Flowers have been a real language for centuries, and learning it helped me express gratitude, apology, and care in a way words sometimes cannot.

Many of us know our zodiac signs and what they mean, but how many of us know our birth flower? Throughout history, flowers ...

A dozen publishers got into a bidding war for Vanessa Diffenbaugh’s debut novel, “The Language of Flowers,” about a young woman emerging from foster care who has an unusual way of communicating with ...

People have given flowers and plants symbolic meaning throughout history. Assigning human virtues to flowers as a form of communication was first conceived in France in the late 1700s. A beautiful, ...

Flowers most certainly speak to us. Even those who don’t make a living from flowers will hear and answer their call. At weddings, at funerals, and at so many less momentous occasions that come between ...

Throughout history flowers have been used in a variety of ways, to adorn everything from clothing to dishes, but also relay different “messages.” The Secret Language of Flowers was the theme for ...