Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Symbol of Flowers

Flowers are beautiful ornaments at home and in offices, also a good gift to our loved ones during occasions but did you know that these flowers also have meanings?

Apple Blossoms - love, youth, beauty and happines


Blue Bell Flower - humility, gratitude, constancy & everlasting love

Calla Lily - magnificent beauty.


Camellia - token for expressing devotion to each other by young lovers. The petals reflect the spirit of a lady, and the holder of the petals (the calyx) represents the young man entrusted by the lady as her protector. Flowers for young sons and daughters.

Day Lily - Filial devotion to one's mother


Cyclamen - resignation and goodbye and friends who are retiring and relocating.


Daisy - purity, innocence, loyal love, beauty, patience and simplicity.


Foxglove - sometimes hurt and sometimes heal; insincerity.


Lupine - imagination


Impatiens - motherly love


Iris - faith, wisdom, cherished friendship, hope, valor, my compliments, promise in love. The blade-shaped foliage denotes the sorrows which 'pierced her heart'.


Grass Orchid - purity and simplicity.

Poinsettia - purity

Star-shaped Morning Glory - single day each year.


Marigold - passion and creativity.


Western Orchid - love, beauty, refinement, many children, thoughtfulness and mature charm.


Poppy - beauty, magic, consolation, fertility, eternal life, sleep, rest and repose.

Pink Rose - happiness

Red Rose - love, remembrance & passion


Yellow Rose - infidelity.

White Rose - purity.


Sunflower - adoration


Sweetpea - blissful & delicate pleasure, good bye, departure, adieu and thank you for a lovely time.

Tulips - fame and perfect love.

Red Tulips - "believe me"; declaration of love

Variegated Tulips - "you have beautiful eyes"


Cream Tulips - "I will love you forever"

Yellow Tulips - "there's sunshine in your smile".

Wisteria - playful spontaneity. They grow without knowing where to grow to and never miss an opportunity to engage themselves in a playful act with whomever they meet but they records the memory of its adventures.

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