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Designer Trick: Bring Life To Rooms With Branches This Spring
We're willing spring to arrive by bringing blooming branches indoors.
Decorating & Design
9 Ways To Breathe Life Into Your Home With Botanicals
Plants and florals provide an organic element to a space, instantly livening it up. While fresh-cut flowers and towering indoor trees will always be in style, we’re sharing ideas to display greenery in new and fun ways. Find nine freshly-picked tips below.
Outdoor
5 Honey Bee–Friendly Plants To Grow In Your Garden This Year
Bring colour to your garden all summer long! In honour of National Planting Week (June 5 to 12), Bees Matter is giving away free seed packets that include five vibrant flowers which support honey bees and look great. Blazing Star For a sophisticated English country garden…
Decorating & Design
How To Make The Most Exquisite Paper Flowers
Create paper flowers that look like the real thing with artist Livia Cetti's Eden Rose tutorial.
Decorating & Design
Expert Advice: 8 Pretty Flowers That Are A Snap To Grow
You’re at the garden center, and you’re…. confused. It will all be OK — Home Hardware gardening expert Mark Cullen has advice for newbies who can’t tell a Shasta daisy from a Staghorn palm. In our May 2017 issue, Mark listed his picks for favorite climbing vines, but…
DIY Projects
DIY Floral Arrangement With Pink Roses, Ranunculus & Tulips
In this floral arrangement tutorial, learn how to make a centrepiece with roses, ranunculus, quince branches, camellia leaves, hellebores and tulips.
DIY Projects
DIY Floral Arrangement With Vibrant Orchids, Ranunculus & Daffodils
In this floral arrangement tutorial, see how to make a centrepiece with green orchids, Orange Crush roses, Strong Gold tulips, orange ranunculus and daffodils.
DIY Projects
DIY Floral Arrangement With Purple Tulips, Anemones & Lilacs
In this floral arrangement tutorial, Todd Caldwell of Emblem floral design studio in Toronto shows how to make a pretty, romantic bouquet starring salal greenery, camellia leaves and buds, green hydrangea, white roses, purple lilacs, French tulips, pastel anemones, longiflorum lilies and deep purple scabiosa in a short cylinder…
Decorating & Design
Advice From A Florist: 3 Fresh Holiday Bouquet Ideas
Get florist Becky DeOliveira's tips to create loose, sculptural bouquets that offer an exciting take on holiday florals.
Decorating & Design
How To Pick The Perfect Bouquet
Spring is finally here, and everything is coming up roses. With a plethora of occasions to celebrate this time of year — Mother’s Day, wedding season, the inevitable al fresco dinner parties — there are plenty of reasons to start thinking up gorgeous fresh-cut flowers to give. Building a bouquet offers the opportunity to create something…
Outdoor
Editor’s Picks: Foolproof Flowers To Plant This Spring
Every year around mid-April I start yearning to get my hands in the dirt and get to work on my flowerbeds. But this year, I’m also feeling a bit wistful. My husband, son and I moved out of our first house this past December, and I’ve been thinking a lot…
Decorating & Design
Updated Classics: Floral Arrangements
Discover fresh alternatives to popular design trends in our online series, Updated Classics. Classic Pick: Loose, wild floral arrangements that have a fresh-from-the-garden feel call to mind the English countryside. This style of blooms has traditional roots but a timeless, boho look. Fresh Spin: If you like the look of wild bouquets,…
Decorating & Design
DIY: Blooming Hyacinths
London, U.K.-based author and green thumb Emma Hardy shares an easy DIY project from her latest book, The Winter Garden (Cico Books, $20), to help you bring color and foliage into your home over the colder months. I love the simplicity of these hyacinths, requiring just a bulb,…
Decorating & Design
12 Bouquets That Are More Beautiful Than A Dozen Red Roses
Find our favorite floral designs.
Outdoor
5 Ways To Add Curb Appeal
Easy ways to refresh your home’s façade.