There’s nothing more relaxing in summer and fall than venturing into the garden to harvest edible greens, herbs and flowers. In my garden, tomatoes, herbs, berries and citrus thrive tucked throughout ...

Ikebana, the Japanese art of flower arrangement, is an important form of Japan's Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Close-up of Japanese beetle walking on a leaf - Pierre Williot/Shutterstock When tending to your garden beds, the sight of green ...

I love the many small, flowering trees that help brighten our landscapes from February to April. Blooming now is one of the more beautiful of our early spring-flowering trees, the Japanese magnolia or ...

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 ...

First a trip to the Mecca of Asian restaurants, San Gabriel, with private chef Jet Tila for a seafood restaurant that blends Vietnamese, Thai and Chinese flavors. Gardener Sharon Lovejoy shows us how ...

To this day, I meet other people who share with me equally vivid memories of the farms. One friend told me: “I would drive my mom there every weekend!” Although all of the flower fields are gone now, ...

Already deep in the middle of holiday season, just past Diwali and Hmong New Year, with Christmas and Lunar New Year on the way, gifts are on many people’s minds. Take a look back at some of the ...

Fifty years ago, a drive down Baseline Road near South Mountain was a Sunday destination. It offered mile after mile of explosive colors and exotic flowers, thanks to the Japanese flower farmers. The ...