There's a 'chicken or egg' 'which came first?' riddle behind this game from This Then That. There's little doubt tho' that it's Elaine Shinwell's beautiful botanical drawings that are at the heart of Florilegium. Designer James Hitchmough was inspired by the art and has built a 2-4 player card game around it.
Florilegium comprises a deck of large-format cards, each of which shows the drawing of a plant, a points value and one or more 'seasons'. Players each start with a row of five face-down cards in front of them, and it's the position on this row that corresponds to each of the seasons. From your hand of cards, you either discard a card or place a card in its appropriate season. If you are placing it on a face-down card, that card is flipped and discarded. If that season already has a face-up card in place, your new card goes on top, but you can only play it if its value is higher than the card already there. You draw a card at the start of your turn, and that can either be the face-down card on the top of the draw deck or the face-up card on top of the discard pile.
The rules suggest playing over three rounds. A round ends when either the draw pile is exhausted or when a player has no cards left in hand. The aim is to have the lowest score at the end of a round. When a round ends, any remaining face-down cards in your five season tableau are flipped. Your score is the total value of all the cards in your hand plus the total of the five cards on the top of each of your five seasons - except that when two or more of these are duplicates, then they count as zero.
This then is a light hand management game that plays quickly: rounds usually run to around 10 minutes. You need high-scoring cards to be able to play onto cards already in your seasons row but you want to end up with matching cards so that their scores get zeroed, and you certainly don't want to be caught with high-scoring cards in your hand when the round ends. There's much nervous glancing at the draw pile as players try to estimate how long they have before the end of a round. And it's not always wise to dump those high-value cards to the discard pile because the card you are junking might be just what an opponent needs to zero their high-scorer...
But at the end of the day, Florilegium is all about the art.