FLORA CULTURE: HOW FLOWERS SHAPE OUR WORLD (HB)

Geall turns her focus to revealing how trends in floral artistry and flower arranging reflect our larger global relationship to plants. As flowers reach new popularity for their extraordinary beauty and exotic allure, they can also reach ever-broader markets. These plants must often be sourced from distant parts of the globe and flown great distances at great cost, generating large carbon footprints and sparking ethical concerns about the treatment of workers involved in growing them, supply chains, and questions about how to balance our ever-growing obsession for these flowers with fair practices for obtaining them.