The Meaning of Flowers

We did some research on flowers and found a lot of interesting information. In the first part of a series of articles on flowers and floral planning for your wedding, we are presenting "The Meaning of Flowers".

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• ABUTILON Meditation

• ACACIA (Rose or white) Elegance, friendship

• ACACIA (yellow) Secret love

• ACANTHUS Artifice, fine arts

• ACHILLEA War

• ACONITE Lustre, misanthropy

• ADDER'S-TONGUE Jealousy

• ADONIS Sad memories

• AGRIMONY Gratitude

• ALLSPICE Compassion

• ALMOND (common) Indiscretion, perfidy

• ALOE grief, misplaced devotion, religious superstition

• ALSTOREMERIA Devotion

• ALTHEA Consumed by love

• ALYSSYM (sweet) Excellence beyond beauty, exemplary modesty

• AMARANTH (coxcomb) Affectation, pretension

• AMARANTH (globe) Constant, unchangeable

• AMARANTH Foppery, immortality, pretension

• AMARYLLIS Beautiful, timid, proud

• AMBROSIA Love returned

• ANEMONE Fading hope

• ANGELICA Inspiration, magic

• APOCYNUM Falsehood, figment, I doubt you

• APPLE-BLOSSOM Preference

• ARBOR-VITAE (American) immortality

• ARBOR-VITAE I never change, live for me

• ARBUTUS You only do I love

• ASCLEPIAS Sorrowful remembrance

• ASH Prudence, with me you are safe

• ASMINE (night-blooming) Love's vigil

• ASPEN Excess of sensibility, fear

• ASPHODEL Memorial sorrow, my regrets follow you to the grave

• ASTER (China) Afterthoughts, love of variety

• AURICULA (scarlet) Pride

• AURICULA Painting, wealth is not always happiness

• AZALEA Moderation, temperance, your blush has won me

• BACHELOR'S BUTTON Devotion, hope, love

• BALM Social intercourse, sympathy

• BALSAM Impatience

• BARBERRY Sharpness of temper

• BASIL Hatred

• BAY-LEAF I change but in death

• BABY'S BREATH Pure of heart

• BAYBERRY Discipline, instruction

• BEGONIA Deformity

• BELLFLOWER Constancy, gratitude, I wish to speak to you

• BELLWORT Hopelessness

• BETONY Surprise

• BILBERRY Treachery

• BITTERSWEET Truth, platonic love

• BLACKTHORN Difficulty

• BLUEBELL Constancy, sorrowful regret

• BLUEBOTTLE Delicacy

• BLUETS Contentment

• BORAGE Bluntness, talent

• BRAMBLE Holiness, remorse

• BROOM Humility, neatness

• BRYONY Prosperity

• BURDOCK Importunity

• BUTTERCUP Riches

• BUTTERFLY-WEED Let me go

• CACTUS Grandeur, warmth

• CALLA LILY Magnificent beauty

• CALYCANTHUS Benevolence

• CAMELLIA (Red) Unpretending excellence, innate warmth, alas my poor heart

• CAMELLIA (White) Perfected loveliness, without blemish

• CHAMOMILE Energy in adversity

• CANDYTUFT Indifference

• CANTERBURY BELLS Gratitude, acknowledgement, obligation

• CARDINAL-FLOWER Distinction

• CARNATION Fidelity, love

• CARNATION PINK Woman's love

• CATALPA Beware of the coquette

• CATCHFLY Pretended love, snare, unchanging friendship

• CATTLEYA Matronly grace, mature charms

• CEDAR I live but for thee, think of me

• CELANDINE Joys to come

• CENTAURY Delicacy

• CEREUS (night-blooming) Transient beauty

• CHERRY-BLOSSOM Spiritual beauty

• CHESTNUT-BLOSSOM Do me justice

• CHICKWEED Give an account of yourself, rendezvous

• CHICORY Frugality

• CHRYSANTHEMUM (Chinese) Loveliness and cheerfulness

• CHRYSANTHEMUM (red) I love

• CHRYSANTHEMUM (white) Truth

• CINERARIA Always delighted

• CISTUS Popular favour

• CITRON natured beauty

• CLEMATIS (evergreen) Poverty

• CLEMATIS Mental Beauty

• CLIANTHUS -Self-seeking, worldliness

• CLOTBUR Rudeness

• CLOVER (four-leafed) Be mine

• CLOVER (white) Think of me

• CLOVES Dignity

• COBAEA Gossip

• COLTSFOOT Justice shall be done

• COLUMBINE Folly

• CONVOLVULUS Uncertainty

• CORCHORUS Return quickly

• COREOPSIS Always cheerful

• CORIANDER Hidden worth

• CORN-BLOSSOM Riches

• CORN-COCKLE Peerless and proud

• CORNEL Success crowned you

• CORNFLOWER Delicacy, refinement

• COWSLIP Comeliness, winning grace, you are my divinity

• COXCOMB Foppery

• CRABAPPLE-BLOSSOM Irritability

• CRANBERRY Cure for heartache

• CREEPING CEREUS Modest genius

• CRESS Power, stability

• CROCUS Abuse not, gladness, mirth

• CROWFOOT Ingratitude

• CROWN IMPERIAL Arrogance, majesty, pride of birth

• CURRANT Your frown will destroy me

• CUSCUTA Meanness

• CYCLAMEN Diffidence

• CYPRESS Despair, mourning

• DAFFODIL Deceitful, hope, unrequited love, regard

• DAHLIA Elegance and dignity, forever thine

• DAISY (coloured) Beauty

• DAISY (Michaelmas) Farewell

• DAISY (white wild) I will think of it

• DAISY Innocence

• DANDELION Coquetry, love's oracle

• DAPHNE Fame, glory

• DARNEL Vice

• DEW-PLANT Serenade

• DIOSMA Your simple elegance charms me

• DITTANY OF CRETE (white) Passion

• DOCK Patience

• DODDER OF THYME Baseness

• DOGBANE Falsehood

• DOGROSE Pleasure

• DOGWOOD Forgetfulness, love undiminished by

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