Gifting flowers has had major significance from the ancient days. Each flower has unique meaning. Next time use appropriate flowers to express your feelings at appropriate times.
Azalea
Significance: Womanhood
Ideal for: When a woman is starting her college, getting the first big job, moving to her own apartment or for first pregnancy.
Bells of Ireland
Significance: Good luck
Ideal for: People who are going to face interviews
Chrysanthemum
Significance: Happiness, wealth and good luck
Ideal for: Retirements and fifty plus birth days
Carnation
Significance: Mother-love and admiration
Ideal for: Mother's day
Freesia
Significance: Innocence, trust and friendship
Ideal for: Friendship day
Iris
Significance: Affection, eloquence, message and promise
Ideal for: Significant anniversaries, a sweet flower from husband to a wife with affection and grace.
Lily
Significance: Purity, perfection, charity, repentance, innocence and virginity
Ideal for: Birthdays of religious women and can be given on wedding day from bride to her attendants.
Rose
Significance: Love, beauty, charity, virginity, resurrection and perfection
Ideal for: There are many types of roses and each one has unique importance.
Red rose for love, symbolic to soul and heart
Pink rose for loving vibrations
Yellow rose for friendship, symbolic to light and life
Orange rose for marriage, revelation, love and lust, symbolic to enthusiasm and desire
White rose for romance and promise, symbolic to innocence and purity
Purple rose for love and wisdom
Black rose for loss and mourning
Three roses represent body, mind and spirit, six represent physical love and twelve represent zodiac signs and vitality.
Sunflower
Significance: God's love, prayer, victory and longevity
Ideal for: Hard times, this flower denotes “I am praying for you”
Tulip
Significance: Perfect love, abundance, living life fully and mysterious power of exceptional value
Ideal for: Love and birthdays