Flowering Newsletter 2024

Why do we love flowers?Why should everyone love flowers?The answer depends on whom you ask-and when you ask.Ask a freshly married couple on Valentine's day and it is clear they love flowers for their beauty, their vibrant colours, their captivating scent.Flowers as a symbol of love.Yet, there is a poignant irony in giving cut flowers, which are already destined to die without fulfilling their evolutionary purpose-to set seeds and produce fruits.Which brings us to the second possible answer as to why we love flowers.Ask a botanically inclined divorced couple and it is clear they love flowers for the fruits and their products that bring consolation in difficult times.The barley grains for alcoholic beverages.The cocoa beans for chocolate.