Focus on Flowers

Jane Cummings speaks with filmmaker and musician Boots Riley, about his film, “Sorry to Bother You,” and about blurring the lines between activism and the arts.

Plants add freshness to the air in our homes during winter and help cleanse the air and remove pollutants.

Host Aaron Cain speaks with author and professor of geography Dawn Biehler about economics, social justice, racism, and other things we can learn from our household pests.

A Renaissance Christmas from Venice, Naples, Milan and Beyond

Orchids make great holiday gifts, as they keep on giving-possibly blooming for up to three months.

It is possible to keep a tropical hibiscus plant alive in a pot all through the winter...The plant will probably not look great, but it will survive.

African violets flower exuberantly but need some attention to achieve their best efforts.

Though we miss the flowers of spring, summer, and fall there are still wonders to behold in the landscape.

Conversations with Maria Whiteman and Rebecca Allan, two visual artists trying to find news ways to depict the natural world in the hopes of saving it.

I make my potpourri using the rose petals and flower heads that I cut off while deadheading all summer.