Yes, why, exactly, did Madonna say she absolutely loathes hydrangeas?
“Hydrangeas are very romantic, feminine and maybe a little demur[e],” suggested Eddie Zaratsian of tick-tock Couture Flowers based in Los Angeles, Calif., who has worked with corporate clients like Chanel, as well as an undisclosed list of celebrities. “Madonna is known for her strength and confidence and so it’s only natural she would gravitate towards a bolder flower.” The elephant in the room: hydrangeas are working-class flowers, aren’t they? Somehow partially responsible for current economic crisis? Make your pee smell bad?...Have you ever been wronged by a flower? What flower is on your
To Zaratsian, who believes every flower to be a “gift from God”... it is the overall experience of receiving flowers that helps one formulate a memory, and thus create an opinion or preference to hold over time. “What [do] they take from that connotation of that flower? What is that memory of that flower for them?” he explained. Perhaps the larger question is: what did these innocent flowers ever do to you, Madonna?
ADDED: If you're wondering about the pee, I'd elided the part about tea. Don't you know about hydrangea tea?
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If I were a cow, I would absolutely loathe Cicuta virosa.
It would be the bane of your existence.
Hydrangeas are old lady flowers. Especially the blue ones.
"What is charm? It is what the violet has, and the camellia has not."
Though Madge would love us all to forget it, she's still about as blue collar as they come.
Maybe that's why. I think they're rather pretty.
I don't like poodles
but I love irises.
I loathe mums. I love my mum.
I love (most) poodles.
And we have a poodle named "Poppy."
She's the sweetest flower of all.
BTW, who gives a flying f*** what Madge likes?
Next to Barney, she's probably the most annoying thing to come out of the 80s.
PS Mama Irene will be glad you made the distinction.
Hydrangeas are inoffensive, but for me carry a bit of Victorian flavor. Not "old lady," but "old house".
They'd be much nicer if they had a scent... maybe like Freesia?
Madonna is such an a-hole.
Love the pink hydrangea. Hate carnations.
I finally had hummingbirds on my back porch because I bought a lantana tree.
Well, Zaratsian sells flowers, so he would theorize that making a gift of them has the power to influence preferences.
Someone up the street has a mass of blue hydrangea bushes. They're SO blue it's a shock to look at them. Blue is a color that rarely occurs naturally.
Carnations.
I am reminded of the Language of Flowers, a Victorian practice of using meanings traditionally associated with flowers to send a hidden message along with a bouquet.
The message of mums, carnations, and violets depends on their particular color. An iris means "good news", a camellia "unpretending excellence", a hydrangea "gratitude at being understood". You might, however, be castigating someone by sending hydrangeas, since they also bear the negative meaning of "heartlessness". I imagine the recipient would know which sense you intended. Cowbane, alas, does not seem to have been used in bouquets, so its "meaning" isn't given. Perhaps Meade could assign it one?
The 19th century illustrator Kate Greenaway published a nice Language of Flowers booklet, which I see is now available on Kindle for free.
"A White Sport Coat (and a Pink Carnation)."
I suspect Madonna just didn't want to have to touch any object handed to her. It seems icky and diseased.
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