Widow's Tears (38 page)

Morning glory:
bound by love, sustained by bonds of affection

Mugwort:
safe travels, insightful dreams

Oak:
hospitality

Parsley:
feast and abundance, joy, victory; “The woman rules the household”

Phlox:
“We think alike”

Prickly pear:
satire, sarcasm, irony

Rose, red:
“May you ever be pure and lovely”

Rosemary:
remembrance, loyalty, faithfulness until death

Santolina:
protection against bad things

Sunflower:
pride, haughtiness, lofty thoughts

Sweet Annie (
Artemisia annua
):
absence

Sweet bay (bay laurel):
consistency, constancy; “I change only in death”

Sweet pea:
delicate pleasure

Tansy:
life everlasting, immortality, hostile thoughts

Verbena:
enchantment

Vinca:
friendship, binding affection

Violet:
love, faithfulness, loyalty

White poppy:
forgetting, consolation, a sleep of the heart

Widow's tears:
grief

Wisteria:
“I cling to you”

Yarrow:
foretelling the future, cure for heartache

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