Longtime White House florist Laura Dowling was mysteriously fired last month, the Washington Post's Reliable Source reports. Were her "fussy" floral arrangements too "French" for the newly "modern" first lady? Sounds like it!

It's the War of the Roses (Peddlers)! A flowery feud! A Google gamble, in which customers are wooed. Some of America's top Internet flower retailers are being a little sneaky in trying to become tops in Google's search results (and by proxy, your mom's heart). Who will stop them?