With Valentine's Day approaching the time has come to choose the gift that you will offer to your beloved one. One of the most popular presents given by men on Valentine’s Day are for sure flowers. On the other hand they rarely give other flowers as red roses as they are usually considered as the only sort of flowers that meet the meaning of Valentine's Day. You have to know that over the ages, people assigned certain meanings to flowers; which provides you with the opportunity to make your gift even more specialized.
In this article you will learn the diverse symbols of the flowers that will enable you to choose the one that best matches the kind of relationship you are celebrating: you won't be giving the same type of flowers to the mother of your six children as those you gave when she was a teenager.
Shyness could prevent you to express your love to your sweet heart, avoid this problem by giving her a bouquet of may; which stands for the hopes of a shy heart : "You're the only queen of my thoughts. Would your answer meet my wishes...?" Or you can get some help from multi-coloured pansies that will make her find out how much she makes your heart beat.
If it is the moment to reveal your sentiment to the woman who dominates your mind day and night, you will be giving her a bunch of white carnations or white gardenia as these flowers are related to a secret. Alternatively, blueberries or azalea are a great way to say "I dare to reveal my love" as well; while multi-coloured tulips are the promise of a honest love.
While white camellias symbolize the romance and the devotion of your passion; red camellia will tell her "You are the most beautiful woman out there". When you give jasmine, you declare your love in many ways: red jasmine means madness; white jasmine stands for the sweetness of your feelings and yellow jasmine rhymes with passion.
If the most beautiful way to reveal the innocence, harmony and purity of your love is by giving a bunch of white Lilies; the best way to tell your lady you will love her more and more each and every day of your life, is through orange-blossom or a bunch of daisies. You may go for straw flowers that will reveal to your lady how much your love is strong as these flowers never die. While flamed iris and white/red, red or purple fuchsia will tell your beloved one she set your heart on fire; orchids are related to sensuality and temptation.
The ever popular rose has always symbolized love, but depending on the color has a lot of different meanings. Red rose stands for passion; pink rose is a kept promise as well as lovelyness, pleasure, glamour and admiration. While white rose is the innocence of your sentiment, lavender pink is the symbol of love at first sight and brings the idea of love at first sight. Orange roses will tell your sweetie that you find her exciting and adorable. Full-bloomed roses represent your engagement while blue roses bring serenity and a quiet peace.
Red, yellow or blue anemone represents constancy, and a nice way to tell your beloved one you will love her till the end of time, regardless of good and bad times. Brown or red amaranth is the emblem of a never-ending adoration as well.
Valentine's Day is a Teenagers celebrate Valentine's Day as well. While those that discover love for the first time, will send her primroses or a pot of crocus as they represent a puppy love; teenagers by that time in a long lasting romance will choose to give a bunch of blue iris.
Valentine's day is not exclusively reserved for love and lovers, it also allows us to celebrate friendship. White or purple lilac represent simplicity as well as sincerity. As an alternative, wisteria would tell your friends how much they are precious for you; after all, the residents of Wisteria Lane (Desperate Housewives) are the best friends!
Actually, flowers are so popular that, many men give flowers along with other gifts like an adorable teddy bear, a box of Belgian chocolates or some delicious, hand-dipped, chocolate covered strawberries. As you can see, there are is infinite number of sentiment that can be confessed with flowers. The puzzling problem is to choose the one that expresses your adoration. Whatever you do do it with gusto and with the purpose of making the lady of your life feel very special and in turn she will for sure make you feel very special! Happy Valentine's Day!


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Actually there are more meanings and I wrote 1400+ words about them, and had to break them into two different articles, but this one is the most interesting :)