sunny day here
A guide to flowers:
Marigold: Jealousy
Mint: Virtue
Orange blossom: Your purity equals your loveliness
Orchid: Beauty, magnificence
Pansy: Thoughts
Peach blossom: I am your captive
Petunia: Your presence soothes me
Poppy: Sleep
Rose, any color: Love
Rose, deep red: Bashful shame
Rose, single, pink: Simplicity
Rose, thornless, any: Early attachment
Rose, white: I am worthy of you
Rose, yellow: Decrease of love, rise of jealousy
Rosebud, white: Girlhood, and a heart ignorant of love
Rosemary: Remembrance
Sunflower: Haughtiness
Tulip, red: Declaration of love
Tulip, yellow: Hopeless love
Violet, blue: Faithfulness
Violet, white: Modesty
Zinnia: Thoughts of absent friends
* An upside-down blossom reverses the meaning.
That was lovely – if you were a flower I’d call you an orchid!
May 25th, 2005 | #