Flora Culture: How Flowers Shape Our World

By Christin Geall

Groundbreaking, unique, and beautiful, Flora Culture: How Flowers Shape Our World features over 250 images from over 40 countries, taking readers on a journey across cultures and continents in search of a deeper understanding of how we might live with plants on a changing planet.

Our love of flowers and desire to be close to them has, across cultures and for millennia, created both landscapes and livelihoods. In this book, Christin Geall covers hot topics such as aesthetics, appropriation, fair trade, floriculture, globalization, indigeneity, modernism, seasonality, and tokenism--to name only a few of the over eighty entries presented here in an accessible A to Z format.

In her inimitable style, Geall shares personal stories and ideas from growers and designers, weaving her narratives between art, ecology, and history to get readers truly thinking about their relationships to plants, gardens, and design.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0847876136
• ISBN13: 9780847876136
• Release Date: April 2026
• Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 2.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.1" x 10.1"

Customer Reviews

A beautiful addition to my library

I absolutely loved this book. As a hobby gardener and flower enthusiast, this book opened my eyes to the history, evolution, and deeply rooted issues in the flora world. In each essay entry, Christin does an amazing job exploring a multitude of topics from an approachable, but intellectually stimulating angle. The photographs are beautiful, and I appreciated her efforts to take global perspective. Because it is organized in short essays organized alphabetically, it's easy to pick up and put down when your schedule allows. It made me want to learn more and make an effort to be more thoughtful in my approach to gardening, consumption, and floristry. This would be a great gift for any flower or garden lover in your life.