梅里克（Merrick）用一篇介绍她在插花艺术上所有来之不易的秘密——从选择材料到掌握令人愉悦的比例——的入门文章开始了《关于花的一切》。 然后，她将读者带到她的旅程，对纽约的花和她家在新罕布什尔州农村的避暑别墅中的花进行评论，在华盛顿州沿海的一个花卉农场劳作，在京都的一家珠宝盒花店里学习日式花道。我们学习如何像花店店员一样送花，以及如何像农家姑娘一样插花。我们在卑微的野花中发现动人的一面，也赞美芬芳的花朵的奢华。

Amy Merrick is a rare and special kind of artist who uses flowers to help us see the familiar in a completely new way. Her gift is to revel in the unexpected—like a sunny spring arrangement housed in a paper coffee cup—and to overturn preconceptions, whether she’s transforming a bouquet of supermarket carnations into a breathtaking centerpiece or elevating wild and weedy blooms foraged from city sidewalks. She uses the beauty that is waiting to be discovered all around us—in leaves, branches, seedpods, a fallen blossom—to tell a story of time and place.

Merrick begins On Flowers with a primer containing all her hard-won secrets on the art of flower arranging, from selecting materials to mastering pleasing proportions. Then she brings readers along on her journey, with observations on flowers in New York City and at her family’s summer home in rural New Hampshire, working on a flower farm off the coast of Washington State, and studying ikebana in a jewel-box flower shop in Kyoto. We learn how to send flowers like a florist, and how to arrange them like a farm girl. We discover the poignancy in humble wildflowers, and also celebrate the luxury of fragrant blousy blooms. Collected here is an anthology of floral inspiration, a love letter to nature by an exceptional, accidental florist.