All America Selections has announced its 2006 winners. Among the six flower winners are several that make great cut flowers.

For those with lots of space for cutting gardens, gourds are a wonderful alternative to traditional cut flowers.

For both fresh and dried floral designs, statice is often considered a staple. It is possible to grow different kinds of statice in the cutting garden.

Dried arrangements made with everlastings can brighten the home any time of the year. Typically, they´re used most often during the fall and winter months.

When I first became interested in floral design, proteas were still a novelty. Now they´re generally available on a year-round basis.

If you´ve been looking for a seasonal decorating guide, your search is over. Watson-Guptill has just released the only one you´ll ever need.

By the time autumn arrives, we´re ready for a change. Fall foliage introduces a fresh palette of colors for floral design.

Nico De Swert is no ordinary floral designer. He really does approach floral design as if it were an art form. He even does preliminary sketches of the works he hopes to achieve.

When you´re looking for a cheerful, smiling flower to chase away the blues, there´s no better choice than the sunflower. They´re very much in the news these days.

Floral design is a living art. It changes with the times. In recent years, an array of wonderful books have been published on Ikebana, which continues to evolve.