Yarrow is a beautiful flower that shares twin meanings of healing and love. In the language of flowers , Yarrow’s symbolic meaning is traditionally associated with healing, originating from ...

Not many ornamental flowers are quite as striking, in my opinion, as Gladiolli. Historically, the flowers have carried a variety of meanings associated with remembrance and infatuation. They are ...

In Victorian England, flowers were sometimes used as a form of coded communication to express feelings that could not be spoken aloud. Each bloom was said to have a specific meaning — for ...

Birth Month Flowers and Their Meanings January Birth Flower: Carnation. ... (yep, those old poem tropes are true!), ivory, white and yellow, as well as any combinations of those.

The flower became widely used starting in World War I thanks to a 1915 poem written by Canadian soldier Major John McCrae, "who saw firsthand from the front lines of World War I the emergence of ...

The Changing Meaning Of 'Home,' Described Through Poetry After a year of the pandemic, poet Tess Taylor highlights some poems reflecting on the changing meaning of "home" over the past few months.

Sultan Mehmed II, the conqueror of Istanbul, wrote of the flower in his poetry and the 16th century Ottoman ruler Suleiman the Magnificent is credited with its large-scale cultivation.

A Canadian physician penned a poem that inspired the Memorial Day connection to the poppy. Then an American professor wrote her own poem and promoted the flower as a symbol of remembrance ...