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~God Almighty first planted a garden; and indeed,
it is the purest of all human pleasures~
~Sir Francis Beacon~
The origin of the language of flowers pre-dates Victorian times. It was started in Constantinople in the 1600s, and brought to England in 1716 by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. The first flower dictionary was written in 1819 in Paris, by Charlotte de la Tour.
A Victorian lady, Miss Corruthers of Inverness, wrote a book on the language of flowers in 1879 and her book became the source for flower symbolism both in England and the United States.
Flowers are a special gift from God.....a world without flowers would be dull and drab. Flowers have been a source of beauty, joy, peace, love and inspiration throughout the ages. Whatever the occassion, marriage, birth, anniversary, birthday, illness, death, festival ...it's always expressed with flowers !
Flowers have a language of their own. For every sentiment, there is a flower that can express your feelings without words. Below is a list of flowers that describe the way you feel.
A
ABECEDARY - Volubility
ABATINA - Fickleness
ACACIA BLOSSOM - Concealed Love, Beauty in Retirement, Friendship, Chaste Love
ACACIA ROSE - Friendship
ACACIA ROSE WHITE - Elegance
ACACIA YELLOW - Secret love
ACALIA - Temperance
ACANTHUS - Arts
ACHIMENESS - Such worth is rare
ACORN - Nordic Symbol of Life and Immortality
AGRIMONY - Thankfulness
ALSTROEMERIA - Devotion
ALTHEA - Consumed by love
ALYSSUM - Worth Beyond Beauty, Sweet
AMARANTH - Unfading Love, Faith, Immortality
AMARANTH (GLOBE) - Immortality, Unfading love
AMARANTH (COCKSCOMB) - Foppery, Affectation
AMBROSIA - Your Love is Reciprocated
AMARYLLIS - Splendid Beauty, Pride, Pastoral Poetry
AMERICAN COWSLIP - Divine beauty, Beauty divine
AMERICAN LINDEN - Matrimony
AMERICAN STAR WORT- Welcome to a stranger, Cheerfulness in old age
AMETHYST - Admiration
ANEMONE - Sincerity, Expectation, Forsaken, Daintiness
ANGELICA - Inspiration
ANGREC - Royalty
APPLE BLOSSOM - Preference, Better Things to Come, Good Fortune
ARBUTUS - Thee Only Do I Love
ARBUTUS TRAILING - Welcome
ARUM - Ardor
ASPARAGUS FERN - Fascination
ASPHODEL - My Regrets Follow You to the Grave
ASTER - Symbol of Love, Daintiness, Talisman of Love
ASTER (CHINA) - Fidelity, Variety, I Will Think of Thee
AZALEA - Take Care, Temperance, Fragile, Passion, Chinese Symbol of Womanhood
B
BABY'S BREATH - Innocence, Pure of Heart
BACHELOR BUTTON - Single blessedness, Celibacy
BALM - Sympathy, Pleasantry
BALM OF GILEAD - Healing, I am cured.Relief
BALSAM - Ardent Love
BALSAM, RED - Touch me not. Impatient resolves
BALSAM, YELLOW - Impatience
BELLADONNA - Silence
BELL FLOWER, PYRAMIDAL- Constancy
BELL FLOWER (SMALL WHITE) - Gratitude
BELLS OF IRELAND - Good luck
BIRD OF PARADISE - Given today from a woman to man as a symbol of faithfulness
BITTERSWEET - Truth
BLACK BRYONT/LADY'S SEAL - Be My Support
BLUEBELL- Humility, Constancy, Gratitude
BLUE BOTTLE - Delicacy
BORAGE - Bluntness, Abruptness, Rudeness
BROOM - Humility, Neatness
BUCK BEAN - Calm repose
BROKEN STRAW - Constancy
BULRUSH - Docility
BURDOCK - Importunity, Touch me not
BUTTERCUP - Childishness, Riches
BUTTERFLY WEED - Let me go
C
CACALIA - Adulation
CACTUS - Endurance, My Heart Burns with Love
CALYCANTHUS/CAROLINA ALLSPICE/SWEET SHRUB - Benevolence
CALLA LILY - Magnificent Beauty
CAMELLIA - Admiration, Perfection, Good Luck Gift for a Man, Gratitude
CAMELLIA (PINK) - Longing
CAMELLIA (RED) - You're a flame in my heart
CAMELLIA (WHITE) - Adoration, Perfection, Loveliness
CANTERBURY BELLS/BELL FLOWER - Gratitude
CAPE JASMINE - I'm too happy
CAPE JASMINE GARDENIA - Transport, Ecstasy
CARDAMINE - Paternal error
CARDINAL FLOWER/SCARLET LOBELIA - Distinction
CARNATION (GENERAL) - Fascination, Devoted Love
CARNATION (PINK) - I'll never forget you, Women's Love
CARNATION (RED) - My heart aches for you, Admiration
CARNATION (DEEP RED) - Alas! for my poor heart
CARNATION (PURPLE) - Capriciousness
CARNATION (SOLID COLOR) - Yes
CARNATION (STRIPED) - No, Refusal, Sorry I can't be with you
CARNATION (WHITE) - Sweet & Lovely, Innocence, Pure Love, Woman's Good Luck Gift
CARNATION (YELLOW) - Disapointment, Rejection
CARROT FLOWER - Do not refuse me
CATCHFLY (RED) - Youthful Love, I Fall Victim
CATTAIL - Peace, Prosperity
CATTLEYA - Mature charms
CEDAR - I live but for thee, Think of Me
CELANDINE/PILEWORT/FIGWORT - Future Joy
CEREUS (CREEPING) - Modest genius
CEREUS, NIGHT BLOOMING - Transient Beauty
CHAMOMILE/GOLDEN MARGUERITE/ANTHEMIS - Energy in Action
CHERRY BLOSSOM (SINGLE) - Education
CHERRY BLOSSOM - Spiritual beauty
CHICKWEED - I Cling to Thee
CHICKORY - Frugality, Economy
CHINA ASTER - Love of variety, I will think of thee
CHINA ASTER, DOUBLE - I partake your sentiments
CHINA ASTER, SINGLE - I will think of it, deliberation
CHINA OR INDIAN PINK - Aversion
CHINA ROSE - Beauty always new
CHINESE CHRYSANTHEMUM -Cheerfulness under adversity
CHRISTMAS ROSE/HELLEBORUS - Relieve My Anxiety
CHRYSANTHEMUM (GENERAL) - Abundance & Wealth, Cheerfulness, You're a wonderful friend
CHRYSANTHEMUM (RED) - Love
CHRYSANTHEMUM (WHITE) - Truth
CHRYSANTHEMUM (YELLOW) - Slighted Love
CINQUEFOIL - Beloved Child
CLARKIA - The variety of your conversation delights me
CLEMATIS - Artifice (ingenuity)
CLINGING WOODBINE - Fraternal love
CLOVER (FOUR-LEAF) - Be Mine
CLOVER (WHITE) - Think of Me
CLOVER (RED) - Industry
COLCHICUM (MEADOW SAFFRON) - My Best Days Fled
COLUMBINE - Columbine -Desertion, Folly
COLUMBINE (PURPLE) - Resolved to Win
COLUMBINE (RED) - Anxious
COMPASS FLOWER - Faith
CONVOLVUS MINOR/BINDWEED - Uncertainty
CONVOLVULUS MAJOR - Dead hope, Extinguished hopes
CONVOLVULUS, PINK - Worth sustained by judicious and tender affection
COREOPSIOS - Always Cheerful
CORNFLOWER - Delicacy, refinement
CORONILLA/CROWN VETCH - Success to You
COWSLIP - Rusticity, Winning Grace, Healing, Youth, Pensiveness
COXCOMB - Foppery, Unfading Love
CRESS - Power, Stability, always reliable
CROCUS - Cheerfulness, Abuse not, Gladness
CROCUS, SPRING - Youthful gladness
CROCUS, SAFFRON - Mirth
CROWN IMPERIAL/FRITILLARIA - Majesty
CUCKOO PLANT - Ardour
D
DAFFODIL - Regard, Unrequited Love, Sunshine, Respect, The sun shines when I'm with you
DAFFODIL (YELLOW ) - Chivalry
DAHLIA - Dignity and Elegance, Forever Thine
DAISY - Innocence, Loyal Love, I'll Never tell, Purity, Beauty
DAISY OX-EYE - Patience
DAISY (RED) - Beauty Unknown to Possessor
DANDELION - Faithfulness, Happiness, Love's oracle
DAPHANE CNEORUM/ROSE DAPHANE - I Desire to Please
DAPHANE ODORA/WINTER DAPHANE - I Would Not Have You Otherwise
DRACAENA/DRAGON'S BLOOD/DRAGON LILY - Inner Power
DEAD LEAVES - Sadness
DELPHINIUM - Big-Hearted, Fun
DILL - Lust
DIOSMA - Your Simple Elegance Charms Me
DOG ROSE - Pleasure and Pain
DOGWOOD (FLOWERING) - Am I Indifferent to You?
DRAGON ROOT/GREEN DRAGON (Arum draconium) - Ardor
E
EDELWEISS/ALPINE CUDWEED - Daring, Courage, Noble Purity
EGLANTINE/SWEET-BRIAR/ROSA EGLANTARIA - Poetry, I Wound to Heal
ELDER FLOWER - Zeal
ENDINE - Frugality
EPIGAEA, REPENS/MAYFLOWER/TRAILING ARBUTUS - Budding
EUPATORIUM/HARDY AGERATUM - Delay
EREMURUS - Endurance
EUPHORBIA - Persistence
EVERLASTING -Never Ceasing Memory
F
FERN - Magic, Fascination, Confidence, Shelter
FERN (MAIDENHAIR) - Secret bond of love, Discretion
FERN (ROYAL) - Reverie
FILBERT - Reconciliation
FIR - Time
FLAX - Domestic Symbol
FLORA'S BELL - Without Pretension
FLOWERING REED - Confide in Heaven
FORGET ME NOT - True Love, Memories
FORSYTHIA - Anticipation
FOXGLOVE/FAIRY THIMBLES/DEAD MEN'S BELLS - Stateliness, Youth
FOXTAIL GRASS - Sporting
FREESIA - Innocence, Trust
FUCHSIA (SCARLET) - Confiding Love, Taste
FURZE - Love for All Occasions
G
GARDENIA - You're lovely, Secret love, Purity, Refinement
GARLIC - Courage, Strength, Get well, Ward Off Evil & Illness
GENETIAN (FRINGED) - Intrinsic Worth, I Look to Heaven, Autumn
GENTIAN (CLOSED) - Sweet Be Thy Dreams
GERANIUM - True Friend, Stupidity, Folly
GERANIUM (APPLE) - Present Preference
GERANIUM (IVY) - Your Hand for Next Dance
GERANIUM (LEMON) - Unexpected Meeting
GERANIUM (NUTMEG) - I Expect a Meeting
GERANIUM (OAK-LEAVED) - True Friendship, Lady, Deign to Smile
GERANIUM (PENCILED) - Ingenuity
GERANIUM (ROSE) - Preference
GERANIUM (SCARLET) - Consolation, Melancholy
GERANIUM (SILVER-LEAF) - Recall
GERBERA - Innocence
GLADIOLI - Generosity, I'm sincere, Flower of the gladiators
GLOBE AMARANTH - Unfading Love
GLOXINIA - Love at first sight
GINGER - Strength
GOLDEN-ROD - Be cautious, Encouragement
GOOSEBERRY - Anticipation
GOOSEFOOT - Goodness
GORSE - Endearing Affection
GRASS - Submission
GRASS/CITRONELLA/CAMEL GRASS/LEMON GRASS/GINGER GRASS - Homosexual Love
GUELDER ROSE/SNOWBALL - Winter
H
HAREBELL/CAMPANULA - Humility, Grief
HAWKWEED - Quicksightedness
HEART'S EASE/PURPLE/JOHNNY JUMP UP - Think of me
HEART'S EASE (PURPLE) - You Occupy My Thoughts
HEATH - Solitude
HEATHER (LAVENDER) - Admiration, Solitude
HEATHER (WHITE) - Protection, Wishes will come true
HELIOTROPE - Devotion
HELMET FLOWER (MONKSHOOD) - Knight-errantry
HEMP - Fate
HENBANE - For Males to Attract Love from Females
HEPATICA (Anemone nobilis) - Confidence
HIBISCUS - Consumed by Love, Delicate Beauty
HOLLY - Defense, Domestic Happiness, Am I forgotten
HOLLYHOCK - Fruitfulness
HOLLYHOCK (WHITE) - Female Ambition
HONESTY/LUNARIA/DOLLAR PLANT/MONEY PLANT - Sincerity
HONEYFLOWER - Sweet, Secret love, Generous Affection, Sweetness of Disposition
HONEYSUCKLE - The Bond of Love
HONEYSUCKLE (CORAL) - I Love You
HOUSE-LEEK - Domestic economy, Vivacity
HOUSTONIA/BLUET/QUAKER LADIES - Content
HOYA/WAX PLANT - Sculpture
HUCKLEBERRY - Faith, Simple Pleasures
HOUSTANIA - Innocence, Content
HUMBLE PLANT - Despondency, Humility
HUNDRED-LEAVED ROSE - Dignity of mind
HYACINTH (GENERAL) - Games & Sports, Rashness, Flower dedicated to Apollo
HYACINTH (BLUE) - Consistency
HYACINTH (PURPLE) - Sorry, Please forgive me, Sorrow
HYACINTH (RED OR PINK) - Playful Joy
HYACINTH (WHITE) - Unobtrusive Loveliness, I'll pray for you
HYACINTH (YELLOW) -Jealousy
HYDRANGEA - Thank you for understanding, frigidity, heartlessness
HYSSOP - Cleanliness
I
ICELAND MOSS - Health
IPOMACA - I Attach Myself to You
INDIAN CRESS/NASTURTIUM - Resignation
IRIS - Faith, Wisdom, Promise in Love, Hope, Wisdom & Valor
IRIS (YELLOW) -Passion
IRIS (GERMAN) - Flame
IVY - Wedded Love, Fidelity, Friendship, Affection
IVY (SPRIG OF WHITE TENDRILS) -Anxious to please, Affection
IVY LEAF - Friendship
IVY VINE - Matrimony, marriage
J
JACOB'S LADDER - Come down
JAPANESE ROSE - Beauty is your only attraction
JAPONICA - Sincerity, Symbol of Love
JASMINE (INDIAN) - Attachment
JASMINE (SPANISH) - Sensuality
JASMINE (YELLOW) - Modesty, Grace, Elegance
JASMINE (WHITE) -Amiability
JASMINE (SPANISH) - Sensuality
JERUSALEM OAK - Your Love is Reciprocated
JONQUIL - Love Me, Affection Returned, Desire, Sympathy
JULIENNE (WHITE) - Despair not
JUMPER - Asylum, Aid, Protection
JUSTICIA - The perfection of female loveliness
K
KALMIA (MOUNTAIN LAUREL) - Treachery
KENNEDIA - Intellectual Beauty
KINGS-CUPS - Desire of riches, I wish I was rich
L
LABURNUM - Forsaken, Pensive Beauty
LADY'S SLIPPER - Win me, Capricious Beauty
LAGERSTRAEMIA (INDIAN) - Eloquence
LANTANA - Rigor
LARKSPUR - Levity, An Open Heart, Lightness
LARKSPUR (PINK) - Lightness. Fickleness
LARKSPUR (PURPLE) - Haughtiness
LAUREL - Glory
LAURISTINUS - Cheerful in Adversity
LAVENDER - Love, Devotion
LAVATERA - Sweet disposition
LEMON BLOSSOM -Fidelity in Love, I Promise to be True
LILAC(GENERAL) - Beauty, Pride
LILAC (PURPLE) - First emotions of love
LILAC (WHITE) - Youthful Innocence
LILY (GENERAL) - Majesty & Honor, Purity of Heart
LILY (CALLA) - Beauty
LILY (DAY) - Coquetry, Chinese Emblem For Mother
LILY (EUCHARIS) - Maiden Charms
LILY (IMPERIAL) - Majesty
LILY (ORANGE) - Hatred, Dislike
LILY (SCARLET) - High-bred, high-souled
LILY (TIGER) - Wealth, Pride, Prosperity
LILY (WHITE) - Virginity, Purity, Majesty, It's Heavenly to be with You, Youth
LILY (YELLOW) - I'm Walking On Air, False, Gay, Gratitude
LILY OF THE VALLEY - Sweetness, Tears Of The Virgin Mary, Happiness, Humility
LIVERWORT - Confidence
LOBELIA - Malevolence
LONDON PRIDE - Frivolity
LOVE IN A MIST - You Puzzle Me
LOVE-IN-A-PUZZLE - Embarrassment
LOVE-LIES-BLEEDING/AMARANTHUS - Hopeless, Not Heartless, Desertion
LOTUS - Estranged love, Forgetful of the Past
LUCERNE - Life
LUNGWORT - Thou Art My Life
LUPINE - Imagination
LYCHNIS/CAMPION/MALTESE CROSS - Religious Enthusiasm
M
MAGNOLIA -Nobility, Perseverance, Nobility
MAGNOLIA (CHINESE) - Love of Nature
MAGNOLIA (GRANDIFLORA) -Peerless and proud
MAIDEN'S HAIR - Discretion
MALLOW -Delicate Beauty, Sweetness
MALLOW (MARSH) - Beneficience
MALLOW (SYRIAN) -Consumed by love, Persuasion
MALLOW (VENETIAN) - Delicate beauty
MARIGOLD (COMMON) -Pretty Love, Sacred,Affection, Caress, Sorrow
MARJORAM - Joy, Happiness
MARVEL OF PERU/FOUR O' CLOCK - Timidity
MEADOW (LYCHNIS) -Wit
MEADOW (SAFFRON) - My Best Days Are Gone
MEADOW (SWEET) - Uselessness
MERCURY - Goodness
MAYFLOWER - Welcome
MEZEREON - Desire to Please
MIGNONETTE - Your qualities Surpass your Charms, Health
MILKWEED - Hope in misery
MILK VETCH - Your presence softens my pain
MILKWORT - Hermitage
MIMOSA - Secret Love
MINT - Virtue
MISTLETOE -Kiss me, Affection, Difficulties, Sacred plant of India
MONKSHOOD - Beware, Danger is near
MOONWORT/HONESTY - Forgetfulness
MOUSE-EAR CHICKWEED -Simplicity
MORNING GLORY - Affection
MOSCHATEL - Weakness
MOSS - Maternal love
MOSSY SAXIFRAGE - Affection
MOTHERWORT - Secret Love
MOURNING BRIDE - Unfortunate attachment, I have lost all
MOUSE EAR - Forget me not
MUGWORT/WORMWOOD - Tranquility, Happiness
MULLEIN - Good Nature
MYRTLE - Love, Joy, Hebrew Emblem of marriage
MYRTLE (WAX) -Discipline, Instruction
N
NARCISSUS - Formality, Stay As Sweet As You Are
NASTURTIUM - Conquest, Victory In Battle
NIGHT BLOOMING CEREUS -Transient beauty
O
OAK LEAVES - Bravery
OLEANDER - Caution
OLIVE BRANCH -Peace
ORANGE BLOSSOM -Innocence, Eternal Love, Marriage, Fruitfulness
ORCHID - Love, Beauty, Refinement, Chinese Symbol for Many Children, Thoughtfulness
ORCHID (CATTLEYA) - Mature Charm
OSMUNDA - I dream of thee
OX EYE -Patience
P
PALM LEAVES -Victory & Success
PANSY - Merriment, Thoughts (You Occupy My Thoughts)
PARSLEY - Useful Knowledge
PASSION FLOWER - Faith, Religious Fervor
PASQUE FLOWER - Unpretentious, You Have No Claims
PATIENCE DOCK - Patience
PEAR -Affection
PEACH BLOSSOM - I am your Captive
PEONY - Shame, Happy Marriage, Compassion, Bashfulness
PEPPERMINT - Cordiality
PERIWINKLE/VINCA/MYRTLE - Early Recollections, Sweet Memories
PERIWINKLE (BLUE) - Early friendship. Early attachment
PERIWINKLE (WHITE) - Pleasures of memory, Pleasant recollections
PERSICARIA - Restoration
PERSIMMON - Bury me amid nature's beauties
PERUVIAN HELIOTROPE - Devotion
PETUNIA - Your Presence Soothes Me
PHEASANT'S EYE/ADONIS - Sorrowful Memories
PHLOX - Our souls are united, Unanimity
PIMPERNEL/POOR MAN'S WEATHER GLASS - Change
PINE - Hope, Pity
PINK- Pure Affection
PINK (MOUNTAIN) -You Are Aspiring
PINK (CLOVE) - Dignity
PINK (DOUBLE-RED) -Pure and ardent love
PINK (INDIAN, DOUBLE) - Always lovely
PINK (INDIAN, SINGLE) - Aversion, dislike
PINK (RED) -Love, ardent and sincere, Pure love
PINK (SINGLE) -Pure love
PINK (VARIEGATED) - Refusal
PINK (WHITE) - You are fair. Ingeniousness, Talent
PINK (YELLOW) - Disdain
POPPY (GENERAL) -Eternal Sleep, Oblivion, Imagination
POPPY (RED) - Pleasure
POPPY (WHITE) - Consolation
POPPY (YELLOW ) - Wealth, Success
POMEGRANATE FLOWER - Elegance
PRIDE OF CHINA - Dissension
PRIMROSE - I Can't Live Without You, Woman
PRIMROSE (EVENING) - Inconstancy
PRIMROSE (RED) - Unpatronized Merit
PRINCE'S FEATHER - Unfading Love
PUSSY WILLOW - Motherhood
R
RAGGED-ROBIN -Wit
RANUNCULUS -I am Dazzled by your Charms
RASPBERRY - Remorse
RED CATCHFLY - Youthful love
REEDS - Music
REST HARROW - Obstacle
RHUBARB - Advice
ROSE (AUSTRIAN) - Thou art all that is lovely
ROSE (BRIDAL) - Happiness
ROSE (BURGANDY) - Unconscious Beauty
ROSE (CABBAGE) - Ambassador of love
ROSE (CAMPION) - Only deserve my love
ROSE (CAROLINA) - Love is dangerous
ROSE (CHRISTMAS) -Relieve my anxiety
ROSE (CINNAMON) - Without pretension
ROSE (CORAL) - Desire
ROSE (DAMASK) - Freshness, Persian Ambassador of Love
ROSE (DARK CRIMSON) - Mourning
ROSE (DOG) - Pleasure & Pain
ROSE (GREEN) - I am from Mars
ROSE (HIBISCUS) - Delicate, Beauty
ROSE (LEAF) - You may Hope
ROSE (LAVENDER) -Enchantment
ROSE (ORANGE) - Fascination
ROSE (PINK) -Perfect Happiness, Secret Love, Grace & Sweetness, Indecision
ROSE (DARK PINK) - Thankfulness
ROSE (PALE PINK) - Grace, Joy
ROSE (PEACH) - Immortality, Modesty
ROSE (RED) - Love, I love you, Respect, Beauty
ROSE (DEEP RED) - Bashful, Shame
ROSE (TEA) - I'll Remember - Always
ROSE (THORNLESS) -Love at first sight, Early Attachment
ROSE (WHITE) -Innocence, Purity, Humility, I am Worthy of You, Secrecy, Silence
ROSE (WHITE & RED TOGETHER) -Unity, Flower Emblem of England
ROSE (WHITE-DRIED) - Death is Preferable to Loss of Virtue
ROSE (YELLOW) - Joy, Jealousy, Friendship (one yellow rose with 11 red ones means love & passion)
ROSEBUD - Beauty & Youth, A Heart Innocent of Love
ROSEBUD (RED) - Pure & Lovely
ROSEBUD (WHITE) - Girlhood, Heart Ignorant of Love
ROSEBUD (MOSS) - Confessions of Love
ROSES (Bouquet of full bloom) - Gratitude
ROSES (Single full bloom) - I love you, Simplicity
ROSES (GARLAND or CROWN OF) -Beware of Virtue, Reward of Merit, Symbol of Superior Merit
ROSE (MUSK CLUSTER) - Charming
ROSE-OF-SHARON - Consumed by Love
ROSEMARY - Remembrance
RUSH/HORSE-TAIL -Docility
S
SAFFRON FLOWER - Do not abuse, Excess is dangerous, Beware of excess
SAFFRON (MEADOW) - My happiest days are past
SAGE - Wisdom, Great Respect
SARDONIA - Irony
SATIN-FLOWER (LUNARIA) - Sincerity, Forgetfulness, Am I forgotten?
SAXIFRAGE (MOSSY) -Affection
SCABIOUS - Unfortunate love
SCABIOUS (SWEET) -Widowhood
SCARLET LYCHNIS - Sunbeaming eyes
SCHINUS - Religious enthusiasm
SENSITIVE PLANT - Timidity
SHAMROCK - Lightheartedness
SLOE - Difficulty, Austerity
SMILAX - Loveliness
SNAPDRAGON -Gracious Lady, Strength
SNOWBALL -Thoughts of Heaven
SNOWDROP - Hope, Consolation
SPEARMINT - Warm Sentiment
SPEEDWELL - Female fidelity
SPIDER FLOWER - Elope with me
SPIDERWORT - Esteem not love, Esteem, but not love
SPRING CAROLINE - Disappointment
SOLIDAGO - Success
STAR OF BETHLEHEM -Atonement, Reconciliation
STARWORT - Welcome to a Stranger
STEPHANOTIS -Marital Happiness, Desire to Travel
STOCK- Bonds of Affection, Promptness, You'll Always Be Beautiful to Me
STONECROP - Tranquility
STRAW FLOWER - Agreement
STRAW - Agreement, United
STRAW (BROKEN) - Broken agreement
SUMAC/SUMACH -Splendid, Intellectual excellence
SUNFLOWER ( DWARF) - Adoration
SWALLOW-WORT -Cure for heartache
SWEET BRIAR - Poetry, Simplicity
SWEETBRIER (EUROPEAN) - I wound to heal
SWEETBRIER (YELLOW) -Decrease of love, Let us forget
SWEET FLAG - Fitness
SWEETPEA - Good-by, Departure, Blissful Pleasure, Thank You for a Lovely Time
SWEET-SULTAN - Felicity, Happiness
SWEET-WILLIAM - Grant me one smile, Gallantry
SYTINGIA/MOCK ORANGE/LILAC - Memory, Fraternal love
T
TEASEL (Dipscaus) - Misanthropy
TENDRILS OF CLIMBING PLANTS - Ties
THRIFT (ARMERIA) - Sympathy
TRAVELER'S JOY - Rest, Safety
TREMELLA - Resistance
TRUFFLE - Surprise
TRUMPET FLOWER/ANGEL'S TRUMPET/DATURA - Separation
TUBEROSE - Dangerous pleasures, Voluptuousness, Sweet voice
TULIP (GENERAL) -Perfect Lover, Fame, Flower Emblem of Holland
TULIP (RED) - Believe me, Declaration of Love
TULIP (VARIEGATED) - Beautiful eyes
TULIP (YELLOW) - There's Sunshine In Your Smile
TUSSILAGE - (SWEET-SCENTED) - Justice shall be done you
V
VALERIAN (COMMON) - Accommodating disposition
VALERIAN (GREEK) - Rupture
VALERIAN (RED) - Readiness
VENICE SUMACH - Splendour. Intellectual excellence
VENUS' CAR - Fly with me
VENUS'S FLYTRAP - Caught at last
VENUS'S LOOKING-GLASS -Flattery
VERBENA - Pray for me, Sensibility
VERBENA (PINK) - Family union
VERBENA (PURPLE) - I weep for you, Regret
VERBENA (WHITE) - Pray for me
VERONICA - Fidelity
VERINOCA SPECIOSA - I dare not
VERONICA SPEEDWELL -Fidelity
VERNAL GRASS - Poor but happy
VERVAIN - Enchantment
VETCH - I cling to thee, Shyness
VINE - Intoxicating
VIOLET - Modesty, Virtue, Affection
VIOLET (BLUE) - Watchfulness, Faithfulness, Love
VIOLET (WHITE) -Let's Take A Chance On Happiness
VIOLET (DAME) - Watchfulness, You are the queen of coquettes
VIOLET (PURPLE) - You occupy my thoughts
VIOLET (SWEET) - Modesty
VIOLET (WHITE) - Purity, Candor, Modesty, Innocence, Let's Take A Chance On Happiness
VIOLET (YELLOW) - Modest worth, Rural happiness
VIRGINIAN SPIDERWORT - Momentary happiness
VIRGIN'S BOWER/CLEMATIS -Filial Love (Filial: referring to a son or daughter)
VISCARIA - Will You Dance With Me?
VOLKAMENIA - May you be happy
W
WALL FLOWER/GILLY FLOWER - Faithful in Adversity, Fidelity, Lasting Beauty
WATCHER-BY-THE-WAYSIDE - Never despair
WATER LILY - Purity of heart
WAX PLANT - Susceptibility
WINDFLOWER - Sincerity, Symbol of Love
WINTERGREENS - Harmony
WISTERIA - Welcome
WITCH HAZEL -A spell
WOLFBANE/ACONITE/TURK'S CAP/FRIAR'S CAP/BEAR'S FOOT - Misanthropy, Chivalry, Knight
WOODBINE - Fraternal Love
WOOD SORREL - Joy, Maternal tenderness
WORMWOOD/ARTEMISIA - Absence, Do not be discouraged
Y
YARROW - Cure for heartache
Z
ZEPHYR FLOWER - Sincerity, Symbol of Love
ZINNIA (MAGENTA ) - Lasting Affection
ZINNIA (MIXED ) - Thinking (or in memory) of an Absent Friend
ZINNIA (SCARLET) - Constancy
ZINNIA (WHITE) - Goodness
ZINNIA (YELLOW) - Daily Remembrance
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NEGATIVE MEANINGS
The meanings attached to flowers are not always positive. A bouquet of flowers can bring a hidden message from the giver to the receiver. Giving a bouquet of tulips mean ~a declaration of love~ But if the tulips are presented with their stems up, it means rejection ! Flowers presented upright, have a positive meaning but if presented upside down, their meaning is opposite. If the ribbons are tied to the left, the meaning refers to the giver; the right refers to the recipient. Flowers were also used to answer questions. If they were handed over with the right hand, the answer was "yes"; with the left hand, "no".
Red roses mean "I love you", but how do you say "I hate you" with flowers ? Basil or orange lilies are the answer !!!
Below is a list of some of the ~negative~ meanings attached to flowers....
A
ABRAHAM'S BALM - Coldness, Command
ADDER'S-TONGUE - Jealousy
ADONIS VERNALIS - Bitter Memories
ACHILLEA - War
ALOE - Superstition
ANEMONE - Estrangement, Forsaken, Brevity, Sickness
ANEMONE FIELD - Sickness, Illness
ANEMONE GARDEN - Forsaken, Withered hopes - Illness
APOCYNUM - Falsehood, Deception
B
BASIL - I Hate You
BEE BALM - Your whims are Unbearable
BEGONIA - Beware, A Fanciful Nature
BELVEDERE (WILD) - I Declare Against You
BILBERRY/WHORTLEBERRY - Treachery
BORAGE - Bluntness
BRAMBLE/DEW BERRIES/ BLACK BERRIES - Lowliness, Remorse
BRIERS - Envy
BOUQUET OF WITHERED FLOWERS - Rejected love
BUGLOSS - Falsehood
BURDOC/BEGGAR'S BUTTONS - Importunity
C
CANDYTUFT - Indifference
CARNATIONS (STRIPEED, YELLOW) - Rejection, Disdain, You have disappointed me
CARNATION (PURPLE) - Capriciousness
CATALPA FLOWER - Beware of the coquette
CHERRY BLOSSOM - False Hopes
CHRYSANTHEMUMS (YELLOW) - Dejection, Slighted Love
CHINA (PINK) - Aversion
CLEMATIS - Artifice (deception, trickery)
CLOTBUR - Rudeness
COBOEA - Gossip
CONVOLVUS MAJOR/BINDWEED - Dead Hope
COLT'S FOOT - Justice Shall Be Done You
COLUMBINE - Folly
COXCOMB - Foppery
CREEPING CEREUS - Horror
CROWN IMPERIALS - Arrogance, Pride of Birth
CYCLAMEN - Resignation and Good-Bye
D
DAFFODILS - Vanity
DAHLIA - Instability
DARNEL - Vice
DEADLY NIGHTSHADE - Falsehood
DENDROBIUM - Selfish Beauty
DODDER - Meanness
DRAGON'S WORT - Horror
DOGBANE - Falsehood, Deception
F
FLYTRAP - Deceit
FOXGLOVE - Falsehood, Deception
FRITILLARIA/GUINEA-HEN FLOWER - Persecution
FRAXINELLA/CULTIVATED DITTANY/GAS PLANT - Fire
FURZE - Anger
G
GERANIUMS (HORSESHOE) - Stupidity
H
HAREBELL/CAMPANULA - Humility, Grief
HELENIUM/SNEEZE WEED - Tears
HELLEBORE - Scandal
HEMLOCK - You will be the death of me
HYACINTH (PURPLE, YELLOW) - Jealousy
HYDRANGEA - Frigidity, Heartlessness, Boastfulness
I
ICE PLANT - Your Looks Freeze Me
L
LABURNUM - Forsaken
LARKSPUR (PINK) - Fickleness
LARKSPUR (PURPLE) - Haughtiness
LAUREL - Treachery
LAVENDER - Distrust
LETTUCE - Cold-hearted
LICHEN - Dejection, Solitude
LICORICE - I declare against you
LILY (TIGER) - Pride
LILY (ORANGE) - Hatred
LILY (YELLOW) - False and Gay, Falsehood
LONDON PRIDE - Frivolity
LYTHRUM/LOOSESTRIFE - Pretension
M
MADDER - Calumny, Slander
MANCHINEEL - Falsehood, Deception
MANDRAKE/MAY APPLE/DEVIL'S APPLES/SATAN'S APPLES - Horror
MARIGOLD - Cruelty in Love, Despair, Grief, Jealousy, Vulger minded
MEADOW SWEET - Uselessness
MILFORD - War
MISTLETOE - You are a Parasite
MOCK ORANGE - Counterfeit
MONK'S-HOOD/MONK'S-HEAD - Beware, A Deadly Foe Is Near, Danger is Near
MORNING GLORY - Coquetry
MOURNING BRIDE - Unfortunate Attachment
MUSH PLANT - Weakness
N
NARCISSUS - Vanity, Self love
NETTLES - Slander, You are Spiteful
NIGHT-BLOOMING CEREUS/QUEEN-OF-THE-NIGHT - Transient Beauty
NIGHT SHADE - Bitter Truth
NUTS - Stupidity
O
OLEANDER - Caution, Beware
ORANGE LILLIES - I Hate You
ORANGE (MOCK) - Deceit
P
PENNYROYAL - You had better go
PEONY - Anger
PETUNIAS - Resentment, Anger
PINK (INDIAN) - Aversion
PRIMROSE (EVENING) - Inconsistency
Q
QUAKING GRASS - Agitation
QUAMOCLIT - Busybody
QUEEN OF THE MEADOW - Uselessness
QUEEN'S ROCKET - You are the queen of coquettes, Fashionable
QUINCE - Temptation
R
RHODODENDRON - Danger, Beware, I am Dangerous, Agitation
ROCKET - Rivalry
ROSE (BLACK) - Foreshadow of Death
ROSE (CAROLINA) - Love is dangerous
ROSE (DARK CRIMSON) - Mourning, Bashful Shame
ROSE (DRIED WHITE) - Death
ROSE (GARLAND or CROWN) - Beware of Virtue
ROSE (WITHERED WHITE) - Transient Impression, Fleeting Beauty
ROSE (YELLOW) - Decrease of Love, Jealousy
ROSE ( YORK & LANCASTER together) - Conflict
S
SCABIOUS/MOURNING BRIDE - Widowhood, Unfortunate Love
SARDONIA - Irony
SNAPDRAGON - Falsehood, Deception
SORREL - Wit Ill-Timed
ST. JOHN'S WORT - Superstition
STRAW (BROKEN) - Broken Agreement
SUNFLOWER (TALL) - False riches, Pride
SWEETBRIER (YELLOW) - Decrease of Love
T
TANSY - I Declare Against You
THISTLE - Austerity, Sternness
THISTLE (FULLER'S) - Misanthropy
THISTLE (SCOTCH) - Retaliation
THORNAPPLE - I dreamed of thee, Deceitful charms
THORN (BLACK) - Difficulty
THORNS - Severity
THORNAPPLE - Deceitful Charms
THROATWOOD - Neglected Beauty
TIGER FLOWER - May Pride Befriend Thee
TOUCH-ME-NOT/(JEWEL WEED/IMPATIENS/ BALSAM - Impatience
TUBEROSES - Dangerous Pleasures
TULIP (YELLOW) - Hopeless Love,No Hope for econciliation
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COMBINATIONS
Flowers may be combined and arranged so as to express even the nicest shades of sentiment.
Moss Rosebud and Myrtle - A confession of love
Mignonette and Coloured Daisy - Your qualities surpass your charms of beauty
Mignonette and Sweet Basil - Love & Health
Lily of the Valley and Ferns - Your unconscious sweetness has fascinated me
Yellow Rose, Broken Straw and Ivy - Your jealousy has broken our friendship
Scarlet Geranium, Passion Flower, Purple Hyacinth & Arbor Vitae - I trust you will find consolation, through faith, in your sorrow; be assured of my unchanging friendship
Columbine, Day Lily, Broken Straw, Witch Hazel & Coloured Daisy - Your folly and coquetry have broken the spell of your beauty
White Pink, Canary Grass & Laurel - Your talent and perseverance will win you glory
Golden-rod, Monkshead, Sweet Pea &Forget-me-not - Be cautious; danger is near; I depart soon; forget me not.
Cypress and Marigold - Despair
Twine a laurel leaf around the bouquet to say ~I am~
Add a leaf of Virginia creeper to suggest ~I offer you~
spider number
to crawl into my web!
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