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Language of flowers – cryptological communication through the use or arrangement of flowers; Hanakotoba, also known as 花言葉 – Japanese form of the language of flowers; List of national flowers – flowers that represent specific geographic areas
The name of the flower likely comes from an Old English poem by John Gay about a woman by that name. It probably came over during Colonial times, when the settlers sewed the wildflower on the ...
English writer Penelope Fitzgerald's historical novel The Blue Flower is based on Novalis's early life. [7] In John le Carré 's 1968 novel A Small Town in Germany , the character Bradfield says, "I used to think I was a Romantic, always looking for the blue flower" (Pan edition, p. 286 – chap. 17).
'Wife of Bath' has old-fashioned medium-sized flowers with an average diameter of 7 centimetres (2.8 in), and up to 55 petals. [5] They develop from red round buds, and have a strong, sweet fragrance of myrrh. The slightly cupped bloom form is double to very full with many small, informally arranged petals in the middle of the flower.
When Moore got home, she checked out the card — and saw her new boyfriend's ex-wife's name on the card. The flowers were for her birthday, according to the very sweet card.
Blodeuwedd (Welsh pronunciation: [blɔˈdeiwɛð]; Welsh "Flower-Faced", a composite name from blodau "flowers" + gwedd "face"), [1] is married to Lleu Llaw Gyffes in Welsh mythology. She was made from the flowers of broom , meadowsweet and oak by the magicians Math and Gwydion , and is a central figure in Math fab Mathonwy , the last of the ...
The Strobilanthes, a shrub whose brilliant white flowers blossom for only a few days once every ten or twelve years, blanketing the slopes in radiant whiteness under the sun. This event of jubilation and purity symbolizes the frenzy of a sudden love shared, in concert with the unleashed forces of nature: the amorous dance of peacocks, their ...