“A life with love will have some thorns, but a life without love will have no roses.”
The rose is known as the queen of flowers. The white rose represents simplicity or happy love, the white rose is for innocence and purity, the yellow rose means perfect achievement and sometimes jealousy and the red rose signifies passion and sensual desire or shame and occasionally blood and sacrifice.
The name iris is the Greek word for the rainbow. They were planted on women’s graves.
In the last century in England, a bunch of violets worn around the neck or in the lapel protected against drunkenness.
Some species of flowers are considered unlucky in many parts of the world, particularly when brought into the house.
In Surrey the first primrose into the house meant sickness and sorrow.
In Norfolk, lilac was considered unlucky.
Red and white flowers in the same vase were unlucky, and even today some nurses will not have these flowers in the same vase on a ward.
Blue and orange flowers were welcome in homes and hospitals as these colours calm the nerves.
Honeysuckle, if brought into the house brought bad luck in Wales but foretold a wedding in Somerset.
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