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mehsi's review
4.0
I received this book from Netgalley in exchange of an honest review.
I LOVE flowers and I love gardening. I am so delighted that I finally have the chance to do some gardening again. Last year I moved to a new home which has a front/back garden. I had plenty of work ahead of me as it was overgrown. But this year I am slowly adding new flowers and seeing what works. Next to my garden I love filling my home with flowers. So this book is perfect for me.
This book gives us gorgeous art of flowers. Really, that really made me request this book. I love botany art, some people are just too darn talented and make it seem like you can grab the flowers or plants out of the pages.
Next to the gorgeous art each flower has it’s own page with all sorts of details on the flower. The meaning of the flower, origin (which various from mythology/history/people/believes to uses and more), and what you can pair it with and what kind of meaning that would have. Like if you mix belladone which stands for silence with columbine and begonia it is used to urge someone to keep a secret! I loved reading these little bits of text though, unless I add the book to my collection (which is a big possibility), I won’t remember them. I learned quite some new things though, and I love that!
At the end we even gets some fun bouquets for several occasions. I liked that this was added!
All in all, this is one book I would recommend to fellow flower lovers! Gorgeous art, interesting information.
Review first posted at https://twirlingbookprincess.com/
I LOVE flowers and I love gardening. I am so delighted that I finally have the chance to do some gardening again. Last year I moved to a new home which has a front/back garden. I had plenty of work ahead of me as it was overgrown. But this year I am slowly adding new flowers and seeing what works. Next to my garden I love filling my home with flowers. So this book is perfect for me.
This book gives us gorgeous art of flowers. Really, that really made me request this book. I love botany art, some people are just too darn talented and make it seem like you can grab the flowers or plants out of the pages.
Next to the gorgeous art each flower has it’s own page with all sorts of details on the flower. The meaning of the flower, origin (which various from mythology/history/people/believes to uses and more), and what you can pair it with and what kind of meaning that would have. Like if you mix belladone which stands for silence with columbine and begonia it is used to urge someone to keep a secret! I loved reading these little bits of text though, unless I add the book to my collection (which is a big possibility), I won’t remember them. I learned quite some new things though, and I love that!
At the end we even gets some fun bouquets for several occasions. I liked that this was added!
All in all, this is one book I would recommend to fellow flower lovers! Gorgeous art, interesting information.
Review first posted at https://twirlingbookprincess.com/
bloodfire's review
5.0
Wonderful fount of information and definitely holds a lot of inspiration for any writers out there!!
arthurian's review
5.0
Floriography by Jessica Roux provides the reader with a neat and fascinating compilation of various flowers and their meaning in "the Language of Flowers" during the Victorian era. The illustrations provided for each flower are beautiful and if you don't know the flower in question, it makes you want to look them up.
I really appreciated that there were background information from history or myths for some of the flowers so the reader got a sense of how and why the flowers had these associations.
Also, for each flower, extra two meanings that can be conveyed when used with other flowers are given, so you can admire the subtlety of such a mode of communication.
The use of flowers to convey emotions and thoughts, beyond general appreciation and love might be over, but this book gives you a great opportunity to learn that they used to mean much more in detail.
I specifically recommend this book to everyone interested in Victorian era or flowers. I had so many friends ask me what I was reading even if they had no particular interest in these two though, so don't let that stop you if these two aren't usually your cup of tea!
I really appreciated that there were background information from history or myths for some of the flowers so the reader got a sense of how and why the flowers had these associations.
Also, for each flower, extra two meanings that can be conveyed when used with other flowers are given, so you can admire the subtlety of such a mode of communication.
The use of flowers to convey emotions and thoughts, beyond general appreciation and love might be over, but this book gives you a great opportunity to learn that they used to mean much more in detail.
I specifically recommend this book to everyone interested in Victorian era or flowers. I had so many friends ask me what I was reading even if they had no particular interest in these two though, so don't let that stop you if these two aren't usually your cup of tea!