A customer ordered a bunch of blue iris last week, and when I asked if he would like them gift-wrapped, he told me that he would be putting them first in to a vase, and that then they would be wrapped and taken home by the receiver.
When he came to pick the flowers up, he told me of a social worker with whom he had once worked whose work involved reuniting families. She made a point of always having flowers in the room when important information was being given, because she wanted to create a memorable setting for a very memorable event, and she hoped that people would always make the connection between the event and the flowers (my type of thinking, that !)
The customer said that he was going to be giving a woman special information about her mother.
I didn't ask at the time why he had chosen the IRIS for this occasion, and it was only later that I realised that in the Language of Flowers, Iris was the messenger of the Gods, sent to earth to bring good news to mortals. She was the goddess of the rainbow, because of the number of colours that the blooms could have.
He must have known that ... couldn't just be co-incidence.
Could it ?
