Posts Tagged ‘Flower customs’
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Celebrities love flowers
If you had millions to spend wouldn’t you buy more flowers? Elton John spent £293,000 on flowers between January 1996 and September 1997. In a court case in 2000 lawyer ...
Dreaming of a Green Christmas
These days we all try our best to be eco-friendly and lessen our carbon footprints. Real Christmas trees absorb as much carbon when growing as they emit when decomposing and ...
Jersey: Battle of the Flowers
An annual flower festival has been held on the Channel Island of Jersey annually for over a hundred years with just a few non celebrated years by reason of war ...
Flower pots planted before Beijing Olympics
Gardeners in Beijing are working furiously to plant 40 million flowers throughout the city in preparation for the 2008 Summer Olympics in August.
Workers are expected to plant 5 million pots ...
Ideas of a traditional time – Bring back the past!
Once upon a time, a young lady prepared for her prom evening. The dress, the shoes, the hair and the make up were considered individually and with ...
Flowers in Medicine
Back in mediaeval times medicine and witchcraft were not too far apart. Some of the treatments in use then were found in more modern times to have a genuine therapeutic ...
Coutumes Francaises de Fleur
- Le 14 février : La St Valentin: période dite “des amoureux†pendant laquelle il est d’usage d’offrir des fleurs a sa compagne (des roses rouges généralement).
- Le dimanche ...
Odds on favourite!
Here are some more flower customs and superstitions that it could be useful to know about.
Let’s get down to numbers. In some countries it is customary to give an ...
Floral traditions: May Day
The first day of the month of May is known as May Day. It is the time of year when warmer weather begins and flowers and trees start to blossom. ...
Floral Traditions – The language of flowers
In Victorian times the sending of coded love messages became a popular craze. The advantage was that you could flirt without there being any incriminating evidence.
In 1884 a whole book ...
