The language of flowers

The language of flowers
  • Acacia : Sincere friendship, pure love, secret love.
  • White Acacia : Platonic love, pure love, friendship
  • Amaryllis : Prayer, timidity, splendid beauty, pride
  • Anemone : Abandon, betrayed love, simplicity of sentiments, levity.
  • Aquilegia : Folly.
  • Arbutus : I love only you
  • Aspodelus : I am very sorry
  • Aster : Suspicion, doubt
  • Azalea : Temperance, sincerity, timidity in love, the joy of love
  • Balsamina : Will you be my love?
  • Bay : Glory, ambition, triumph, aphrodisiac
  • Begonia : Be careful!
  • Bergamot : Pure love
  • Apple blossom : Preference
  • Cherry blossom : Good manners
  • Orange blossom : Virginity, fertility, purity, innocence, eternal love, marriage and faith fulness
  • Peach blossom : Courtesy, undying love
  • Broom : Luminosity, splendour, cleanliness
  • Camelia : Costance, admiration, gratitude, meet again, grace, esteem, find oneself
  • Campanula : Caresses, kisses
  • Capelvenere : Discretion
  • Carnation : Deep, pure love, do not forget, alive love, denial
  • White carnation : Purity, faithful disposition
  • Yellow carnation : Unworthiness, elegance
  • Pink carnation : Friendship, faithfulness, reciprocal love, I will never forget you
  • Red carnation : Lively love, energy, a broken heart which bleeds for love
  • Dark red carnation : Faithfulness, horror
  • Variegated carnation : Trust me, refusal
  • Chrysanthemum : You are a wonderful friend, disheartened, in Italy it is used for deaths, in China it is given to the bride, in Japan it means a declaration of love, in England it is used for births
  • Red Chrysanthemum : Love
  • White Chrysanthemum : Truth
  • Cistus : Consense, success, popularity
  • Clivia : Appointment
  • Clematis : Contrivance
  • Cockscomb : Immortality, indifference
  • Convolvus : Flirt
  • Cornflower : Light, purity of sentiments, first love, clarity, delicacy
  • Crocus : Restlessness, youthful joy, strength, energy
  • Cyclamin : Unpretentious love, simplicity, difference, beauty, jealousy, lasting sentiments, solitude, resignation and farewell
  • Single Dahlia : Recognition, good taste, novelty, dignity and elegance
  • Double Dahlia : Instability
  • Dandelion : Prophecy, faithfulness
  • Datura : Hypocracy
  • Daisey : Levity, inanity
  • Daisy : Exchange of sentiments, hope
  • Ears of corn : Abundance, prosperity, wealth, fortune
  • Edelweiss : Nobilty and a good soul, courage
  • Elder : Betrayal
  • Erica : Solitude, fortune
  • Fern : Mistery, sincerity
  • Flowering Mytle : Betrayed love
  • Forget-me-not : Eternal love, sentimental commitment, everlasting love
  • Foxglove : Lies, falseness
  • Frescia : Platonic love
  • Fucsia : Frugality, cordiality
  • Gardenia : Sincerity, friendship, (for a man: friendship for her but without love), secret, undeclared love
  • Garland of flowers : Love chain
  • Gentian : Contempt, pain
  • Geranium : Well-being, esteem melancholy, presumption, stupidity, I prefer you
  • Pink geranium : Languidness
  • Gladiolus : Indifference, diffidence, character, respect, appointment
  • Hawthorn : Sweet hope, prudence
  • Hibiscus : Delicate beauty, courtship
  • Holly : Abundance, fecundity, defence, strenght, resistance, eternity, happiness in the family
  • Hollyhock : Fecondity
  • Hood flower : Levity
  • Hyacinth : Ardent love, entertainment, games, grace, sweetness, provoke benevolence, constancy
  • Hydrangea : Capricious, dispsassionate, negligence
  • Iris : A message, good news
  • Ivy : Affection, everlasting faithfulness, exclusive love, deep friendship, tenderness
  • Jasmin : Pleasure, attraction, luck, money, amiable character, lovable, timidity kindness, the name means displeasure over lies which a person might tell
  • White jasmin : Grace, sensuality, amiability
  • Yellow jasmin : Amiability, kindness, candour, elegance
  • Jonquil : Desire
  • Kockia : Declaration of war
  • Laural : Success, glory, triumph, aphrodisiac
  • Lavanda : My only happiness in the memory of you, diffidence, distrust, good luck
  • Lemon verbena : Capricious
  • Lilac : Growing love, for the first time
  • White lilac : Youthfulness, childhood, innocence, emotions of love, reluctance
  • Purple lilac : The first throbs of love, suspicion
  • Linden tree : Married bliss
  • Lily : Purity, majesty, youthful innocence, innocence, virginity, candour, greatness, it is given for a birth, or religious event, baptism, communion, wedding
  • Lily of the valley : Virginity, flirtations, return of happiness
  • Arum lily : Absolute beauty, finesse
  • Pink lily : Vanity
  • White lily : Purity and innocence
  • Yellow lily : Nobilty, greatness
  • Magnolia : Superb beauty, modesty, goodness, do not trust me
  • Margarite : Innocence, freshness, spontaneity, goodness, greatness, faithfulness, transparency of behaviour, compliment to beauty, purity, timidity, modesty, simplicity, I’ll think it over
  • White margarite : Innocence
  • Marigold : Sacred affection
  • Marigold : Displeasure, jealousy, pangs of love, cruelty
  • Mignonette : Sweetness, enjoyment
  • Mimosa : Innocence, modesty, liberty, autonomy, sensibility
  • Mimosa pudica : Esteem, sensitivity
  • Yellow mimosa : Esteem
  • Pink mimosa : Appreciation for the sensitivity of a person
  • Misletoe : Fortune, happiness, overcoming obstacles, goals reached, difficulties overcome, victory
  • Mordigallina : Appointment
  • Morning glory : Lost hope, obscurity
  • Mugwort : Serenity, happiness, health
  • Myosotis : Memories;
  • Narcisus : Self-centred, pleasant love
  • Nasturtion : Ardent love
  • Oak : Hospitality
  • Orange : Fecundity
  • Orange flower : Virginity, fecundity, purity innocence, eternal love, matrimony and faithfulness
  • Orchid : Finesse, sensuality, sensual beauty, ardour, commitment
  • Palm : Victory
  • Passionflower : Trust, religion, faith
  • Peony : Timidity, shame
  • Periwinkle : Lasting love, sweet memories
  • Petunia : Difficulties
  • Poinsettia : Good omen, youthfulness, renewal
  • Polyanthes tuberosa : indifference, illicit requests, voluptuou expression, pleasure of the senses
  • Pomegranate : Inconsiderate
  • Popinac : Candor
  • Poppy : Slowness, doubt, surprise, consolation, rest, eccentricity
  • White poppy : Sleep, misfortune
  • Pink poppy : Serenity, vivaciousness
  • Red poppy : Pride, eccentricity
  • Primula : Youthfulness, first love. hope melancholy, credulity
  • Ranunculus : Attractive charm, danger
  • Rhododendrom : First declaration of love
  • Rose : Love, beauty, sweetness, glory
  • Coral pink rose : Desire
  • Dog rose : Poetic gift, pleasure and sufferance
  • Peach pink rose : Secret love
  • Orange rose : Fascination
  • White rose : Pure spiritual love, pure sentiments, candour, innocence, faithfulness, silence, you are an angel
  • White rose bud : I am too young to love
  • Wild rose : Simplicity
  • Yellow rose : Jealousy, faithfulness, refusal of love, hopeful of love, love which is over, love which is petering out, shame
  • Pink rose : Friendship, affection, engagements, grace and kindness, freshness, tenderness.
  • Pale pink rose : Joy
  • Dark pink rose : Gratitude;
  • Red rose : Passionate love, burning love, passion
  • Coral red rose : The desire of those who are in love
  • Red and white roses : Unity (for a close couple)
  • Tea rose : Kindness
  • Rose-bay : Boldness
  • Rosemary : Fecundity, consolation
  • Blue Sage : I appreciate your qualities
  • Golden Sage : Saleability
  • Red Sage : Ambition
  • Salvia splendens : Esteem
  • Snake’s head : Persecution
  • Snowdrop : Consolation
  • Strelizia : Nobilty and majesty, turbulence
  • St. John’s wort : Originality
  • Sunflower : Devotion, adoring love, unhappy love, false glamour or richness
  • Tulip : abundance, perfect love, declaration of love, inconstancy, honesty, love messages
  • Yellow tulip : Desperate love
  • Red tulip : Declaration of love;
  • Variegated tulip : Your eyes are splendid
  • Verbena : Sincerity
  • Viola : memories, thoughts, thoughts of love, always in my thoughts
  • Violet : Purity, timidity, modesty, humilty, simplicity, honesty, faithfulness, candour
  • Parfumed violet : Modesty and demureness
  • Wallflower : Elegance, compassion, fickleness
  • Yellow wallflower : Disdain
  • Waterlily : Eloquence, dispassionate, elegant, aloof love
  • Wisteria : Tender, dis-interested friendship
  • Zinnia : Simplicity, spiritual greatness, flirtation, incostancy, I bewail your absence