View full size Christine Norman "In ikebana, we try to make everything talk to each other," said Lorna Mierke, an instructor in the Ohara School of ikebana, or Japanese flower arranging. Local ...

Flower arranging started on a small scale for retired librarian Don Olsen. That was more than 50 years ago, and now Olsen is a master of the Ichiyo School of ikebana, the Japanese art of floral ...

My family’s flower shop remains at 3801 E. Baseline Road, but the fields were sold to a home developer in 2005 — by that time, most of the children of the flower farmers, including me, were ...

One of the reasons that I really like writing about Japan is that there is a steady flow of awesome design concepts from here that few other countries can match. Some of them are incredibly simple and ...

While ikebana has Buddhist roots, its development actually goes back to ancient Japan, where key factors like the landscape played a role in its creation. “Ikebana was not just about design at ...