Floriography, by Gina Margolies — WhatsMyBirthMonthFlower?

Happy Birthday to all our beloved April babies! Your Birthday Blossom is the adorable daisy, carrying a message of happiness, loyal friendship and, of course, springtime. Spring has not quite sprung here at Birthday Blossoms HQ, but it’s close. The cold streak of winter has been interrupted here and there, by a day last week when it was only slightly chilly, two days in a row when it was warm in the sun, and day before yesterday it reached seventy degrees for a few fleeting moments in the late afternoon. Spring in a technical sense is just about to meet...

We’re almost there! That sentence expresses how I feel every year, right about this time. March is a gateway to the glories of spring. Sure it can be cold and windy in March. In New York City, we can see snow. But we also see glimmerings, beckonings, whispering beautiful words. Spring is just around the corner. As I write this post, the official start of spring is two days away. But the whisperings started a few weeks ago, on those days when it was cold with moments when it wasn’t. Walking into a sunny spot and feeling the rays on...

Happy September! After our annual August break, Birthday Blossoms is delighted to be back at work, bringing birth month flower joy to our customers and friends. September’s birth month flower is the lovely aster, sign of autumn and all its glories. To celebrate this beautiful bloom, we have some news to share. We have several new Birthday Blossoms field trips planned, so be on the lookout for photos, interesting tidbits, and maybe even a guest vlogger. Birthday Blossoms is also excited to announce a new line of birth month flower designs. We know you love the original designs and we...

"People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things around us."                                                                       - Iris Murdoch  

Here at Birthday Blossoms, we love when birth month flowers pop up in unexpected places. We recently spotted November’s birth month flower on a field trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The current exhibition Lineages: Korean Art at the Met features pieces from The Met’s historical collection as well as loans of modern and contemporary Korean art. The blend of a backward glance with a forward vision spotlights much that is beautiful and interesting about Korean art. The gallery is quite small, and the pieces are close enough to whisper to one another, sharing themes,...