Around the world, it is often believed that a flower’s meaning is universal, and few people take the time to consider how differing cultures and countries might view flowers in relation to their own context. In other words where a flower might symbolise one thing to a particular group of people in a country, it might mean the opposite or at least something different to a different group of people in another country. Some flowers have come to be ‘owned’ and indelibly associated with countries, to the point where their origins are overwritten. To use one example, the tulip is quite honestly believed to be a Dutch flower, where in truth it comes from the valleys of central Asia; it is a thoroughly colonised flower. My practice looks at flowers such as this, in order to explore the question of what flowers come to signify most particularly in the context of colonialism, and what meanings flowers inherit.