Tussie Mussie, that is!

How much do you love those words together?

I just love the way they roll off the tongue.
Say "tussie mussie" a few times aloud.

A Tussie Mussie, is a small bunch of flowers that are held in a little special
"vase for the hand," if you will.

Tussie Mussie

Here is one I just made with hot pink spray roses and greenery.

These little bundles of joy are great for mothers of the bride and groom to carry and

they're precious for flower girls and/or bridesmaids to carry, too!

I think they may even make sweet Valentine's gifts for daughters and sweethearts.
Let's start a trend!

Many moons ago women would a carry tussie mussie to squelch their own or others' stench when personal hygiene was non-existent and the plague
was running rampant with stinky bacteria, etc.
... No need to go into details, on that!

Word Detective

There is an entire language surrounding flowers and I don't just
mean their botanical and latin names.

Some three hundred years ago, suitors gave their ladies carefully selected arrangements of tussy mussies. Each flower had a different meaning, emotion or intention attached.

Women would receive their tussie mussies and then look in their Tussy Dictionary to determine what the suitor was trying to say.

(Basically, nothing much has changed over the years... we're still trying to figure
out what the men in our lives are really telling us.)
.......

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Let's translate...
If you receive a tussie mussie with the following:

Lilac
You are your partner's First Love
(Lucky you!)

Rosemary
Remembrance
(Not sure if you want to receive, alive?)

Salvia
"I Think of You"

Pansy
Thought, love

What would all of these flowers say, combined?

Bright Star

I will let you ponder on this.

My interpretation is:
Someone might be trying to remember if they love you or
they can't stop thinking about you, their first love!

We have to remember that 300 years ago when the great tussie mussie first
became popular, global transportation had not yet begun (clearly.)

So, truthfully,
a combination of all of these flowers
-- which bloom in different season --
would not have been possible.

That would make decoding a little easier, huh?