The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
As Heard on The Daily Gardener Podcast:
The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
Today’s book is a fiction book. Vanessa weaves the Victorian language of love into a love story: honeysuckle for devotion, asters for patience, and red roses for love.
For the main character, Victoria Jones, flowers are more useful in communicating mistrust and solitude. After a childhood spent in the foster-care system, her only connection to the world is through flowers and their meanings.
Now eighteen and emancipated from the system with nowhere to go, Victoria realizes she has a gift for helping others through the flowers she chooses for them. An unexpected encounter with a mysterious stranger forces her to confront a painful secret from her past.
Brigitte Weeks of The Washington Post gave my favorite review of this book:
“ I would like to hand Vanessa Diffenbaugh a bouquet of bouvardia (enthusiasm), gladiolus (you pierce my heart) and lisianthus (appreciation). . . . And there is one more sprig I should add to her bouquet: a single pink carnation (I will never forget you).”
This is a lovely fiction book for gardeners who are looking for something light and fun to read over the winter. This book came out in 2012.
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