Sunday, November 26, 2017

Pansy forbidden love flowers

pansy - piensamiento


Because its name means "thought", the pansy was chosen as a symbol of Freethought.


In the language of flowers, a honeyflower and a pansy left by a lover for his beloved means "I am thinking of our forbidden love". The writer James Shirley Hibberd wrote that the French custom of giving a bride a bouquet of pansies (thoughts) and marigolds (cares) symbolized the woes of domestic life rather than marital bliss


American pioneers thought that “a handful of violets taken into the farmhouse in the spring ensured prosperity, and to neglect this ceremony brought harm to baby chicks and ducklings.

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