Welcome to Descanso Gardens' Power of Flowers website that digs deeper into the mysterious and beautiful world of flowering plants.

At some moment in Cretaceous time, perhaps 130 million years ago, life on our planet took a gigantic and beautiful step forward. A thing we now know as a “flower” joined the plant kingdom’s array of strategies for reproduction. Over time, flowers have become the very foundation of the food chain that supports life on Earth.

Click on a subject below and join us on a voyage to explore the wonders of this unique and magnificent entity.