The exchange of flowers between lovers and at weddings dates back through time immemorial. The phenomenon of ‘Floriography’ has a resonance down the ages, from biblical times to the 19th century Victorian era where a renaissance in the carrying of wedding flowers and the wearing of a white gown became fashionable again.
Lovers would send and receive flowers that had significant meaning in their cryptic message: which in an era of strict conservatism, allowed them to express, where it could not be spoken, their covert feelings in the content of the bouquet received.