Floriography, by Gina Margolies

Though the winter season seems an unlikely time for flowers to bloom, nature gave us plants which don’t mind the cold. January’s Birthday Blossom, the carnation, is one of them. This bloom often makes an appearance in centerpieces and bouquets, where it symbolizes love and affection. Found in a number of colors ranging from white and very light pink to dark red, the carnation is sometimes called gillyflower. Carnations are a pretty addition to any floral bunch, and can add a drop of warmth to a cold winter day.

Hello October Birthday Blossoms and Happy Autumn!   Welcome to the latest edition of Fun Flower Facts, where whimsy meets who, what, where, when, and why. In this edition, we will be introduced to Mr. Luther Burbank. Luther Burbank was an American botanist, horticulturist, and agricultural scientist. Burbank grew up on a farm and had a high school education. He taught himself botany and agriculture. Burbank developed over 800 strains and varieties of plants. You might be familiar with some of the flowers he cultivated, such as the Shasta Daisy.  The Russet & Burbank potato, often called the Idaho potato, is...

With the official first day of autumn seven days away, here at Birthday Blossoms HQ we are enjoying the golden season. The dog days of summer have melted into warm afternoons and barely cool evenings. It is the late summer into early fall golden time of year. And speaking of golden, this time of year brings to the forefront something golden that Birthday Blossoms loves, namely the Golden Proportion, close cousin of our beloved Fibonacci sequence.   Regular readers of Floriography know all about the Fibonacci sequence, a series of numbers in which each number is the sum of the two...

July’s Birthday Blossom is the lovely larkspur. In floriography, the language of flowers we speak here at Birthday Blossoms HQ, larkspur represents ardent attachment. At Birthday Blossoms, we are ardently attached to a variety of things – flowers, of course, flip flops, sunsets, aperol spritzes, 4th of July, strawberries, and fireworks, at the moment. What are you ardently attached to on this first day of July?

Sometimes, you just have to be patient.    Those who love a warm, sunny spring have not had an easy task this year. Here at Birthday Blossoms HQ, we have had a rainy, chilly, very dreary spring thus far. The temperature has been hanging in the 50s, it has rained more days than not every week, and the sun has been in a stingy mood. It feels like we have been waiting for spring forever. Rather than complain about the weather, we decided to plant a balcony garden. While we don’t love non-stop rain, the garden does. And the reward for...