Flowers and Its Secret Language You Should Know

Knowing the meaning of flowers is no big deal today, we just pick out a pretty flower and give it to someone but actually the real meaning behind flowers and their secret language has been lost.

Victorians however used flowers as a discreet form of communication. On the 18th century, sending flower messages based on a Turkish secret language of flowers became popular. It was known as sending a ‘Persian Salaam’ or a coded bouquet to reveal your feelings of love or attraction. The Victorians became very knowledgeable in flower language and arranging their bouquets carefully.

Flowers deal with love and appreciation in some way or another, but their color or arrangement can mean different things.

Like for example, the red roses stood for love and yellow roses however stood for jealousy. If you sent yellow carnations to someone, it would mean you were rejecting them.

In science, floriography is known as the study of meaning of flowers. It reveals and extra underlying meaning to sending or receiving flowers- subtle and secret messages can be passed through the different type of flowers.

Some of these secret meanings behind flowers have been forgotten over centuries. If there’s something you want to say to someone, nothing says it like flowers.
Here are some list of flowers and their particular symbolic meanings:

• Aloe meaning --- Grief
• Alstroemeria meaning --- Devotion; friendship
• Alyssum meaning --- Worth beyond beauty
• Ambrosia meaning --- Love returned
• Aster meaning --- Love; daintiness
• Azelea meaning --- Take care of yourself for me; fragile passion; temperance
• Baby’s Breath meaning --- Everlasting love; happiness; pure in heart
• Begonia meaning --- Beware
• Bluebell meaning --- Constancy and everlasting love
• Calendula meaning --- Joy
• Carnation meaning --- Bonds of affection; healthy and energy
• Chrysanthemum meaning --- Cheerfulness; You’re a wonderful friend
• Daisy meaning --- Innocence; loyal love; purity; faith; cheer; simplicity
• Iris meaning --- Faith; hope; wisdom and valor; my compliments; eloquence
• Larkspur meaning --- Fickleness; levity
• Lily meaning --- Purity
• Orange Blossom meaning --- Wisdom; purity; eternal love
• Orchid meaning --- Love; beauty; refinement; you flatter me
• Queen Anne’s lace meaning --- Fantasy
• Ranunculus meaning --- You are radiant with charms
• Tulip meaning --- Fame; charity; declaration of love

There is more to the meaning behind flowers than you realize. Try to look at the dictionary of flowers and have fun exploring the multiple interpretations, ambiguous meanings and historical contexts behind flowers and find out what else lies behind their beautiful presence.