Flowers and their meaning. While enjoing the spring, the vegetation is just splendid in Rabat. There are walls around the city covered by all kinds of flowers. Gardens who hide behind curtains of bougainville, hybiscus in a endless variety of colors. Sleeping beauties never awake in this country. The contrasts are brutal sometimes. The image of covered women in the streets, walking in their long dresses, while we want to come out with our skin after a long period of hybernation. There are doors, iron ones and sometimes they open, by accident, when you walk or drive by: you can have your lucky moment and discover the field behind the door. A plantation of orange trees, somewhere in the middle of the city..... both sides of a lane covered with these old trees, there overloaded branches and the flowers that make you dazzle. At the end of the path you notice a mansion, a colonial house... hidden secrets, undiscovered pleasures maybe to enjoy later, when finding a way to get to know the people who own the domaine. Contrasts of colors, smells, routines, flowers and veils. Fabrics in the Medina, tables cloths, nice decorated spring tables, socializing again after a period of spending time between the walls of the house. Nuria sits next to me, admiring latin names of flowers and their significance. 'Mummy what's your favorite?'' ''A Lilly''.
Lilly means majesty and hybiscus stands for elegant beauty.
Lilly means majesty and hybiscus stands for elegant beauty.