What: The Ikebana Flower Exhibition is 10:30 a.m.-7 p.m. May 20-21. Where: Renaissance Asheville Hotel, 31 Woodfin St., Asheville. Admission: $10 at the door (free to members). Learn more at ...

Ikebana is the Japanese art form of arranging flowers, but it directly translates to “making flowers alive.” A large variety of blossoms, leaves, stems and branches are used as materials for the ...

HENDERSONVILLE, N.C. —Using a Lazy Susan, Emiko Suzuki spun around a large arrangement of blooming forsythia, noting the relative merits and drawbacks of the way the leggy branch rose from the ...

Using a Lazy Susan, Emiko Suzuki spun around a large arrangement of blooming forsythia, noting the relative merits and drawbacks of the way the leggy branch rose from the container. Suzuki, a Senior ...

Age is truly just a number for Akiko Bourland, who fell in love with ikebana, the ancient Japanese art of harmonious flower arrangement, when she attended high school in Yokohama, Japan. After decades ...

Akio Takamori's ceramic head of a girl sits on the steps leading to the balcony at Pottery Northwest. We know she's dreaming of flowers, because they're spouting from a hole at the top of her head.

TRAVERSE CITY — Ikebana is a social club but there are long stretches when no one speaks. Members chatter plenty during their monthly lunch and business meetings, but when it's time to work, they try ...

The Harrisburg area's chapter of the Ikebana International flower-arranging organization is marking its 60 th anniversary with a special program and luncheon in Camp Hill on Sept. 12. The anniversary ...

Every Tuesday morning, Paula Tam checks into the New Museum with a fresh flower delivery. As a master of Ikebana, the Japanese art of flower arranging, Tam’s regular visits are vital to the ...

The big “find” for our collectors this month is a lovely hand-woven ikebana basket, purchased for around $4 and selling both at auction and at retail for many times that amount. Other interesting ...