Are you one of those last minute Valentines Day shoppers? If you have the time to read this, then you probably are. Don't get the usual crap, and put a little extra meaning behind your gift(s) through the language of flowers and colors.
Here I present to you a list of colors and flowers and their associated meanings to provide that extra bit of love toward your loved ones and impress them with your inner ladies man (or men’s woman--if that makes sense).
COLORS
Blue: Peace, truth and intellect, loyalty, chastity, spirituality, eternity
Green: (when paired with other colors) new life, hope, fertility and regeneration
Pink: femininity, innocence, good health, love, patience
Red: (when paired with other colors) vitality and life force, passion, energy, sexuality
Saffron: spirituality, holiness, good fortune
Violet: Knowledge and intelligence, piety, sobriety, humility, temperance, peace and spirituality
White: purity, virginity, death and rebirth, beginning and an end, and in some places mourning (I personally stay away from this one)
Yellow: power, authority, the intellect and intuition, goodness, light, life, immortality, endurance (pair it with other colors as on its own it means cowardice and treachery)
FLOWERS
Amaranth: faith, immortality, unfading love
Apple Blossom: Preference, better things to come, good fortune
Aster: daintiness, a talisman of love
Baby's Breath: Innocence, purity of heart
Cactus: endurance, my heart burns with love (even I don’t know how this means what it means)
Clover: fertility
Clover (4 leaf): Be Mine
Daisy: Innocence, loyal love, purity, beauty, respect
Dandelion: faithfulness, happiness, love's oracle
Gardenia: You're lovely, secret love, purity, refinement
Hibiscus: consumed by love, delicate beauty
Honeysuckle: the bond of love
Ivy: Wedded love, fidelity, friendship, affection
Lavender: love, devotion
Mint: virtue
Pansy: Merriment, thoughts (as in "you occupy my thoughts")
Rose (bridal): happiness
Rose (red): Love, I love you, respect and beauty (note this is the important one for that special someone HINT HINT)
Rose of
A single rose in full bloom: I truly love you, simplicity
Sunflower: Constancy and devotion
Tulip (general): perfect lover
Venus fly trap: caught at last
Violet: Modesty, virtue, affection, steadfastness
Yucca: yours until death
Please note that some of these flowers are out of season and can only be obtained from a nursery (the flower kind for those who don’t know).
Enjoy your Valentines Day (hopefully in more ways than one: wink)
My information comes from:
The Element Encyclopedia of Secret Signs and Symbols by Adele Nozedar, published in 2008 through Barnes & Noble, Inc in arrangement with Harper Collins Publishers.
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