Say It With Flowers: Top 10 Flowers Symbolizing Love

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The language of flowers lends nearly every species a special symbol and meaning. Many different flowers symbolize love, whether it is true love, adoration, first love or passionate love.

1.     Lilac – First Love

Lilac (Syringa) is a flowering woody plant consisting of about 20-25 species. Lilac symbolizes first love and is native to southeastern Europe and eastern Asia.

2.     Pansy – Loving Thoughts

Pansies come in a variety of colors and mean loving thoughts. Pansies are large-flowered plants, typically with blue and purple flower petals. Pansies come from the viola species referred to as Viola tricolor hortensis.

3.     Red Rose – Passionate Love

Roses are synonymous with love, especially red roses. So it should come as no surprise that the red rose symbolizes passionate love. Roses consist of more than 120 varieties, including other colors such as white, orange, coral, pink, blue and purple.

4.     Yellow Tulip – Hopelessly in Love

There are a variety of colors of tulips, including yellow, purple, lavender, red, peach, orange, white, yellow and pink. There are also bi-color variations of tulips. Tulips have six petals to each flower and live up to 7 days in the vase. Yellow tulips symbolize being hopelessly in love.

5.     Red Tulip – Declaration of Love

Each color of tulip means something. While the yellow tulips signify being hopelessly in love, the red tulips symbolize a declaration of love. It is exceptional for people who are in a new relationship.

6.     Acacia Blossoms – Chaste or Concealed Love

The acacia blossom belongs to the Fabaceae family and grows in a variety of colors, but it is more likely to see the cream-colored flower. They grow in spikes and mean chaste or concealed love.

7.     Daisies – Loyal Love

To many, daisies symbolize friendship, but the actual meaning of daisies isloyal love. Daisies belong to the same flower family as other bright and friendly flowers such as sunflowers and chrysanthemums.

8.     Forget-me-Nots – True Love

This beautiful wildflower typically grows in large and thick patches in the wild and grow on stalks in small clusters. Forget-me-nots symbolize and create thoughts of true love.

9.     Gardenia – Secret Love

If you have a secret or desire to love, the gardenia represents this kind of love. There are more than 200 species of gardenia, and they grow as single or double flowers in various shrubs.

10.  Sunflower – Adoration

The sunflower represents a different kind of love and affection:adoration. They are large flowers of2 to 8 inches in diameter that grow in fields. Most sunflowers you see will be of yellow or bronze shades, but they also come in brown, black, green, orange and red.

Let your loved one know you care by sending these flowers to their home, like we did for theclarity wayoffice, or place of business.

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