Home Feed
Home
Search
Search
Add Review, Blurb, Quote
Add
Activity
Activity
Profile
Profile

Welcome to Litsy!

Litsy is a place to share and discover your favorite books with your favorite people.

Litsy is available on the web, for iOS and Android.

It’s fun.  It’s simple.  It’s all about the book. Sign up and get a little Litsy.

To respect member's privacy and keep things awesome, most of Litsy is hidden from Google. We let humans see and share pages, but not machines. Find out more.
This page is: Hidden

Trending Hashtags

See More
#DaysDevotedTo
23 users recently
#5joysfriday
41 users recently
#serieslove2024
21 users recently
#FirstLineFridays
21 users recently
#readaway2024
15 users recently
#TLT
36 users recently

Trending Books

See More
Untitled
Untitled
Untitled
51 users recently
How to Build an Insect
How to Build an Insect
Roberta Gibson
10 users recently
If Sharks Disappeared
If Sharks Disappeared
Lily Williams
8 users recently
The Grizzly Mother
The Grizzly Mother
Hetxwms Gyetxw Brett D. Huson
6 users recently
James
James: A Novel
Percival Everett
8 users recently
About | Help / FAQs | Privacy | Terms | Press | Resources
Flower Confidential
Flower Confidential: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful | Amy Stewart
6 posts | 3 read | 10 to read
Award-winning author Amy Stewart takes readers on an around-the-world, behind-the-scenes look at the flower industry and how it has soughtfor better or worseto achieve perfection. She tracks down the hybridizers, geneticists, farmers, and florists working to invent, manufacture, and sell flowers that are bigger, brighter, and sturdier than anything nature can provide. There's a scientist intent on developing the first genetically modified blue rose; an eccentric horitcultural legend who created the most popular lily; a breeder of gerberas of every color imaginable; and an Ecuadorean farmer growing exquisite roses, the floral equivalent of a Tiffany diamond. And, at every turn she discovers the startling intersection of nature and technology, of sentiment and commerce.
Amazon Indiebound Barnes and Noble WorldCat Goodreads LibraryThing
Pick icon
100%
review
Brooke_H
Brooke_H
Flower Confidential: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful | Amy Stewart
post image
Pickpick

Interesting read about the flower industry and the history of flower cultivation. I can't keep flowers in my house (because kittens), and I know less than nothing about them, so I wonder what kind of a read this would be for someone who is more knowledgeable. I'll never look at a flower in a grocery store the same way. This book was pubbed in '07; I wonder what a 2021 version would look like. 🤔

LiteraryinPA If you‘re looking for a fictional book to change your view on flowers, I just finished
[tagged book]The Language of Flowers: A Novel
4y
Brooke_H @LiteraryinLititz I have that one! I‘m excited to read it. Stewart does talk about the Victorian language of flowers in her book. 4y
22 likes2 comments
blurb
silentrequiem
silentrequiem
Flower Confidential: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful | Amy Stewart
post image

A fun talk about the cut flower industry with Amy Stewart and Teresa Sabankaya.

27 likes1 comment
blurb
Graciouswarriorprincess
Graciouswarriorprincess
Flower Confidential: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful | Amy Stewart
post image

Part One of my #bookhaul from the Wake County Public Library used book sale. 15 books for $25.

Birdsong28 Lost for Words is so good! 📚📖 6y
Graciouswarriorprincess @Birdsong28 I can‘t wait to read it. Amy zoomed with us for the Litsy Book Club and I met her in person last year on my birthday. 6y
Sarah83 I loved the literary Starbucks 😍🎉 6y
See All 9 Comments
Graciouswarriorprincess @Birdsong28 I had checked this out at the library and was surprised that no one bought it at the sale! Now, it‘s mine and library copy returned. 👍🏻😃 6y
Graciouswarriorprincess @Sarah83 Me too and couldn‘t believe no one bought it! 6y
Sarah83 😂😂😂 6y
Birdsong28 @Graciouswarriorprincess That is so good when you can do that. I once bought a library book that I had previously took out as it was on sale and when I had before I only used it to study with so I only read the chapters that I needed so now I can read the whole thing. 😁📚📖 6y
Nebklvr The Lost for Words Bookshop. It is wonderful. 6y
Graciouswarriorprincess @Birdsong28 😃👍🏻 @Nebklvr 😃👍🏻💕 6y
55 likes9 comments
blurb
Librarybelle
Librarybelle
Flower Confidential: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful | Amy Stewart
post image

I plan to read this one later this year...Stewart‘s look at the flower industry. I enjoy reading investigative nonfiction like this! #roses #getmovin

tagged users iconCinfhen, eanderson
Cinfhen This does sound interesting 🌹🌷🌹🌷🌹 6y
81 likes4 stack adds1 comment
blurb
smilingshelves
smilingshelves
Flower Confidential: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful | Amy Stewart
post image

#springflingreading

Day 4 - fresh pick

This cover is so pretty!

@jess.how

4 likes
blurb
Erynecki
Erynecki
Flower Confidential: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful | Amy Stewart
post image

My first Amy Stewart book was Flower Confidential. I'm a hardcore non-fiction reader+I love anything that gives me an in depth, behind the scenes look at an industry. I'll never look at a flower store or bouquet with complete innocence again and I'm delighted to say that about this marvelous book!

2 likes2 stack adds