Arts & Entertainment 10-Foot Floral Butterfly Sculptures Land Across SF In hopes of getting you to flutter about town for Small Business Week, the SF Flower Mart has installed giant butterfly sculptures made of flowers in key retail corridors all over town.
SF News Berkeley Florist Remains Bitter That It Can't Do Curbside Sales While Whole Foods Sells Flowers Next Door The sense of unfairness among small retail business owners around the Bay Area has been growing as the initial virus panic fades, and after eight weeks in which big-box retail stores and grocers like Walmart and Whole Foods have been allowed to remain open, often selling "non-essential" goods.
SF News Smell The Stinky Corpse Flower That Blooms For 1 Day Every 3 Years The very rare and very peculiar Amorphophallus titanum is about to bloom at the San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers. SF Weekly delivers the odorous news of the "Terra the Titan," a plant that
Arts & Entertainment A Little Backstory On That NY Cab You Might Have Seen Around SF It's a sight familiar to folks who frequent the Outer Sunset — car painted to resemble a New York taxicab, but covered with flowers. I always figured it was some sort of art car,
Arts & Entertainment For Valentine's Day: Real Roses & Very Real Lingerie You already know about the 3D printed roses. Now it's time for the real deal. Two SF startups, Bloom That and ThirdLove will team up this Valentine's Day to offer a Valentine's packages
Arts & Entertainment [VIDEO] Watch The de Young's Flower Tower Go Up The de Young is paying tribute to local floral designers with their annual springtime mash-up of art and flowers. From March 19 to 23, the show features the work of more than 100
Arts & Entertainment Happy Mother's Day! Check out photographer Franck Avril's lovely photo exhibition, Dahlias! A Photographic Tribute to San Francisco's Official Flower, at the Helen Crocker Russell Library at the San Francisco Botanical Garden between now and August
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend: Chinese New Year, TechShop Opening, Tulipmania, Bluegrass Workshops Chinese New Year Parade and Fair: Does it rain during every Chinese New Year Parade? Find out tomorrow. There's also a community fair on Saturday and Sunday, featuring dance and music from throughout
misc Where To Buy Your Valentine's Day Flowers Valentine's Day is just around the corner. If you don't have anyone with whom to celebrate the annual ode to love and intimacy, you are, presumably, worthless. If you do have someone with
Arts & Entertainment Tulipmania at Pier 39, Through Sunday We wish we had heard about the annual, week-long Tulipmania event at Pier 39 before the rain set in, although it looks like Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday might be dry. Tulipmania showcases thousands
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Conservatini Debuts at the Conservatory of Flowers by Tiffany Maleshefski Instead of doing keg stands and shooters, the guests at tonight's gala at the Conservatory of Flowers will be sipping on the decidedly more appropriate Conservatini™. The delicious and just-invented
SF News Racist Vandal(s) Attack Castro Flower Stand Again In the second time in two years, Guy Clark, the gentleman who sells flowers 15th and Noe Streets, had his stand vandalized. Yesterday, shit was smeared along the walls of Clark's makeshift flower
misc Tulip Mania A tulip's life is short enough, particularly in the far westerly reaches of our city/county. We seem to remember that in past years, the tulips at the Queen Wilhelmina Tulip Garden (in
misc This Week At The DeYoung We went by the DeYoung the other day to check out the this-week-only Bouquets to Art exhibit. It's pretty neat - the museum has a bunch of local florists/horticulturalists come in and
