The Language of Flowers

The rose is the most symbolically overloaded flower in human history, precisely because it exceeds every meaning humans try to give it. In this episode, we follow one of the largest and yet perhaps lesser known through lines of the rose, across Greek epigrams, Persian mysticism, and postwar Japan. Wherever desire and love are too big to be contained by the body or the century holding it, the rose...

For over two thousand years, violets have been a shared language between women. In this episode, we follow a thread from Sappho's pen, through Parisian salons and art circles, to Broadway. And we ask how love finds a way to exist when the world insists it can't. Executive Producer, Writer & Host: Nina Ozier Co-host and Episode Cover Artist: Jake Kaplan Audio Producer & Sound Mixer: Elliot...

The dahlia didn't arrive with a meaning. It accumulated one. In our titular episode, we trace how a sacred Aztec crop became a smuggled treasure, a botanist's legacy, and eventually a word in the Victorian language of flowers. Executive Producer, Writer & Host: Nina Ozier Co-host and Episode Cover Artist: Jake Kaplan Audio Producer & Sound Mixer: Elliot Terzian Theme Music: Paul Oliphant E...

Some symbols, however small, earn their weight through the specific, irreplaceable moments in which they were held. In our first episode we trace how a wildflower that grew at the margins of cultivated fields became a vessel for grief, resistance, and national memory. Executive Producer, Writer & Host: Nina Ozier Co-host and Episode Cover Artist: Jake Kaplan Audio Producer & Sound Mixer: E...