If you’re too shy to let your Valentine sweetheart know your true feelings, let flowers do the talking for you. According to the language of the Victorians, each color of a rose has it own romantic meaning. Indeed, a bouquet can be designed to communicate a message for your loved one simply by the color and kinds of roses you choose to include.
Here’s a simple translation for those who aren’t fluent in flowery language:
Red– I love you.
Pink– Perfect happiness
Coral – Good fortune, integrity and beauty
Cream – Richness and perfection
Orange – Enthusiasm, desire
White – Innocence, purity
Lavender – Rarity, dignity
Red and white mixed– Unity
A single rose – Simplicity
A thornless rose – Sincere friendship
Other love words expressed by flowers could include:
Admiration – Sunflower
Beauty – Camellia, pink carnation, daylily, delphinium, lilac
Best wishes - Basil
Betrothal – Red carnation
Declaration of love – Red tulip
Devotion – Honeysuckle
Fascination – Red or yellow carnation, fern, pinks
Happiness – Lavender, sweet marjoram, plum
Joy – chrysanthemum, calendula, sweet marjoram, myrtle, rose
Passion – red carnation, myrtle, red rose
Remembrance – pansy
Sweet dreams – phlox
Sweetness – delphinium, lilac, magnolia, sweet violet
Warm feelings – mint, all varieties
Wedded love – ivy
. . . For there is a language of flowers.
For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers.
For elegant phrases are nothing but flowers.
Christopher Smart
