L earning how to press flowers is not as difficult as you might think. The technique makes an ephemeral beauty eternal by flattening the daisies, pansies, violets, and wildflowers ...

Oshibana is the Japanese art of preserving and arranging flowers ... Use tweezers for the thinner, more delicate flowers, such as the pansies and hydrangeas. Place the ranunculus and pansy blooms ...

“If I’m painting flowers, people have a really difficult ... fresh — yellow zinnias set against a green backdrop; purple pansies on a swath of punk electric pink — and the pieces feel ...

is as much a tribute to the pansy as a personal plea for gardeners to take a closer look at them. “There are few flowers as joyful as the pansy,” Estrada said. “They truly look like their ...