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".
ALTHEA Consumed by love
ALYSSYM (sweet) Excellence beyond beauty, exemplary modesty
AMARYLLIS Beautiful, timid, proud
ANEMONE Fading hope
APPLE-BLOSSOM Preference
ASTER ( China) Afterthoughts, love of variety
AZALEA Moderation, temperance, your blush has won me
BACHELOR'S BUTTON Devotion, hope, love
BABY'S BREATH Pure of heart
BEGONIA Deformity
BELLFLOWER Constancy, gratitude,
BETONY Surprise
BITTERSWEET Truth, platonic love
BLUEBELL Constancy, sorrowful regret
BUTTERCUP Riches
CALLA LILY Magnificent beauty
CAMELLIA (Red) Unpretending excellence, innate warmth, alas my poor heart
CAMELLIA (White) Perfected loveliness, without blemish
CARNATION Fidelity, love
CHERRY-BLOSSOM Spiritual beauty
CHRYSANTHEMUM Loveliness and cheerfulness
CLEMATIS Mental Beauty
CLOVER (four-leafed) Be mine
CLOVER (white) Think of me
COLUMBINE Folly
CORNFLOWER Delicacy, refinement
COXCOMB Foppery
CRABAPPLE-BLOSSOM Irritability
CRANBERRY Cure for heartache
CROCUS Abuse not, gladness, mirth
DAFFODIL Deceitful, hope, unrequited love, regard
DAHLIA Elegance and dignity, forever thine
DAISY Innocence
DANDELION Coquetry, love's oracle
DOGWOOD Forgetfulness, love undiminished by
EGLANTINE Genius, I wound to heal, poetry, talent
FERN Fascination, magic, sincerity
FLOWERING ALMOND Hope
FORGET-ME-NOT Constancy, true love
FOUR-O'CLOCK Timidity
FOXGLOVE Insincerity, stateliness, youth
FUCHSIA Confiding love
GARDEN DAISY Share your sentiments
GARDENIA Refinement
GERANIUM Gentility, peaceful mind
GLADIOLUS Ready-armed
GOLDENROD Encouragement, precaution
GRAPE (wild) Charity, mirth
HAWTHORN Hope
HELIOTROPE Devotion, eagerness, intoxicated with joy
HIBISCUS Delicate beauty
HOLLY Am I forgotten?, domestic happiness, foresight
HOLLYHOCK Ambition, fruitfulness
HONEYSUCKLE (coral) Fidelity, generous and devoted love, affection
HONEYSUCKLE Bonds of love
HYACINTH (purple) Jealousy, sorrow
HYACINTH (white) Modest loveliness
HYACINTH Constancy HYDRANGEA Boaster, heartlessness
IRIS Message, my compliments, eloquence
IVY Fidelity, friendship, marriage, wedded love
JASMINE I am too happy
JONQUIL Can you return my love?, I desire a return of your affection
LADY'S SLIPPER Capricious beauty, win and wear me
LARKSPUR (pink) Fickleness (purple) Haughtiness
LAUREL (mountain) Ambition
LAUREL Perfidy, treachery
LAVENDER Acknowledgment, distrust failure
LILAC Youthful innocence
LILY (calla) Maiden modesty, beauty
LILY (day) Coquetry
LILY (tiger) I dare you to love me
LILY (white) Purity and sweetness
LILY (yellow) Coquetry, falsehood, flirtation
LILY-OF-THE-VALLEY Perfect purity, return of happiness
LOTUS Estranged love
LUPINE Voraciousness
MAGNOLIA Benevolence, high-souled, love of nature, magnificence
MARIGOLD Cruelty in love, inquietude, jealous lover
MIMOSA Exquisite, fastidious
MISTLETOE I surmount difficulties, I want to be kissed, you are a parasite
MOCK-ORANGE Counterfeit
MOONFLOWER I only dream of love
MORNING-GLORY Affection, departure
MYRTLE Love in absence
NARCISSUS Egotism, you love yourself too well
OLEANDER Beware
ORANGE-BLOSSOM Chastity, eternal love, marriage, bridal festivities
ORCHID You are a belle, you flatter me
PANSY Modesty, pleasant thoughts, think of me
PASSION FLOWER Faith, holy love, religious fervour and superstition
PEACH-BLOSSOM I am your captive
PEONY Anger, indignation, bashfulness
PERIWINKLE Harmony, pleasure of memory
PETUNIA You soothe me
PHLOX Unanimity
POPPY (scarlet) Fantastic extravagance
POPPY (white) Forgetfulness
PRIMROSE Believe me, youth and sadness
RHODODENDRON Beware, I am dangerous
ROSE ( Burgundy) Unconscious beauty
ROSE (cabbage) Ambassador of love
ROSE (deep-red) Admiration, bashful, embarrassment
ROSE (full-blown) Engagement
ROSE (moss) Superior, confessions of love
ROSE (musk) Capricious beauty
ROSE (pink) Ours must be secret love
ROSE (red) Unity, romantic love
ROSE (thornless) Ingratitude
ROSE (white) I am worthy of your love, silence, innocent love
ROSE (wild) Charming simplicity
ROSE (yellow) Jealousy, let us forget, love is waning, friendship
ROSEBUD (red) Inclined to love, pure and lovely
ROSEBUD (white) Too young to love
SHAMROCK Loyalty
SNAPDRAGON No, presumption
SNOWBALL Bound thoughts of heaven
SNOWDROP Consolation, friendship in trouble
SUNFLOWER (large) You are splendid
SWEET-WILLIAM Grant me one smile
SWEET PEA departure, remember me
THISTLE (Scotch) Retaliation
TRILLIUM Modest ambition
TUBEROSE Dangerous
TULIP (red) Declaration of love TULIP (yellow) Hopeless and perfect love
TULIP TREE BLOSSOM Rural happiness
VERBENA Pray for me, tender and quick emotion VIOLET (blue) Faithfulness, love, loyalty
VIOLET (white) Candour, modesty hope
VIRGINIA CREEPER I cling to you
WATER LILY Purity of the heart
WISTARIA Cordial welcome
ZINNIA Thoughts of absent
