Bold and passionate red flowers come in myriad shades that evoke different and often contradictory emotional responses making it a colour of paradoxes.
Read MorePersian Buttercup
It takes courage to stand in our own circle and live in our own power.
Read MoreOnion Grass Flower
What does onion grass, with its dazzling magenta and yellow flowers, have in common with people who find themselves caught up in a life situation that doesn’t feel like a good fit?
Read MoreSpring Star Flower
Although winter is a time of introspection and quiet when much of nature turns inward whilst preparing for renewal in spring, many flowers are at their best during this time bringing warmth and good cheer to cold grey days.
Read MoreDaffodil
Winter brings a plethora of bright, colourful and fragrant flowers to our garden but it’s the lovely sunny daffodils and jonquils that bring daily cheer through chilly drizzle and watery sunshine.
Read MoreWhite Petunia
The beauty, freshness and innocence of white petunia’s is like a breath of fresh air on a warm sunny day that lifts the spirits and reminds us of the sensitivity and fragility of nature, ourselves and those around us.
Read MoreCanterbury Bell
These showy flowers have an unusual strategy for spreading pollen as far and wide as possible to maximize their chance of survival.
Read MoreDahlia Bud
A dahlia bud doesn’t question whether it should take the risk to unfold and bloom, it just does. Yet we tell ourselves it’s a risk to step outside our comfort zone to grow and develop as a person. Perhaps taking risks is just a state of mind?
Read MoreSage 'Blue Haze'
Many herb flowers have been described as small and insignificant. However, delving deep into the pretty bloom of the ‘blue haze’ sage plant shows us the error of this judgement, both for flowers and our fellow humans.
Read MoreCalifornia Poppy
The vivid orange California poppy is a cousin of the bright red Flanders poppy but with some quirky differences!
Read MoreConvolvulus
The convolvulus flower is a wonderful metaphor for completing the cycle of giving and receiving, speaking and listening, qualities that are essential to transcend inequality and injustice.
Read MoreRed Sweet Pea
The heart of a young sweet pea bud is a mirror of the human heart.
Read MorePetunia
What is it that draws us to a specific flower at a particular time in our lives?
Read MorePotato Flower
How is the flower of the potato plant like the special people in our lives who are always there for us no matter what?
Read MoreChrysanthemum
Flowers touch our hearts and we gift them to express all manner of sentiments, but the assumption that a ‘language of flowers’ was used in Victorian England to select particular blooms that communicated clandestine messages to another appear to be unfounded.
Read MoreCamellia
A wander through the meanings and significance of the camellia flower in different cultures across the world.
Read MoreKangaroo Apple
A flower mandala: Moving us towards our centre, our soul, a place of calm and inner peace.
Read MoreDahlia
Looking at flowers from behind is a great lesson in the benefits of considering what we think we know from an alternative angle.
Read MoreGeranium
Do you ever wonder about the ethereal glow that illuminates the heart of a geranium flower?
Read MoreDelphinium
Delphinium flowers can teach us much about travelling through difficult and chaotic times like we have witnessed on a global scale this year.
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