Gardener Gwen Stefani’s New Album Named “Bouquet”

By Jill Brooke

Maybe because she loves gardening,  Gwen Stefani’s new album is inspired by flowers.

Her fifth studio album will be named “Bouquet.”

It will be released in “full bloom” as Stefani says, November 15. But it is also available on her on-line store, including a limited edition sky blue vinyl.

Among the songs inspired by blooms are “Empty Vase,” “Marigolds,” “Late to Bloom” and “Purple Irises.” The last song was one she performed with her husband Blake Shelton last February.  The lyrics include “No, I Never Knew a Love Like This. Now We’re Picking Purple Irises.”

Gwen Stefani and Shelton married in 2021 after meeting as coaches on “The Voice” in 2015.

As Shelton told People magazine, since marrying Gwen Stefani in 2021, he has “shelled out a small fortune on flower seeds.”

In the story, the musical couple reveals how they have grown multiple gardens’ worth of zinnias and sunflowers, and the Icelandic lilies are still a work in progress.

“We go way over-the-top,” Shelton. “It’s embarrassing how much we spend on seeds. Besides music, gardening has been our biggest bonding activity.”

And now people can bond over how flowers inspire her music, as it does for many musical artists. As Dr. Oliver Sacks once said, flowers and music are the only two natural ingredients that soothe the soul and calm nerves as well as inspires joy. Seems that Stefani is just a girl who loves flowers like the rest of us.

Jill Brooke is a former CNN correspondent, Post columnist and editor-in-chief of Avenue and Travel Savvy magazine. She is an author and the editorial director of FPD and a contributor to Florists Review magazine. She also won the 2023 AIFD (American Institute of Floral Designers.) Merit Award for showing how flowers impact history, news and culture.

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