What was a green rose? A real rose or some island plant or Polynesian cultivar? Why in English? Hawaiian songs are rife with flower symbolism and layers of meaning, the surface one innocuous, the ...
As spring marches forward with promises of sunny days and April showers, we watch our lawns and gardens turn green — the most common color in the natural world and second only to blue as the favorite ...
About 15 years ago, on Valentine's Day, my wife, Sarah, gave me a dozen red roses. They were not, however, a prettily wrapped bunch of long-stemmed red buds. No, I was presented with a bundle of spiny ...
Last year, over 5 billion flowers were imported to the U.S., many from Colombia. Feb. 14, 2013— -- For the past couple of weeks leading up to Valentine's, workers at Milonga Flowers, a ...
We know roses are red but can they also be green? In Europe, most flowers - particularly those amorous bouquets of roses we receive on Valentine’s Day - come from large-scale flower farms in Kenya or ...