{"id":159451,"date":"2015-04-12T15:31:28","date_gmt":"2015-04-12T15:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/04\/12\/thursdayplaid-clumsyoctopus-flower-language-has\/"},"modified":"2015-04-12T15:31:28","modified_gmt":"2015-04-12T15:31:28","slug":"thursdayplaid-clumsyoctopus-flower-language-has","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/04\/12\/thursdayplaid-clumsyoctopus-flower-language-has\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

thursdayplaid<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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clumsyoctopus<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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flower language has always been an intense source of disappointment for me<\/p>\n

like, they all mean really generic things like \u201clove\u201d or \u201cforever\u201d or \u201ci\u2019m sorry\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

i thought you could combine flowers<\/p>\n

like you could just send someone a bouquet and from the combination of hibiscus and posies and tulips they\u2019d understand \u201cthe rebel leader is dead, rendezvous at the docks at 8, bring the dog, you will need lighter fluid and \u00a0a large tomato\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I really hope no one\u2019s answered this for you yet, I saw this and got so excited that my obscure knowledge base might come into use.\u00a0 I had to stretch a few flowers so to speak but Victorian flower language allows for alteration in meaning depending on colour, fruit, flower, bud, steam, leaves and thorns, so I didn\u2019t feel I was too far out of line.\u00a0 This message would work best as two bouquets bound together.\u00a0 First red Nasturtium with no leaves<\/b> (red denotes a leader, the nasturtium a patriot) mixed with white or red Mask Flowers<\/b> (rebellion, red if you want to emphasize fighting, white martyrdom) around Cypress<\/b> (death).\u00a0 Then Chick weed<\/b> (rendezvous) and\u00a0Blue Convolvulus<\/b> (night) surrounded by eight White Popular Leaves<\/b> (symbolises the time: eight), Yellow Iris<\/b> (flame, and a flower that grows by rivers) and Yellow Prarie Dock Flowers<\/b> (this was closest I could find to docks)and one large Tomato Leaf, <\/b>all bound in Dogwood Bark.\u00a0<\/b> Dogwood represents deceit, but as far as I could find the bark wasn\u2019t used symbolically, and as you referred to the <\/i>dog instead of a dog, I thought it was likely the pun should be a dead giveaway. \u00a0<\/p>\n

So there\u2019s your rebel message!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

thursdayplaid: clumsyoctopus: flower language has always been an intense source of disappointment for me like, they all mean really generic things like \u201clove\u201d or \u201cforever\u201d or \u201ci\u2019m sorry\u201d\u00a0 i thought you could combine flowers like you could just send someone a bouquet and from the combination of hibiscus and posies and tulips they\u2019d understand \u201cthe … <\/p>\n

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