Attributing flowers with hidden meanings and using them to express feelings and sending messages is an ancient tradition and even the old Greeks used flowers in this manner. Cleopatra used to shower her lover Marcus Antonius in rose petals to express her love for him. During the 17th century B.C. the Turks developed a large flower language that soon spread and gained popularity all over Europe. During the strict Victorian era, conveying messages in the form of flowers experienced a new boom and secret lovers sent seemingly innocent flower bouquets to each other.

The Elizabethan period is usually considered as the height of the Victoria era and one of the harshest periods from a moral point of view. This naturally formed a rich breeding ground for hypocrisy and ways to go around the austere official codes of behavior