Tag: Flower customs

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

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

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

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

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

In certain parts of England there is a centuries old floral tradition of well dressing. Well dressing almost certainly dates back to pagan times, when