The slow food movement with its hundreds of thousands of members and supporters has changed our relationship with the foods in our lives. Now the slow flower movement is changing the way we think about cut flowers Yes wed all prefer fresh fragrant flowers in our bouquets not the chemicalladen lifeless blooms flown in from afar but what to do in those seasons when not much is growing locally Acclaimed garden writer Debra Prinzing challenged herself to create a beautiful locallygrown bouquet for each of 52 weeks of one year going beyond flowers to include ornamental twigs foliage greenhouse plants dried pods and more to demonstrate that all four seasons have their own botanical character to be celebrated. She provides extensive design tips bouquet recipes and regionbyregion floral ingredient lists that can be found in all climate zones through the year.