‘HABITS and customs differ, but all peoples have the love of flowers in common.’ IT was in northern Hopei. The clouds had failed to gather in their season, and the time of showers had passed without ...

Poet Molly Peacock goes to sleep at night surrounded by the art of 19th-century Toronto painter Mary Hiester Reid, the subject of her new hybrid biography “Flower Diary: In Which Mary Hiester Reid ...

I learn of the impending bloom of a corpse flower at the New York Botanical Garden, in the Bronx. “These things are basically the horticultural equivalent of pandas,” my editor writes. People go nuts ...

In George Agnew Reid’s 1889 painting “Dreaming,” the model is his wife, but she’s also an artist. We don’t see the face of the now nearly forgotten painter Mary Hiester Reid as she leans toward a ...

National Post re-imagines a week in the life of a newsmaker. Today, we look at the week through the "eyes" of Amorphophallus titanum, a.k.a. “the Corpse Flower” You can save this article by ...

The "Flowers in the Attic" series will continue with "Christopher's Diary." The latest installment in the V.C. Andrews Dollanganger series will be released in November 2014. Creative Commons Fans of ...

There’s something magical about getting up close to a painting. Nose to canvas feels daring, even when you’re not under a museum guard’s watchful eye. It’s a humbling experience. Often it’s too easy ...