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A primer on how to grow, care for, and arrange the venerated blooms of English garden roses

Ryan Gainey extols the virtues of the rose as muse in poetry, art, and personal reflection

Garden designer Troy Rhone examines the timeless allure of antique roses and shares tips for their planting, care, and cutting, along with antique rose sources and favorite cultivars

A visit to Ballyfin, a Regency mansion-turned-hotel in the Midlands of Ireland, evokes past days of leisurely living in the countryside with its lush landscape and impeccable interiors

Today there are so many coneflower varieties and cultivars of Echinacea purpurea that you might not even find the ubiquitous purple one among them

Timeless and venerated, the South’s ubiquitous ornamental tree has a special resonance

P. Allen Smith shares how his time “across the pond” inspired the rose garden at Moss Mountain Farm and gives his tips for growing roses, along with his favorite varieties

P. Allen Smith shares his favorite rose varieties with suggestions for choosing the right roses for your garden

William Yeoward shares a recipe for a smoky version of the classic old-fashioned cocktail

Do you know amaranth from amaryllis? How many flowers can you identify? Take the flower quiz and measure your powers of petal perception!

Artist Ashley Wiltshire Spotswood’s Birmingham, Alabama, home is transformed into an enchanting and elegant tableau with the help of floral design talent Holly Carlisle

The editors gathered every book featured in Flower this year, plus a few more of our favorite floral, design, and gardening books of 2017 into one big slideshow