Christmas shopping for garden loving friends and family is one of the more enjoyable experiences in life.
With many hundreds of varieties of plants, garden ornaments, pots and water features, DIY ideas, handy tools and other plant additives, the field is wide open to select and give items you can be sure will be received with […]

Cables, cars, jewellery, mobile phones … thieves are tired of stealing them and are now after the “Wave of Love”.
It’s a species of decorative flower plant called “Gelombang Cinta”. And the reason behind the flower plant being targeted by thieves is simple. It’s pricey.
Prices start from $35 and reach more than $2,000. Its close “cousin” […]

Antigua & Barbuda celebration of June as the month of romance saw the staging of a Celebrity Destination Wedding at the Hermitage Bay Hotel last Saturday.
Melissa Saint-Cyr and Derrick Ward, winners of this year’s Destination Wedding sweepstakes, exchanged nuptials on the island’s southwest coast, at a ceremony hosted by the Ministry of Tourism and other […]

GUESTS to the much-anticipated Royal Banquet walked in on an immaculate evening, as could be expected of Istana Nurul Iman, but with a refreshing hint of a familial occasion.
The gold and pale emerald green colour theme of the Banquet Hall seemed intent on capturing the newness of royal couple’s state of matrimony. The generous fresh […]

June is the perfect month for weddings. All the lovely flowers in bloom.
Thirty years ago I was a June bride. I carried pink roses and white daisies in my bouquet. At that time, I didn’t really think too much about what my flowers should be. A few months before the wedding, I went to the […]

STUDENTS from Capel Manor College helped create a sustainable wildlife garden in a skip last week to raise awareness of the importance of horticulture in London.
The London Wildlife Trust says that the capital’s gardens are vanishing at an alarming rate, with an area the size of 22 Hyde Parks already taken over by paved parking […]

Folic acid - a vitamin that prevents birth defects in babies - appears to sharply reduce the risk of stroke in adults as well, according to new research.
The study, published in today’s edition of The Lancet, found that people who took folic acid supplements saw their risk of stroke fall by about 18 per cent.
Those […]

The Genesee Country Village & Museum will host its annual wildflower sale at the Nature Center this weekend. The sale will feature propagated plants from Ellen Folts of Amanda’s Garden in Springwater, Livingston County. Selections will include trillium (right), trout lily and maidenhair fern. The sale runs today and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 […]

During its run from 1994 through 2003, each episode of the family favorite “Touched By An Angel” concluded with the image of a dove in flight, and on April 28, 2007 life imitated art as Roma Downey and her soul mate, “Survivor” producer Mark Burnett, opened a heart-shaped basket and released a white dove at […]

Crowds turn out for greenery, grub, good time at 90th festival, which continues to brighten downtown’s Mount Vernon.
City Councilman Robert Curran released a flock of white doves in the opening ceremony - one of the few new things at Baltimore’s 90th Flower Mart yesterday.
The spring fair is known for old-fashioned touches. Straw hats, maypole dances, […]