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For this bonus round, we're looking for prompts inspired by plant/flower symbolism and the language(s) of flowers!

Here are some resources on flower meanings:
Script Florist
Farmer's Almanac
Wikipedia: Hanakotoba
Wikipedia: Plant Symbolism

This round will end on July 1st.

Fills can be in any format, and you can fill your teammates prompts, but you cannot fill your own prompt.

You can post as many fills and as many prompts as you want!

for your prompt post title, please use the following format:

PROMPT: TEAM [TEAM NAME]

for your fill post title, please use the following format:

FILL: TEAM [TEAM NAME]

POINTS - BONUS ROUNDS
For prompts: 10 points each (maximum of 150 prompt points per team per round)
For fills:
First 4 fills by any member of your team: 100 points each
Fills 5-10: 50 points each
Fills 11-20: 40 points each
Fills 21-50: 30 points each
Fills 51+: 25 points each

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From:

static_prevails

"In the language of flowers, the snowdrop is synonymous with 'hope' (and the goddess Persephone's/Proserpina's return from Hades), as it blooms in early springtime, just before the vernal equinox, and so, is seen as 'heralding' the new spring and new year." (from Wikipedia)

Edited Date: 2024-06-26 03:47 am (UTC)

From:

static_prevails

"In common parlance, the phrase 'the primrose path' implies the thoughtless pursuit of pleasure, especially when it is seen to bring disastrous consequences. The original allusion is a reference in Shakespeare's Hamlet to 'the primrose path of dalliance'." (from Wikipedia)

From:

static_prevails

"In Sussex and Devonshire superstition, yarrow was used for finding one's real sweetheart. [...] In a similar tradition in Wicklow, girls would pick yarrow on Hallow Eve and recite:

Thou pretty herb of Venus' tree,
Thy true name is yarrow;
Now who my bosom friend may be,
Pray tell thou me to-morrow.

then retire for the night without speaking and go to sleep with an ounce of yarrow sewn in flannel under the pillow." (from Wikipedia)

From:

agentblurr

My apologies because this prompt comes at the topic a little sideways (and is most likely a prompt for another specific nerd like me but):

The Victorians were absolutely nerds themselves over flower language, so how about a Victorian AU where they discuss the topic and/or receive/send flowers?

Here is an example of a guidebook from 1850 that has been digitized and is free to read.

From:

agentblurr

"From me to you" - the dedication on this copy of The Language of Flowers published by Ernest Nister in 1850. (Scroll up to see the dedication, the reader view skips to the inner title page.)

From:

agentblurr

Yellow acacia - secret love.

From this copy of The Language of Flowers published by Ernest Nister in 1850.

Edited Date: 2024-06-28 02:02 am (UTC)

From:

agentblurr

Cabbage - profit. (I laughed reading this one.)

From this copy of The Language of Flowers published by Ernest Nister in 1850.

Edited Date: 2024-06-28 02:03 am (UTC)

From:

agentblurr

Wild tansy - I declare war against you.

From this copy of The Language of Flowers published by Ernest Nister in 1850.

Edited Date: 2024-06-28 02:03 am (UTC)

From:

missiletoe

Nightshade - poisonous flower so... toxic yuri anyone?

From:

agentblurr

“In some Native languages the term for plants translates to “those who take care of us.”

-From Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teaching of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

From:

agentblurr

“The trees act not as individuals, but somehow as a collective. Exactly how they do this, we don’t yet know. But what we see is the power of unity. What happens to one happens to us all. We can starve together or feast together.”

-From Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teaching of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer