Flower child

Flower child is a term coined in 1967 by the Californian disc jockey Lord Tim Hudson, who said, "Anyone aged between 15 and 30 is a flower child." The term was later adopted by Sky Saxon of the American rock band the Seeds who were managed by Hudson. He persuaded the band to write songs such as "March of the Flower Children" on their album Future (1967). The term "flower child" was then applied broadly to the hippie subculture by the mass media. It was the custom of "flower children" to wear and distribute flowers or floral-themed decorations to symbolize ideals of universal belonging, peace, and love. Flower children were also associated with the flower power political movement, which originated in ideas written by Allen Ginsberg in 1965.