Flowers and Emotions
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
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