{"id":18620,"date":"2017-08-21T19:34:26","date_gmt":"2017-08-21T18:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=18620"},"modified":"2017-08-21T19:34:26","modified_gmt":"2017-08-21T18:34:26","slug":"floral-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/art-and-sculpture\/floral-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Floral Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18680\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/489px-Jan_Albertsz_Rotius_-_A_Four-year-old_Girl_with_a_Pot_of_Carnations_-_1663.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"489\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/489px-Jan_Albertsz_Rotius_-_A_Four-year-old_Girl_with_a_Pot_of_Carnations_-_1663.jpeg 489w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/489px-Jan_Albertsz_Rotius_-_A_Four-year-old_Girl_with_a_Pot_of_Carnations_-_1663-245x300.jpeg 245w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 489px) 100vw, 489px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This curious 19th century craze which engaged the hearts and fancies of the Victorians had no historical or mythological basis but became the fertile sand on which a folklore was built. Using images from the Lindley Library this intriguing display tells the story of popular 19th century code used by lovers to exchange messages.The snowdrop signified friendship and forget-me-nots meant true love, but a gift of a pumpkin or a gourd was considered the height of bad manners \u00e2\u20ac\u201c find out why &#8230; and discover much more by visiting the display at RHS Harlow Carr Library<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The Artistic Language of Flowers&#8217;, 1880, published by Meissner &amp; Buch, Leipzig \u00c2\u00a9 RHS Library Collections Digitised version from<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Artistic-Language-Flowers-illustrations\/dp\/B003ODHXSC\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1503339769&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=%27The+Artistic+Language+of+Flowers%27\"> Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This curious 19th century craze which engaged the hearts and fancies of the Victorians had no historical or mythological basis but became the fertile sand on which a folklore was built. Using images from the Lindley Library this intriguing display tells the story of popular 19th century code used by lovers to exchange messages.The snowdrop signified friendship and forget-me-nots meant true love, but a gift of a pumpkin or a gourd was considered the height of bad manners \u00e2\u20ac\u201c find&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/art-and-sculpture\/floral-language\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[285],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-and-sculpture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}