Korean-English translation: yoon (@cafe_ARMY)
Original content: m.blog.naver.com/testesso/221316307050
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testesso
2018. 7. 10. 16:23
[The First Story] The fateful meeting with ‘Smeraldo’, prologue story
Hello. This is florist ‘Testesso’.
I came to start this blog with the purpose of introducing a flower called ‘Smeraldo’.
To tell you in advanced, I am preparing to open a specialized Smeraldo flower shop this coming late August.
If you look at it one way, this blog is just a means of promoting the shop. But for me, I believe that the meeting of the Smeraldo flower and I was not simply for the purpose of business.
My first connection to the Smeraldo goes back to 5 years ago. At that time, I was studying abroad in North Dakota of northern central United States. In order to attend the <Annual Flower Conference> that was being held by an American florist association, I embarked on a trip to Virginia. The flight from North Dakota to Virginia alone was over 5 hours, and from my hotel to the association was another 7 hours.
(This is our ‘Smeraldo Association’ which professionaly experiments only with Smeraldo flowers)
* The association’s Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/The-Smeraldo-Academy-1372227712830663/
However, after traveling that far, when I arrived at the venue, what I found was a placard that read ‘The Origins of Playing Cards’. The <Annual Flower Conference> had ended the previous week and at the time, the American Playing Card Association’s event was running there instead. It seems that I had wrote down the incorrect date in my diary. I was so shocked and in utter disbelief then, but looking back now, I believe that all of this was fate. To my relief, the lecture was fun and it may be because I’m a florist but when they talked about a story related to flowers, I found that segment the most intriguing. And as you may have already guessed, that flower was none other than … the ‘Smeraldo’.
You can see from the picture, but the Smeraldo flower has a warm mood to it. Its romantic petal shapes and its mysterious and profound colour, don’t you get the feeling that it has some kind of sad story behind it?
That is correct. The Smeraldo is a flower with a heart-breaking and ardent story. You can come to know this story in the meaning of the Smeraldo too, “non potevo dire la verrita”, which in Italian, means “the truth untold”. From looking at the meaning of the flower, you can get the sense that it is about love, and that love is a sad love, right?
Going forward, through this blog, I will slowly untangle and reveal the story tied up with this flower and playing cards.
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