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1 roses and lavender. Gertrude Jekyll recommends this in her 1902 classic, Roses for
English Gardens. Lavender has ancient associations with lesbians. In 1970 US
lesbians were wearing Lavender Menace T-shirts at protests, see Karla Jay’s Tales
of the Lavender Menace (1999). A Scottish bookshop of the 1970s and 80s was
named The Lavender Menace, while a popular US lesbian band comprised of
Alix Dobkin, Kay Gardner and Pat Mochetta (aka Patches Adams) called its first
album, Lavender Jane Loves Women.
2 violet. Like lavender, violet has been used to signify lesbian presence. Irene
Zahava in the USA has published several collections of lesbian stories under the
imprint of Violet Ink.
3 rosewater. Rosewater, it is said, was invented by women. By one account the
mother-in-law of the Persian princess Nour-Dijan noticed the scented foam
which “had formed on the rivulets of rosewater that ran through the garden.” In
another account of the same event it was the princess herself who dipped “her
handkerchief in the water as she was rowed across a small lake” She then wrung
out the scented rosewater into a bottle. See John Fisher. 1986, The Companion to
Roses, pp. 15-16.
4 petals and hips. Fisher writes, “The early rosaries were made up of rose petals,
strung together and, later, rose hips may have been used instead. See John Fisher.
1986, The Companion to Roses, p. 165.