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Editors’ Note: The first part of this article is at http://www.floweressencemagazine.com/blog/?p=1305, in which we challenge readers to come up with some of these movie/essence pairs themselves. Go ahead and get into the fun! Don’t feel you need to stay with the Bach remedies — but do include  the essence manufacturer’s name as well as the movie where the quote can be found. List additional entries in comments.

©2010 Linda Pride

Hornbeam: “Sometimes I think it’s harder to raise a husband than a baby.” Blondie, 1938, Blondie Bumstead (Blondie, Penny Singleton)

Sweet Chestnut, Crab Apple (photo, at right), Star of Bethlehem: “Why was I not made of stone like thee?” The Hunchback of Notre Dame, 1939, (Quasimodo, Charles Laughton)

Vine (as in Tyrants, power struggles with…): “What we’ve got here is.. .failure to communicate.” Cool Hand Luke, 1967, (The Captain, Strother Martin)

Beech (hostile, contemptuous, self-righteous, arrogant, petty, judgmental?): “I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.” Monty Python and the Holy Grail, 1975 (French Soldier, John Cleese)

Holly: “Sure, forgive your enemies, but first get even.” Blood on the Sun, 1945, (Nick Condon, James Cagney)

Larch: “I’m an average nobody. I get to live the rest of my life like a schnook.” Good Fellas, 1990 (Henry Hill, Ray Liotta)

Honeysuckle (textbook example, drawing at right), also perhaps Vervain: “You see, this is my life. It always will be! There’s nothing else – just us – and the cameras – and those wonderful people out there in the dark. All right, Mr. De Mille, I’m ready for my close-up.” Sunset Boulevard, 1950, (Norma Desmond, Gloria Swanson)

Scleranthus: “Psychologically, I’m very confused, but personally I feel just wonderful.” In the Good Old Summertime, 1949 (Veronica Fisher, Judy Garland)