanese flower arrangements she creates. The Mount Dora resident took her first Japanese ...

SEATTLE — Disclaimer: This episode is an Encore Presentation of KING 5's Evening. It's a flower arrangement with a Japanese twist. The ancient art of arranging flowers in Japan, called Ikebana, allows ...

More than 100 individual arrangements of cut flowers and branches arranged in the Ikebana style will be on display from noon to 5 p.m. Saturday in the Chicago Botanic Garden in Glencoe. Nearly 50 ...

Brooke Pohl wants her flowers to wake people up. “Perhaps, if you have a successful arrangement, the connection to the sacredness of the world can be transmitted to the observer,” Pohl says. “It can ...

Flowers are the universal language of love in cultures around the world. “Flowers have power. Sharing arrangements of flowers shows our love,” says Carolyn Alter, Certified Associate 1 st Term Master, ...