Love Songs from the Garden - Say it With Flowers

everyone's approval, then find yourself a spider flower (cleome, an annual easily started from seed and perhaps available already at nurseries with their own greenhouses.) What do they ask? "Elope with me?"

Love Stage 4: Love Letters in the Soil
True love never runs smooth - or so the Gene Pitney song so popular in my youth assured me. All kinds of things can go wrong. Distance. Rivals. A simple waning of affection. What can you say when these occur?

Perhaps it's distance. You're away at one college, he at another; your job took you away from the one you love. Whatever it is, first send an azalea plant asking your loved one to "take care of yourself for me." You may want to follow that with a red carnation saying "my heart aches for you," or a pink one assuring them that "I'll never forget you." A sprig of myrtle shows your "love in absence." You must make your loved one fee cherished even if you cannot be together constantly.

And you can always rely once more on the messages you sent in stage two. Pansies and forget-me-nots and dahlias and honeysuckles assure your absent one that you are devoted and that they are in your thoughts.

Stage Five A: Slip-Sliding Away

Whether you are absent or present, love changes. If you are fortunate, you will never need the rest of this language of flowers. But just in case, here are some floral messages to use when you find that your love is a troubled one. If you are feeling uncertain than a gift of Helleborus niger (The Christmas rose) will beg your dearly beloved to "tranquilize my anxiety."

Perhaps you think the object of your affection has been a tad unfaithful. Send a yellow carnation to show that you know you have been "slighted in love." It also means "You have disappointed me." Or try yellow hyacinths if you want your jealousy to be apparent. Marigolds also mean jealousy but go a bit further and speak of hatred. Not quite there yet? Show your perplexity. Send nigella (love in a mist, an early blooming annual) to convey your perplexity.

If you're the doormat type who prefers not to fight, send grass (the green stuff for lawns, not the illegal stuff). It shows your absolute submission to your fate. Or try a bit of black magic. Hyssop blooms are said to ward off evil

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