These rose like flowers are a wonderful alternative for those who love roses but want variety in their gardens or bouquets. With their delicate textures, lush petals, and gorgeous shades, they offer ...

The rose is the most deeply ingrained flower in human history and human culture. It has been immortalized and integrated into music, festivals, poetry and even wars. It has been used as a symbol of ...

A garden filled with a whole variety of different roses - Silvia Marcos/Shutterstock If you're a rose enthusiast, you probably know that there are countless different types of roses that you could ...

"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet." Or would it? This memorable line from Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" actually had very little to do with the scent of roses and more to do with ...

World's Beautiful Flower: "The earth laughs in flowers" is a bewitching quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Flowers are the music of the Earth; you can't hear them, but you can feel their sweet fragrance ...

ERASE THE COLD: Prune off any freeze damage caused to gingers, elephant ears, philodendrons, cannas and other herbaceous ...

Peter McNeil received funding on Luxury from The Leverhulme Trust. The opening of this essay has been workshopped with Prof Giorgio Riello. Before the creation of international systems of cultivation ...