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Discovering The Meaning of Flowers (Love Found, Love Lost & Love Restored)

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Call no.
: 745.92 CON
Author
: Shane Connolly
Contributor
: Sofea Binti Sharif
Summary
“But the message I take from this is quite simple: flowers are part of life, part of the living landscape and we need to re-examine our relationship with them, use them thoughtfully and respectfully and be aware of their fragility and the potential damage we might causing in their production.” - Shane Connolly The author of this book (Shane Connolly) describe that flowers had their own meaning. The author make research about every history on the flowers based on three category of love, that is Love Found, Love Lost and Love Restored. For example, in the Chapter of Love Found, she describe red roses which means the message is for the love one that is “I loved You” based on history of St. Valentine’s Day. Apart from Love Found there is Love Lost that symbolise sad love, broken heart, betrayal, jealousy, desertion and remembrance. For Love Restored, it symbolise hope, unity, re-establish and self renew. She also demonstrates step by step on how to make flower arrangement based on the meaning of each flower. For flower lovers and those who like to decorate home, office, etc with flowers are recommend to read this book.