It was Friday afternoon in the spring, less than 24 hours before the 2019 Kentucky Derby, and Brittney was a part of a team of florists working on the floral arrangements for the events leading up ...

For the first time, the blooms won't just be tossed. One downtown Louisville hotel has found a way to honor mothers, give back to nonprofits and get extra miles out of 400 to 500 pounds of flowers ...

Molly Jacobus of Molly's Flowers and Things in Danville has used her freeze-drying machine to preserve many of the Kentucky Derby rose garlands draped on the race's winners since 1996, when ...

Since the beginning of the Derby, flowers have been part of the festivities. Floral arrangements was first presented to the winner in the 1890s and legend has it they became popular even earlier ...

Derby Farm Flowers & Gardens, an Arlington Center mainstay at 464 Massachusetts Ave., ... “We mostly make custom floral arrangements with a palette of flowers,” Popolow said.

She discovered she had a passion for flowers while helping with her daughter's wedding. ... Derby mum's eco-friendly florist uses flowers grown in her own garden.

Red roses. Black-eyed Susans. White carnations. After each of the Triple Crown races, the winner is draped in a garland of the race's official flower.

The winner of the race gets a garland of red roses, and the red rose was made the official flower of the derby in 1904, according to the Derby. 3. There's a Kentucky Derby Museum at the Churchill ...

The flower was made the official flower of the race in 1904 and the race is sometimes also called the "Run for the Roses." The first Kentucky Derby was run in 1875, and it was one-and-a-half miles ...