When the farm-to-table movement swept over San Francisco's culinary landscape several years ago, Christina Stembel couldn't help but notice the flowers gracing the tables of her favorite restaurants: ...

The essence of springtime in a vase: flowering dogwood branches, daffodils, tulips and geranium. (Courtesy of Cristina Lozito) It’seasy to be intimidated by flowers-the fragility, the impermanence, ...

Since starting Farmgirl Flowers in 2010, Christina Stembel has sustained a seemingly superhuman work ethic. “You could set a clock by my schedule,” she says of the early days. Stembel would wake up at ...

The secret to making an extremely good paper flower is not making an extremely good paper flower. That is what Christina Wilson has discovered in the four years she has been a paper florist. Ms Wilson ...