Flowers aren’t just for decorations; each flower color carries a secret language that conveys a message. Whether you’re purchasing flowers for yourself or your loved one, you may be interested in learning about what each color represents to help you create the perfect flower arrangement.
At Rich Mar Florist, we offer award-winning bouquets. If you’re looking for your next flower bouquet, want to celebrate a special event, or send flowers to a loved one, take a look at these seven popular flower colors and the meaning of each color:
Purple Flowers
Purple flowers have origins tied to royalty, admiration, and ceremony. These flowers typically represent success, wealth, tradition, and pride. As a result, purple flowers are excellent blooms to celebrate important moments, such as graduation from high school, college, or graduate school.
Types: calla lilies, orchids, carnations
Yellow Flowers
Yellow flowers are a popular bouquet option that represents joy, positivity, lightheartedness, and new beginnings. Yellow flowers are an ideal bloom for family and friends who may need cheering up or for celebratory moments.
Types: lilies, daffodils, tulips, chrysanthemums, dahlias
Green Flowers
Interested in flowers that bring harmony and luck? Green flowers are an excellent choice. There is a lot of symbolism behind green flowers, including good luck, fortune, harmony, resilience, wellness, good health, and so much more. Due to its many meanings, green flower bouquets are often associated with new chapters in life or are used as a “Get Well Soon” bouquet.
Types: gerbera daisies, orchids, button pompon, zinnias
Red Flowers
Red flowers are a perfect representation of romance and passion. The color red is also associated with love, desire, beauty, admiration, courage, and strength. While the most popular holiday to gift red flowers is Valentine’s Day, there are plenty of other instances to gift red flowers. Anniversaries, proposals, and other romantic occasions are a perfect opportunity to spread your love with red flowers.
Types: Roses, carnations, protea, anemones, amaryllis
Blue Flowers
When you think of the color blue, you often think of peace and tranquility. Blue flowers represent calmness, serenity, relaxation, tranquility, and support. Blue flowers can also represent intimacy and commitment. With that said, a blue flower bouquet is perfect to gift when someone is going through a difficult time to provide them a sense of tranquility and show your support.
Types: hydrangea, delphinium, orchids, cornflower, bellflower, hyacinths
White Flowers
White flower bouquets are a popular flower option, often used to convey messages of sympathy. The color white also represents purity, modesty, reverence, thoughtfulness, and humility. Along with sympathy, you might find white flowers used in wedding ceremonies as bridal bouquets.
Types: hydrangeas, daisies, calla lilies, peonies, anemones
Lavender Flowers
Lavender flowers represent refinement, elegance, grace, youth, and femininity. With that said, lavender flower bouquets are perfect for celebrating women and children. You’ll likely find lavender flowers used in baby showers and kids’ birthday parties.
Types: orchids, tulips, waxflower, wisteria, lilacs, lavender
Finding the Right Flowers For Your Occasion
At Rich Mar Florist, we create award-winning bouquets for each occasion. Each flower color has a deeper meaning, representing a unique message. We want to craft a flower bouquet that is not only beautiful to view but is arranged with the best colors that communicate the right message.
Whether you’re interested in seasonal flowers, sympathy flowers, flowers for a ceremony, or flowers just because we can assist with your next arrangement. Our goal is to provide customers with quality flowers sourced from all over the world with hand-crafted floral arrangements created by our talented design team. Contact us today to learn more about our flower arrangements.
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