The Language of Flowers
The Language of Flowers
Understanding the meaning of the flowers we use
Sweet Pea
The romantic sweet pea flowers are better known for their unique fragrance. The flowers also grow in varieties of colors including white, coral pink and purple. The availability in varieties of colours and intense sweet fragrance made sweet peas to widely used in wedding bouquets. This beautiful and delicate flower symbolizes pleasure. Sweet peas are also best for making vases and garden setting.
Sweet pea flowers are native to Sicily island of Southern Italy. The pleasant smelling sweet pea flowers are also used for the production of perfumes.
Stephanotis
Stephanotis is a deliciously fragrant waxy flower that widely used in wedding bouquets. This popular wedding flower signifies marital happines. The sweet smelling waxy flower has distinctive petals.
The evergreen stephanotis plant is native to Madagascar, Australia and Africa. The strongly scented waxy flowers appears at the beginning of summer. The stephanotis flowers also need continuous cool temperature.
Ranunculus
The beautiful ranunculus flower is an excellent choice for wedding bouquets because it is available in a variety of colours including white, yellow, orange, pale and apricot. The flowers are also small in size, multi-petaled. Ranunculus symbolizes ‘radiant charm’, in other words it means ‘you are very attractive’.
The bright ranunculus flowers also used to make boutonnieres. The flowers appear in March and in June depending on the time of tubers planted.
Peony
The peony is a bright strongly scented flowering plant thats found in North America, Asia and Europe. Peony flowers are widely used in wedding bouquets and decorations. It is also the floral symbol of China and the state. The peony symbolizes good fortune and happy marriage. The flowers grow in a variety of colours including red, white and pink. The different combinations of peony flowers used for delicate bouquets and spectacular arrangements.
The large rounded and fragrant flowers appear from April to June. It is also the one of longest used flowers in the history
Hydrangea
The hydrangea is a popular ornamental plant that comes in white, green, pink and blue colors. The hydrangea flowers used to make delicate bridal bouquets. The combination of hydrangea with other blossoms also looks fantastic. This expensive flowers also used for decorations. Hydrangea flower signifies ‘you are the beat of my heart.
There are 75 different species of hydrangea plants in the world, grow across Asia and Americas. The flowering occur in early spring season.
Calla Lily
The large calla lily flower is a traditional wedding flower native to Africa. The trumpet shaped comes in pink, yellow, purple and orange colours. It is also lightly fragrant. There are two different types of calla lily flowers used for wedding purposes. Large flowers with long stems are used for making bouquets and small flowers used for boutonnieres. The Greek word ‘calla’ means beautiful. The elegant calla lily flowers are expensive and available year around.
Tulip
The versatile tulip wedding flower available in 75 different species. It also comes in varieties of white, pink, yellow, red, purple and magenta. The tulip flowers symbolize ‘consuming love’. The beauty and symbolism of tulip flower make it an important element in wedding bouquets, boutonnieres and decorations. Tulips bloom in spring season and most species have one flower per stem.
Roses
Roses are one of most popular wedding flowers to date. There are thousands of different varieties of roses are available today. The beautiful flower comes in white, yellow, pinks and red colours. Most of rose species are deliciously fragrant and available year around. The beautiful roses are considered as symbol of love, joy and beauty. It is widely used in wedding bouquets, boutonnieres, corsages and in arrangements.
Hybrid tea roses, spray roses and garden roses main three varieties of roses that used for wedding purposes. The colour of roses also has greater importance. The red roses are one of the most popular varieties of roses and it represent true love. Found as a main wedding flower from ancient times onward. The exchanging of red roses also found as the most powerful message of love. At same time the yellow rose symbolizes friendship, the white rose symbolizes purity and innocence and pink rose symbolizes love and gratitude.