Cheer Santy of Fiori Flowers on Chestnut Street in San Francisco recently designed a Mother's Day tussie-mussie for The Chronicle, using appropriate spring flowers to match sentiments that a loving ...

Forget that old song that goes "M is for the many things she gave me, O means only that she's growing old." There's a better suggestion for Mother's Day: Express your feelings with flowers and revive ...

When you send someone a mixed bouquet of cut flowers from the garden, the message goes beyond the scribblings on a card. Each flower has a special meaning, and collectively they can express thoughts ...

What leads a person to want to collect things? Irene Deitsch, whose Palo Alto home includes museum-quality displays of teacups, rolling pins, paperweights, antique scent bottles and Victorian-era posy ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Since the chilly weather doesn’t scream “spring,” the flowers instead will belt out the sentiment with splashes of color on a blooming landscape. Botanical expert Skye Suter is ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – When I was in high school, you needed a date to go to the Homecoming dance. Maybe not technically. But in 1994, when I was a freshman at Revere, it was unthinkable for a group of ...

Q-I would love to buy an antique ”posy holder” for my mother. Where can I find one in silver, ivory or any other material? A-Cone-shaped posy holders, or ”tussie mussies,” date to medieval times and ...

EASTON — If you think the Valentine’s Day tradition of giving your sweetheart flowers and chocolates is a recent invention, you may be surprised to learn it actually dates back to the Victorian era.

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