With Valentine's Day just around the corner, treat your significant other to a floral arrangement by Chicago-area florists. Whether you're looking for roses or want something different, consider using ...

The holidays are renowned for fresh trees, wreaths and garlands. However, there's more to decorative plants than the simple green foliage typically found during the holidays. Whether it's to add some ...

Quilen Blackwell didn't set out to be an urban farmer or a florist. Back in 2011, he relocated from Madison, Wisconsin, to Chicago to attend ministry school, which is when he started tutoring at-risk ...

Please check your inbox for your confirmation. Chicago florist John Caleb Pendleton wanders through a West Side flower market selecting Scabiosa stems, acorns, camellia branches, Grevillea greenery ...

Plenty of Chicagoans can relate to Taylor Amilas Bates’s pandemic story: The 26-year-old was furloughed from her full-time job in March, and suddenly, the future she’d envisioned for herself was ...

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In early March, two weeks into Russia’s assault on Ukraine, Steven Dyme watched a clip on NPR’s Twitter feed about a florist in Mykolaiv, Ukraine, who had just stocked her shop with fresh spring ...

Florists across the U.S., including in Chicago, are grappling with higher costs and economic uncertainty due to tariffs ahead of a busy season of fall weddings and winter holidays. More than 85% of ...