Tell Me A Story: Language of FLowers

Tuesday, July 12, 2016

LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS

Mary Marcia
America's STORYTELLER
Telling Untold Stories in Photographs, Prose and Public Speaking

Link: http://tellmeastory-marcia.blogspot.com/2016/07/language-of-flowers.html

I found a love letter written in pink chalk on cement stairs at the Sunken Gardens in Lincoln, Nebraska.

The sunken gardens in Lincoln are take-your-breath-away beautiful.

What a wonderful place for lovers.

The language of flowers developed in the 1600's, in Constantinople and in the poetry of Persia.

Charles II introduced the Persian poetry to Europe. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu brought the flower language from Turkey to England in 1716.

It spread to France and became a handbook of 800 floral messages known as the Book Le Language des Fleurs.

Lovers exchanged messages as they gave each other selected flowers or bouquets.

A full red rose meant beauty.

Red and white roses meant unity.

Crocus said "abuse not."

White rosebud warns one is too young for love.

Yellow roses were for jealousy.

Yellow iris was for passion.

Filbert was for reconciliation

and

ivy for marriage.

When my daughter, Faith, along with some of her teammates on the Kansas City Blazers, had the opportunity to train with Coach Pablo Morales at the University of Nebraska: I explored Lincoln.

Read more about Pablo Morales, Olympian, and one of the greatest male swimmers in USA history: http://www.huskers.com/ViewArticle.dbml?ATCLID=3250

I discovered an amazing sunken garden in Lincoln, located at 27th and Capital Parkway.

This 1.5 acre lot was first developed in 1930, and recently renovated in 2004. It's the only Nebraska garden listed in the “300 Best Gardens to Visit

in the United States and Canada”

by National Geographic Guide to Public Gardens.

"Let us be grateful to people

who make us happy;

they are the charming gardeners

who make our souls blossom."

Marcel Proust

French novelist, critic, and essayist

Thanks for stopping by!

Come back often, and bring a friend!

Mary Marcia
America's STORYTELLER
Telling Untold Stories in Photographs, Prose and Public Speaking

Saturday, September 28, 2013

R O S E S

Marcia Norwood
America's STORYTELLER
Telling Untold Stories in Photographs, Prose and Public Speaking

Rose Harvest at Norwood Gardens

Knock-out roses begin blooming in spring, and continue blooming until the snowfalls here in Missouri. I cut roses (Knock-out, Hybrid tea, and Climbers) from April until as late as December.

Armed with
scissors,
garden shears
and
garden gloves -
I cut rose
blossoms and
hips, (the fruit of the rose),
and collect them in baskets.

Roses dry in baskets, and on open weave fabric/cloths on the counter.

"God gave us memory
so that we might have roses in December."

James Matthew Barrie (1860-1937)

Scottish Dramatist and Novelist best known as the creator of Peter Pan

"It will never rain roses:

when we want to have more roses

we must plant more trees."

George Eliot (1819-1880)

English Victorian Novelist,Pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans

"Truth and roses have thorns about them."

Henry David Thoreau

"Marriage is like life.

It is a field of battle, not a bed of roses."

Robert Louis Stevenson

"There is nothing more difficult

for a truly creative painter

than to paint a rose,

because before he can do so

he has first to forget all the roses

that were ever painted."

Henri Matisse (1869-1954)

Artist regarded as the most important French Painter of the 20th century.

Yellow roses were used to convey happiness,

light,

friendship and

new beginnings

in ancient times.

Although In 18th century Europe, the message of a yellow rose changed to something a little darker.

By the 20th century the most accepted message moved back to something joyful.

Mixing yellow roses with other colors carries significance:

CLICK on the link below or COPY & PASTE the link in your browser:

http://www.ehow.com/about_6618897_meaning-yellow-rose_.html

CLICK on each photograph to enlarge.

The rose is a flower of love.

The world has acclaimed it for centuries.

Pink roses are for love hopeful and expectant.

White roses are for love dead or forsaken,
But the red roses,

Ah - the red roses are for love triumphant.
A yellow rose means true friendship.

Give her two roses

(one red and one yellow)
each with a note.

The first note (with red rose) says:
"For the woman I love."

The second (with yellow rose):
"For my best friend."

Thanks for stopping by!

Come back often, and bring a friend!

Marcia Norwood
America's STORYTELLER
Telling Untold Stories in Photographs, Prose and Public Speaking

Tell Me A Story

TELL ME A STORY

Tuesday, July 12, 2016

LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS

Saturday, September 28, 2013

R O S E S

AMERICA'S STORYTELLER, Marcia Norwood