Proteas are far more interesting than I ever could have suspected, and may possibly be the most interesting silk flower stem of the day up to this ...  Read more

The Snowball, today's Silk Flower Stem of the Day, raised a lot more questions than answers for me. First, what is a snowball? If you look up 'snow...  Read more

Just a short post for today's silk flower stem of the day, the zinnia. This colorful flower (comes in yellow, orange, red, purple, white, and lilac...  Read more

I can write about the Chrsyanthemum today knowing that that is actually the name of this genus of flower. 15 years ago, I would have called them De...  Read more

You might know today's Silk Flower Stem of the Day better as the buttercup, but on our website, we call it the Ranunculus. While I like the mysteri...  Read more

Elegance, treachery, dignity, instability. You might be asking yourself, "how do these words correlate with the Dahlia", today's silk flower stem o...  Read more

Tulips, another favorite of my mom's front yard, are one of the most interesting flowers we'll talk about this month. Why? Because tulips were res...  Read more

The first thing I learned about orchids is that you cannot look up orchid in a flower book and get an answer. Orchid is only one part of the story....  Read more

I don't have any personal memories of roses, except for a small rose bush that my mom had by the side door of our house. It stood a few feet from w...  Read more

Today's Silk Flower Stem of the Day, the hydrangea, reminds me of my parents' house in Pennsylvania. My mom always had a hydrangea bush out front, ...  Read more