Flowers. They invoke a wide variety of emotions. Flowers are used as an
expression of love, hope & sympathy. They play an important role in the life of
individuals marking important occasions & events from birth to death. Here are
the meanings of some of the flowers
| ACACIA (Rose or white) Elegance, friendship |
| ACACIA (yellow) Secret love |
| AMARYLLIS Beautiful, timid, proud |
| AMBROSIA Love returned |
| APPLE-BLOSSOM Preference |
| BALSAM Impatience |
| BABY'S BREATH Pure of heart |
| BELLFLOWER Constancy, gratitude, I wish to speak to you |
| CACTUS Grandeur, warmth |
| CALLA LILY Magnificent beauty |
| CAMELLIA (Red) Unpretending excellence, innate warmth, alas my poor heart |
| CAMELLIA (White) Perfected loveliness, without blemish |
| CHAMOMILE Energy in adversity |
| CANTERBURY BELLS Gratitude, acknowledgement, obligation |
| CARNATION Fidelity, love |
| CARNATION PINK Woman's love |
| CHERRY-BLOSSOM Spiritual beauty |
| CHESTNUT-BLOSSOM Do me justice |
| CHRYSANTHEMUM (Chinese) Loveliness and cheerfulness |
| CHRYSANTHEMUM (red) I love |
| CHRYSANTHEMUM (white) Truth |
| CLOVER (four-leafed) Be mine |
| CLOVER (white) Think of me |
| CORIANDER Hidden worth |
| CORN-BLOSSOM Riches |
| DAFFODIL Deceitful, hope, unrequited love, regard |
| DAHLIA Elegance and dignity, forever thine |
| DAISY (colored) Beauty |
| DAISY (white wild) I will think of it |
| DAISY Innocence |
| DANDELION Coquetry, love's oracle |
| FORGET-ME-NOT Constancy, true love |
| GERANIUM (dark) Melancholy |
| GERANIUM (fish) Disappointed expectation |
| GERANIUM (horseshoe) Stupidity |
| GERANIUM (Ivy) Favour |
| GERANIUM (lemon) Unexpected meeting |
| GERANIUM (nutmeg) Expected meeting |
| GERANIUM (oak) True friendship |
| GERANIUM (pencilled) Ingenuity, |
| GERANIUM (rose) Preference |
| GERANIUM (scarlet) Comforting, consolation |
| GERANIUM (silver leafed) Recall |
| GERANIUM (wild) Steadfast piety |
| GERANIUM Gentility, peaceful mind |
| HIBISCUS Delicate beauty |
| HONEYSUCKLE Bonds of love |
| IRIS (German) Aflame, I burn adversity |
| IRIS Message, my compliments, eloquence |
| IVY Fidelity, friendship, marriage, wedded love |
| JASMINE (white) Amiability |
| JASMINE (yellow) Grace and elegance |
| JASMINE I am too happy |
| LAVENDER Acknowledgment, distrust failure |
| LILAC (purple) Fastidiousness, first love |
| LILAC (white) Youthful innocence |
| LILY (water) Purity of heart |
| LILY (calla) Maiden modesty, beauty |
| LILY (day) Coquetry |
| LILY (white) Purity and sweetness |
| LILY-OF-THE-VALLEY Perfect purity, return of happiness |
| LOTUS Estranged love |
| MAGNOLIA (swamp) Perseverance |
| MAGNOLIA Benevolence, high-souled, love of nature, magnificence |
| MINT Let us be friends again, virtue |
| OLIVE Peace |
| ORANGE-BLOSSOM Chastity, eternal love, marriage,bridal festivities |
| ORCHID You are a belle, you flatter me |
| PALM Victory |
| PANSY Modesty, pleasant thoughts, think of me |
| PARSLEY Useful knowledge, festivity gaiety |
| PASSION FLOWER Faith, holy love, religious
fervor and superstition |
| PEONY Anger, indignation, bashfulness |
| PETUNIA You soothe me |
| PHEASANT'S-EYE I cannot forget you |
| ROSE (Austrian) You are all that is lovely |
| ROSE (bridal) Happy love |
| ROSE (Burgundy) Unconscious beauty |
| ROSE (cabbage) Ambassador of love |
| ROSE (Carolina) Love is dangerous |
| ROSE (China) Beauty always new |
| ROSE (Damask) Beauty ever new, young and brilliant |
| ROSE (deep-red) Admiration, bashful, embarrassment |
| ROSE (full-blown) Engagement |
| ROSE (half-blown) Timid love |
| ROSE (musk) Capricious beauty |
| ROSE (pink) Ours must be secret love |
| ROSE (red) Unity, romantic love |
| ROSE (white) I am worthy of your love, silence, innocent love |
| ROSE (wild) Charming simplicity |
| ROSE (yellow) Jealousy, let us forget, love is waning, friendship |
| ROSE Love |
| ROSE-LEAF You may hope |
| ROSEBUD (red) Inclined to love, pure and lovely |
| SUNFLOWER (large) You are splendid |
| SWEET BASIL Good wishes |
| TULIP (red) Declaration of love |
| TULIP (variegated) Enchantment, your eyes are beautiful |
| TULIP (yellow) Hopeless and perfect love |
| VIOLET (blue) Faithfulness, love, loyalty |
| VIOLET (white) modesty hope |
| ZINNIA Thoughts of absent friends |