Romantic Gentleman
In the Middle Ages, many flowers were
often used in the medicine of the time and
a ‘pocket full of posies’ was used to ward off
the deadly plague. In short, where there are
flowers, there is life. The life of a
relationship can be nurtured and created
with flowers and in this article, I shall
attempt to give you an insight into the
wonderful world of floriography and how
you can make the perfect romantic
statement with a perfect, special bouquet of
beautiful flowers, designed by you just for
your beloved. To help you with this, I shall
include a very whittled-down list of flowers
with their meanings at the end of the
article, so that you can have fun making up
a floral lexicon for your beloved. It might
even inspire you to grow your own garden
of love!
In order to set the scene a bit, I shall
attempt to give you a brief history of this
beautiful horticultural language.
Back in the 1900s, the Victorians used to
refer to the language of flowers as
Floriography, which essentially means
sending secret messages which were
forbidden to be said out loud at the time to
your beloved through the arrangement of
flowers. The lady who brought the language
of flowers to England in the year 1717 was
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762).
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