Men and women have stopped up at the storefront this morning looking to buy a dozen roses for their Valentine.But on the ...

Roses have long been the flower of choice for the holiday, but some see an opening for the humble tulip.

The Moth orchid (Phalaenopsis) is the easiest orchid to care for. It doesn’t mind neglect, even underwatering and rewards with almost three months of flowers. Choose an orchid that also has many ...

While many florists around Ireland will be doing a booming trade on Valentine's Day, there's a new flower shop opening in the ...

The flowers are traveling thousands of miles from Colombia and Ecuador for the love holiday, Valentine's Day, which is celebrated this Friday.

Standing five feet away, I could smell it in the air. Acrid, damp, toe-curling—a memory from my past. The nose is a powerful historian, so it took only a few seconds to place it: the stench of the rat ...

New “slow flower” farms grow beautiful blooms—without health-harming chemicals used by overseas operations that dominate the ...

As you read this, planes full of roses are heading from east Africa and South America to almost every corner of the world. If ...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection says about 940 million stems of cut flowers have processed at Miami International Airport.

Ahead of Valentine’s Day, Customs and Border Protection specialists at Miami-Dade International Airport have painstakingly inspected about 940 million flower stems. Thousands of tons of roses, ...

Barry Gordemer is an award-winning producer, editor, and director for NPR's Morning Edition. He's helped produce and direct ...