This Valentine’s Day, embrace green as the new colour of love

  • Written by: Elizabeth Reid Boyd, Senior Lecturer School of Arts and Humanities, Edith Cowan University
This Valentine’s Day, embrace green as the new colour of loveThomas Wilmer Dewing, Summer, c. 1890.Smithsonian American Art Museum

Valentine’s Day is associated with red and pink, representing passion and romance. But there’s another hue with a secret, sensual history longing for embrace: green.

The colour of nature and fertility, green is deeply connected to love in traditions throughout the...

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