ACADIA, Blossom |
Concealed love, beauty in retirement, chaste love |
ACORN |
Nordic Symbol of life and immortality |
AMBROSIA |
Your love is reciprocated |
AMARYLLIS |
Pride, pastoral poetry |
ANOMONE |
Forsaken |
ARBUTUS |
Thee only do I love |
ASTER |
Symbol of love, daintiness |
AZALEA |
Take care of yourself for me, temperance, fragile passion, Chinese symbol of womanhood |
BACHELOR BUTTON |
Single blessedness |
BEGONIA |
Beware |
BELLS OF IRELAND |
Good luck |
BITTERSWEET |
Truth |
BLUEBELL |
Humility |
BOUQUET OF WITHERED FLOWERS |
Rejected love |
CACTUS |
Endurance |
CAMELLIA |
Admiration, perfection, good luck gift for a man |
CAMELLIA (PINK) |
Longing for you |
CAMELLIA (RED) |
You're a flame in my heart |
CAMELLIA (WHITE) |
You're adorable |
CANDYTUFT |
Indifference |
CARNATION (GENERAL) |
Fascination, women love |
CARNATION (PINK) |
I'll never forget you |
CARNATION (RED) |
My heart aches for you, admiration |
CARNATION (PURPLE) |
Capriciousness |
CARNATION (SOLID COLOR) |
Yes |
CARNATION (STRIPED) |
No, refusal, sorry I can't be with you, wish I could be with you |
CARNATION (WHITE) |
Sweet & lovely, innocence, pure love, woman's good luck gift. |
CARNATION (YELLOW) |
You have disappointed me, rejection |
CATTAIL |
Peace, prosperity |
CHRYSANTHEMUM (GENERAL) |
You're a wonderful friend, cheerfulness and rest |
CHRYSANTHEMUM (RED) |
I love |
CHRYSANTHEMUM (WHITE) |
Truth |
CHRYSANTHEMUM (YELLOW) |
Slighted love |
COREOPSIOS |
Always cheerful |
CROCUS |
Cheerfulness |
CYCLAMEN |
Resignation and good-by |
DAFFODIL |
Regard - unrequited love, you're the only one, the sun is always shining when I'm with you |
DAISY |
Innocence, loyal love, I'll never tell, purity. |
DANDELION |
Faithfulness, Happiness |
DEAD LEAVES |
Sadness |
FERN |
Magic, fascination, confidence and shelter |
FERN-MAIDENHAIR |
Secret bond of love |
FIR |
Time |
FLAX |
Domestic symbol |
FORGET-ME-NOT |
True love, memories |
FORSYTHIA |
Anticipation |
GARDENIA |
You're lovely, secret love |
GARLIC |
Courage, strength |
GERANIUM |
Stupidity, folly |
GLADIOLI |
Give me a break ... I'm really sincere, flower of the gladiators |
GLOXINIA |
Love at first sight |
GRASS |
Submission |
HEATHER (LAVENDER) |
Admiration, solitude |
HEATHER (WHITE) |
Protection, wishes will come true |
HOLLY |
Defense, domestic happiness |
HYACINTH (GENERAL) |
Games and sports, rashness, flower dedicated to Apollo |
HYACINTH (BLUE) |
Constancy |
HYACINTH (PURPLE) |
I am sorry, please forgive me, sorrow |
HYACINTH (RED OR PINK) |
Play |
HYACINTH (WHITE) |
Loveliness, I'll pray for you |
HYACINTH (YELLOW) |
Jealousy |
HYDRANGEA |
Thank you for understanding, frigidity, heartlessness |
IRIS |
Fleur-de-lis Emblem of France, your friendship means so much to me, faith, hope, wisdom & valor, my compliments |
IVY |
Wedded love, fidelity, friendship, affection |
IVY-SPRIG OF WHITE TENDRILS |
Anxious to please, affection |
JONQUIL |
Love me, affection returned, desire, sympathy, desire for affection returned |
LARKSPUR (PINK) |
Fickleness |
LILY (ORANGE) |
Hatred |
LILY (WHITE) |
Virginity, purity, majesty, it's heavenly to be with you |
LILY (YELLOW) |
I'm walking on air, false & gay |
LILY (CALLA) |
Beauty |
LILY (DAY) |
Coquetry, Chinese emblem for mother |
LILY (EUCHARIS) |
Maiden charms |
LILY (TIGER) |
Wealth, pride |
LILY-OF-THE-VALLEY |
Sweetness, tears of the Virgin Mary, return to happiness, humility, you've made my life complete |
MAGNOLIA |
Nobility |
MARIGOLD |
Cruelty, grief, jealousy |
MISTLETOE |
Kiss me, affection, to surmount difficulties, sacred plant of India, magic plant of the Druids |
MONKHOOD |
Beware, a deadly foe is near |
MOSS |
Maternal love, charity |
MYRTLE |
Love, Hebrew emblem of marriage |
NARCISSUS |
Egotism, formality, stay as sweet as you are |
NASTURTIUM |
Conquest, victory in battle |
NUTS |
Stupidity |
OLEANDER |
Caution |
ORANGE BLOSSOM |
Innocence, eternal love, marriage and fruitfulness |
ORANGE MOCK |
Deceit |
ORCHID |
Love, beauty, refinement, beautiful lady, Chinese symbol for many children |
ORCHID (CATTLEYA) |
Mature charm |
PALM LEAVES |
Victory and success |
PEONY |
Shame, gay life, happy marriage |
PETUNIA |
Resentment, anger, your presence soothes me |
PINE |
Hope, pity |
POPPY (RED) |
Pleasure |
POPPY (WHITE) |
Consolation (Poppy is the floral sign of consolation probably because it was created by "Ceres" while in search of her daughter, Prosperpine, to assuage her grief) |
POPPY (YELLOW) |
Wealth, success |
PRIMROSE |
I can't live without you |
PRIMROSE (EVENING) |
Inconstancy |
ROSE (BRIDAL) |
Happy love |
ROSE (CHRISTMAS) |
Tranquilize my anxiety, anxiety |
ROSE (DAMASK) |
Persian ambassador of love |
ROSE (DARK CRIMSON) |
Mourning |
ROSE (HIBISCUS) |
Delicate beauty |
ROSE (LEAF) |
You may hope |
ROSE (PINK) |
Perfect happiness, please believe me |
ROSE (RED) |
Love, I love you |
ROSE (TEA) |
I'll remember - always |
ROSE (THORNLESS) |
Love at first sight |
ROSE (WHITE) |
Innocence and purity, I am worthy of you, You're heavenly, Secrecy and silence |
ROSE (WHITE AND RED TOGETHER) |
Unity, flower emblem of England |
ROSE (WHITE-DRIED) |
Death is preferable to loss of virtue |
ROSE (YELLOW) |
Decrease of love, jealousy, try to care |
ROSEBUD |
Beauty and youth, a heart innocent of love |
ROSEBUD (RED) |
Pure and lovely |
ROSEBUD (WHITE) |
Girlhood |
ROSEBUD (MOSS) |
Confessions of love |
ROSES (Bouquet of full bloom) |
Gratitude |
ROSES (Single full bloom) |
I love you, I still love you |
ROSES (GARLAND or CROWN OF) |
Beware of virtue, reward of merit, crown - symbol of superior merit |
ROSE (MUSK CLUSTER) |
Charming |
SMILAX |
Loveliness |
SNAPDRAGON |
Deception, Gracious lady |
SPIDER FLOWER |
Elope with me |
STEPHANOTIS |
Happiness in marriage, desire to travel |
STOCK |
Bonds of affection, promptness, you'll always be beautiful to me |
SWEETPEA |
Good-by, departure, blissful pleasure, thank you for a lovely time |
TULIP (GENERAL) |
Perfect lover, fame, flower emblem of Holland |
TULIP (RED) |
Believe me, deceleration of love |
TULIP (VARIEGATED) |
Beautiful eyes |
TULIP (YELLOW) |
There's sunshine in your smile |
VIOLET |
Modesty |
VIOLET (BLUE) |
Watchfulness, faithfulness, I'll always be true |
VIOLET (WHITE) |
Let's take a chance on happiness |
VISCARIA |
Will you dance with me? |
ZINNIA (MAGENTA) |
Lasting affection |
ZINNIA (MIXED) |
Thinking (or in memory) of an absent friend |
ZINNIA (SCARLET) |
Constancy |
ZINNIA (WHITE) |
Goodness |
ZINNIA (YELLOW) |
Daily remembrance |