Everyone's knee-jerk reaction for color-coding the flower arrangements for special events is red for Valentine's Day and white for funerals. While we're more than happy to get a bountiful bouquet of ...

Lots of brightly colored flowering plants in a range of containers - Ira Niva/Shutterstock If you've been looking for ways to keep your garden from fading come midsummer, there's one must-plant flower ...

If pastel pinks and soft yellows are in your garden's color palette, then you can't miss this gorgeous new bloom that goes ...

Instead of leaving your garden barren in winter, choose from these winter flowers that thrive in cold temperatures, from winter jasmine to snowdrops.

New York (NBC) - It's the most popular gift for Mom on Mother's Day, along with a card: a brightly-colored bouquet or vase-full of fresh flowers. Roses are red, and violets are blue, but why? Why do ...

Among the many decisions Marilyn Arrington will make as she readies for church this Mother’s Day morning — which lipstick to apply, which hat will look best — one will be more freighted than the rest.

What did one watermelon say to the other watermelon on Valentine’s Day? “You’re one in a melon!” I’m not sure what watermelons know about romance, but for humans, giving flowers on Valentine’s Day is ...

It often takes years of careful cross-breeding for horticulturalists to turn flowers certain colors, but scientists can dig right in and change them at a genetic level much faster. Using the ...

Scientists at UC Santa Barbara have zeroed in on the genes responsible for changing flower color, an area of research that began with Gregor Mendel's studies of the garden pea in the 1850's.

Since Darwin's time, the phenomenon known as flower constancy -- i.e., where insects consistently visit the same flower type even when many others are also present -- has been understood as a passive ...