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Glossa Hortensia
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Speak to me in flowers.
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MacNab - Rosehips
MacNeill - Bladder wrack
MacPherson - Variegated box
MacQuarrie - Blackthorn
MacRae - Fir club moss
Munroe - Eagle feathers
Menzies - Ash
Murray - Juniper
October 7, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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More updates from the last two days:
MacAllister - Bell heather
MacDonald - Bellflower
MacDonnell - Heather
MacFarlane - Cloudberry
MacGregor - Scots pine
MacIntosh - Box
MacKay - Bulrush
MacKenzie - Spikerush
MacKinnon - St John's wort
MacLachlan - Rowan
MacLean - Crowberry
MacLeod - Lingonberry
October 7, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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As of 1822 & George IV's visit to Scotland:
Buchanan - birch
Cameron - oak
Campbell - myrtle
Chisholm - alder
Colquhoun - hazel
Cumming - goat willow / sallow
Drummond - holly
Farquharson - purple foxglove
Ferguson - white poplar
Forbes - broom
Frazer - yew
Gordon - ivy

#plantemblems #scottishclans
September 26, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Here's the passage in full, drawn from the English translation available on Wikisource en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Con...
Quote from Rousseau: "Of these recollections I shall relate one example, which may give some idea of their force and precision. The first day we went to sleep at Charmettes, the way being up-hill, and Madam de Warrens rather heavy, she was carried in a chair, while I followed on foot. Fearing the chairmen would be fatigued, she got out about half-way, designing to walk the rest of it. As we passed along, she saw something blue in the hedge, and said, 'There's some periwinkle in flower yet!' I had never seen any before, nor did I stop to examine this: my sight is too short to distinguish plants on the ground, and I only cast a look at this as I passed [...]" Quote continued: "[A]n interval of near thirty years had elapsed before I saw any more periwinkle, at least before I observed it, when being at Cressier in 1764, with my friend, M. du Peyrou, we went up a small mountain, on the summit of which there is a level spot, called, with reason, Belle-vue, I was then beginning to herbalize;—walking and looking among the bushes, I exclaimed with rapture, 'Ah, there's some periwinkle!' Du Peyrou, who perceived my transport, was ignorant of the cause, but will some day be informed: I hope, on reading this, the reader may judge by this impression, made by so small an incident, what an effect must have been produced by every occurrence of that time."
September 22, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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This one comes from #jeanjacquesrousseau and his 1782 Les Confessions.
Pleasures of memory - The sentiment of pleasures of memory is drawn from a passage in Jean-Jacques Rousseau's 1782 autobiographical "Les Confessions", where Rousseau, out walking with a friend, has her point out the flower to him. Many years later, when he sees the periwinkles again, he recognises it and thinks of here. @glossahortensia
September 22, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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'La Bouquetière', M.L. Maleuvre, 1814.
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'Pour l'homme timide et discret
J'ai la modeste #violette;
J'ai le #narcisse et le #muguet
Pour le fat et pour la coquette.'

#poésie #langagedesfleurs
🜱 Glossa Hortensia / 'La Bouquetière'
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August 14, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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'Les Fleurs', P. Ledoux, 1807.
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'Le myrte chéri des Amours
Nous représente leur puissance,
Et le lierre, amoureux toujours,
Donne des leçons de constance.'

#poésie #langagedesfleurs
🜱 Glossa Hortensia / 'Les Fleurs'
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August 14, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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'Le Langage des Fleurs', M.A. Deville, 1809.
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'L'inconstante et folle Rosine
Prend les nuances de l'iris;
La sensible et douce Delphine
Préfère un charmant adonis.'

#poésie #langagedesfleurs
🜱 Glossa Hortensia / 'Le Langage des Fleurs'
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August 14, 2025 at 12:45 AM