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From the Renaissance, Elizabethan, Baroque, Regency, Victorian, Edwardian periods, to Princess Diana each era has shown the world there uniqueness through art, music and their culture. Flowers are not only beautiful and fragrant but their symbolic meanings are well known even in our modern society.  Alexander Neckham in De Naturis Rerum wrote about the ideal garden in the 13th Century. He opined, "The garden should be adorned with roses and lilies, the turnsole or heliotrope, violets, and mandrake, there you should have parsley and cost, fennel, southernwood, coriander, sage, savery, hyssop, mint, rue, ditanny, smallage, pellitory, lettuce, garden cress, and peonies. There should also be beds planted with onions, leeks, garlic, pumpkins, and shallots. The cucumber, the poppy, the daffodil, and the brank-ursine ought to be in a good garden. There should also be potted herbs, such as beets, herb mercury, orach, sorrel and mallows." Whew! Queen Elizabeth bathed only once a month, but when she did, she used herbal infusions and perfumed washballs. These washballs were made with Castile soap, imported from Spain, and mixed with many herbs, spices, flowers and fixatives. The coarse ball, when rubbed onto the skin, stimulated and cleansed it. After her bath, Elizabeth used a dusting powder made exclusively for her from orris root, dried and pounded rose petals, calamus and ground cloves. The Victorians favored expensive flowers in their all-important presentation
bouquets (when a young lady was being presented at Court at Buckingham Palace).
The memories surrounding their presentation were important in a young woman's life, thus she
tended to preserve these bouquets for as long as possible. Gardener's were advised,
when making the bouquets, to extend the lady's pleasure for as long as possible by using
lots of damp moss and keeping the flower stems long. The lady herself could
encourage the bouquet's longevity by keeping it under a glass dome. She would
turn the dome upside down every morning and pour water though the stems before putting it back.
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The Art of Invention
Perfect Petal Flower Preservation Kits | Flowers Forever | Peek Into the Gardens Purity & Poison | Miracles & Magic | About the Inventor Flowers Forever
At Immortal Floral we offer over 60 different varieties of fresh preserved flowers.
Over 70% of these flowers we grow in organic, pesticide free gardens to insure
only the finest blooms are harvested. The remaining flowers come from greenhouses in both
Ecuador and San Francisco.
Our Unique PATENTED beeswax preservation process insures each bloom retains it's size, shape, color and in many cases fragrance for a lifetime. Each flower is a true work of art and as individual as we are. Click on the tabs below, to explore the beautiful world of flowers.
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