I’ve just discovered the flower, billy buttons. What meaning would you give to them?

Written By Holly

JENNIFER, NOOSA HEADS, QUEENSLAND

By Harry Rose from South West Rocks, Australia

 

Question:

Thank you for your beautifully written healing and touching stories. I’ve just discovered the flower, billy buttons. What meaning would you give to them ?

Jennifer, Noosa Heads, Queensland

Answer:

Dear Jennifer,

Thank you for your kind words about my work. Billy buttons feature in The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart. In the Thornfield Language of Flowers, they mean, my gratitude.

You’ll find them in this scene, towards the end of the novel:

As she drove away she thought about the flowers she’d sketched for him. Billy buttons. She’d drawn one after the other, bright balls of yellow on skinny stems, over and over again, covering the paper, except for the far right corner where she’d written their meaning.

My gratitude.

Love,

Holly

Holly
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