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Know the Language of Flowers

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.

  1. 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.
  2. Bells of Ireland

    Significance: Good luck
    Ideal for: People who are going to face interviews
  3. Chrysanthemum

    Significance: Happiness, wealth and good luck
    Ideal for: Retirements and fifty plus birth days
  4. Carnation

    Significance: Mother-love and admiration
    Ideal for: Mother's day
  5. Freesia

    Significance: Innocence, trust and friendship
    Ideal for: Friendship day
  6. Iris

    Significance: Affection, eloquence, message and promise
    Ideal for: Significant anniversaries, a sweet flower from husband to a wife with affection and grace.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. Sunflower

    Significance: God's love, prayer, victory and longevity
    Ideal for: Hard times, this flower denotes “I am praying for you”
  10. Tulip

    Significance: Perfect love, abundance, living life fully and mysterious power of exceptional value
    Ideal for: Love and birthdays
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Comments (6)
#1 by IcyCucky, Dec 19, 2007
Wonderful article about the meaning of flowers.
#2 by valli, Dec 19, 2007
Thank you Icy.
#3 by Judy Sheldon-Walker, Dec 19, 2007
I only knew a few of these. Very interesting. Thank you.
#4 by ginney, Dec 19, 2007
thanks for that, ive been meaning to do more research on the language of flowers.
#5 by valli, Dec 19, 2007
Thanks for the comments Judy and ginney.
#6 by John, Dec 19, 2007
Roses really have a lot of different meanings depending on the color or if its in a bunch or just a single stem.
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