Flowers

Home & Garden
Thirty Ways to Make Your Garden Look Older
Garden pros share tips for giving your green spot a sense of Southern story

Home & Garden
Southern Must-Have: Natural Lights
Brighten your home with botanical-inspired table lamps, pendants, and sconces

Home & Garden
Virginia in Bloom
When the farmer-florist Dee Hall couldn’t find a source for locally grown flowers near Norfolk, Virginia, she planted her own

Arts & Culture
Flowers on Fabric
Sydni Gause captures cosmos, hibiscus, goldenrod, and more Florida botanicals on silk

Home & Garden
Get to Know the Magnolias
Meet a handful of the showy floral stars, including Southern, saucer, bigleaf, and ‘Little Gem’

Travel
Seven Lavender Farms to Visit This Summer
With lavender wine tastings, wreath-making workshops, and U-Pick events under the stars, these purple paradises are worth a calming field trip

Home & Garden
Create a Southern Hanging Basket to Remember
Billowy and beautiful plant ideas for sun and shade

Home & Garden
Nature’s Chandelier
Add the wild summer vine to your next dinner party

Home & Garden
Summer-Thriving Blooms (and More Floral Arranging Secrets)
The Atlanta floral designer Shean Strong talks how to develop a theme, flowers that can take the heat, and why his grandmother is his biggest inspiration

Gardens
Beautiful Bulbs to Plant Now for a Spectacular Spring
A new mail-order resource offers gorgeous flowers

Gardens
The Best Shrubs for Southern Summers
Experts weigh in on the best you-can’t-kill-’em plants for your garden

Gardens
The Best Heirloom Daffodils for Southern Gardens
An expert’s beautiful new book celebrates flowers of all kinds, but right now, it’s daffodil time

Gardens
Fall Bulbs for Spring Blooms
Shop for interesting flowers to plant now for a spectacle come spring

Gardens
Floating An Idea
Bowls of water keep quick-to-wilt gardenias going

Southern Accent
A Winter Floral Arrangement
When life gives you lemons…turn them into a fruitful bouquet

Gardens
The Southern History of the Poinsettia
A primer on the favorite holiday bloom

Home & Garden
How to Pair a Vase with the Right Flowers
The key to interesting floral displays? The vessels. Here are tips for pairing three

Gardens
Martha Stewart’s Southern Flower Style
In her new book, the world-renowned hostess shows how to create gorgeous arrangements with favorite blooms from her gardens

Gardens
The Easy Art of Waxing Flowers
An old-fashioned Southern floral preservation technique is ripe for revival

Books
The Art of the Centerpiece
A closer look at contemporary floral design in a new book about farm-to-vase flowers