April showers may have wrecked our cherry blossoms, but something new always grows! Here’s where to celebrate the season in the area.

There are estimated to be fewer than 1,000 purple fringeless orchids left in the state.

At the National Arboretum, CityCenterDC, pick-your-own farms, and more.

He was buying flowers this Valentine’s Day in Glover Park.

The Cleveland Park listserv is the Reddit of gardening crimes.

Over the years, DCist photo contributors have snapped their way through the Kenilworth Park and Aquatic Gardens in Northeast DC. Here are just a few of these photos from our Flickr collection.

We’ve been hearing from a few people around D.C. — who may or may not have spent the night on the couch last night — that some Valentines didn’t end up getting their flowers yesterday. It sounds like the root cause of the problem might have been a popular deal between Groupon and floral retailer FTD that might have been a little too ambitious, considering that February 14 is one of the few days on the calendar on which everyone wants flowers delivered.

Last November, we reported on the United States National Arboretum‘s azalea problem: Azalea Hill, one of the most breathtaking collections of the plants in the world, was in danger of being destroyed after a private trust that paid for its maintenance dried up. But there’s good news today: thanks to a private $1 million donation to the Friends of the National Arboretum (FONA), the azaleas should stay in place for years to come.

Who will bail out Washington’s azaleas?

Peter Nickles So D.C. Attorney General Peter Nickles gave Ward 3 Council member Mary Cheh (D) some flowers today (City Desk even has a photo of said flowers). He did this in an attempt to apologize for telling a Washington Post reporter he thought Cheh, who recently criticized the Fenty administration for trying to keep Ximena Hartsock in her job at DPR for a while longer, was “stupid” and “an angry woman,” remarks that…