Floriography, by Gina Margolies — Flora Illustrata

Why do people like flowers so much? Here at Floriography, we often ponder thisquestion. Previous posts have explored various reasons: reminder of the renewal of life,innate desire for beauty, natural attraction to floral scents. We even analyzed themathematics of flowers in an effort to understand the appeal. (Believe it or not, that postis our most popular to date.) Another possible explanation for the perennial appeal offlowers is color. The word color has multiple meanings. In the natural world, color is the property ofproducing different sensations on the eye as a result of the way the object reflects oremits light. Science...

The Language of Flowers Flora Illustrata:  Great Works from the LuEsther T. Mertz Library of The New York Botanical Garden edited by Susan M. Fraser and Vanessa Bezemer Sellers                Si hortum in bibliotheca habes, deerit nihil.                (If you have a garden in a library, nothing will be lacking).                                                                            ...