07/05/2022
THE MEANINGS OF FLOWERS
Every year, Daylily’s bloom on the week of my Grandmother’s birthday.
In time, I began to associate the common orange daylily as a reminder of my Grandmother, pulling me into presence and allowing a plant to connect me to her.
A walk through the gardens would have me thinking of her, and anticipating the opening — finally — of a bright orange bloom with pollen-dusted stamens.
How interesting, though, that to anyone else, they’d be a ditch flower.
As common as a w**d.
Flowers hold meaning. Inherently and associated. Through colour, seasonality, timing, scent and even touch, they have been used since time immortal to send a message or a sentiment when our language was not even yet formed.
I like to think that they connect us to each other, and the world at large with a language that is transcendental.
How lucky are we to enjoy them and all of the ways they speak to us? 💐
