told through eight everyday products. For more than 200 years, the heart of the global trade in cut flowers has been the Netherlands. The world’s largest global auction for flowers began ...

I ordered over $120 worth of flowers and gifts from Avas Flowers for my Grandmother’s birthday. They charged my card and never delivered the flowers or the gifts! They stole my money! Do not use ...

Good ideas and innovation travel easily—and far. Historically, these ideas spread along trade routes. This essay looks at the great Eurasian Silk Roads as a transmitter of people, goods, ideas, ...

In addition to being smooth and soft on the skin, silk is temperature-regulating and hypoallergenic, making it an excellent material to sleep in. And while it isn’t exactly known for being cheap ...

Flowers can be hand delivered within Manhattan, Brooklyn and Washington, D.C. Flowers that are not hand delivered will be packaged, shipped and delivered using a reputable shipper. Elevate Mother ...

Bye-bye, browning bouquets! Here’s how to make flowers last longer with a few surprising household staples and expert tricks. Our editors and experts handpick every product we feature.

This essay explores some of the art traditions, many of them devotional in nature, of the Silk Roads. The travel of artistic motifs, styles, and techniques along the Silk Road is closely bound up with ...

Why it's a good choice: One of the most sung hymns at funerals, this is really a prayer to God to stay with him in death as He did with us in life. Henry Francis Lyte, Vicar of Brixham in Devon ...

Silk Roads, which opens at the British Museum next week and brings together an extraordinary group of images, artefacts and objects that reveal the interconnections that held much of the world ...

The world is full of legendary highways but none can compete with the Silk Road – the storied route set to fascinate the masses at the British Museum in a new exhibition (September 26 to ...