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Nature's ego project — chaos you pay to maintain and call peaceful.
means A plot of ground deliberately planted with flowers for beauty rather than food.
from Straightforward compound: 'flower,' from Old French flour/flor, tracing to Latin flos (flower), fused with 'garden,' from Old North French gardin, rooted in Germanic gardo meaning an enclosed, fenced plot of land. So the phrase literally means exactly what it says — an enclosed space for flowers — the word history carrying none of the irony the essence supplies.
- roman origins
- wealthy romans grew gardens purely to flex
- bee economy
- one bee visits 50 to 100 flowers per trip
- color trick
- flowers evolved colors to bribe pollinators, not humans
- victorian code
- specific flowers once sent secret coded messages