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 dad's favorite landscape feature was his prized Japanese umbrella pine. I want to carry on the tradition for sentimental (and beauty!) reasons, and include one in my landscape. Because deer ...

There are other types of planted aquariums, but this design philosophy was developed in the late ‘70s by Japanese nature photographer Takashi Amano, whom George Lo describes as “like a god.” ...

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 ...