Usually falling around the beginning of Spring, National Flower Day returns Friday. When is National Flower Day? National Flower Day is on March 21 every year despite the vernal equinox, which marks ...

Have the temperatures started to take a turn toward warmer levels where you live? That’s been happening in many ZIP codes across the United States, as it usually does now that mid-March is almost upon ...

The rose is the national floral emblem, or national flower, of the United States. Senate Joint Resolution 159, which adopted the rose as the national floral emblem and asked the president to declare ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Thirty years ago, Chen Junyu was the first to suggest that China should have a national flower. A professor at Beijing Forestry University and an expert on mei flower (Chinese plum blossom), he spent ...

The peony was the top choice for "national flower" in a referendum held throughout China in 1994. But no final decision has ever been made and not everyone agrees with that choice -- or even if one ...

The Washington National Cathedral in D.C. buzzes with activity on Friday and Saturday, May 3 and 4, with its annual Flower Mart — this year focusing on the power of the pollinator. The event, now in ...