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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]
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
Flower arranger, book writer Julia Clements OBE (born Gladys Agnes Clements ; [ 1 ] 11 April 1906 – 1 November 2010) was an English flower arranger and lecturer on floral arranging whose career spanned over 60 years.
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The Gardeners Dictionary is a widely cited reference series written by Philip Miller (1691–1771), which tended to focus on plants cultivated in England. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Eight editions of the series were published in his lifetime.