The Language of Flowers |
| ACADIA, Blossom |
Concealed love, beauty in retirement,
chaste love |
| ACORN |
Nordic Symbol of life and immortality |
| AMBROSIA |
Your love is reciprocated |
| AMARYLLIS |
Pride, pastoral poetry |
| ANOMONE |
Forsaken |
| ARBUTUS |
Thee only do I love |
| ASTER |
Symbol of love, daintiness |
| AZALEA |
Take care of yourself for me, temperance,
fragile passion, Chinese symbol of womanhood |
| BACHELOR BUTTON |
Single blessedness |
| BEGONIA |
Beware |
| BELLS OF IRELAND |
Good luck |
| BITTERSWEET |
Truth |
| BLUEBELL |
Humility |
| BOUQUET OF WITHERED FLOWERS |
Rejected love |
| CACTUS |
Endurance |
| CAMELLIA |
Admiration, perfection, good luck
gift for a man |
| CAMELLIA (PINK) |
Longing for you |
| CAMELLIA (RED) |
You're a flame in my heart |
| CAMELLIA (WHITE) |
You're adorable |
| CANDYTUFT |
Indifference |
| CARNATION (GENERAL) |
Fascination, women love |
| CARNATION (PINK) |
I'll never forget you |
| CARNATION (RED) |
My heart aches for you, admiration |
| CARNATION (PURPLE) |
Capriciousness |
| CARNATION (SOLID COLOR) |
Yes |
| CARNATION (STRIPED) |
No, refusal, sorry I can't be with
you, wish I could be with you |
| CARNATION (WHITE) |
Sweet & lovely,
innocence, pure love, woman's good luck gift. |
| CARNATION (YELLOW) |
You have disappointed me, rejection. |
| CATTAIL |
Peace, prosperity |
| CHRYSANTHEMUM (GENERAL) |
You're a wonderful friend, cheerfulness
and rest |
| CHRYSANTHEMUM (RED) |
I love |
| CHRYSANTHEMUM (WHITE) |
Truth |
| CHRYSANTHEMUM (YELLOW) |
Slighted love |
| COREOPSIOS |
Always cheerful |
| CROCUS |
Cheerfulness |
| CYCLAMEN |
Resignation and good-by |
| DAFFODIL |
Regard - unrequited love, you're
the only one, the sun is always shining when I'm with you |
| DAISY |
Innocence, loyal love, I'll never
tell, purity. |
| DANDELION |
Faithfulness, Happiness |
| DEAD LEAVES |
Sadness |
| FERN |
Magic, fascination, confidence
and shelter |
| FERN-MAIDENHAIR |
Secret bond of love |
| FIR |
Time |
| FLAX |
Domestic symbol |
| FORGET-ME-NOT |
True love, memories |
| FORSYTHIA |
Anticipation |
| FUSCHIA (SCARLET) |
Taste |
| GARDENIA |
You're lovely, secret love |
| GARLIC |
Courage, strength |
| GERANIUM |
Stupidity, folly |
| GLADIOLI |
Give me a break ... I'm really
sincere, flower of the gladiators |
| GLOXINIA |
Love at first sight |
| GRASS |
Submission |
| HEATHER (LAVENDER) |
Admiration, solitude |
| HEATHER (WHITE) |
Protection, wishes will come true |
| HOLLY |
Defense, domestic happiness |
| HYACINTH (GENERAL) |
Games and sports, rashness, flower
dedicated to Apollo |
| HYACINTH (BLUE) |
Constancy |
| HYACINTH (PURPLE) |
I am sorry, please forgive me,
sorrow |
| HYACINTH (RED OR PINK) |
Play |
| HYACINTH (WHITE) |
Loveliness, I'll pray for you |
| HYACINTH (YELLOW) |
Jealousy |
| HYDRANGEA |
Thank you for understanding, frigidity,
heartlessness |
| IRIS |
Fleur-de-lis
Emblem of France, your friendship means so much to me, faith,
hope, wisdom & valor,
my compliments |
| IVY |
Wedded love, fidelity, friendship,
affection |
| IVY-SPRIG OF WHITE TENDRILS |
Anxious to please, affection |
| JONQUIL |
Love me, affection returned, desire,
sympathy, desire for affection returned |
| LARKSPUR (PINK) |
Fickleness |
| LILY (ORANGE) |
Hatred |
| LILY (WHITE) |
Virginity, purity, majesty, it's
heavenly to be with you |
| LILY (YELLOW) |
I'm
walking on air, false & gay |
| LILY (CALLA) |
Beauty |
| LILY (DAY) |
Coquetry, Chinese emblem for mother |
| LILY (EUCHARIS) |
Maiden charms |
| LILY (TIGER) |
Wealth, pride |
| LILY-OF-THE-VALLEY |
Sweetness, tears of the Virgin
Mary, return to happiness, humility, you've made my life complete |
| MAGNOLIA |
Nobility |
| MARIGOLD |
Cruelty, grief, jealousy |
| MISTLETOE |
Kiss me, affection, to surmount
difficulties, sacred plant of India, magic plant of the Druids |
| MONKHOOD |
Beware, a deadly foe is near |
| MOSS |
Maternal love, charity |
| MYRTLE |
Love, Hebrew emblem of marriage |
| NARCISSUS |
Egotism, formality, stay as sweet
as you are |
| NASTURTIUM |
Conquest, victory in battle |
| NUTS |
Stupidity |
| OLEANDER |
Caution |
| ORANGE BLOSSOM |
Innocence, eternal love, marriage
and fruitfulness |
| ORANGE MOCK |
Deceit |
| ORCHID |
Love, beauty, refinement, beautiful
lady, Chinese symbol for many children |
| ORCHID (CATTLEYA) |
Mature charm |
| PALM LEAVES |
Victory and success |
| PEONY |
Shame, gay life, happy marriage |
| PETUNIA |
Resentment, anger, your presence
soothes me |
| PINE |
Hope, pity |
| POPPY (RED) |
Pleasure |
| POPPY (WHITE) |
Consolation
(Poppy is the floral sign of consolation probably because
it was created by "Ceres" while
in search of her daughter, Prosperpine, to assuage her grief) |
| POPPY (YELLOW) |
Wealth, success |
| PRIMROSE |
I can't live without you |
| PRIMROSE (EVENING) |
Inconstancy |
| ROSE (BRIDAL) |
Happy love |
| ROSE (CHRISTMAS) |
Tranquilize my anxiety, anxiety |
| ROSE (DAMASK) |
Persian ambassador of love |
| ROSE (DARK CRIMSON) |
Mourning |
| ROSE (HIBISCUS) |
Delicate beauty |
| ROSE (LEAF) |
You may hope |
| ROSE (PINK) |
Perfect happiness, please believe
me |
| ROSE (RED) |
Love, I love you |
| ROSE (TEA) |
I'll remember - always |
| ROSE (THORNLESS) |
Love at first sight |
| ROSE (WHITE) |
Innocence and purity, I am worthy
of you, You're heavenly, Secrecy and silence |
| ROSE (WHITE AND RED TOGETHER) |
Unity, flower emblem of England |
| ROSE (WHITE-DRIED) |
Death is preferable to loss of
virtue |
| ROSE (YELLOW) |
Decrease of love, jealousy, try
to care |
| ROSEBUD |
Beauty and youth, a heart innocent
of love |
| ROSEBUD (RED) |
Pure and lovely |
| ROSEBUD (WHITE) |
Girlhood |
| ROSEBUD (MOSS) |
Confessions of love |
| ROSES (Bouquet of full bloom) |
Gratitude |
| ROSES (Single full bloom) |
I love you, I still love you |
| ROSES (GARLAND or CROWN
OF) |
Beware of virtue, reward of merit,
crown - symbol of superior merit |
| ROSE (MUSK CLUSTER) |
Charming |
| SMILAX |
Loveliness |
| SNAPDRAGON |
Deception, Gracious lady |
| SPIDER FLOWER |
Elope with me |
| STEPHANOTIS |
Happiness in marriage, desire to
travel |
| STOCK |
Bonds of affection, promptness,
you'll always be beautiful to me |
| SWEETPEA |
Good-by, departure, blissful pleasure,
thank you for a lovely time |
| 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 |
| VIOLET |
Modesty |
| VIOLET (BLUE) |
Watchfulness, faithfulness, I'll
always be true |
| VIOLET (WHITE) |
Let's take a chance on happiness |
| VISCARIA |
Will you dance with me? |
| 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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