Anthurium
Meaning: symbolizes hospitality. It is also used to indicate happiness and abundance.
Blushing Bride (Protea)
Meaning: Historically it is reputed that French Hugenots farmers would approach their girlfriends with a S. florida flower in their lapels when about to ask for their hand in marriage. The common name, Blushing Bride, apart from the obvious inference of the flowers colour, derives from the fact that the suitor's intention was apparent to all who met him, much to the embarrassment of his bride to be. The deeper the pink colour the more serious the intentions of the suitor.
Carnation
Meaning: symbolizes pride and beauty. A red carnation symbolizes love, pride and admiration; a pink carnation symbolizes the love of a woman or a mother; a purple carnation symbolizes capriciousness; a yellow carnation symbolizes disdain, rejection or disappointment; while a white carnation symbolizes innocence and pure love. A striped carnation conveys refusal.
Daffodil (Narcissus)
Meaning: symbolizes regard and chivalry. It is indicative of rebirth, new beginnings and eternal life. It also symbolizes unrequited love. A single daffodil foretells a misfortune while a bunch of daffodils indicate joy and happiness.
Frangipani
Meaning: Shelter, protection.
Gardenia
Meaning:symbolizes purity and sweetness. They indicate secret love. They convey joy. They tell the receiver you are lovely.
Gladioli
Meaning: symbolizes strength of character, faithfulness and honour. The Gladiolus flower signifies remembrance.
Heliconia
Meaning: Great returns
Hydrangea
Meaning:symbolizes heartfelt emotions. It can be used to express gratitude for being understood. In its negative sense hydrangea symbolizes frigidity and heartlessness.
Lily - Asiatic
Meaning:symbolizes purity and refined beauty. White lily symbolizes modesty and virginity, orange lily symbolizes passion, yellow lily symbolizes gaiety.
Lily - Gloriosa
Meaning: Honour, fame.
Lily - Triumphator
Meaning: symbolizes purity and refined beauty.
Lily of the Valley
Meaning: Sweetness, Tears of the Virgin Mary, Return to Happiness, Humility, You've Made My Life Complete, beauty, gaiety
Lisianthus
Meaning: Outgoing nature, appreciation.
Orchid - Cymbidium
Meaning: Love, Beauty, Refinement, Beautiful Lady, Chinese symbol for many children, charm.
Orchid - Mokara
Meaning: Love, Beauty, Refinement, Beautiful Lady, Chinese symbol for many children, charm.
Peony
Meaning: symbolizes bashfulness and compassion. It can also be used to express indignation or shame. It symbolizes a happy life happy marriage, good health and prosperity.
Rose - David Austin/Garden
Meaning: red, the lover’s rose, signifies enduring passion; white, humility and innocence; yellow, expressing friendship and joy; pink, gratitude, appreciation and admiration; orange, enthusiasm and desire; white lilac and purple roses represent enchantment and love at first sight. The number of stems in a rose bouquet can also express specific sentiments.
Stock
Meaning: symbolizes lasting beauty and happy life. It is indicative of bonds of affection and is symbolic of promptness. You'll Always Be Beautiful to Me
Tuberose
Meaning: dangerous pleasure and voluptuousness.
Sunflower
Meaning: signifies pure thoughts. It symbolizes adoration and dedication. It is symbolic of dedicated love. It is however also symbolic of haughtiness.
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Amaryllis
Meaning: This flower is symbolic of splendid beauty. It is also used to indicate worth beyond beauty.
Camelia
Meaning: Graciousness, Steadfastness, Excellence, Good luckgift for a man.
Chrysanthemum
Meaning: symbolizes fidelity, optimism, joy and long life. A red chrysanthemum conveys love; a white chrysanthemum symbolizes truth and loyal love while a yellow chrysanthemum symbolizes slighted love.
Delphinium
Meaning: Hybrid symbolizes big-heartedness, fun, lightness and levity. It also indicates ardent attachment.
Freesia
Meaning:symbolizes innocence and thoughtfulness. Trust and Spirited.
Gerbera
Meaning: cheerfulness.
Gypsophilia (Baby's breath)
Meaning: Innocense, pure of heart
Hyacinth
Meaning:symbolizes playfulness and a sporty attitude and in its extreme rashness. Hyacinths also denote constancy. Blue hyacinth stands for constancy, purple for sorrow, red or pink for play, white for loveliness and yellow for jealousy.
Iris
Meaning:symbolizes eloquence. Purple iris is symbolic of wisdom and compliments. Blue iris symbolizes faith and hope. Yellow iris symbolizes passion while white iris symbolizes purity.
Lily - Arum
Meaning: Ardor
Lily - Calla
Meaning: Majestic beauty, Regal
Lily - Oriental
Meaning: symbolizes purity and refined beauty. White lily symbolizes modesty and virginity, orange lily symbolizes passion, yellow lily symbolizes gaiety.
Lily - Longiflorum/November Lily
Meaning: symbolizes purity and refined beauty.
Lily - Green Goddess
Meaning: Majestic beauty, Regal
Orchid - Cattleya
Meaning: Mature charm
Orchid - Dendrobium (Singapore orchid)
Meaning: Love, Beauty, Refinement, Beautiful Lady, Chinese symbol for many children, charm.
Orchid - Phalaenopsis (Moth orchid)
Meaning: Love, Beauty, Refinement, Beautiful Lady, Chinese symbol for many children, charm.
Ranunculi
Meaning: symbolizes radiant charm. It conveys a message that you are radiant with charm/ you are attractive.
Rose - Hothouse
Meaning: red, the lover’s rose, signifies enduring passion; white, humility and innocence; yellow, expressing friendship and joy; pink, gratitude, appreciation and admiration; orange, enthusiasm and desire; white lilac and purple roses represent enchantment and love at first sight. The number of stems in a rose bouquet can also express specific sentiments.
Stephanotis
Meaning: Happiness in Marriage, Desire to Travel
Sweet pea
Meaning: indicates delicate pleasure and bliss. It is a flower symbolic of departure after having had a good time.
Tulips
Meaning: signifies a declaration of love. It also symbolizes fame and perfect love.
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