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 preceding it. While this is a mathematical expression, it translates into a harmony of proportion in the natural world. The Fibonacci sequence is downright rampant in nature, seen in everything from the spiral of galaxies and the shape of ammonites to our favorite, the arrangement of petals and leaves.
The autumn Birthday Blossoms--aster, marigold, and chrysanthemum—present us with glorious examples of the Fibonacci sequence. We could write out mathematical equations to demonstrate. Or you could take a look at one of these flowers and see the numbers in action in the perfectly pleasing arrangement of petals, each one placed just so to fall exactly in harmony with each other, with the human eye, and with Mother Nature herself.
We hope the weather where you are is as goldenly glorious as it is at Birthday Blossoms HQ, and we wish you the happiest of late summer into early fall that Mother Nature can serve up.