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In case anyone wants to know, this is the kind of thing I am using in my art. I’m also wishing I had known the term floriography before now.

The Victorian Language of Flowers

In the Victorian era, coded messages were often sent in bouquets of flowers, expressing sentiments which could not otherwise be spoken.

APPLE BLOSSOM - Preference, Better Things to Come, Good Fortune

ARBUTUS - Thee Only Do I Love

ARUM - Ardor

ASPARAGUS FERN - Fascination

ASPHODEL - My Regrets Follow You to the Grave

ASTER - Symbol of Love, Daintiness, Talisman of Love

ASTER (CHINA) - Fidelity, Variety, I Will Think of Thee

AZALEA - Take Care, Temperance, Fragile, Passion, Chinese Symbols of Womanhood

BABY’S BREATH - Innocence, Pure of Heart

BACHELOR BUTTON - Single blessedness, Celibacy

BALM - Sympathy

BALSAM - Ardent Love

BEGONIA - Beware, A Fanciful Nature

BELLS OF IRELAND - Good luck

BIRD OF PARADISE - Often given today from a woman to man as a symbol of faithfulness

BITTERSWEET - Truth

BLACK BRYONT/LADY’S SEAL - Be My Support

BLUEBELL/BELL FLOWER - Humility, Constancy, Gratitude

BROOM - Humility, Neatness

BUCK BEAN - Calm repose

BUTTERCUP - Childishness, Riches

CACTUS - Endurance, My Heart Burns with Love

CALYCANTHUS/CAROLINA ALLSPICE/SWEET SHRUB - Benevolence

CALLA LILY - Magnificent Beauty

CAMELLIA - Admiration, Perfection, Good Luck Gift for a Man, Gratitude

CAMELLIA (PINK) - Longing

CAMELLIA (RED) - You’re a flame in my heart

CAMELLIA (WHITE) - Adoration, Perfection, Loveliness

CANDYTUFT - Indifference

CANTERBURY BELLS/BELL FLOWER - Gratitude

CARDINAL FLOWER/SCARLET LOBELIA - Distinction

CARNATION (GENERAL) - Fascination, Devoted Love

CARNATION (PINK) - I’ll never forget you, Women’s Love

CARNATION (RED) - My heart aches for you, Admiration

CARNATION (DEEP RED) - Alas! for my poor heart

CARNATION (PURPLE) - Capriciousness

CARNATION (SOLID COLOR) - Yes

CARNATION (STRIPED) - No, Refusal, Sorry I can’t be with you, Wish I could be with you

CARNATION (WHITE) - Sweet & Lovely, Innocence, Pure Love, Woman’s Good Luck Gift

CARNATION (YELLOW) - Disapointment, Rejection

CATCHFLY (RED) - Youthful Love, I Fall Victim

CATTAIL - Peace, Prosperity

CATTLEYA - Mature charms

CEDAR - I live but for thee, Think of Me

CELANDINE/PILEWORT/FIGWORT - Future Joy

CHAMOMILE/GOLDEN MARGUERITE/ANTHEMIS - Energy in Action

CHERRY BLOSSOM (SINGLE) - Education

CHICKWEED - I Cling to Thee

CHICORY - Frugality

CHRISTMAS ROSE/HELLEBORUS - Relieve My Anxiety

CHRYSANTHEMUM (GENERAL) - Abundance & Wealth,

Cheerfulness, You’re a wonderful friend

CHRYSANTHEMUM (RED) - Love

CHRYSANTHEMUM (WHITE) - Truth

CHRYSANTHEMUM (YELLOW) - Slighted Love

CINQUEFOIL - Beloved Child

CLEMATIS - Artifice (ingenuity)

CLOVER (FOUR-LEAF) - Be Mine

CLOVER (WHITE) - Think of Me

CLOVER (RED) - Industry

COLCHICUM (MEADOW SAFFRON) - My Best Days Fled

COLUMBINE (PURPLE) - Resolved to Win

COLUMBINE (RED) - Anxious

COMPASS FLOWER - Faith

CONVOLVUS MINOR/BINDWEED - Uncertainty

CORCHORUS - Impatience of Happiness

COREOPSIOS - Always Cheerful

CORNFLOWER - Delicacy, refinement,

CORONILLA/CROWN VETCH - Success to You

COWSLIP - Rusticity, Winning Grace, Healing, Youth, Pensiveness

COXCOMB - Foppery, Unfading Love

CROCUS - Cheerfulness, Abuse not, Gladness

CROWN IMPERIAL/FRITILLARIA - Majesty

CYCLAMEN - Resignation and Good-Bye

DAFFODIL - Regard, Unrequited Love, Sunshine, Respect, The sun shines when I’m with you

DAFFODIL (YELLOW ) - Chivalry

DAHLIA - Dignity and Elegance, Forever Thine

DAISY - Innocence, Loyal Love, I’ll Never tell, Purity, Beauty

DAISY OX-EYE - Patience

DAISY (RED) - Beauty Unknown to Possessor

DANDELION - Faithfulness, Happiness, Love’s oracle

DAPHANE CNEORUM/ROSE DAPHANE - I Desire to Please

DAPHANE ODORA/WINTER DAPHANE - I Would Not Have You Otherwise

DRACAENA/DRAGON’S BLOOD/DRAGON LILY - Inner Power

DEAD LEAVES - Sadness

DELPHINIUM - Big-Hearted, Fun

DILL - Lust

DIOSMA - Your Simple Elegance Charms Me

DOG ROSE - Pleasure and Pain

DOGWOOD (FLOWERING) - Am I Indifferent to You?

DRAGON ROOT/GREEN DRAGON (Arum draconium) - Ardor

EDELWEISS/ALPINE CUDWEED - Daring, Courage, Noble Purity

EGLANTINE/SWEET-BRIAR/ROSA EGLANTARIA - Poetry, I Wound to Heal

ELDER FLOWER - Zeal

ENDINE - Frugality

EPIGAEA, REPENS/MAYFLOWER/TRAILING ARBUTUS - Budding

EUPATORIUM/HARDY AGERATUM - Delay

EREMURUS - Endurance

EUPHORBIA - Persistence

EVERLASTING - Never Ceasing Memory

FERN - Magic, Fascination, Confidence, Shelter

FERN (MAIDENHAIR) - Secret bond of love, Discretion

FERN (ROYAL) - Reverie

FILBERT - Reconciliation

FIR - Time

FLAX - Domestic Symbol

FLORA’S BELL - Without Pretension

FLOWERING REED - Confide in Heaven

FORGET ME NOT - True Love, Memories

FORSYTHIA - Anticipation

FOXGLOVE/FAIRY THIMBLES/DEAD MEN’S BELLS - Stateliness, Youth

FOXTAIL GRASS - Sporting

FRAXINELLA/CULTIVATED DITTANY/GAS PLANT - Fire

FREESIA - Innocence, Trust

FUCHSIA (SCARLET) - Confiding Love, Taste

FURZE - Love for All Occasions

GARDENIA - You’re lovely, Secret love, Purity, Refinement

GARLIC - Courage, Strength, Get well, Ward Off Evil & Illness

GENETIAN (FRINGED) - Intrinsic Worth, I Look to Heaven, Autumn

GENTIAN (CLOSED) - Sweet Be Thy Dreams

GERANIUM - True Friend, Stupidity, Folly

GERANIUM (APPLE) - Present Preference

GERANIUM (IVY) - Your Hand for Next Dance

GERANIUM (LEMON) - Unexpected Meeting

GERANIUM (NUTMEG) - I Expect a Meeting

GERANIUM (OAK-LEAVED) - True Friendship, Lady, Deign to Smile

GERANIUM (PENCILED) - Ingenuity

GERANIUM (ROSE) - Preference

GERANIUM (SCARLET) - Consolation, Melancholy

GERANIUM (SILVER-LEAF) - Recall

GERBERA - Innocence

GLADIOLI - Generosity, I’m sincere, Flower of the gladiators

GLOBE AMARANTH - Unfading Love

GLOXINIA - Love at first sight

GINGER - Strength

GOLDEN-ROD - Be cautious, Encouragement

GOOSEBERRY - Anticipation

GOOSEFOOT - Goodness

GORSE - Endearing Affection

GRASS - Submission

GRASS/CITRONELLA/CAMEL GRASS/LEMON GRASS/GINGER

GRASS - Homosexual Love

GUELDER ROSE/SNOWBALL - Winter

HAREBELL/CAMPANULA - Humility, Grief

HEART’S EASR/PURPLE/JOHNNY JUMP UP - You Occupy My Thoughts

HEPATICA (Anemone nobilis) - Confidence

HEATHER (LAVENDER) - Admiration, Solitude

HEATHER (WHITE) - Protection, Wishes will come true

HELIOTROPE - Devotion

HENBANE - For Males to Attract Love from Females

HIBISCUS - Consumed by Love, Delicate Beauty

HOLLY - Defense, Domestic Happiness, Am I forgotten

HOLLYHOCK - Fruitfulness

HOLLYHOCK (WHITE) - Female Ambition

HONESTY/LUNARIA/DOLLAR PLANT/MONEY PLANT - Sincerity

HONEYFLOWER - Sweet, Secret love, Generous Affection, Sweetness of Disposition

HONEYSUCKLE - The Bond of Love

HONEYSUCKLE (CORAL) - I Love You

HOUSTONIA/BLUET/QUAKER LADIES - Content

HOYA/WAX PLANT - Sculpture

HUCKLEBERRY - Faith, Simple Pleasures

HYACINTH (GENERAL) - Games & Sports, Rashness, Flower dedicated to Apollo

HYACINTH (BLUE) - Consistency

HYACINTH (PURPLE) - Sorry, Please forgive me, Sorrow

HYACINTH (RED OR PINK) - Playful Joy

HYACINTH (WHITE) - Unobtrusive Loveliness, I’ll pray for you

HYACINTH (YELLOW) - Jealousy

HYDRANGEA - Thank you for understanding, frigidity, heartlessness

IPOMACA - I Attach Myself to You

INDIAN CRESS/NASTURTIUM - Resignation

IRIS - Faith, Wisdom, Promise in Love, Hope, Wisdom & Valor

IRIS (YELLOW) - Passion

IRIS (GERMAN) - Flame

IVY - Wedded Love, Fidelity, Friendship, Affection

IVY (SPRIG OF WHITE TENDRILS)- Anxious to please, Affection

JAPONICA - Sincerity, Symbol of Love

JASMINE (INDIAN) - Attachment

JASMINE (SPANISH) - Sensuality

JASMINE (YELLOW) - Modesty, Grace, Elegance

JASMINE (WHITE) - Amiability

JERUSALEM OAK - Your Love is Reciprocated

JONQUIL - Love Me, Affection Returned, Desire, Sympathy

KENNEDIA - Intellectual Beauty

LADY’S SLIPPER - Win me, Capricious Beauty

LANTANA - Rigor

LARKSPUR - Levity, An Open Heart, Lightness

LAURISTINUS - Cheerful in Adversity

LAVENDER - Love, Devotion,

LEMON BLOSSOM - Fidelity in Love; I Promise to be True

LILAC (GENERAL) - Beauty, Pride

LILAC (PURPLE) - First emotions of love

LILAC (WHITE) - Youthful Innocence

LILY (GENERAL) - Majesty & Honor, Purity of Heart

LILY (ORANGE) - Hatred, Dislike

LILY (WHITE) - Virginity, Purity, Majesty, It’s Heavenly to be with You, Youth

LILY (YELLOW) - I’m Walking On Air, False, Gay, Gratitude

LILY (CALLA) - Beauty

LILY (DAY) - Coquetry, Chinese Emblem For Mother

LILY (EUCHARIS) - Maiden Charms

LILY (TIGER) - Wealth, Pride, Prosperity

LILY OF THE VALLEY - Sweetness, Tears Of The Virgin Mary, Happiness, Humility

LIVERWORT - Confidence

LOVE IN A MIST - You Puzzle Me

LOVE-LIES-BLEEDING/AMARANTHUS - Hopeless, Not Heartless, Desertion

LOTUS - Estranged love, Forgetful of the Past

LUCERNE - Life

LUNGWORT - Thou Art My Life

LUPINE - Imagination

LYCHNIS/CAMPION/MALTESE CROSS - Religious Enthusiasm

MAGNOLIA - Nobility, Perseverance, Nobility

MAGNOLIA (CHINESE) - Love of Nature

MALLOW - Delicate Beauty, Sweetness

MARIGOLD (COMMON) - Pretty Love, Sacred,Affection, Caress, Sorrow

MARJORAM - Joy, Happiness

MARVEL OF PERU/FOUR O’ CLOCK - Timidity

MEADOW SAFFRON - My Best Days Are Gone

MIGNONETTE - Your qualities Surpass your Charms, Health

MEZEREON - Desire to Please

MILK VETCH - Your presence softens my pain

MIMOSA - Secret Love

MINT - Virtue

MISTLETOE - Kiss me, Affection, Difficulties, Sacred plant of India,

MONKSHOOD - Beware, Danger is near

MOUSE-EAR CHICKWEED - Simplicity

MORNING GLORY - Affection

MOSS - Maternal Love, Charity

MOTHERWORT - Secret Love

MOONWORT/HONESTY - Forgetfulness

MUGWORT/WORMWOOD - Tranquility, Happiness

MULLEIN - Good Nature

MYRTLE - Love, Joy, Hebrew Emblem of marriage

MYRTLE (WAX) - Discipline, Instruction

NARCISSUS - Formality, Stay As Sweet As You Are

NASTURTIUM - Conquest, Victory In Battle

NUTS - Stupidity

OAK LEAVES - Bravery

OLEANDER - Caution

OLIVE BRANCH - Peace

ORANGE BLOSSOM - Innocence, Eternal Love, Marriage, Fruitfulness

ORANGE, MOCK - Deceit

ORCHID - Love, Beauty, Refinement, Chinese Symbol for Many Children, Thoughtfulness

ORCHID (CATTLEYA) - Mature Charm

PALM LEAVES - Victory & Success

PANSY - Merriment, Thoughts (You Occupy My Thoughts)

PARSLEY - Useful Knowledge

PASSION FLOWER - Faith, Religious Fervor

PASQUE FLOWER - Unpretentious, You Have No Claims

PEAR - Affection

PEACH BLOSSOM - I am your Captive

PEONY - Shame, Happy Marriage, Compassion, Bashfulness

PEPPERMINT - Cordiality

PERIWINKLE/VINCA/MYRTLE - Early Recollections, Pleasures of Memories, Sweet Memories

PETUNIA - Your Presence Soothes Me

PHEASANT’S EYE/ADONIS - Sorrowful Memories

PHLOX - Our souls are united, Unanimity

PIMPERNEL/POOR MAN’S WEATHER GLASS - Change

PINE - Hope, Pity

PINK- Pure Affection

PINK (MOUNTAIN) - You Are Aspiring

POPPY (GENERAL) - Eternal Sleep, Oblivion, Imagination

POPPY (RED) - Pleasure

POPPY (WHITE) - Consolation

POPPY (YELLOW ) - Wealth, Success

POMEGRANATE FLOWER - Elegance

PRIDE OF CHINA - Dissension

PRIMROSE - I Can’t Live Without You, Woman

PRIMROSE (EVENING) - Inconstancy

PRIMROSE (RED) - Unpatronized Merit

PRINCE’S FEATHER - Unfading Love

PUSSY WILLOW - Motherhood

QUAKING GRASS - Agitation

RAGGED-ROBIN - Wit

RANUNCULUS - I am Dazzled by your Charms

REEDS - Music

RHUBARB - Advice

RHODODENDRON - Danger, Beware, I am Dangerous

ROSE (BRIDAL) - Happiness

ROSE (BURGANDY) - Unconscious Beauty

ROSE (CHRISTMAS)- Relieve my anxiety

ROSE (CORAL) - Desire

ROSE (DAMASK) - Freshness, Persian Ambassador of Love

ROSE (DARK CRIMSON) - Mourning

ROSE (DOG) - Pleasure & Pain

ROSE (GREEN) - I am from Mars

ROSE (HIBISCUS) - Delicate, Beauty

ROSE (LEAF) - You may Hope

ROSE (LAVENDER) - Enchantment

ROSE (ORANGE) - Fascination

ROSE (PINK) - Perfect Happiness, Secret Love, Grace & Sweetness, Indecision

ROSE (DARK PINK) - Thankfulness

ROSE (PALE PINK) - Grace, Joy

ROSE (PEACH) - Immortality, Modesty

ROSE (RED) - Love, I love you, Respect, Beauty

ROSE (DEEP RED) - Bashful, Shame

ROSE (TEA) - I’ll Remember - Always

ROSE (THORNLESS) - Love at first sight, Early Attachment

ROSE (WHITE) - Innocence, Purity, Humility, I am Worthy of You, Secrecy, Silence

ROSE (WHITE & RED TOGETHER) - Unity, Flower Emblem of England

ROSE (WHITE-DRIED) - Death is Preferable to Loss of Virtue

ROSE (YELLOW) - Joy, Jealousy, Friendship (one yellow rose with 11 red ones means love & passion)

ROSEBUD - Beauty & Youth, A Heart Innocent of Love

ROSEBUD (RED) - Pure & Lovely

ROSEBUD (WHITE) - Girlhood, Heart Ignorant of Love

ROSEBUD (MOSS) - Confessions of Love

ROSES (Bouquet of full bloom) - Gratitude

ROSES (Single full bloom) - I truly love you, Simplicity.

ROSES (GARLAND or CROWN OF) - Beware of Virtue, Reward of Merit, Symbol of Superior Merit

ROSE (MUSK CLUSTER) - Charming

ROSE-OF-SHARON - Consumed by Love

ROSEMARY - Remembrance

RUSH/HORSE-TAIL - Docility

SAGE - Wisdom, Great Respect, Speedwell Female Fidelity

SATIN-FLOWER - Sincerity

SENSITIVE PLANT - Timidity

SHAMROCK - Lightheartedness

SLOE - Difficulty, Austerity

SMILAX - Loveliness

SNAPDRAGON - Gracious Lady, Strength

SNOWBALL - Thoughts of Heaven

SNOWDROP - Hope, Consolation

SPEARMINT - Warm Sentiment

SPIDER FLOWER - Elope with me

SOLIDAGO - Success

STAR OF BETHLEHEM - Atonement, Reconciliation

STARWORT - Welcome to a Stranger

STEPHANOTIS - Marital Happiness, Desire to Travel

STOCK- Bonds of Affection, Promptness, You’ll Always Be Beautiful to Me

STONECROP - Tranquility

STRAW FLOWER - Agreement

STRAW (BROKEN) - Broken agreement

SYTINGIA/MOCK ORANGE/LILAC - Memory

SUNFLOWER (TALL) - False riches, Pride

SUNFLOWER ( DWARF) - Adoration

SWEETPEA - Good-by, Departure, Blissful Pleasure, Thank You for a Lovely Time

SWEET-SULTAN - Felicity, Happiness

SWEET-WILLIAM - Grant me one smile, Gallantry

TEASEL (Dipscaus) - Misanthropy

THORNAPPLE - I dreamed of thee

THRIFT (ARMERIA) - Sympathy

TRAVELER’S JOY - Rest, Safety

TRUMPET FLOWER/ANGEL’S TRUMPET/DATURA - Separation

TULIP (GENERAL) - Perfect Lover, Fame, Flower Emblem of Holland

TULIP (RED) -Believe me, Declaration of Love

TULIP (VARIEGATED) - Beautiful eyes

TULIP (YELLOW) - There’s Sunshine In Your Smile

TURNIP - Charity

VALERIAN - Accommodating Disposition

VENUS FLYTRAP - Caught at Last

VENUS’ LOOKING GLASS - Flattery

VERBENA - Pray for me, Sensibility

VERONICA SPEEDWELL - Fidelity

VERVAIN - Enchantment

VINE - Intoxicating

VIOLET - Modesty, Virtue, Affection

VIOLET (BLUE) - Watchfulness, Faithfulness, Love

VIOLET (WHITE) - Let’s Take A Chance On Happiness

VIRGIN’S BOWER/CLEMATIS - Filial Love (Filial: referring to a son or daughter)

VISCARIA - Will You Dance With Me?

WALL FLOWER/GILLY FLOWER - Faithful in Adversity, Fidelity, Lasting Beauty

WINDFLOWER - Sincerity, Symbol of Love

WINTERGREENS - Harmony

WISTERIA - Welcome

WITCH HAZEL - A spell

WOLFBANE/ACONITE/TURK’S CAP/FRIAR’S CAP/BEAR’S FOOT - Misanthropy, Chivalry, Knight

WOODBINE - Fraternal Love

WORMWOOD/ARTEMISIA - Absence, Do not be discouraged

YARROW - Cure for heartache

ZEPHYR FLOWER- Sincerity, Symbol of Love

ZINNIA (MAGENTA) - Lasting Affection

ZINNIA (MIXED) - Thinking (or in memory) of an Absent Friend

ZINNIA (SCARLET) - Constancy

ZINNIA (WHITE) - Goodness

ZINNIA (YELLOW) - Daily Remembrance

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