화양연화/HYYH NOTES & STORY – THEORY & EXPLANATION

In attempt to understand all these jumpy notes throughout the entire LOVE YOURSELF album series, I believe the majority of us have been focused on trying to order all the notes chronologically to try and see a linear timeline.

But the reason this isn’t getting us anywhere is because the timeline..s are NOT linear! So we need to shift our focus away from this idea of interpreting all these events in a chronological order. The existence of time travel in this narrative is the very EVIDENCE that the timeline is not linear. It’s more like a spider web. So let’s take a look at something else, something that might be giving us a hint in understanding this complicated web.

The structure of the notes in all 3 LOVE YOURSELF albums is it. This is the HUGE, KEY CLUE in explaining EVERYTHING.

Based on this theory, each album represents a timeline. This is evident in the content of certain notes and the changing, varying pairings of members in each album.

HER: Timeline A – no time leap has taken place
TEAR: Timeline B – time leap has taken place
ANSWER: Timeline C – fusion of both timelines

But before I get any deeper into this, I need to explain the most important key in understanding this all: THE STRUCTURE.

For the above timelines to make sense, you must understand that we can only know this information by looking at certain KEY notes among the many given to us.

The LOVE YOURSELF series contains 3 albums, and each contain a set of “HYYH The Notes”. There are 4 versions of the notes per album.

HER: Versions L, O, V, E
TEAR: Versions Y, O, U, R
ANSWER: Versions S, E, L, F

For each set of notes, each member has 3 different entries throughout the different versions:

To understand this, let’s use Seokjin and LY HER as an example.

• Seokjin’s note entry #1: is in versions L, O, V, E
• Seokjin’s note entry #2: is in versions L, O, V
• Seokjin’s note entry #3: is only in version E

Our biggest key in understanding the notes lies in entry #3 of each member.

Each member has a note entry that is exclusive to only ONE VERSION per album. I’ll call this the “exclusive note”.

The exclusive notes are our key to EVERYTHING. It explains the current timeline that the album and that member are in, as well as the member pairing corresponding to each timeline.

First, I’ll explain how to understand this chart.

I mapped out the dates of each note per album. The DATES are what differentiate between each member’s note entry 1, 2, and 3.

Highlighted = exclusive notes.

You’ll notice that certain members end up pairing up by having their EN in the same album. 😱

 

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1. 📀 LOVE YOURSELF 承 ‘HER’

Member pairings:

• SEOKJIN (alone)
• YOONGI-JUNGKOOK
• NAMJOON-TAEHYUNG
• HOSEOK-JIMIN

These are the pairs we already know from the HYYH story narrative that we are used to. Please also look at the content as well. THE EXCLUSIVE NOTES OF EACH MEMBER CORRELATES TO THEIR PAIR. Their narratives relate, are consistent.

YG & JK
→ connected by relationship in past events revolving around the piano

NJ & TH
→ connected by brotherly relationship, Taehyung aspires and longs to be in Namjoon’s presence, and depends on it

JM & HS
→ connected by friendship, Hoseok knows of Jimin’s situation

If you read through the content of each exclusive note in HER, we can see that in this timeline, no timeleap has taken place. So we can hypothesize that this one might be the “original” timeline.

* LY HER = Timeline A, no timeleap has taken place

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2. 📀 LOVE YOURSELF 轉 ‘TEAR’

Member pairings:

• SEOKJIN (alone)
• YOONGI-JIMIN
• NAMJOON-JUNGKOOK
• HOSEOK-TAEHYUNG

A change…!?
Yes, a change occurs because a TIMELEAP has taken place. Now the events, situations, outcomes have changed, causing the pairings to change too.

YG & JM
→ YG seems to come to JM’s rescue in both entries. But … YG = fire, JIMIN = water (represents opposing forces..?)

NJ & JK
→ JK constantly looks up/seeks to become adult like NJ. But this makes NJ uncomfortable.

HS & TH
→ HS is present during the scene w/ TH father.

In exclusive notes of TEAR, we can see that a timeleap has taken place.

* LY TEAR = a timeleap has taken place.

This is my personal hunch, but I believe this is also where we are currently at in #SAVE_ME.

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3. 📀 LOVE YOURSELF 結 ‘ANSWER’

Member pairings:

• SEOKJIN (alone)
• YOONGI-JUNGKOOK
• NAMJOON-TAEHYUNG
• HOSEOK-JIMIN

We’ve returned to the original pairs!? What happened…?
Maybe the answer had been there all along, to accept things as is.
Back to the beginning…? How things were before…?

YG & JK
→ JK about to jump but YG calls, YG room on fire but JK comes

NJ & TH
→ TH dreams (foresees?) bad outcomes, NJ brings TH to his senses

JM & HS
→ JM saves HS from falling, HS rescues JM in escaping from hospital

As we return to the ORIGINAL pairings, things seem to “work out”. Maybe this was the pattern of fateful events that had to take place that a time leap shouldn’t interfere?

But there must be some small change for things to work out this time?

* LY ANSWER = fusion of both timelines.

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Now! You guys might’ve noticed that I hadn’t explained Seokjin for each album. The reason:

SEOKJIN is the other KEY in understanding all this.

Did you notice anything odd about SJ, other than the fact that he is always alone?

The date. Look at the dates of his exclusive notes.

The exclusive notes, which are our HINT to everything, always has Seokjin on APRIL 11. We know this is the date he timeleaps & always returns to.

THE SAME DAY HAS 3 DIFFERENT OUTCOMES = 3 TIMELINES

THEY’RE BASICALLY TELLINGUS THE ANSWER HERE IN SEOKJIN’S EXCLUSIVE NOTES!!!

😱

And so the return to the original pairings indicates a couple things:

• SJ can’t be the one to save everyone alone
• Members need to save original pair
• Maybe everything needs to return to its original place, but with a newfound realization about the self… an EPIPHANY…?

And this, brings us to this very important scene of EPIPHANY, in ANSWER. The final album of the LY series … which also wraps this entire theory up.

What Seokjin finds, is that the answer was always there. It lies in the starting point.

But through this journey of timeleaps, they have an “epiphany” and acquire something that becomes the ultimate factor which differentiates Timeline C from A & B.

That is? To LOVE YOURSELF 💜

Value yourself, your life, your existence.
Regardless of your circumstances, your pains, your regrets and bad memories.

Only this way, will you find your way to the map of your self, to your true self, and ultimately, happiness.

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I hope this perspective helped you understand the story! This has been on my mind for quite some time and I’ve finally had the chance to lay it all out.

I’d love to hear your thoughts!

And for anyone who would like to translate, please go ahead, with credits 🙂

– yoon ☁️

[The Tenth Story]

Korean-English translation: yoon @cafe_army
Original content: blog.naver.com/testesso/221345128484

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testesso
2018. 8. 24

The opening day of <Flower Smeraldo> has approached as tomorrow.
At the moment, I am looking through the shop for the final time. I got worried because of the typhoon, so I found myself unable to just stay home.

On my way here from Jamsil Station, a lot of rain fell and wind blew as well.
But to my relief, as time passed, the typhoon calmed down and I was able to slightly lessen my worries.

I cleaned up the area around the shop that had became untidy due to the typhoon and when I looked around inside as well, the fact that <Flower Smeraldo> was opening its doors tomorrow began to hit me.

I actually wanted to take a photo of a full view of <Flower Smeraldo>, but due to the bad weather, the photo didn’t come out as well as I thought.
Hopefully tomorrow we’ll be out of the typhoon zone, as I would like to show you the best!

Well then, I will go home, looking forward to meeting you all in this place tomorrow, along with the Smeraldo.
I’ll see you tomorrow!

 

[The Ninth Story] Information regarding the opening (English Translation)

Korean-English translation: yoon @cafe_army
Original content: blog.naver.com/testesso/221343703455

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testesso
2018. 8. 22

Hello, this is florist Testesso!

A few days ago, the interior and construction for the flower shop <Flower Smeraldo> was completed. So today, I plan to finally tell you information regarding the opening of <Flower Smeraldo>.

<Flower Smeraldo> is located near Jamsil, Seoul, and the opening date has been decided as <August 25th>.

The above photo is the <Flower Smeraldo> image on the shop’s awning. Isn’t this flower shape created based on the Smeraldo so pretty? On August 25th, if you come find a shop with this same image on its awning, you can meet with the Smeraldo.

If I look back, there were many events leading up to the opening of the shop. Things that I could not foresee cropped up here and there. There was even a time when my qualification and evaluation documents that I sent to the Smeraldo Academy got lost in transportation, so I had to send it twice.

The worst was when the first Smeraldo sent to me from Italy was not in the freshest state that I wanted. Due to the worst heat wave of the year, it had withered while being shipped. After many ups and downs, I was able to prepare it to its finest state, but for me, it was a really nerve-wracking moment.

With those troubling incidents now passed, I am so happy to be able to announce to you this opening notice. <Flower Smeraldo>, the only place in Korea that you can meet the Smeraldo. Please visit, and meet the beautiful Smeraldo in person, and take in its scent.

Well then, I’ll be waiting in Jamsil, August 25th!

[The Eighth Story] ‘It’s been a while’

Korean-English translation: yoon @cafe_army
Original content: blog.naver.com/testesso/221338669674

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testesso
2018. 8. 15

With the opening of <Flower Smeraldo> just coming up ahead in late August, I was busy planning for things like customs clearance, transportation method, and storage.

And so I was unable to come on to the blog for a while, but I am so happy to see the number of visitors who are interested in the Smeraldo increasing daily.

Today, around lunchtime, I went to where the interior construction was taking place. Actually, today was not a day that I was supposed to go on site, but strangely, from this morning, I had the thought that I wanted to go. Do you call this kind of inexplicable attraction a “premonition”? It feels as if I have met someone that I’ve known for a very long time, and as if I’ve found many people who will show much interest to our Smeraldo shop.

I came to the shop under the inexplicable premonition that I had, but actually, not much else happened. It felt as if someone would come, so I circled the interior and exterior of the shop that was under construction, but I wasn’t able to meet anyone. If there was something peculiar that happened, it was that I received an e-mail from Italy.

A few days ago, I had put in an e-mail inquiry to a Smeraldo shop located in the northern parts of Italy. Around when would a reply come? I was waiting, and I opened my e-mail as I felt that it might have come, and in that moment, an e-mail arrived! It’s not a big deal, but isn’t that fascinating? It was as if I had known in advanced that the e-mail would come right in that moment. Anyway, it made me feel good!

Going back to talking about the shop, the interior is coming along well as planned. I believe I’ll be able to open the shop on the planned date without much difficulty. According to when the preparation is completed, I will post information regarding the shop through this blog!

[The Seventh Story] ‘The Truth Untold’ (English translation)

Korean-English translation: yoon @cafe_ARMY
Original content: blog.naver.com/testesso/221331937559

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testesso
2018. 8. 3

To tell the truth, I don’t come from a very wealthy family. I also had a very hard time while studying abroad in the States.
I was in a foreign place and I wasn’t fluent in English, and didn’t have any kind of future to present.

The day that we promised to go to Italy together, while I was waiting inside the airport, through the glass door, I ended up seeing my friend get off from a bus with a handsome and good-looking man. I immediately hid myself. Why I did that then… I don’t know either….I just instinctively hid myself, turned around, and walked away.
‘I should have known. There’s no way she was going to go to Italy just the two of us. To her, I was just a helpless foreigner who didn’t know anything’. This was how I felt.

She called, but I didn’t answer. I stood inside the airport washroom and stared blankly at my face in the mirror. Then, I turned my phone off and boarded the plane. Since we had booked the flight together, she had to be somewhere on the plane too, but I did not look for her. I just hoped. I don’t know how much I hoped, that she would look around inside the plane and come to find me. But until the plane crossed the Atlantic Ocean and into the skies of Italy, and until I got off into the airport… There was no one who came to find me.

▲ Photos that I took of the San Francisco International Airport in America while waiting for her

La cita di Smeraldo is a place that remains to me as both a painful and happy memory. The Smeraldo flower was so beautiful that it brought me to tears. And that night, something strange happened. I was sleeping at my lodge and was woken by a strange sound. My bed was right under the window and it sounded like someone was knocking on it. The room was on the 2nd floor and it was quiet outside. It was late in the night and the curtains were drawn, so I was unable to see out.

I didn’t feel scared nor afraid, but it was a strange situation. I thought about opening the window to see who on earth it could be, knocking on a window on the 2nd floor, but I decided not to. I forced myself to sleep by thinking that it must have been the tree branches hitting the window in the wind, but to be honest, I couldn’t fall asleep. I lay still, listening to the sound, as if I were trying to forcefully endure something.

It was approximately noon the next day when I got a call from my friend. No, the person who called was not my friend. He said he was her brother. She had gotten into an accident after hurriedly following after someone at the airport and yesterday a bit past midnight, her breathing became unstable and she ended up leaving this world.

That day, before I left the lodge, I tried opening the window next to my bed. The sun rays came in bright and in the distance, I could see where the Smeraldos were. While looking at those flowers, feeling the sun rays and breeze passing through, for a moment, I felt as if I were standing side-by-side with her by the window, looking at the flowers together.

▲ A painful and happy memory, the beautiful sceneries of ‘La cita di Smeraldo’

After I returned from America and on my way home from the airport, I received the news that my long-desired wish had come true. It was that the Smeraldo had been approved into Korean flower shops by the Smeraldo Association. Because the Smeraldo is a rare species, the Association strictly manages its sales overseas. But my application for a later time had been approved. Since then … a long time of 3 years have passed for me to open ‘Flower Smeraldo’ in Korea, but I decided to believe that the news from the Association that day was the final message my friend delivered to me before she left.

Like that, she had delivered ‘the truth untold’ to me before leaving away to another world.
This is my fateful tie with the Smeraldo that I talked about in my first post.

[The Sixth Story] ‘Madame Lenormand’ and ‘The Flower Card’ (English translation)

Korean-English translation: yoon @cafe_ARMY
Original content: blog.naver.com/PostView.nhn?blogId=testesso&logNo=221330016577

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testesso
2018.7.31

There is a painting called <Madame Lenormand Sitting at the Salon> by French artist, Jean-Francois Rolland.
Madame Lenormand was said to be an astrologist of France who was treasured by Josephine, the Queen of Napolean. (It’s read in French as ‘Leu-no-reu-mang’ but for the purposes of convenience I will give up and call her as ‘Le-no-mund’.) Even before she became Queen Josephine’s personal astrologist, she had gained popularity from making tarot card readings for the noble ladies and had accumulated a mass fortune from doing so. It became known that the card she created, called the ‘Lenormand Oracle Card’ was influential to quite a considerable number of card decks. Even today, many tarot card sites and other places still sell the Oracle card decks.

▲ Inserted above, an illustration of The Court of Napoleon (Derby and Jackson, New York 1858)

Source: Wiki Commons

As famous of an astrologist as Lenormand was, there are many images remaining of her holding or reading cards. The picture above is one of them as well. However what we should focus on is not the picture above, but the painting <Madame Lenormand Sitting at the Salon>.
<Madame Lenormand Sitting at the Salon>, painted by French artist, Jean-Francois Rolland, is an oil painting characterized by a delicate touch and lyrical atmosphere. However, it was lost in a fire at the collector’s mansion. Because the collector of the mansion was someone known in the Napolean era for being a collector of paintings and materials that portrayed images of high society, they immediately recovered the painting from the scene of the fire and was able to restore it. Many paintings and materials have been restored through this kind of process, but only the area showing the card in <Madame Lenormand Sitting at the Salon> was able to be restored. That part is the very image in the card that I introduced in the previous post. The card that has ‘The Flower’ written on it is, although you may have guessed by now, a card in the ‘Ashbless Cards’ that was created with the Smeraldo as the model. This is the single remaining trace of the Smeraldo and Ashbless.

[The Fifth Story] The ‘Ashbless Card’ (English translation)

Korean-English translation: yoon @cafe_ARMY
Original content: blog.naver.com/testesso/221326843228

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testesso
2018.7.26

In my last post, I told the story of the Smeraldo. Do you remember that the first place I ever learned of the Smeraldo was at a playing cards conference? Haven’t you been wondering about the connection between playing cards and the Smeraldo? Today, I plan to tell you about a figure associated with the cards, ‘William Ashbless‘.

There are many facts known about Ashbless. He was an Italian aristocrat and a poet, and that was about all. Ashbless was also a figure of authority in the growing popularity of playing cards in 16th century Italy. He worked to the bone engrossing himself in creating playing cards to present at salons to the court and nobles.

It happened when he was heading to the countryside in order to recuperate. While Ashbless went around in search for a place with a hot springs or good-quality air, he sees the Smeraldo. An incredibly beautiful flower had bloomed there, so beautiful that it was almost impossible to believe its existence in this world amongst the ruins of a castle in a countryside. He asked the village people for the name of the flower, but there was not one person who knew. Then, he comes to hear the story of love entwined with the Smeraldo from an old woman.

As seen in his engrossment in playing cards, Ashbless was one with a romantic nature. The story of an ugly man and a poor woman moved him. On the spot, Ashbless created the flower’s name and its floriography (language or meaning of a flower). He derived the flower’s name from the village’s name ‘La Citta di smeraldo‘, naming it ‘Smeraldo‘. He decided the flower’s meaning as ‘the truth untold (non potevo dire la verita)’. And when he returned to his home, he created ‘The Flower Card’, inspired by the Smeraldo, and made it a part of his ‘Ashbless Cards’.

The meaning of the ‘The Flower Card’: when in the correct direction, it signifies ‘bearing fruit’, ‘blooming’, but when shown in the opposite direction, it signifies ‘the fall’, ‘the end’, ‘a new start’.

▲The Ashbless Cards

The Ashbless Cards became a sensation in Europe. But now, there are not many people left who remember the cards. The reason for this is because the Ashbless family lost to other influential beings in a fight for power and as a result, received the cruel punishment of being erased from history.

But as with all beautiful legends, there is just one part of the story that was not erased and remains to be remembered until this day. For this reason, the love story and Ashbless’ story were both able to come back to life. I will tell that story in my next post.

[The Fourth Story] The Legend of the ‘Smeraldo’ (English translation)

Korean-English translation: yoon @cafe_ARMY
Original content: blog.naver.com/testesso/221322854971

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testesso
2018. 7. 20

Do you believe that you are beautiful?
I once saw an experiment where people were placed in front of two doors. One read “I am beautiful” and the other read “I am not beautiful”, and the subjects were asked to choose which one they would go through.
If you were one of the subjects, what do you think you would do? The reason I am bringing up this story is in order to begin telling a story of love entwined with the Smeraldo.

The story of the Smeraldo dates back approximately to the 15th to 16th century and begins in a rural village in the northern parts of Italy. This village, called ‘La Città di smeraldo’ had a single, small, lone castle. In this castle lived a man with a very ugly appearance.

▲ A village in the northern parts of Italy, believed to be ‘La Città di smeraldo’

There are no details known about this man. It has been said that he is an illegitimate child of the Duke, an influential family of Florence, that the Duke fell in love with the gardener’s daughter and gave birth to an illegitimate child, that the man’s mother died while giving birth to him from excessive bleeding, that the Duke’s wife and children tried to kill the man, that the Duke then sent the man to escape into hiding. The rumours were plenty, but not one of them have been revealed as neither true nor false.

The man lived a lonely life in hiding in an obsolete world. Because he had received much hatred and criticism from his birth and growth, he did not open his heart to anyone, and if someone tried to approach him, he grew angry and hid. His only joy in life was growing flowers in his garden. Then, one day, a woman appeared near the man’s castle. The woman dressed in rags lifted her heels, jumped over the fence, and stole the flowers. At first, the man was furious and kept watch of his garden all night long. But in the moment that he dozed off, the woman picked the flowers and left once again. The same kind of night continued for a couple days, then the man pretended to doze off and watched as the woman came to the garden. He had developed a curiosity. Before he knew it, he found himself waiting for the woman. Then, one day, he followed behind her. In the place that he followed her to, with his body wrapped up in a cape, he came to know that the poor and frail woman was selling the flowers in order to make a living.

He wanted to help her. He wanted to teach her his way of growing flowers, and how to develop beautiful flowers. But, he could not show himself to her. She would be afraid of him, and it was obvious that she would not love his ugly appearance. As a result, all he could do was continue planting and growing flowers so that she would keep coming back.

The man decided that he would create a flower that did not exist in the world. He began to create a flower that the woman would be able to sell for a high price. The man stayed inside his castle and began to create the flower. After countless failed attempts, the man created a flower that did not exist in the world, and he filled his garden with this flower.

But from a certain point in time, the woman stopped making an appearance. No matter how long he waited, the woman did not appear in the garden. Worried, the man went down to the village with his face covered. But at that point, the woman had already died.

That was the story entwined with the Smeraldo. Whether these events really took place, or someone made up the story after seeing the flowers, is unknown. But every time I see the Smeraldo, I think of this story and have various thoughts. If the man had mustered up the courage, if he had shown his face and conveyed his truth, what would it have been like?
Of course, the woman may have run away out of fear, or she could have gotten angry. Because courage – it’s not an easy thing to have.

To tell the truth, I had a similar experience. It is about the friend I told you about in my last post, that I met at the playing cards conference. To tell the truth, I was in a single-sided love with this friend. This friend was very bright, cheerful, and full of light. After we heard that news of the Smeraldo being discovered and from then sharing conversations about the flower, we promised to go to ‘La Città di smeraldo’ together. It seems that this friend wasn’t completely uninterested in me, as she said for us to make sure we go there together.

I still think about those happenings to this day. My friend’s expression full of curiosity and anticipation, her short, quick steps towards me while wearing a big backpack, the day we excitedly made a promise, booked our flights, and discussed our schedule.

To me, those are moments I will never be able to forget.
And they are also scars that will not heal, no matter how much time passes.

[The Third Story] How was the ‘Smeraldo’ discovered? (English translation)

Korean-English translation: yoon (@cafe_ARMY)
Original content: blog.naver.com/testesso/221320758395

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testesso
2018. 7. 17.

[The Third Story] How was the ‘Smeraldo’ discovered?

Today, I would like to tell you the story of how the Smeraldo, the ‘flower that appeared from a legend’ was able to come out into this world.

To tell the truth, when I first heard about the Smeraldo 5 years ago at the Playing Cards exhibition, at that time it was a widely-accepted theory that it was a flower only appearing in legends.
(I will post about the connection between playing cards and the Smeraldo separately at a later time).
But, one summer day. I received shocking news. I still remember that day vividly.
I woke up in the morning and was washing my face when my phone rang. The caller was a friend I met at the playing card event that I had attended by  mistake.

As we listened to the lecture together by chance, that friend and I were both captivated by the Smeraldo flower and ever since then, we developed a relationship where we continuously exchanged news with one another. I lived in North Dakota while that friend lived in San Francisco, but the fact that we liked the same subject allowed the distance to not become an issue.
Coming back to the story, the news that my friend had brought to me was that the Smeraldo has been discovered in real life. For a while, I could not say or do anything. Then, we both held our phones and screamed like mad.

The picture above is the site where the Smeraldo was first discovered. My heart still beats when I look at this photo.

‘amtest(amare_0)’ was the instagram account of a user who was famous for vacation photos at the time. This person had gone on a trip to the northern parts of Italy and uploaded a picture of a flower they had discovered by chance.

‘amtest(amare_0)’ said that at the time they had no clue about the Smeraldo and simply was on vacation and had come to meet a unique and beautiful flower. However, a couple people who saw the picture on instagram brought up the similarities to the Smeraldo and the story then spread rapidly. Then, a local historian revealed crucial information of the location that the flower was found. He revealed that the location’s former, forgotten name was ‘città di smeraldo‘.

At the time, a wild sensation started to spread and come together in countries like Europe and America. Each of these countries tried to begin cultivating the flower locally, but the Smeraldo can ‘only bloom in the città di smeraldo’ and has never been successfully grown elsewhere. There have been many speculations and theories on the reason behind this, but there has yet to be anything confirmed. Even now, the Smeraldo is only grown on a farm in the northern parts of Italy and is exported in small quantities to Europe, North America, and parts of Asia.

But, aren’t you curious as to how amazing the Smeraldo must be, to attract such a wild sensation?

In the next post, I will tell you the story of how I got tangled up with the Smeraldo.

[The Second Story] I introduce to you, ‘Flower Smeraldo’. (English translation)

Korean-English translation: yoon (@cafe_ARMY)
Original content: m.blog.naver.com/testesso/221317652568

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testesso
2018. 7. 12.

[The Second Story] I introduce to you, ‘Flower Smeraldo’.

Many believe that flowers are props used for special days. I too had the same thought before I began the process of becoming a florist. But in a class that I once took in the United States, there was something that the professor told me.
“You don’t need a flower for a special day, rather, because the flower exists, that day becomes special.”
This one phrase became the fuel for my determination to bring the Smeraldo flower into the country.
‘Although it may not be a well-known flower, I hope people can feel happiness from holding even just one Smeraldo flower.’
With this hopeful thought, I came to open ‘Flower Smeraldo’ this coming August.

^ This is the van I will use to deliver Smerado to everyone.

^ The full view of Flower Smeraldo under interior construction with the goal of opening in late August.

I have chosen the colour of Flower Smeraldo’s interior to be white, in order to emphasize the beauty of the Smeraldo and to keep the overall tone minimal. And I’m hoping that if I arrange some Smeraldo flowers on the window sills according to the mood of that day, I will be able to gift the people passing by with a momentary happiness (I’m simple, right…..?)

The shop is still under preparation to open, but I may be able to proceed with a delivery service for certain areas for those who require this service. Only, please be weary that quantities may be limited. The Smeraldo can play the part of a wide range of moods, so it is very important that I am informed of what kind of mood or tone should match for each case of the recipient. The Smeraldo may not be available immediately and may take an average of 1 week to supply, so if you require an arrangement with other flowers that must be imported or found, please reserve at least 2 weeks before. (Of course, I will look for the best materials and greens as soon as possible in order to best accommodate your schedule.)

Day after day, the hot and humid weather seems to continue. Because the Smeraldo is a flower grown on a farm in Northern Italy where there are severe fluctuations and it is brought from there to Korea, in order to prevent the flowers from wilting, we give it water treatments without affecting its design. We must do this in order to preserve the Smeraldo’s beauty and freshness for as long as possible.

Other than what was discussed, please direct any specific flower inquiries to the e-mail below. Thank you!
flowersmeraldo@gmail.com