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The Language of Flowers is the debut novel of American author Vanessa Diffenbaugh. It was published in 2011 by Ballantine Books . [ 1 ] The novel follows the fraught life of a Victoria Jones, who by the age of 18, had lived in 32 foster homes , and becomes a flower arranger.
The novel was inspired by a flower dictionary, a type of Victorian-era book which defines what different types of flowers mean. [6] She also published a new non-fiction A Victorian Flower Dictionary to accompany the novel. [5] In 2019, it was announced there will be a film adaptation of the novel starring Nick Robinson and Kiersey Clemons. [7]
Illustration from Floral Poetry and the Language of Flowers (1877). According to Jayne Alcock, grounds and gardens supervisor at the Walled Gardens of Cannington, the renewed Victorian era interest in the language of flowers finds its roots in Ottoman Turkey, specifically the court in Constantinople [1] and an obsession it held with tulips during the first half of the 18th century.
Elizabeth Washington Gamble Wirt (1784–1857), who published under the name E. W. Wirt, was a 19th-century American author whose Flora's Dictionary was the first book to broadly popularize the concept of a language of flowers for American readers. [1]
"The Language of Flowers" (Elgar), an 1872 song by Edward Elgar based on a poem by James Gates Percival; The Language of Flowers, a 1935 play by Federico García Lorca; The Language of Flowers, a 2011 novel by Vanessa Diffenbaugh "The Language of Flowers", an episode in the 2003 TV series Rosemary & Thyme
Language of flowers – cryptological communication through the use or arrangement of flowers; Hanakotoba, also known as 花言葉 – Japanese form of the language of flowers; List of national flowers – flowers that represent specific geographic areas
After the Federation of Australia that took place in 1901, the upsurge in nationalism led to the search for an official national floral emblem. Archibald Campbell had founded the Wattle Club in Victoria in 1899 to promote interest in and profile of the wattle as a unique Australian flower. [1]
Victoria amazonica is a species of flowering plant, the second largest in the water lily family Nymphaeaceae. It is called Vitória-Régia or Iaupê-Jaçanã ("the lilytrotter's waterlily") in Brazil and Atun Sisac ("great flower") in Inca (Quechua).