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The Language of Flowers
Throughout history, flowers have been used to send a variety of messages ranging from love and forgiveness to passion and despair. While many specific blooms carry their own meanings, the fact of the matter is, the hue often has more to do with the meaning than the type. Read on to learn what the rainbow of flowers can mean in your bouquet!
Throughout history, flowers have been used to send a variety of messages ranging from love and forgiveness to passion and despair. While many specific blooms carry their own meanings, the fact of the matter is, the hue often has more to do with the meaning than the type. Read on to learn what the rainbow of flowers can mean in your bouquet!
Red: Most red flowers convey a sense of passion, love, beauty, and strength—a perfect pick for your romantic partner or building an empowering arrangement. Radiant, ruby-colored blooms can include everything from classic roses to tulips, orchids, and alstroemeria.
Orange: Orange in the floral sphere often represents energy, enthusiasm, and excitement. Softer, peach-colored blooms can convey sincerity, gratitude, and warmth. Share your zest for life with vibrant flowers like lilies, tulips, marigolds, and zinnias.
Yellow: The color yellow most often stands for cheerfulness, joy, and sunshine. It can also represent jealousy, but who has time for that sort of sentiment? Some stunning candidates for soaking in the sunny vibes include daffodils, daisies, tulips, and sunflowers.
Green: Along with stems and leaves, petals can rock this gorgeous hue, too! Verdant green flowers usually symbolize nature, renewal, hope, and abundance. Go green with fabulous flowers like hydrangeas, orchids, carnations, and chrysanthemums.
Blue: Blue flowers are rarer than most, and are all the more special for it. Sapphire blooms usually bring a message of sincerity, loyalty, and serenity. A few of these blue beauties include hyacinths, hydrangeas, and delphinium.
Purple: A pop of purple in your bouquet often adds a touch of luxury, royalty, success, and esteem. Prime purple candidates for your bouquet or arrangement include fresh flowers like orchids, roses, tulips, irises, and freesias.
Pink: Just like pink is a softer shade of red, so too do pink flowers portray a softer sense of love. Think platonic or familial affection, along with sweetness and gratitude. Pink picks include roses, orchids, tulips, lilies, hyacinths, peonies, foxgloves, and a plethora more!
White: As you might imagine, white flowers are usually the choice for communicating feelings of innocence, purity, hope, and grace. Some superb snowy flowers for the job include roses, orchids, paperwhites, lilies, daisies, and carnations.
Now that you know how to speak flower, drop by our Floral Department to pick out beautiful blossoms perfect for sending meaningful messages or filling your own space with just the right vibes!
Selection may vary by store and season.