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Ever wonder what a flower meant? Well, now you can know! Horticare has assembled the meaning of flowers just for you! Click on a letter above for a quick find.
- ABUTILON Meditation
- ACACIA (Rose or white) Elegance, friendship
- ACACIA (yellow) Secret love
- ACANTHUS Artifice, fine arts
- ACHILLEA War
- ACONITE Lustre, misanthropy
- ADDER'S-TONGUE Jealousy
- ADONIS Sad memories
- AGRIMONY Gratitude
- ALLSPICE Compassion
- ALMOND (common) Indiscretion, perfidy
- ALOE grief, misplaced devotion, religious superstition
- ALSTOREMERIA Devotion
- ALTHEA Consumed by love
- ALYSSYM (sweet) Excellence beyond beauty, exemplary modesty
- AMARANTH (coxcomb) Affectation, pretension
- AMARANTH (globe) Constant, unchangeable
- AMARANTH Foppery, immortality, pretension
- AMARYLLIS Beautiful, timid, proud
- AMBROSIA Love returned
- ANEMONE Fading hope
- ANGELICA Inspiration, magic
- APOCYNUM Falsehood, figment, I doubt you
- APPLE-BLOSSOM Preference
- ARBOR-VITAE (American) immortality
- ARBOR-VITAE I never change, live for me
- ARBUTUS You only do I love
- ASCLEPIAS Sorrowful remembrance
- ASH Prudence, with me you are safe
- ASMINE (night-blooming) Love's vigil
- ASPEN Excess of sensibility, fear
- ASPHODEL Memorial sorrow, my regrets follow you to the grave
- ASTER (China) Afterthoughts, love of variety
- AURICULA (scarlet) Pride
- AURICULA Painting, wealth is not always happiness
-
AZALEA Moderation, temperance, your blush has won me
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- BACHELOR'S BUTTON Devotion, hope, love
- BALM Social intercourse, sympathy
- BALSAM Impatience
- BARBERRY Sharpness of temper
- BASIL Hatred
- BAY-LEAF I change but in death
- BABY'S BREATH Pure of heart
- BAYBERRY Discipline, instruction
- BEGONIA Deformity
- BELLFLOWER Constancy, gratitude, I wish to speak to you
- BELLWORT Hopelessness
- BETONY Surprise
- BILBERRY Treachery
- BITTERSWEET Truth, platonic love
- BLACKTHORN Difficulty
- BLUEBELL Constancy, sorrowful regret
- BLUEBOTTLE Delicacy
- BLUETS Contentment
- BORAGE Bluntness, talent
- BRAMBLE Holiness, remorse
- BROOM Humility, neatness
- BRYONY Prosperity
- BURDOCK Importunity
- BUTTERCUP Riches
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BUTTERFLY-WEED Let me go
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- CACTUS Grandeur, warmth
- CALLA LILY Magnificent beauty
- CALYCANTHUS Benevolence
- CAMELLIA (Red) Unpretending excellence, innate warmth, alas my poor heart
- CAMELLIA (White) Perfected loveliness, without blemish
- CHAMOMILE Energy in adversity
- CANDYTUFT Indifference
- CANTERBURY BELLS Gratitude, acknowledgement, obligation
- CARDINAL-FLOWER Distinction
- CARNATION Fidelity, love
- CARNATION PINK Woman's love
- CATALPA Beware of the coquette
- CATCHFLY Pretended love, snare, unchanging friendship
- CATTLEYA Matronly grace, mature charms
- CEDAR I live but for thee, think of me
- CELANDINE Joys to come
- CENTAURY Delicacy
- CEREUS (night-blooming) Transient beauty
- CHERRY-BLOSSOM Spiritual beauty
- CHESTNUT-BLOSSOM Do me justice
- CHICKWEED Give an account of yourself, rendezvous
- CHICORY Frugality
- CHRYSANTHEMUM (Chinese) Loveliness and cheerfulness
- CHRYSANTHEMUM (red) I love
- CHRYSANTHEMUM (white) Truth
- CINERARIA Always delighted
- CISTUS Popular favour
- CITRON natured beauty
- CLEMATIS (evergreen) Poverty
- CLEMATIS Mental Beauty
- CLIANTHUS -Self-seeking, worldliness
- CLOTBUR Rudeness
- CLOVER (four-leafed) Be mine
- CLOVER (white) Think of me
- CLOVES Dignity
- COBAEA Gossip
- COLTSFOOT Justice shall be done
- COLUMBINE Folly
- CONVOLVULUS Uncertainty
- CORCHORUS Return quickly
- COREOPSIS Always cheerful
- CORIANDER Hidden worth
- CORN-BLOSSOM Riches
- CORN-COCKLE Peerless and proud
- CORNEL Success crowned you
- CORNFLOWER Delicacy, refinement
- COWSLIP Comeliness, winning grace, you are my divinity
- COXCOMB Foppery
- CRABAPPLE-BLOSSOM Irritability
- CRANBERRY Cure for heartache
- CREEPING CEREUS Modest genius
- CRESS Power, stability
- CROCUS Abuse not, gladness, mirth
- CROWFOOT Ingratitude
- CROWN IMPERIAL Arrogance, majesty, pride of birth
- CURRANT Your frown will destroy me
- CUSCUTA Meanness
- CYCLAMEN Diffidence
- CYPRESS Despair, mourning
- DAFFODIL Deceitful, hope, unrequited love, regard
- DAHLIA Elegance and dignity, forever thine
- DAISY (coloured) Beauty
- DAISY (Michaelmas) Farewell
- DAISY (white wild) I will think of it
- DAISY Innocence
- DANDELION Coquetry, love's oracle
- DAPHNE Fame, glory
- DARNEL Vice
- DEW-PLANT Serenade
- DIOSMA Your simple elegance charms me
- DITTANY OF CRETE (white) Passion
- DOCK Patience
- DODDER OF THYME Baseness
- DOGBANE Falsehood
- DOGROSE Pleasure
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DOGWOOD Forgetfulness, love undiminished by
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- EGLANTINE Genius, I wound to heal, poetry, talent
- ELDER Compassion, zealousness
- ENDIVE Frugality
- ESCHSCHOLTZIA Do not refuse me
- EUPATORIUM Delay
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EYEBRIGHT Cheer up
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- FENNEL Strength, worthy of praise
- FERN Fascination, magic, sincerity
- FIG Argument, I keep my secret
- FILBERT Reconciliation
- FIR Time
- FLAX Domestic industry, fate, I feel your kindness
- FLEUR-DE-LIS Message
- FLOWER-OF-AN-HOUR Delicate beauty
- FLOWERING ALMOND Hope
- FORGET-ME-NOT Constancy, true love
- FOUR-LEAFED CLOVER Be mine
- FOUR-O'CLOCK Timidity
- FOXGLOVE Insincerity, stateliness, youth
- FOXTAIL GRASS Sporting
- FUCHSIA Confiding love
- FUMITORY Spleen
- FURZE Anger, love for all occasions
- GARDEN DAISY Share your sentiments
- GARDENIA Refinement
- GENTIAN (closed) Sweet be thy dreams
- GENTIAN (fringed) I look to heaven
- GERANIUM (dark) Melancholy
- GERANIUM (fish) Disappointed expectation
- GERANIUM (horseshoe) Stupidity
- GERANIUM (Ivy) Favour
- GERANIUM (lemon) Unexpected meeting
- GERANIUM (nutmeg) Expected meeting
- GERANIUM (oak) True friendship
- GERANIUM (pencilled) Ingenuity,
- GERANIUM (rose) Preference
- GERANIUM (scarlet) Comforting, consolation
- GERANIUM (silver leafed) Recall
- GERANIUM (wild) Steadfast piety
- GERANIUM Gentility, peaceful mind
- GILLYFLOWER Bonds of affection, lasting beauty, she is fair
- GLADIOLUS Ready-armed
- GOLDENROD Encouragement, precaution
- GOOSEBERRY Anticipation
- GRANDIFLORA High-souled
- GRAPE (wild) Charity, mirth
- GRASS Submission
- HANDFLOWER Warning
- HAREBELL Grief, submission
- HARLEQUIN Laugh at trouble
- HAWKWEED Quick-sighted
- HAWTHORN Hope
- HAZEL Reconciliation, heart is agitated
- HEARTSEASE Modesty, pleasant thoughts, think of me
- HEATH Solitude
- HELENIUM, Tears
- HELIOTROPE Devotion, eagerness, intoxicated with joy
- HELLEBORE Calumny, scandal
- HEMLOCK You will cause my death
- HEMP Fate
- HIBISCUS Delicate beauty
- HOLLY Am I forgotten?, domestic happiness, foresight
- HOLLYHOCK Ambition, fruitfulness
- HONEY-FLOWER Love sweet and secret
- HONEYSUCKLE (coral) Fidelity, generous and devoted love, affection
- HONEYSUCKLE Bonds of love
- HOP Injustice,
- HORNBEAM Ornament
- HORSE-CHESTNUT Luxury
- HOUSELEEK Domestic industry, vivacity
- HOUSTONIA Contentment
- HYACINTH (purple) Jealousy, sorrow
- HYACINTH (white) Modest loveliness
- HYACINTH Constancy
- HYDRANGEA Boaster, heartlessness
- HYSSOP Cleanliness
- ICE-PLANT Old Beau, rejected, your looks freeze me
- IRIS (German) Aflame, I burn adversity
- IRIS Message, my compliments, eloquence
- IVY Fidelity, friendship, marriage, wedded love
- JACOB'S-LADDER come down
- JASMINE (cape) I am too happy
- JASMINE (Carolina) Separation
- JASMINE (Indian) Attraction, I attach myself to you
- JASMINE (Spanish) Sensuality
- JASMINE (white) Amiability
- JASMINE (yellow) Grace and elegance
- JASMINE I am too happy
- JONQUIL Can you return my love?, I desire a return of your affection
- JUDAS-TREE Betrayal, unbelief
- KINGCUP Riches
- LABURNUM Forsaken, pensive beauty
- LADY'S SLIPPER Capricious beauty, win and wear me
- LADY'S SMOCK Ardor
- LADY'S THIMBLE Grief, submission
- LADY'S-TRESSES Bewitching grace
- LANTANA I am unyielding
- LAPAGERIA There is no unalloyed good
- LARCH Audacity, boldness.
- LARKSPUR (pink) Fickleness
- LARKSPUR (Purple) Haughtiness
- LAUREL (ground) Perseverance, token
- LAUREL (mountain) Ambition
- LAUREL Perfidy, treachery
- LAURESTINE I die if neglected
- LAVENDER Acknowledgment, distrust failure
- LEAVES (dead) Sadness
- LEMON Discretion
- LETTUCE Cold-hearted
- LICHEN Dejection, refusal, solitude
- LILAC (purple) Fastidiousness, first love
- LILAC (white) Youthful innocence
- LILY (water) Purity of heart
- LILY (calla) Maiden modesty, beauty
- LILY (day) Coquetry
- LILY (frog) Disgust LILY (tiger) I dare you to love me
- LILY (white) Purity and sweetness
- LILY (yellow) Coquetry, falsehood, flirtation
- LILY-OF-THE-VALLEY Perfect purity, return of happiness
- LINDEN Conjugal love
- LIVE-OAK Liberty
- LIVERWORT Confidence
- LOBELIA Arrogance, malevolence
- LOCUST Affection beyond the grave, vicissitude
- LONDON-PRIDE Frivolity
- LOTUS Estranged love
- LOVE-IN-A-MIST Perplexity
- LOVE-LIES Bleeding, hopeless but not heartless
- LUCERNE Life
- LUPINE (rose) Fanciful
- LUPINE (white) Always happy
- LUPINE Voraciousness
- MADDER Backbiting, tranquility
- MAGNOLIA (swamp) Perseverance
- MAGNOLIA Benevolence, high-souled, love of nature, magnificence
- MAIZE Riches
- MALLOW Mildness
- MANCHINEEL Falsehood
- MANDRAKE I wound to soothe
- MAPLE Reserve, retirement
- MARIGOLD Cruelty in love, inquietude, jealous lover
- MARJORAM Blushes
- MARSHMALLOW Beneficence in consent
- MARVEL-OF-PERU Timidity
- MEADOW-SAFFRON My best days are past
- MEADOWSWEET Uselessness
- MESEMBRYANTHEMUM Idleness
- MEZEREON Desire to please
- MIGNONETTE Your qualities surpass your charms
- MILFORD War
- MILK-VETCH Your presence softens my pain, comfort
- MIMOSA Exquisite, fastidious
- MINT Let us be friends again, virtue
- MISTLETOE I surmount difficulties, I want to be kissed, you are a parasite
- MOCK-ORANGE Counterfeit
- MONARDA Your whims are unbearable
- MONK'S-HOOD Chivalry
- MONKSHEAD Danger is near
- MOONFLOWER I only dream of love
- MORNING-BRIDE I have lost all
- MORNING-GLORY Affection, departure
- MOSCHATEL Weakness MOSS Ennui
- MOSS ROSEBUD Confession of love
- MOTHERWORT Concealed love
- MOUNTAIN ASH Prudence
- MOURNING-BRIDE Unfortunate to attachments
- MUDWORT Happiness, peace
- MULBERRY (black) I shall not survive you, sadness
- MULBERRY (white) Wisdom
- MULLEIN Take courage
- MUSK-PLANT Be bolder
- MUSTARD I smart, I am hurt
- MYRTLE (wax) Discipline, instruction
- MYRTLE Love in absence
- NANDINA My love will grow warmer
- NARCISSUS Egotism, you love yourself too well
- NASTURTIUM Patriotism
- NETTLE Slander, you are spiteful
- NIGHTSHADE Your thoughts are dark
- OAK Hospitality
- OAT I love your music
- OLEANDER Beware
- OLIVE Peace
- ORANGE-BLOSSOM Chastity, eternal love, marriage, bridal festivities
- ORCHID You are a belle, you flatter me
- ORCHIS (bee) Error, industry
- ORCHIS (butterfly) Gaiety
- ORCHIS (fly) Error
- OXEYE Be patient
- PALM Victory
- PANSY Modesty, pleasant thoughts, think of me
- PARSLEY Useful knowledge, festivity gaiety
- PASQUEFLOWER You have no claims
- PASSION FLOWER Faith, holy love, religious fervour and superstition
- PEA (Everlasting) Appoint a meeting, lasting pleasure
- PEACH-BLOSSOM I am your captive
- PEAR-BLOSSOM Not altogether lovely, affections
- PENNYROYAL You had better go
- PEONY Anger, indignation, bashfulness
- PEPPER-FLOWER Satirical thoughts
- PERIWINKLE (blue) Early friendship
- PERIWINKLE (white) Harmony, pleasure of memory
- PERSICARIA Restoration
- PERSIMMON-BLOSSOM Bury me amid nature's beauties, I shall surprise you by and by
- PETUNIA You soothe me
- PHEASANT'S-EYE I cannot forget you
- PHLOX (star-shaped) Affability, trying to please you, agreements
- PHLOX Unanimity
- PIMPERNEL Assignation, change
- PINE Pity
- PINK (double-red) Ardent love
- PINK (Indian) Always lovely
- PINK (mountain) Aspiration
- PINK (variegated) Refusal
- PINK (white) Fascination, talent
- PLUM (wild) Independence
- PLUM-BLOSSOM Keep your promises, fidelity
- PLUMBAGO Holy wishes
- POLYANTHUS Purse-proud
- POMEGRANATE BLOSSOM Mature elegance, perfection
- POPPY (red) Consolation
- POPPY (scarlet) Fantastic extravagance
- POPPY (variegated) Flirtation, dreaminess
- POPPY (white) Forgetfulness
- POTENTILLA I claim your esteem
- PRIDE OF CHINA Dissension
- PRIMROSE (evening) Inconstancy, early youth
- PRIMROSE (red) Neglected merit
- PRIMROSE Believe me, youth and sadness
- PRINCE'S FEATHER I blush for you
- PRIVET Prohibition
- PYXIE Life is sweet
- QUAKING-GRASS My
- QUAMOCLIT Busybody
- QUEEN-OF-THE-MEADOWS Uselessness
- QUINCE-BLOSSOM Temptation
- RAGGED-ROBIN Ardor
- RANUNCULUS I am dazzled by your charms
- RASPBERRY-BLOSSOM Remorse
- RHODODENDRON Beware, I am dangerous
- ROCKET Rivalry
- ROSE (Austrian) You are all that is lovely
- ROSE (bridal) Happy love
- ROSE (Burgundy) Unconscious beauty
- ROSE (cabbage) Ambassador of love
- ROSE (Carolina) Love is dangerous
- ROSE (China) Beauty always new
- ROSE (Damask) Beauty ever new, young and brilliant
- ROSE (deep-red) Admiration, bashful, embarrassment
- ROSE (full-blown) Engagement
- ROSE (guelder) Age, winter
- ROSE (half-blown) Timid love
- ROSE (Jacqueminot) I am true
- ROSE (Japan) Beauty is your only attraction, illusion
- ROSE (marechal niel) Yours, heart and soul
- ROSE (montiflora) Grace
- ROSE (moss) Superior, confessions of love
- ROSE (musk) Capricious beauty
- ROSE (pink) Ours must be secret love
- ROSE (red) Unity, romantic love
- ROSE (rock) Popular favour
- ROSE (thornless) Ingratitude
- ROSE (white) I am worthy of your love, silence, innocent love
- ROSE (white, withered) Despair
- ROSE (wild) Charming simplicity
- ROSE (yellow) Jealousy, let us forget, love is waning, friendship
- ROSE (York-and-Lancaster) Conflict
- ROSE Love
- ROSE-LEAF You may hope
- ROSEBUD (red) Inclined to love, pure and lovely
- ROSEBUD (white) Too young to love
- ROSEMARY Remember me
- RUDBECKIA Impartiality
- RUE Disdain, fertility
- SAFFRON Beware of excess pleasures, voluptuousness, you are perfectly lovely
- SAGE Domestic virtues, great respect
- SAINFOIN You confuse me
- SALVIA (blue) Wisdom
- SALVIA (red) Untiring energy
- SATINFLOWER Fascination
- SAXIFRAGE Affection
- SCABIOUS (sweet) Widowhood
- SCABIOUS Unfortunate love
- SEA-BINDWEED Uncertainty
- SENSITIVE-PLANT Fine sensibility
- SENVY I smart
- SHAMROCK Loyalty
- SHEPHERD'S PURSE I offer you my all
- SMILAX Constancy
- SNAPDRAGON No, presumption
- SNOWBALL Bound thoughts of heaven
- SNOWDROP Consolation, friendship in trouble
- SORREL (wild) Ill-timed wit
- SORREL (wood) Secret sweetness
- SOUTHERNWOOD Bantering, jest
- SPEEDWELL Womanly fidelity
- SPIDERFLOWER Not so bad as I seem
- SPIDERWORT Esteem but not love
- ST. JOHN'S-WORT Animosity
- STAR OF BETHLEHEM Atonement
- STARWORT Afterthought
- STEPHANOTIS Happiness in marriage
- STOCK Lasting beauty
- STONECROP Tranquility
- STRAW Agreement
- SUMAC (dwarf) Adoration
- SUMAC I shall survive the change
- SUNFLOWER (large) You are splendid
- SWEET BASIL Good wishes
- SWEET-WILLIAM Grant me one smile
- SWEET PEA departure, remember me
- SYRINGA You shall be happy yet
- TAMARISK Crime
- TANSY Resistance
- TEAZEL Misanthropy
- THISTLE (Scotch) Retaliation
- THISTLE Austerity, sternness
- THORN-APPLE Delusive beauty
- THRIFT Sympathy
- TRILLIUM Modest ambition
- TRUMPET-FLOWER Fame
- TUBEROSE Dangerous
- TULIP (red) Declaration of love
- TULIP (variegated) Enchantment, your eyes are beautiful
- TULIP (yellow) Hopeless and perfect love
- TULIP TREE BLOSSOM Rural happiness
- TURNIP BLOSSOM Charity
- TUSSILAGE You shall have justice
- VALERIAN An accommodating disposition
- VENUS'S FLY-TRAP Duplicity
- VENUS'S LOOKING-GLASS Flattery
- VERBENA Pray for me, tender and quick emotion
- VERONICA Fidelity
- VERVAIN Enchantment, superstition
- VIOLET (blue) Faithfulness, love, loyalty
- VIOLET (white) Candour, modesty hope
- VIRGIN'S BOWER Filial love
- VIRGINIA CREEPER I cling to you
- WAKE-ROBIN Ardor-zeal
- WALLFLOWER Fidelity in misfortune or adversity
- WATER LILY Purity of the heart
- WAX-PLANT Susceptibility
- WHEAT Prosperity
- WISTARIA Cordial welcome
- WITCH-HAZEL Inspiration, Mysticism, a spell is upon me
- WOLFSBANE Misanthropy
- WOODBINE Fraternal love
- WORMWOOD Absence
- XANTHIUM Pertinacity, rudeness
- YARROW Cure for heartache
- ZEPHYRANTHES Expectation
- ZINNIA Thoughts of absent friends