Floriography - The Secret Language of Flowers
- Feb 4
- 3 min read
Updated: Feb 11
Red roses. Valentine’s Day. Floral messaging that has no room for manoeuvre or misconstrue. Important, perhaps becasue our February 14th intentions need to be absolutely legible. Our designs and desires must have clarity and meaning. The red rose then, is a comfortably predictable symbol, bought and sold by the dozen. In fact, 250 million red roses are produced globally, for this day alone. Beautiful, classic, fully unmistakable. Even if we feel that a red rose is actually strangely blunt for something as nuanced as romantic love, it is a symbol of deep affection that is so well established and so well understood, that it is inconceivable that alternatives should even be discussed. So let's not go there...
