Why Do People Love Flowers?

We can’t eat them, so what’s the point?

Author’s image of herself in a flower garden and my brother’s dahlias

I admit it. I’ve been a gardening snob. Roses, daffodils, zinnias, and dahlias, what’s the point? I’d scoff.

Let’s grow plants to feed people or animals!

I appreciated wildflowers, meadows, and the blossoms of vegetables creating new seeds. But growing plants simply for beauty was a form of…