The Language of Flowers

• Author : Vanessa Diffenbaugh
• Publisher : Ballantine Books
• Release : 23 August 2011

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The Victorian language of flowers was used to convey romantic expressions: honeysuckle for devotion, asters for patience, and red roses for love. But for Victoria Jones, it’s been more useful in communicating mistrust and solitude. After a childhood spent in the foster-care system, she is unable to get close to anybody, and her only connection to the world is through flowers and their meanings. Now eighteen and emancipated from the system with nowhere to go,

• Author : Mandy Kirkby,Vanessa Diffenbaugh
• Publisher : MacMillan
• Release : 30 July 2021

A beautiful gift book celebrating the forgotten language of flowers. "A flower is not a flower alone; A thousand thoughts invest it"All over the world, flowers are an integral part of human culture whether it is the perfect table centre for a wedding, a beautiful bouquet for a birthday, a message of thanks, or to pay one's respect at a funeral. But, while everyone knows that red roses signify love, few may realise that an entire language of flowers

• Author : S. Theresa Dietz
• Publisher : Wellfleet Press
• Release : 04 February 2020

The Complete Language of Flowers is a comprehensive dictionary for over 1,001 flower species. Along with a visual depiction, each entry provides the flower's name, characteristics, and historic meanings from mythology, medieval legends, folklore, and flower poetry. For centuries, symbolic flower meanings have fascinated readers, writers, poets, and suddenly smitten couples alike. Extremely popular during the Victorian era, these floriographies flourished and versed the public on the hidden meaning of popular flowers like peonies (bashfulness) and tulips (passion).Coupled with stunning

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 30 July 2021

• Author : Odessa Begay
• Publisher : HarperCollins
• Release : 05 May 2020

With gorgeous full-color illustrations, ornate decorative elements, lettering in metallic ink, and engaging text, The Language of Flowers: A Fully Illustrated Compendium of Meaning, Literature, and Lore for the Modern Romantic is a treasure for flower lovers. A sumptuous, contemporary anthology of 50 of the world's most storied and popular flowers, each of its entries offers insight to the meaning associated with the flower, and is a fascinating mix of foklore, classic mythology, literature, botanical information and popular culture. Following an

• Author : Beverly Seaton
• Publisher : University of Virginia Press
• Release : 10 October 2012

The author traces the phenomenon of ascribing sentimental meaning to floral imagery from its beginnings in Napoleonic France through its later transformations in England and America. At the heart of the book is a depiction of what the three most important flower books from each of the countries divulge about the period and the respective cultures. Seaton shows that the language of flowers was not a single and universally understood correlation of flowers to meanings that men and women used

• Author : Henrietta Dumont
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 30 July 2021

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Frederick Warne Publishers
• Release : 30 July 1977

The nineteenth-century classic combines delicately rendered pictures of flowers, children, and young women with lists of meanings associated with particular flowers and poems by Burns, Shelley, Wordsworth, and others

• Author : John Green
• Publisher : Courier Corporation
• Release : 23 January 2004

Attractive, accurately rendered collection of 30 floral beauties, with brief captions describing what each flower symbolizes. Includes the anemone (anticipation), buttercup (riches), red rose (romantic love), carnation (fidelity), poppy (extravagance), and 25 others. A treat for coloring book fans, flower lovers, and gardening enthusiasts.

• Author : Mandy Kirkby
• Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
• Release : 30 July 2021

Early Victorians used flowers as a way to express their feelings-- love or grief, jealousy or devotion. Now modern-day romantics are enjoying a resurgence of this bygone custom. Kirkby shares the historical literary, and cultural significance of flowers.

• Author : Robert Tyas
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 30 July 1869

• Author : Priscila Sosa Cruz
• Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
• Release : 10 July 2015

Inspired from the language of flowers from the Victorian era, the Language of Flowers Dictionary gives a brief blast from the past and a full list of flower meanings ranging from A to Z. The list contains meanings that are commonly found with the flower, but remember, no meaning is definite.

• Author : Lorenz Books,Lorenz Books Staff
• Publisher : Lorenz Books
• Release : 30 July 1997

Over 80 paintings and botanical illustrations of flowers accompanied by text from writers such as John Clare, Matthew Arnold, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Louisa May Alcott and Nathaniel Hawthorne.

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 03 November 2016

Based on a list of over 300 plants in a 19th century Floral Dictionary, this book looks at how each was grown in the Victorian garden, as well as its various language-of-flowers meanings. It includes facts & anecdotes on the uses, folklore and names of each plant, together with quotes from some of the foremost gardening writers of the Victorian era

• Author : Samantha Gray
• Publisher : Cico Books
• Release : 01 February 2015

This beautifully-illustrated gift book reveals the hidden meanings of over 50 popular flowers. Did you know the type of flowers you give can speak volumes? 'The Secret Language of Flowers' is a fascinating insight into the Victorian tradition of using flowers to convey secret messages, in a society where feelings often had to be suppressed. Samantha Gray reveals how flowers came by their meanings in folklore and how flowers became the language of courtship, love, friendship, beauty, and more. Discover the