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Valentine's Day Season
💖 Red Roses – Deep, passionate love and devotion
💜 Purple Lilacs – First love and tender memories
🌿 Ivy – Fidelity and everlasting attachment
💗 Pink Camellia – Admiration and longing
💙 Forget-Me-Nots – True love and remembrance
🌸 Jasmine – Sensuality and grace
🤍 White Lily of the Valley – Sweetness and a return to happiness
~ A Victorian Love bouquet
Say it with flowers? Say it with crypto-chrysanthemums! The secret language of blooms has whispered hidden messages for centuries, weaving its way through cultures like a fragrant code waiting to be deciphered. This art of floriography, or communicating through flowers, blossomed into high fashion during the Victorian era, when a simple bouquet could speak volumes in a society where certain words were left unspoken.
Inspired by floral symbolism from the Turkish court of Constantinople, 18th- and 19th-century England and America saw an explosion of interest in this botanical cipher. Lovers, friends, and secret admirers exchanged carefully arranged nosegays—also called tussie-mussies—each bloom selected with precision to convey devotion, regret, admiration, or even a warning. Floral dictionaries became essential reading, helping Victorians decode each petal’s meaning.
From William Shakespeare’s poetic posies to Jane Austen’s garden whispers, the Brontë sisters’ moody bouquets to Frances Hodgson Burnett’s enchanted gardens, literature has long been entwined with the language of flowers. Even the Pre-Raphaelite painters wove symbolic blossoms into their masterpieces, turning each petal into poetry. Whether worn, gifted, or artfully arranged, these "talking bouquets" turned nature into a conversation—one that, even today, still speaks to the heart. 💜 💗 💙 💚 💐 💐 💐
The language of flowers, sometimes called floriography, is a means of cryptological communication through the use or arrangement of flowers. Meanings and magic has been attributed to flowers, plants, and trees for thousands of years, and some form of floriography has been practiced in traditional cultures throughout Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.
Interest in floriography increased in Victorian England and in the United States during the 19th century. Gifts of blooms, plants, and specific floral arrangements were used to send coded messages to the recipient, allowing the sender to express feelings which could not be spoken aloud in Victorian society.
Armed with floral dictionaries, Victorians often exchanged small "talking bouquets", called nosegays or tussie-mussies, which could be worn or carried as a fashion accessory.
Roses, particularly red roses, are a common Valentine's day offering with the meaning of "love." But other flowers can express sentiments ranging from misanthropy (Wolfsbane) to stupidity (Geranium).
For a facebook group devoted to the secret meanings and messaging of 19th Victorian Flower language, click the flower border.