According to Interflora, a flower delivery network with almost 90 years of history, the cool, dark rooms of the Victorian era were perfect ... your home with floral wallpaper or fabrics.

Lucinda Hawksley: In mid-Victorian times ... these artificial green wreaths of plants and flowers in your hair that were dyed with arsenic. In wallpaper factories, workers were becoming really ...

The Victorian Era spanned from 1837 to 1901, and during that time green wallpaper became extremely ... and the faux flowers that decorated hair and wigs. The British Medical Journal described ...

“The wallpapers that were originally ... featuring a tangled pattern of leaves, flowers and raspberries. As was done in the Victorian era, the ceiling was papered. In all, the room was trimmed ...

Amounts of arsenic that were deadly to children and the elderly were easily metabolized by healthy adults, which is one of the reasons it took many people so long to accept that arsenic wallpaper ...

While rich green wallpaper enhanced by arsenic was popular according to the RISD Museum, the much safer pink was often used as an accent in Victorian ... pink during this era included dusty ...

Floriography also spawned a sub-genre of flower dictionaries, allowing people to quickly thumb the pages looking for the real meanings behind bouquets. Much was forbidden in the Victorian era.

The coded language of floriography meant that Victorians could express affection, desire or disdain, allowing a society governed by strict etiquette to show its true feelings. Now the language of ...

During the Victorian era in Britain, the head gardeners of great ... and supervised the growing and arranging of both garden flowers as well as exotic flowers grown under glass.