Plants and their superstitions?

and death!

I recall getting roundly trounced by a ward sister for making a beautiful arrangement of flowers but they were red and white and she was furious and horrified. A lot of old(er) patients would almost give up the ghost if you put such an arrangement on their locker!

BTW - I just realised that if I manage to struggle on for another 25 months, I'll have been nursing for 50 years!!!! No wonder I feel tired!

 

The ban on arranging red and white flowers together does seem to be very wide. I've heard stories from hospitals and hotels where matrons and major domos have bawled out staff who broke the rule. Yes, it is supposed to go back to the Wars of the Roses, but after the war, the white rose of York was combined with the red rose of Lancaster to make the Tudor rose. Very odd survivor if it goes that far back. Still Shakespeare did write that the Wars of the Roses
"Shall send between the red rose and the white,
A thousand souls to death and deadly night."

 

So where does that leave "Rosa Mundi" (red and white striped?

 

Yes and I'm not dead yet! I grow the red rose and the white one with Rosa Mundi in between them - sort of peace making Tudor combi! Hope to be able to get some photos in a day or two.

 

Strangely you should mention red & white/death, one year a very good friend of mine died and I took flowers to the cemetary - 2 white roses and one red.

I know that roses on their own - red is for love and white for spiritual love.

 

Yellow is forsaken