Throughout her career as a photographer, Linda Burgess' first love has always been for plants and flowers. This gift book attempts to reflect the power of flowers to evoke different emotions through the seasons. Flowers can make us feel exuberant, reflective, romantic, sophisticated as anyone turning the pages of this book will find. Flower arrangements, from simple to sophisticated, are described, together with practical gardening notes, botanical information, poems and gardening lore, even flower arranging ideas. Linda Burgess is the author of A Sense of the Country and Recipes From an Italian Farmhouses.