I am a member of a local Rose Society and this past weekend we had our annual rose show. I have been in this society for several years, and this is the first year I exhibited. (Don't ask me why.
Every era has its own style and customs regarding flowers, plantings and garden design. Since the second season of the beautifully rendered PBS series, Victoria, has concluded, it got me thinking about the special way that period viewed flowers and their meanings.
Whenever I get a call from my mom that starts with "Jennifer, I need for you to come over and do" whatever is on her mind in her yard at that moment, I get a little worried. This time, she wanted me to come over to "take care of the little Japanese maple sprouts.
Carl Linnaeus, a Swedish botanist, is known as the Father of Modern Taxonomy, which is the science of identifying, naming and classifying organisms. He is known for formalizing binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms.
