Lavender Flower Language and Legends: The Latest Interpretation
Lavender is native to the Mediterranean coast and was later widely cultivated in the United Kingdom and Yugoslavia. The small town of Provence in southern France is a world-famous lavender-producing region. The plant is elegant and graceful, and its inflorescences are beautiful and slender, making it deeply loved by young men and women. Below, let us take a look together at the flower language and legends of lavender!
Lavender's Flower Language
Waiting for love. In European tradition, lavender seems to be naturally connected with love. A large number of love legends and folk customs involve lavender. "Lavender Represents True Love" is the most representative lyric poem of the Elizabethan era, just as portrayed in the TV drama "Lavender." Lavender signifies a subtle declaration of love, a firm promise, and, after enduring hardships, ultimately being able to hold hands with the one you love.
Lavender's Blooming Period
Lavender's blooming period is generally from June to August. The time required from sowing to blooming (or harvesting) is 18-20 weeks. When grown in pots or under protected cultivation, the blooming period is longer and the flowering time is variable. Lavender likes sunlight, tolerates heat, tolerates drought, is extremely cold-hardy, tolerates poor soil, and is resistant to salinity and alkalinity. The cultivation site needs sufficient sunlight and good ventilation.
The Legend of Lavender
Lavender is a richly fragrant, purple-blue small flower. It possesses a romantic sentiment just like its location. This flower, born in Provence, France, has a beautiful love legend.
Legend has it that in a village in Provence, there was a young girl who was alone in the cold mountains picking flowers that were still in bud, but she encountered a wounded traveler from afar. As soon as the girl saw this young man, her whole heart was captured by his elegant smile!
So the girl invited him into her home and, ignoring her family's objections, insisted on caring for him until he recovered. After a few days, the young traveler's wounds had healed, but the love between them spread rapidly, and they had already reached the point of being unable to part.
Not long after, one day, the young traveler said farewell to the girl and left. But the girl, deeply in love, insisted on leaving with the young man. Although her relatives tried their utmost to hold her back, she still insisted on going with the young man to his hometown full of roses!
Just before the girl was about to leave, an old woman in the village gave her a bundle of lavender and told her to use it to test the young traveler's true heart, because legend says the fragrance of lavender can make unclean things reveal themselves.
Just as the traveler took her hand and prepared to set off on a long journey, the girl threw the lavender hidden in her coat onto the young man. Unexpectedly, after a wisp of purple light smoke rose from the young man's body, he vanished with the wind and smoke. And in the valley, the girl seemed to faintly hear the young man's hearty laughter. Just like that, the girl was left alone, solitary and shadowed.
Before long, the girl also disappeared without a trace. Some believe that, like the young man, she transformed into light smoke and vanished in the valley. Others say that she followed the fragrance of lavender flowers to search for the young man. In any case, the legendary story of lavender was passed down in this way. Therefore, even now, lavender is still regarded by people as one of the important tools for driving away unclean things and for incense.