Valentine’s Day is synonymous with expressions of love, and nothing encapsulates romance quite like flowers. Over centuries, flowers have become powerful symbols, each bloom carrying its own ...

Try buying tulips or another cool-weather flower, and take a minute to ask where they were grown. Try to skip the cellophane wrapping. And of course, compost that bouquet. Love it, or hate it?

Yes, the same gent who gifted us the endless Canterbury Tales uses mating birds to explore notions about romantic love, free will and nature. It took another 500 years, however, before flowers ...