Well, it sure has been a bit since my last flower talk. Let’s fix this by talking about the next flower Ophelia hands out, shall we?
According to Jessica Roux’s Floriography, pansy (viola tricolour var. hortensis), also known as “Johnny Jump Up, heartsease, tickle-my-fancy” and other names (Wikipedia) was given the meaning “You occupy my thoughts” during the Victorian times (Roux). Roux goes onto explain that the flower gets it’s name “from the French pensée, meaning “thought.” According to House Plant Central, many English botanists began crossing pansies “en masse” during the Victorian era, so much so that “by the year 1835, there were over 400 different pansies in existence” each with their own individual meaning (House Plant Central).
Sarah O'Connor 