When it comes to flowering arranging, we don't often think of minimalism and perfect precision – but those are the principles of the Japanese art of 'Ikebana'. Forget dazzling, bumper floral displays ...

I arrived at work with a handful of flowers wrapped in a soggy paper towel and asked a colleague if I could borrow a vase. I explained that I'd just come from a flower-arranging class. My co-worker ...

The North American Sogetsu Seminar is like the Olympics of flower arranging (though, of course, only for North America). Held once every four years in a different North American city, the five day ...

With skillful snips, Mitsuko Takeya prunes a few leaves from bamboo stalks and several red berries from heavy nandina clusters to use in a flower arrangement. The cuts would hardly register in ...

Holiday decorations in the U.S. are often symmetrical: Two candles on either side of the mantel, a round wreath in the center of the door, a centerpiece with matching sprigs of holly and pine on each ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Terre Voegeli, of the Ikebana International Ann Arbor chapter, arranges branches as an Ikebana interpretation of the manga “Lone ...

BALBOA PARK — For more than half a millennium, the Japanesehave been practicing the flower-arranging art of ikebana.Translated as “the way of flowers,” ikebana is a discipline ofsimplicity in which ...

The ikebana method of Japanese flower arranging is a minimal style intended to showcase the simple seasonal beauty of plants. The word "ikebana" combines the Japanese words ikeru (to arrange, be ...

Brooke Pohl wants her flowers to wake people up. “Perhaps, if you have a successful arrangement, the connection to the sacredness of the world can be transmitted to the observer,” Pohl says. “It can ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The ikebana method of Japanese flower arranging is a minimal style intended to showcase the simple seasonal beauty of plants. The ...