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Patience, Confidence, Remembrance & Sanctuary

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Our back yard has lush green grass, a huge tree and bushes. The front yard has more grass, bushes and an orange tree. I have never actually tasted any of the oranges, but Lucas likes to collect the rotting ones that fall to the ground.

We buy all of our produce at the super market, albeit organic.

If given a plant in a pot, it would be dead within a month. I guarantee it.

For the past year I have purchased fresh flowers for our dining room table every other week. They range from bright cheerful sunflowers, my favorite flowers or crimson, pink or yellow roses, my birth month flower. Sometimes I’ll get Gerbera daisies or tulips because they both come in such a variety of colors, but I typically it’s a vase of sunflowers.

I have never given a lot of thought to the meaning behind flowers, until I saw this week’s Mama Kat’s Writer’s Workshop prompts. The first one grabbed me: What type of flowers would be in a bouquet that best describes you? and it not only spending a lot of time of the Teleflora Web site, but I am now also very interested in reading Vanessa Diffenbaugh’s book, The Language of Flowers.

A bouquet made up of the following flowers would best describe me: 

Aster because it is a symbol of patience, something I desperately need more of!

Blue flowers (of any kind), because they symbolize trustworthiness, confidence, intelligence and unity, all characteristics I believe I possess. Blue is also my favorite color.

Statice because it is the flower of remembrance.

Queen Anne’s Lace because it fills out bouquets nicely and represents sanctuary. My sanctuary has always been my home, preferably in my jammies with a toddler afoot. All images and flower meanings are from telefora.com.

This post was written for Mama Kat’s Writer’s Workshop, 1.) What type of flowers would be in a bouquet that best describes you? (inspired by Persipacity and the article Talking the language of Flowers)

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  3. Now I’m going to have to go and buy a whole bouquet of Aster’s they might help!
    But I never once thought of what a flower means, I like Poppies and Star Gazers….now I have to find out what those mean!

    • It’s such a pretty flower too… I’m going to look for some the next time I’m at the farmer’s market.

      Stargazer lilies are gorgeous flowers.

  6. I don’t know but I think that flowers representing qualities is silly–just something someone made up, kind of like those blogthing quizzes. I like flowers simply because they are pretty, the more colorful, the better!

    Stopping by from writer’s workshop.

    • Hi Karen! Knowing how you love books, I REALLY encourage you (and everyone) to read “The Language of Flowers.” Back in Victorian times, the flower chosen for one individual to give another could make or break a relationship. The author of the book did masterful job of weaving in this idea of the significance of flowers (and the love of all things floral/plantlike) to totally transform a life. I think you would like it!

    • I agree with you, but a lot of meanings have to do with the flowers history and origin, which is really interesting to me.

      Thanks so much for stopping by.

  7. Ooooh how I loved this Tonya! Your bouquet is beautiful just like your heart. (what a great exercise in knowing yourself) Plus I love gerber daises and sunflowers too….my all time favorite flowers. Sunflowers make me happy!

    • I really had fun with this prompt and learned a lot too.

      Sunflowers are my all time favorite…so bright and cheerful.

      Thank you for your kind words.

  8. What a nice job on this prompt!! I want to write to it but need to do a little research first (and Wednesday nights at our house are dominated by my teenager and I indulging in the train wreck that is Dance Moms so I lost my research time). I encourage you to read the book The Language of Flowers – it is phenomenal.

  9. That would be a gorgeous bouquet. I never really thought about the meanings of flowers before. Now I have to go look it up. Seeing the picture of Queen Anne’s Lace brought back so many childhood memories for me. It grows wild near our summer house in the Catskills and my sister and I would pick tons of it and other wildflowers before my dad mowed the lawn and make bouquets for my Oma and mom.

    • What a nice memory! Queen Anne’s Lace is beautiful. I had no idea that flowers had meaning so this was a lot of fun for me.

    • Thanks, Devan! I had a lot of fun with this one and learned a few things too. Hope all is well with you!

    • Thanks! I’m anxious to find all of my “character” flowers and have them grace my table one of these weeks. 🙂 I’ll share a photo when I do.

      Thanks for stopping by Letters For Lucas.

  19. What a sweet post! I haven’t done a Mama Kat’s writing assignment in so long that I forget that they are so sweet and fun to write sometimes.

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