Port of Harlem loves this book mostly because it covers a part of life that Blacks are very rarely associated with: flowers. The book covers more than just Blacks walking in a field of colorful flowers, which we also rarely see, but the floriculture industry, including flower farmers, floral designers, botanical artists, and floral creators.

The book cover features the image of colorfully headwrapped Californian Talia Boone, owner of Postal Petals, gracefully walking with a bouquet. Teresa Speight created the book and started her walk through flowers while growing up in DC's Riggs Park, Northeast neighborhood.

"Dad was my garden hero," she says. Her favorite slower is Paeonla lactiflora.

The book is complete with short, educational, inspirational, and creative stories, such as Mimo Davis's. She is a farmer-florist and co-owner of Urban Buds: City Crown Flowers.

Recalling how her flower walk started, she said, "I was living in a studio apartment, paying $1500 a month for rent (in New York). And I came out to Missouri for (my mother's) wedding and realized, wow, I could have a twenty-acre farm here for what I am paying rent."

Once Davis dug into her new passion, she studied horticulture at Lincoln University and later Plant Soil Science and Horticulture at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical University. What's her favorite flower: Ranunculus

Vanessa Petty, who creates floral arrangements for her home, found "Black Flora: inspirational. "Black Flora touches many areas, such as our future, by giving the next generation of plant lovers examples of successful floral artists and entrepreneurs.