Let's celebrate some flowers. Please join me at an upcoming event! Details and registration here: dghaskell.com/speaking/

For many flowers, aromas and visual signals are strongest when the flower is shedding pollen. So give the fathers in your life flowers this year 🌼 The symbolism of flowers belong to all.

Next, they'll shoot love darts at one another Lapidary snails (Helicigona lapicida) getting amorous in the rain, southern France For more on the endlessly fascinating and highly contorted subject of snail love, check out the excellent recent @radiolab.bsky.social episode on the subject 🐌❤️🏹

Can we condemn the regime without making derogatory comments about the culture of rural America? The tsunami of comments/"jokes" about "white trash" and trailer parks feels like "deplorables 2.0". The problem is Trump, not that some folks, usually not urbane pundits, like to watch wrestling.

Chelsea Flower Show -- the elephant in the room = toxic chemicals and biodiversity collapse www.instagram.com/reel/DYhZciA...

Friends near Bolinas, CA, please join us May 22. Also on zoom for all. tns.commonweal.org/events/

Inside that spiky seed pod, elaiosomes attached to seeds. Ant snacks. The seed gets deposited in a nice underground ant compost heap. A great wildflower nursery. Working with ants in this way is called myrmecochory. A meadow of vocab. Glad to see one of my fav flowers leaping into the next gen

Bay Area friends: I'll be in conversation with Alexis Madrigal at University of California Botanical Garden at Berkeley on May 20th. botanicalgarden.berkeley.edu/event/how-fl...

Congratulations to the Pulitzer finalists and winners! I served on this year’s jury for the General Nonfiction category, alongside Luis Alberto Urrea (chair), Marcia Chatelain, Andrea Elliott, and David Greenberg. Three brilliant and important works stood out to all of us on the jury. Thread...

Flowers literally reinvented botanical motherhood, so this seems appropriate. Delighted to see How Flowers Made our World listed in NYT. Guess which kind of mother they thought would most like the book... www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/b...

Thank you, @chrisirmscher.bsky.social, for this review of How Flowers Made our World, in @wsj.com

A joy to join Alan Alda to chat about flowers, scicomm, and why "weeds" give me confidence (com-fidere = trusting together). Also: Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker's Creek meets Richard Dawkins' Selfish Gene in an impressionable teenage mind clear-vivid-with-alan-alda.simplecast.com/episodes/dav...

Floral revolutionaries on the road: Seattle and Miami Beach friends, I'd love to see you at my upcoming events. Register here: Seattle: www.elliottbaybook.com/events/50119 Miami Beach: shop.booksandbooks.com/event/2026-0...

What a pleasure to be in conversation about flowers and their many meanings with Daphne Chouliaraki Milner in @atmosmag.bsky.social, with marvelous art by Max Attila Bartsch atmos.earth/art-and-cult...

Blood red nectar. Attracts their pollinators, geckos, who love red dots on a purple background. Birds are also attracted and steal nectar. Sanguineous allegories here we go An endangered species from Mauritius, here at the amazing Missouri Botanical Garden Nesocodon mauritianus (Campanulaceae)

Snorklewort (best name!), columbines, daffodils, and spring beauty in @emergencemagazine.bsky.social "Cells at the tip of the sleeping embryo keep up hormonal conversations among themselves ... Eventually the chemical whispers jolt ... wake up, let’s go!" emergencemagazine.org/essay/wildfl...

Join me for an upcoming talk! New locations added, including Seattle and the online Tricycle conference. Registration and details -- dghaskell.com/speaking/%F0...

Wild Fungarium is a must-visit in Edinburgh, Scotland. They have a wonderfully curated collection of wildlife and nature books, as well as toys, gifts, seeds. I highly recommend a long stop at this new independent bookshop. Thank you for your welcome, James!

What is your favorite floral aroma? So many to chose from. Mine: magnolia, rose, baneberry. I'm delighted that Orion Magazine has published an excerpt from How Flowers Made our World. The mysteries and delights of floral aromas! orionmagazine.org/article/an-a...

Elf orpine... growing in solution pits on blazing hot rock. They're a winter annual, waiting out summer as seeds When conditions get tough, flowering plants respond with extraordinary blooms Arabia Mountain, GA

Each chapter of How Flowers Made our World opens with artwork by the amazing @lucytsmith.bsky.social. The image featured here is from the Rose chapter, one of the "Roses de Mai" whose delicious aromas grace so many perfumes. More on her work here: www.lucytsmith.com Flowers book here: dghaskell.com

"A complex and gorgeous tapestry." Thank you, Michael Ray Taylor, for this thoughtful review of How Flowers Made our World in Chapter 16 chapter16.org/a-complex-an...

I enjoyed my conversation with Viviane Callier, an edited version of which is now in @nautil.us. Why we're "grass apes", the role of beauty in education, and the creativity of flowers... Interview: nautil.us/how-flowers-...

UK friends: I'll be in London on April 2nd, bringing tales of floral creativity to @linneansociety.bsky.social. I hope to see you there! Register here: members.linnean.org/events/69614...

Please join me for this free online event. Book launch! March 24th, 5pm PT/8pm ET Register for the event with the marvelous @pointreyesbooks.bsky.social. While you're on their site, you can order a copy of my book or others from their amazing collection. ptreyesbooks.com/event/2026-0...

Flowers revolutionized the world through cooperation, beauty, and a good measure of illusion. I'll be sharing a few of these stories on the road in the coming months. I'd love to see you at one of these upcoming events. 🌻💚 I'll post details as a thread