5. In the language of flowers

Looking for something enchanting to read? Try this book by Vanessa Diffenbaugh, The Language of Flowers.

The story starts strong and develops beautifully. There is a dark chapter that may have been inevitable, and I just might have skipped it over had I known that the curve goes upward instead of spiraling further down. I know, I know, this makes no sense to you now. It will when you've actually read it, I just don't want to give it all away.

The story is actually about the language of flowers, so much so that there's a dictionary in the end of the book. The dictionary translates as it were, a flower into our language. So a pansy would be "think of me" and parsley "festivity" and lily of the valley "return of happiness". When you make a flower arrangement of those three, there is a complex message to be read (of course only if you both speak the same language of flowers...) The iris on the book cover means: This is a message.

A dear friend was having her birthday, so I had this bouquet put together for her.

Not only pretty to look at, but it reads a special message. Clear as day, if you can read it. In order it to be legible I gave her the book as well. I wonder if she succeeded?