{"id":5777,"date":"2025-01-19T19:42:45","date_gmt":"2025-01-19T18:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/niv.estorly.com\/?p=5777"},"modified":"2026-09-13T18:42:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T16:42:37","slug":"a-coded-letter-of-longing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ninainvalentin.si\/en\/2025\/01\/19\/sopek-za-valentinovo\/","title":{"rendered":"A coded letter of longing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Why are flowers given for Valentine's Day? <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Valentine's Day<\/strong> is celebrated every year <strong>February 14.<\/strong> For many, this is the time when they show their own <a href=\"\/en\/?product_cat=svezi-sopki\"><strong>affection through cards, flowers or chocolates.<\/strong> <\/a>Most people know the story of Saint Valentine, but most don't know why flowers are sent on Valentine's Day.<\/p>\n<p>In early <strong>In the 18th century, the Swedish king Charles<\/strong> 12. found himself in Isfahan, the city of poetry, gardens and Persian culture. Charles was a famous warrior, but he <strong>harbored a hidden romance.<\/strong> As he walked through the gardens there he <strong>discovered an ancient art - the language of flowers. In Persia, in addition to their beauty, flowers also conveyed messages, whispered secrets and conveyed emotions.<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/en\/?p=2830\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Florist&#039;s choice red bouquet\" class=\"nv-recovered-image\" height=\"200\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/shutterstock_1462188293_zmanjsana.png\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The king, separated from his countess in Sweden due to political tensions, was unable to send messages. With the help of a Persian court poet, it is <strong>made a bouquet<\/strong> and shipped via trusted dealers. The arrangement included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Red tulips \ud83c\udf37 \u2013 a declaration of love<\/li>\n<li>Hyacinths \ud83c\udf3f \u2013 regret and longing<\/li>\n<li>Blue irises \ud83d\udc99 \u2013 a message of hope<\/li>\n<li>Myrtle \ud83c\udf3f \u2013 a promise of fidelity<\/li>\n<li>Fragrant Damask roses \ud83c\udf39 \u2013 undying passion<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When the bouquet arrived at the countess in Stockholm, she understood that the flowers were not only a gift, but<strong> encrypted letter of longing.<\/strong> Charles eventually returned to Sweden where he brought Persian art <strong>floriography<\/strong> \u2013 language of flowers or <strong>the use of specific flowers and their combinations to express the hidden meanings and emotions of an individual.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While he remained a warrior at heart, he did<strong> spread the tradition of sending flowers as coded messages among the Swedish nobility,<\/strong> which later influenced the European fascination with the Victorian language of flowers.<\/p>\n<p>And that is why flowers are still given on Valentine&#x27;s Day. Let Nina &amp; Valentin carefully compose your own letter of longing in flowers.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Our trusted delivery people will receive it <a href=\"\/en\/?product_cat=svezi-sopki\">delivered at the selected time,<\/a> regardless of whether it is in Slovenia or around the world.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/en\/?p=143\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"nv-recovered-image\" height=\"300\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/FlawlessRomanceBouquet.jpg\" width=\"261\" \/><\/a><a href=\"\/en\/?p=632\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"nv-recovered-image\" height=\"300\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/17-2.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/en\/?p=143\"><strong>Bouquet of red roses<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<strong><a href=\"\/en\/?p=632\">Thinking of you (fresh roses)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"nv-recovered-image\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/old-archive-20260913\/95f876032679-CoverPhoto_v2_objava.jpg\" alt=\"Valentine&#039;s arrangements by Nina &amp; Valentin\" width=\"750\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zakaj se za Valentinovo podarja cvetje? Valentinovo vsako leto praznujemo 14. februarja. Za mnoge je to \u010das, ko izka\u017eejo svojo naklonjenost drugi osebi s po\u0161iljanjem vo\u0161\u010dil, ro\u017e ali \u010dokolad. Ve\u010dina pozna zgodbo o svetem Valentinu, vendar ve\u010dina ne ve zakaj se za Valentinovo po\u0161ilja prav cvetje. V zgodnjem 18. stoletju se je \u0161vedski kralj Charles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2844,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_breakdance_hide_in_design_set":false,"_breakdance_tags":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nasveti-o-cvetju"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninainvalentin.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninainvalentin.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninainvalentin.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninainvalentin.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninainvalentin.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ninainvalentin.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5786,"href":"https:\/\/ninainvalentin.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5777\/revisions\/5786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninainvalentin.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninainvalentin.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninainvalentin.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninainvalentin.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}