Flowers Do Have Power
"No, I don't like those. No, they look like weeds. I hate that colour, put it back." My husband wearily pushed the trolley around the nursery as I tried to select flowers for our window boxes. "This nursery has the ugliest plants." I said with frustration. "You're treating this like they might be the last flowers you ever buy. Just pick some and we can go home." he growled. We spotted new arrivals on a trolley and rapidly ransacked it of snapdragons and other pretty things that satisfied my attractive flower criteria.
It's a scientific fact that the presence of flowers makes women feel good. This means having a bunch of them smiling at you while you're elbow deep in washing up water might make the whole experience more pleasurable. And I think it does.
But there are flowers that I believe, scientifically are yet to be proven to do quite the opposite. And this is all because I hate Bougainvillea. Perhaps its all subconscious. After all its a common plant in my home town - a place known for being primarily inhabited by 'bogans'. Ah, the irony. This plant is a thorny, creepy, wild looking thing with flowers in garish shades of fuschia. The blossoms look like clusters of leaves posing as flowers and it grows to monstruous sizes - why it isn't classified as a weed I really don't know. Gardeners treasure it for the plants ability to keep intruders out - another useful quality in a town full of thieving, fence-jumping bogans.
When we were looking at our house I said, "I really don't like it but I think that's because there is a great big bougainvillea plant growing in the front yard." After waging battle with a chainsaw, the blight on our landscape was gone and I was delighted to move in. I'm sure the postman was equally delighted as the branches were overhanging the letterbox, threatening to stab him in the eye.
To add some sort of scientific weight to my argument, I've got a little book from a century past called "The Language of Flowers". It tells you the peculiar attributes a flower represents. Not all flowers have happy dispositions. The yellow carnation represents "disdain" and the Japan Rose communicates, "beauty is your only attraction". There is no rationale provided in this tome however from the extensive range of flowering plants that cover both trees, vegetables and herbs, someone has gone to some trouble in deciding how flowers make you feel.
And even if the book is a work of fancy, I know that different flowers make you feel different ways so either way, when you 'say it with flowers' you are actually saying a quite a lot. And the effect those flowers might have on the recipient might go far beyond what you ever imagined.
Hand someone a Wild Tansy for instance, and you've just declared war on them.
It's a scientific fact that the presence of flowers makes women feel good. This means having a bunch of them smiling at you while you're elbow deep in washing up water might make the whole experience more pleasurable. And I think it does.
But there are flowers that I believe, scientifically are yet to be proven to do quite the opposite. And this is all because I hate Bougainvillea. Perhaps its all subconscious. After all its a common plant in my home town - a place known for being primarily inhabited by 'bogans'. Ah, the irony. This plant is a thorny, creepy, wild looking thing with flowers in garish shades of fuschia. The blossoms look like clusters of leaves posing as flowers and it grows to monstruous sizes - why it isn't classified as a weed I really don't know. Gardeners treasure it for the plants ability to keep intruders out - another useful quality in a town full of thieving, fence-jumping bogans.
When we were looking at our house I said, "I really don't like it but I think that's because there is a great big bougainvillea plant growing in the front yard." After waging battle with a chainsaw, the blight on our landscape was gone and I was delighted to move in. I'm sure the postman was equally delighted as the branches were overhanging the letterbox, threatening to stab him in the eye.
To add some sort of scientific weight to my argument, I've got a little book from a century past called "The Language of Flowers". It tells you the peculiar attributes a flower represents. Not all flowers have happy dispositions. The yellow carnation represents "disdain" and the Japan Rose communicates, "beauty is your only attraction". There is no rationale provided in this tome however from the extensive range of flowering plants that cover both trees, vegetables and herbs, someone has gone to some trouble in deciding how flowers make you feel.
And even if the book is a work of fancy, I know that different flowers make you feel different ways so either way, when you 'say it with flowers' you are actually saying a quite a lot. And the effect those flowers might have on the recipient might go far beyond what you ever imagined.
Hand someone a Wild Tansy for instance, and you've just declared war on them.
"I declare war against you."
