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Floral Mixtape: How to Say ‘You Bring Me Joy’ in the Victorian Language of Flowers

We first stumbled onto the Victorian language of flowers while we were planning our wedding in 2008: lavender roses for “pure love,” tuberoses for “sweet voices,” etc., etc. (Three- to five-year-old nephews walking down the aisle with delicate vines of ivy to symbolize fidelity, though=Better...

21 January, 2014 / 0 Comments
How to Say “You’re Cute!” (or, “Let’s Pretend That Never Happened”) in the Victorian Language of Flowers

As my on-again-off-again Tumblr page will attest, we’re big into the Victorian language of flowers. Especially when it’s applied to modern living; who can resist a tussie-mussie (i.e. small bouquet) of rue, campion, Provence rose, strawflower and buckbean that essentially says, “Chill out, you ambassador...

13 February, 2013 / 0 Comments

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