Flower talk again....

[fajrdrako]

acampbell said she didn't mind that I was going on about the subject, so I thought I'd take the liberty of decoding the flowers of her dodecal in my LJ here. The docecal is at svdodecals, dated yesterday, Say It With Flowers.

In the dodecal, Lex talks about fennel and columbines. I didn't check Shakespeare and I don't quite remember what Ophelia says except of course 'rosemary, that's for remembrance", which Clark quotes. And 'wear your rue with a difference'. Nice phrases.

Anyway, I saw fennel listed as "flattery" at one website and "worthy of all praise" at another. Columbines = "folly".

In the dodecal Lex then gives Clark a hand-picked bouquet, as follows:
red rose = "I love you"
yellow tulip = "perfect lover"
carnation = "lasting fidelity and love, fascination, pure love"

And mixed with it:
mock orange = "deceit"

Did I get the puzzle right, Alison?

I found the best site was Comfy Country Creations Flower Language Dictionary. It's where I found most of the above.

You can get really elaborate with roses, depending on the colour and the number of stems in a bouquet.