The House of Life-Botanicals 🌿

Flowerpaedia 1000 Flowers & their Meanings by Cheralyn Darcey

Sale price Price $19.99 Regular price Unit price per

Shipping calculated at checkout.

Flowerpaedia is a handy and engaging A-Z reference guide of over 1000 flowers, researched and compiled by botanical explorer Cheralyn Darcey. Readers will delight in understanding what each flower means--emotionally, spiritually, and symbolically--and the dictionary format allows people to search by the feeling or emotion they wish to convey or change. Expertly written with easy-to-understand insights, Flowerpaedia shares how we can work with a myriad of flowers to achieve balance, calm, or healing in our lives, homes, and gardens. Included is an index of each flower's precise botanical name for easy and exact identification.

Written for the enthusiastic gardener and anyone charmed by the beauty and energy of flowers, this guide to understanding and selecting the right flower for every occasion and meaning will be felt and enjoyed by all.

About Cheralyn Darcey

Cheralyn Darcey is gardener with a passion for ethnobotany and botanical history. She produces and presents a live weekly two-hour gardening radio show, 'At Home with the Gardening Gang', on Coast FM 963, Australia and is also the gardening columnist for weekly print and digital editions for The Coast News and The Coast Chronicle. A passionate Community Gardener,

she is also the Garden Curator of SWAMP (Sustainable Wetlands Agricultural Makers Project). Based in the middle of the NSW Central Coast, it is a working Community Garden and Urban Farm which provides community outreach programs and community garden training.

Cheralyn has written and illustrated twenty botanical titles, that share with readers her passion for plants and lifelong research that explores the relationships of the botanical kingdom and us. She is popular guest on national tv, international podcasts, radio and print media for her extensive and engaging knowledge of botanical history, garden folklore and practical gardening knowledge.

Living on the Central Coast of NSW, Australia, Cheralyn has created and nurtures her own extensive flower, vegetable, native plant and indoor gardens that has been featured in national and international publications and is her creative sanctuary. She is also a Garden Designer, Gardener and Florist who works with the principles of sustainably and creating spaces with deeper spiritual connections and personal meaning.

Her artwork has been featured in galleries and art prizes across Australia and the USA including The Australian Museum and Manly Art Gallery. Cheralyn was an Environmental Artist in Residence during the International Conference of Eco Ideas 2011 and has a long association with many environmental organizations creating eco artworks, educational workshops and presentations as well as working as an administration volunteer.

“No matter where I have found myself, gardening has been the pulse of my daily life. My life is enriched with a deep fasciation for the scientific and historical facets of botany and my heart filled with a divine joy due to my passion for creating and tending gardens. What comes from them, be it art, healing, support or beauty, weaves like a ribbon of sunlight through everything I do and share.”