The Endearing Language of Flowers
Fascination with flowers has captivated, and charmed people throughout the world. They represent a form of life that has both challenged and delighted people down through the centuries. Their diversity in colors, forms, scents, and uses, have fascinated generations of admirers and enthusiasts alike. 
Flowers have been the perfect form of expression, when words were hard to find. The language of flowers is a language of love, endearment, and respect. The true popularity of flowers lies in their ability to bring joy, and good cheer.
The first flowering plants found were tiny herb-like flower fossils dating back 120 million years. According to scientists, today over 270,000 species of flowers have been documented and are living in the twenty-first century. Scientists continue to marvel over the amazing diversity of species, and yet many species have not evolved much down through the years. They are also amazed at how flowers have coevolved with their pollination friends.
The flower is the reproductive organ of a plant. It is the job of the flower to produce seeds through pollination, and fertilization. Pollination requires animals (bees, hummingbirds, etc.), wind, or water to transfer male pollen to the female ovule. After a flower is fertilized, it develops into a fruit containing seeds. These seeds are the next generation, and serve as the means by which species of plants are dispersed across a field. Cross breeding can occur, and this leads to the enormous diversities seen today.
The alluring nature of flowers has made them:
- The subjects of folklore, and poetry.
- Their medicinal use has been embraced by the east for centuries.
- A flower’s fragrance is its personality, a beautiful bouquet of scents that permeate even the worst form of pollution.
- Flowers have been associated with religious symbolism, for example, the lily signifying purity.
- The diversity of shapes and colors makes them the perfect decoration, and the perfect gift. The likelihood of two people having the same color, shape arrangement is very remote.
- Edible flowers have been used in the culinary field for flavor and garnish for many years.
Flowers and bouquets of flowers have a meaning of their own. Most of us know that a dozen red roses means, “Be mine”. But did you know, for example, that a primrose means, “I can’t live without you”, or that a purple hyacinth means, “Please forgive me”, or that a pink carnation means, “I’ll never forget you”, or that a gladiolus means, “give me a break”?
Have you heard the language of flowers? In Victorian times it was a way to state your case with flowers. Many an aspiring beau used flowers to let their beloved know exactly where they stood (or wanted to stand). A trifling bouquet could keep a flagging relationship off the rocky shoals of separation. Many a girlish tiff with one’s best forever friend was patched and mended with a fragrant bouquet. I hope we can bring this endearing practice back.
It is clear that flowers do have a very endearing language. A language that is universal, without borders. A language that contains no negativity; nor prejudice. An unconditional way of expressing a feeling so deep, that words could never convey the true meaning. Regardless of the situation, the sight of a flower will always solicit a smile, and a sense of warmth.
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