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Victorian flower languages! Kombucha! The View!by Chase BurnsRed roses mean "true love." Buckbeans mean "calm repose." Wild tansy means "this is war."KATI LACKER
1. Victorian Flower Languages
In my piece on romantic customs for The Stranger's Valentine’s Day issue, I slipped down a deep and winding rabbit hole about how people in different cultures use flowers to communicate. Expanding on a practice started by Turkish concubines, the famously fastidious (and also famously horny) Victorians