Flowers from around
the world
Every flower belongs to a place. Explore six geographic regions, from the ancient gardens of Asia to the dramatic flora of Africa, and discover how origin shapes meaning, scent, and story.
Europe
Old World beauty
From the wildflower meadows of England to the lavender fields of Provence, European flowers shaped the entire Western tradition of floristry, symbolism, and garden design.
Mediterranean
Sun-drenched and ancient
The cradle of Western civilisation is also the cradle of its most beloved flowers. Warm, aromatic, and steeped in myth, the Mediterranean flora shaped Greek, Roman, and Islamic garden traditions.
Asia
Ancient gardens and quiet beauty
Asia has given the world some of its most revered flowers, the chrysanthemum of imperial Japan, the lotus of Buddhist tradition, the cherry blossom that marks the turning of seasons.
The Americas
New World colour and drama
The Americas introduced the sunflower, the dahlia, and the marigold to a world that could not imagine having lived without them. From Mexican sacred blooms to Andean wildflowers.
Africa
Rare and extraordinary
African flora is among the most biodiverse on earth. The Cape Floristic Region alone contains more plant species than the entire British Isles. Africa's flowers carry an exotic drama unlike any other.
Tropical & Pacific
Lush, vivid, and otherworldly
The tropics produce flowers of impossible colour and structure, the bird of paradise, the frangipani, the hibiscus. These are the flowers of warm rain and dense canopies.
Where a flower comes from changes everything
A flower's geographic origin is inseparable from its cultural meaning. The lotus is sacred in Buddhist and Hindu traditions because it grew along the banks of rivers that nurtured those civilisations. The dahlia carries the spirit of pre-Columbian Mexico because it was a sacred bloom long before Europeans encountered it. The cherry blossom embodies Japanese aesthetic philosophy, mono no aware, the pathos of transience, precisely because its fleeting bloom has been observed and mourned for over a thousand years along Japanese hillsides. To know where a flower comes from is to understand why it means what it means.