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The Meaning of Flowers, Continued
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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MADDER Backbiting, tranquility
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MAGNOLIA (swamp) Perseverance
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MAGNOLIA Benevolence, high-souled, love of nature, magnificence
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MAIZE Riches
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MALLOW Mildness
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MANCHINEEL Falsehood
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MANDRAKE I wound to soothe
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MAPLE Reserve, retirement
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MARIGOLD Cruelty in love, inquietude, jealous lover
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MARJORAM Blushes
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MARSHMALLOW Beneficence in consent
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MARVEL-OF-PERU Timidity
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MEADOW-SAFFRON My best days are past
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MEADOWSWEET Uselessness
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MESEMBRYANTHEMUM Idleness
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MEZEREON Desire to please
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MIGNONETTE Your qualities surpass your charms
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MILFORD War
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MILK-VETCH Your presence softens my pain, comfort
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MIMOSA Exquisite, fastidious
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MINT Let us be friends again, virtue
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MISTLETOE I surmount difficulties, I want to be kissed, you are a parasite
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MOCK-ORANGE Counterfeit
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MONARDA Your whims are unbearable
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MONK'S-HOOD Chivalry
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MONKSHEAD Danger is near
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MOONFLOWER I only dream of love
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MORNING-BRIDE I have lost all
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MORNING-GLORY Affection, departure
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MOSCHATEL Weakness MOSS Ennui
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MOSS ROSEBUD Confession of love
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MOTHERWORT Concealed love
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MOUNTAIN ASH Prudence
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MOURNING-BRIDE Unfortunate to attachments
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MUDWORT Happiness, peace
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MULBERRY (black) I shall not survive you, sadness
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MULBERRY (white) Wisdom
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MULLEIN Take courage
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MUSK-PLANT Be bolder
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MUSTARD I smart, I am hurt
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MYRTLE (wax) Discipline, instruction
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MYRTLE Love in absence
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NANDINA My love will grow warmer
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NARCISSUS Egotism, you love yourself too well
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NASTURTIUM Patriotism
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NETTLE Slander, you are spiteful
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NIGHTSHADE Your thoughts are dark
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OAK Hospitality
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OAT I love your music
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OLEANDER Beware
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OLIVE Peace
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ORANGE-BLOSSOM Chastity, eternal love, marriage, bridal festivities
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ORCHID You are a belle, you flatter me
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ORCHIS (bee) Error, industry
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ORCHIS (butterfly) Gaiety
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ORCHIS (fly) Error
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OXEYE Be patient
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PALM Victory
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PANSY Modesty, pleasant thoughts, think of me
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PARSLEY Useful knowledge, festivity gaiety
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PASQUEFLOWER You have no claims
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PASSION FLOWER Faith, holy love, religious fervour and superstition
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PEA (Everlasting) Appoint a meeting, lasting pleasure
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PEACH-BLOSSOM I am your captive
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PEAR-BLOSSOM Not altogether lovely, affections
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PENNYROYAL You had better go
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PEONY Anger, indignation, bashfulness
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PEPPER-FLOWER Satirical thoughts
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PERIWINKLE (blue) Early friendship
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PERIWINKLE (white) Harmony, pleasure of memory
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PERSICARIA Restoration
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PERSIMMON-BLOSSOM Bury me amid nature's beauties, I shall surprise you by and by
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PETUNIA You soothe me
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PHEASANT'S-EYE I cannot forget you
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PHLOX (star-shaped) Affability, trying to please you, agreements
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PHLOX Unanimity
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PIMPERNEL Assignation, change
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PINE Pity
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PINK (double-red) Ardent love
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PINK (Indian) Always lovely
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PINK (mountain) Aspiration
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PINK (variegated) Refusal
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PINK (white) Fascination, talent
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PLUM (wild) Independence
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PLUM-BLOSSOM Keep your promises, fidelity
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PLUMBAGO Holy wishes
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POLYANTHUS Purse-proud
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POMEGRANATE BLOSSOM Mature elegance, perfection
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POPPY (red) Consolation
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POPPY (scarlet) Fantastic extravagance
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POPPY (variegated) Flirtation, dreaminess
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POPPY (white) Forgetfulness
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POTENTILLA I claim your esteem
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PRIDE OF CHINA Dissension
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PRIMROSE (evening) Inconstancy, early youth
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PRIMROSE (red) Neglected merit
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PRIMROSE Believe me, youth and sadness
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PRINCE'S FEATHER I blush for you
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PRIVET Prohibition
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PYXIE Life is sweet
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QUAKING-GRASS My
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QUAMOCLIT Busybody
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QUEEN-OF-THE-MEADOWS Uselessness
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QUINCE-BLOSSOM Temptation
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RAGGED-ROBIN Ardor
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RANUNCULUS I am dazzled by your charms
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RASPBERRY-BLOSSOM Remorse
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RHODODENDRON Beware, I am dangerous
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ROCKET Rivalry
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ROSE (Austrian) You are all that is lovely
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ROSE (bridal) Happy love
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ROSE (Burgundy) Unconscious beauty
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ROSE (cabbage) Ambassador of love
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ROSE (Carolina) Love is dangerous
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ROSE (China) Beauty always new
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ROSE (Damask) Beauty ever new, young and brilliant
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ROSE (deep-red) Admiration, bashful, embarrassment
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ROSE (full-blown) Engagement
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ROSE (guelder) Age, winter
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ROSE (half-blown) Timid love
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ROSE (Jacqueminot) I am true
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ROSE (Japan) Beauty is your only attraction, illusion
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ROSE (marechal niel) Yours, heart and soul
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ROSE (montiflora) Grace
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ROSE (moss) Superior, confessions of love
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ROSE (musk) Capricious beauty
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ROSE (pink) Ours must be secret love
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ROSE (red) Unity, romantic love
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ROSE (rock) Popular favour
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ROSE (thornless) Ingratitude
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ROSE (white) I am worthy of your love, silence, innocent love
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ROSE (white, withered) Despair
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ROSE (wild) Charming simplicity
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ROSE (yellow) Jealousy, let us forget, love is waning, friendship
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ROSE (York-and-Lancaster) Conflict
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ROSE Love
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ROSE-LEAF You may hope
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ROSEBUD (red) Inclined to love, pure and lovely
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ROSEBUD (white) Too young to love
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ROSEMARY Remember me
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RUDBECKIA Impartiality
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RUE Disdain, fertility




