Daisy, Daisy, Give me your answer, do

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“Daisy, Daisy,

Give me your answer, do.

I’m half crazy

All for the love of you...”

- Harry Dacre, 1892

partial lyrics for ‘A Bicycle Built For Two’

Artist Unknown

in the style of Harrison Fisher

I would like to continue with my

Language of Flowers theme.

Vintage seed packet, 1930

Today is

The Daisy

Gerbera Daisies

I have always thought daisies were 

white petals around a yellow center.

Wrong!!

To my surprise, there are numerous 

kinds of daisies,

in all the colors of the rainbow!

The above daisies are a ‘newish’ color combo

of African Daisies.

If you want to delve into the varieties

it is suggested you start with the

27

most common daisies.

Wow.

Artist - Cicely Mary Barker

In the Victorian Era, England

flowers were a special way of sending secret notes

from your secret admirer.

(Or not so secret!)

A scrap of ‘glanzbilder’, an early form of scrapbook decorations

originally produced from Germany

Not wanting to repeat myself

(and thereby possibly boring my readers)

feel free to use the search box
for many past flower blogs.

Some labels to look for are:

Language of flowers

flower meanings

Victorian 

Vintage art

or you could type in the name of the flower 

you are searching for.

A beaded daisy necklace by Sonysree Creations

Pinterest

Photographer - Brigitte Lorenz

I found that different Language of Flowers lists

had different meanings for the daisy-

Innocence

I love you truly

Attachment 

Purity

Motherhood

I partake your sentiment (!)

Gentleness

Cheer

Quite a variety.

 Courtesy thegreenhousepeople.co.uk

Artist - Walter Crane
1845-1915
from “A Floral Fantasy in an Old English Garden”

By inkspired

Vintage illustration by Elizabeth Gordon

Vintage Song sheet cover art for 
a novelty two-step - “Daisy Rag”

Found on Pinterest with a description in Russian (guessing here).
Ribbon Daisies

This is a reproduction of the original, published 1884
By Kate Greenaway (1846-1901)


‘Flowers are the music of the ground.
From earth’s lips
Spoken without a sound.’

- Edwin Curran 

Published 1888

 Vintage art, artist unknown

A daisy flower mandala photograph 
We Heart It, Pinterest




‘Happiness held is the seed;
Happiness shared is the flower.’

- John Harrigan 

Vintage greeting card, shared by The Sparrow60 on Pinterest 


The word ‘daisy’ is thought to come from an 
Old English word that means
Day’s eye.
This refers to the daisy’s habit of turning toward the sun,
And when night comes they close their petals.

Vintage Illustration ‘Daisy Fairy’ by Cherubini?


In 2018 “Daisy” ranked as the 
169th most popular girls name in the USA.

Not bad!

In England and Wales in 2018
“Daisy” ranked 28th most popular name for girls.

Found on Pinterest


I hope you have enjoyed this blog on 
The Language of Flowers
the Daisy.
I sure had fun putting it together!

‘Til next time,
inkspired