Language of Flowers Selections - Snowdrops: Hope
~ Celia Thaxter
Snowdrops are one of the first flowers of the year and have been known to
push their
pure white blossoms up through the snow. The snowdrop means hope in the
Victorian
language of flowers and is the flower of the month for January. The common snowdrop, Galanthus nivalis, gets its name from the Greek gala, milk, and anthos, flower, referring to the milk-white color of the flower. Nivalis means of the snow.
Susan
painted the pure snowdrops with their green markings on the tips of the inner
petals, set off by slender green leaves and surrounded by the text and
border in
green, creating a striking study in green and white.
American poet and writer, Celia Thaxter was born in 1835 in Portsmouth, New
Hampshire and spent much of her life on Appledore Island, one of the Isles
of Shoals
off the New Hampshire coast, where her family ran a summer hotel.
An Island Garden
was published in 1894 and illustrated by American Impressionist Childe
Hassam, who
spent summers on Appledore.
"While I am busy with pleasant preparation and larger hope, I rejoice in
the beauty of the pure white Snowdrops." Celia Thaxter, An Island Garden
"Snowdrops: Hope"
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