Floriography Jewelry

Traditional European and American gardens that provided herbs, flowers, and edibles for the household developed, by Victorian times, in to personal plant dictionaries. Little bouquets, or nosegays, had been carried as fashion accessories as well as for fragrance, which were helpful during times when bathing was not a regular part of life. Victorians, discreet to a fault, were fascinated by the idea of communicating in secret code, an exotic legend dating back to an eighteenth

My interest in the Victorian Language of Flowers began with an obsession with my garden (see below), attending and planning every detail. And when I wasn’t in the garden or pouring over books or plant catalogs, I wanted to be in an antique store, losing myself in some dusty but charming and beautiful past. I’m compelled by everything that fascinated the Victorians- cottage life, flower parts, how insects really seem to be fairies; Alice and Wonderland, the power of imaginatio