Inspiration: Lovely Phalaenopsis Orchids

I am having a seriously love affair with orchids. For me, it is the most perfect winter bloom. We get them as plants to sit in the sun and we cut stems upon stems to tuck into bouquets. 

ORCHID SYMBOLISM

We often associate the white orchid with innocence, beauty, wealth and elegance. Orchids are also considered symbols of love because of the fact that the plants grow easily, and bloom under most conditions. During the Victorian era, it was a custom to gift exotic and rare flowers to show love and affection. It was even believed that rarer the flower you chose as a gift, deeper was your love. In parts of Europe, orchids were used as a key ingredient in love potions.

What better bloom to pair with roses to express your love this Valentine's Day!

LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS

ORCHID - Love; Beauty; Refinement; Beautiful Lady; Chinese Symbol for Many Children

PALM LEAVES - Victory and Success

ROSES Bouquet of Full Bloom - Gratitude

ROSE White - Innocence and Secrecy

ROSE Yellow - Joy, Friendship

Roses Vs Orchids - Poem by Menash Mohan Shrestha

The wilting orchids are always eclipsed.

Amongst the bouquet of ostentatious roses.

Derelict epiphytes finding their life in cracks and crevasses.

But the lover's choices finding their life in zillion hearts.

The dichotomy of the collision between the two existence.

Too quite to understand and too loud to ignore.

 

The Orchids - Poem by Zhulduz Baizakova

I

Where the poems are born from? 

From the Orchid they are

Discharged by the Anguish asleep

That burns deeply the armour

Up to the bones naked seen

And the hand of the Loneliness

Feeds the shadows

Whose petals are sick

And too carmine

Shall the Orchid too sleep? 

II

Tender roots of the Orchid

That is scarlet as blood

Shape the sculpture

Of rare reflection

From the transcendent seconds 

That pass

Just enough

Just to glance

At the sunset departing

Followed by the shadows

Whose nature is lilac? 

Cast upon snowy winter

That longs for the Sun

Inside black fiery lashes

Of the frozen tomorrow.