February 9: World Pizza Day. Pizza Margherita was created in honor of Queen Margherita of Italy in 1889 👑

Marguerite, illustration from Les Fleurs animées, dessin J.J. Grandville, 1830 Plucking petals to the alternating refrain “he loves me, he loves me not,” the classic daisy game is said to divine true

Pine needle tea

The Peace rose, formally Rosa 'Madame A. Meilland', is a well-known and successful garden rose. By 1992, over one hundred million plants of this hybrid tea had been sold. The cultivar has large flowers

Hydrangeas can turn green without enough natural light. When there's less daylight, hydrangeas have the potential to turn green. This is especially common during the end of summer, when days become shorter.

Having my own flower shop, watering plants, growing flowers, smelling the roses and orchids, knowing the Victorian flower language and making bouquets and ikebanas with meaning, drinking tea with buyers

In loving memory “Queen Elizabeth” The Queen Elizabeth Rose 🌹 Is a Grandiflora. This rose is a cross between a Floribunda and a Hybrid Tea and it blooms in clusters. It really is a rose fit for a queen.

Welcome September, welcome autumn, welcome first rains of the season, welcome first chilly nights after months of intolerable heat, welcome walks under cloudy skies, welcome berries and pears and apples

Did you know that a fig is a flower turned inside out? That soft pod of sticky summer sweetness is not a fruit at all. It’s actually an inflorescence – an inverted cluster of tiny, fleshy flowers. This

Zinnias are a family of about 20 species of plants, primarily found in North America, with a few species found further south. They produce large blooms of mixed colours and can come in a wide range of

Common Laburnum Laburnum anagyroides Aka. Golden chain, golden rain, false ebony Native to Central and southern Europe. The seeds are legumes that are somewhat toxic to humans, goats, cattle, and horses,

I enjoy the feeling that, from time to time, people breath poetically, beyond understanding and interpretation, gracefully or pathetically, maybe like whales or geysers inhaling and exhaling with a steady,