I promised in my last blog that I would share information and have a ‘flower of the month’.  Here’s a little information about the beautiful snowdrop.

Snowdrops were planted around convents in the middle ages,  as a symbol of the nun’s virginity. This seems quite in keeping with their country name of February Fair Maids and the white flower gives a very clear message of purity. Huge bunches were traditionally brought into the church at Candle mass, which appropriately is the Feast of the Purification of the Virgin.  

Specially hardened stems help the Snowdrop to push its buds and leaves up through the frozen ground, and to flower in what is still the cold, icy ‘death’ of winter, sometimes as early as January. Water is often used to symbolise the flow of the emotions. The drop-like  flower, hanging down, gives the image of tears of sadness in dark, frozen ‘wintry’ times of loss and grief. The strong energy of this flower essence can find it’s way through our hardened, held down feelings and give us ‘hope,’ which is its special meaning in the victorian language of flowers,  ’hope’ for the coming of spring, warmth and new life.

Another meaning in the language of flowers for Snowdrop  is ‘consolation’ and this essence can bring us comfort. Snowdrops are sterile, pure like the nuns,  and increase by producing mini bulbs, which are dispersed via flowing water or streams.  Taking this special flower brings release as our feelings gently melt,  and our emotions can again flow forward, like the tiny bulblets in the water,  into the future and  hope for new beginnings.

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