Valentine's Day: Dare to Reveal Your Feelings Through the Language of Flowers

Make Use of the Symbolic Meaning of Flowers to Express Your Love

Holly Day
With Valentine's Day approaching the time has come to select the present that you will offer to your beloved one. One of the most popular gifts for a man to give to a woman on Valentine's Day are surely flowers. But they rarely give other flowers as red roses as they are generally considered as the only kind of flowers that meet the significance of Valentine's Day. You have to know that over the ages, people assigned certain symbols to flowers; which provides you with the opportunity to make your gift even more special.

In this article you will discover the diverse meanings of the flowers, so that you are able to select the one that best matches the kind of relationship you are celebrating: you won't be giving the same sort of flowers to the mother of your six children as those you gave when she was your girlfriend.

Or you can help yourself by giving multi-coloured pansies so that she will learn that your heart beats only for her.

Valentine's day is is the best day of the year for you to declare your love so you will be able to do it by giving white gardenia or white carnations as they are associated with secret love. Alternatively, azalea or blueberries are a great way to say "I dare to declare my love" as well; while multi-coloured tulips are the promise of a honest love.

If you want to tell your sweetie how attractive she is, you will be giving her red camellia; while white camellias you will ensure her about the stability of your inclination. There are several different ways to declare how you feel about a woman and jasmine can help you in doing so: with white jasmine you will talk about sweetness, yellow jasime will be passion and red jasmine will be madness.

If the loveliest way to declare the harmony, purity and innocence of your love is by giving an arrangement of white Lilies; the best way to tell your sweetie you will love her more and more each and every day of your life, is through orange-blossom or a bouquet of daisies. There is a kind of flowers that never die and will prove to your sweetie the strength of your love: straw flowers. While flamed iris and white/red, red or purple fuchsia will tell your beloved one how much your heart is burning for her; orchids are related to sensuality and temptation.

Rose is the flower of love, in any occasion. However, their colors also have their own meaning. Red rose represents passion; pink rose is a promise you made and that you will keep and lovelyness, pleasure, beauty and admiration. While white rose is the innocence of your passion, lavender pink is the symbol of love at first sight and brings the notion of love at first sight. Orange roses will tell your sweetie that you find her attracting and adorable. Blue roses express a gentle harmony and stillness and full-bloomed roses represent your engagement.

Yellow, blue or red anemone symbolizes tenacity, and a nice way to ensure your beloved one you will love her till the end of time, with no regards to the ups and downs of your life. Red or brown amaranth symbolizes an eternal love.

Valentine's Day is a holiday celebrated by teenagers as well. While those that Teenagers that already in a relationship for a long time will choose to give their girlfriend a bouquet of blue iris. As for the teenager at the beginning of a brand new relationship, he would give his soul mate primroses or a pot of crocus.

Valentine's day is not only a holiday dedicated to couples, it is also a day to celebrate friendship. White or purple lilac represent modesty and frankness. Alternatively, you might want to give wisteria to your friends as they will tell them; after all, the residents of Wisteria Lane (Desperate Housewives) are tied by a strong friendship!

Because of their popularity, flowers are often given as an extra to other gifts such as a cuddly, adorable teddy bear, a box of Belgian chocolates or some delectable, hand-dipped, chocolate covered cherries. As you see, there are is infinite number of passion that can be confessed through the language of the flowers. The hardest job is to choose the one that expresses your love. Whatever you do do it with pleasure and with the aim of making the lady of your life feel very special and in turn it is sure that she will make you feel very special! Happy Valentine's Day!

Published by Holly Day

Holly Day is a history passionate, a tarot cards expert as well as is crazy about holidays such as Halloween, Christmas, Valentines and Easter. She owns websites related to those subjects. Holly Day is also...  View profile

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