I’m joining Cathy and others for a weekly garden meme called “In A Vase on Monday.” Cathy encourages her readers to cut flowers from our garden and then arrange them in a vase.

Today’s vase features pink gladiolus loosely arranged into a pink triangle in honor of Pride Month. For the past 31 years, San Francisco, which is just an hour from here, has hung a large pink triangle from Twin Peaks during Pride Month.

I’ve used a small Pride flag magnet as a prop. This Wiki submission explains the symbolism. 

“A pink triangle is a symbol for the LGBTQ+ community. Initially intended as a badge of shame, it was later reappropriated as a positive symbol of self-identity. It originated in Nazi Germany in the 1930s and 1940s as one of the Nazi concentration camp badges, distinguishing those imprisoned because they had been identified by authorities as gay men.  In the 1970s, it was revived as a symbol of protest against homophobia and has since been adopted by the larger LGBT community as a popular symbol of LGBTQ+ pride.”

Gladiolus symbolizes strength, integrity, resilience, moral character, and the ability to fight through difficulties.

Happy Pride Month.

You can see other garden vases in the comments section of Cathy’s Monday blog, Rambling in the Garden.