Flower Quiz

Lily of the Valley

You line up little bells in the shade of your leaves and share your scent only with those who come near.

Lots of small flowersDraw people near with scentStart fresh each year

The lily of the valley blooms from late spring into early summer. A slender stem rises between broad leaves, and small white bell-shaped flowers hang from it in a row, facing downward. In Japan, it's often found in cool places such as Hokkaido, the northernmost main island.

Its flowers are small and bloom as though hiding in the shade of the leaves, but they have a lovely scent, and perfumes have been made to imitate it. Hard to find from far away, its scent reaches anyone who comes close. You're the kind of person who quietly brings many small things to the people beside you.

Its underground stems survive from year to year, but the leaves die back in winter, and in spring new shoots come up again from those stems. You can start afresh each year. But because you're so understated, people far away may not see what you're doing, and by the time you notice, an important discussion may already be settled.

Strengths

You can keep lots of small kindnesses going at the same time
You can get things across to people nearby without pushing
Even in a new place, you can put down roots again

Where you may stumble

You can be so understated that people don't notice
You hold on to small tasks and try to handle them all yourself
When it's time to carry on last year's way of doing things, you start thinking from the beginning again

Sounds familiar, Lily of the Valley?

You make jokes in a voice only the person next to you can hear
When someone's bags look heavy, you take one without saying a word
When you rearrange your room, you change it so much you can't remember the old layout

Where you shine

Moments of quietly piling up small kindnesses without standing out, and times of putting down roots again somewhere new.

Tips for “Lily of the Valley”

Now and then, share something important in a way people far off can see too
Try asking someone else to take one of the small tasks you're holding
When a way of doing things works, write a note to next year's you

Matches

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Easy together

Cosmos — The Cosmos also opens many flowers and grows from seed every year. What the Lily of the Valley quietly brings to the people beside it, the Cosmos spreads out where people far away can see it too.

Easy together

Lavender — Lavender also opens many small flowers and gives off its scent only to those who come close. You both pile up small kindnesses where they don't show, so you notice what the other has done for you without a word being said.

May clash

Camellia — Where the Camellia keeps one bold flower blooming all through winter, the Lily of the Valley comes up small in the shade of its leaves, starting over every year. One builds up and shows itself, the other starts fresh and quietly reaches out, so you put different things first and tend to disagree in discussions.