Ah, daffodils. Who among us literary-minded folk is not reminded of William Wordsworth’s dancing daffodils when spotting these golden flowers? As it turns out, their meaning in the Victorian language of flowers is just as joyous — and just as meaningful to the main characters in Stephanie Knipper’s The Peculiar Miracles of Antoinette Martin — newContinue reading

“This book is as lush as the flowers it describes.” – Publishers Weekly Flowers can say everything from “get well” to “I love you” to “I’m sorry.”  But they are also a multi-million dollar business. Amy Stewart investigates in her book  what goes into creating and pricing the beauty and sentiment of flowers Flower Confidential.  It’s oneContinue reading

. When I was writing Flower Confidential, I was always looking for romantic Valentine’s Day stories on flowers that I could include in a short chapter on our most romantic holiday. But florists have a dark side of their own; they wanted to tell me horror stories instead. . A florist in Seattle told meContinue reading