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    What Does Your Valentine's Day Bouquet Really Mean?

    What Does Your Valentine's Day Bouquet Really Mean?

    By Rich Santos
    Published 14 February 2008 In News

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    Valentine's Day means candy, romantic dinners and, of course, flowers. I was astounded to find how many meanings there were for flowers beyond white rose means friendship and red rose means love. After learning these meanings, I realized that I could open a florist and use these floral meanings to create full on bouquets for any type of lover who came in. Here are my arrangements based on the flower meanings:

    We should just be friends.

    ROSE, LEAF: You may hope

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    ROSE, YELLOW: Joy, friendship

    CARNATION, STRIPED: Refusal, No, sorry I can't be with you

    I love you for your money.

    ALSTROMERIA: Wealth, prosperity, fortune

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    APPLE BLOSSUMS: Good fortune

    HOLLYHOCK: Ambition, fruitfulness

    LILY: Majesty, wealth

    ORANGE, MOCK: Deceit

    POPPY, YELLOW: Wealth, success


    I'm basically like 99% of the other guys out there.

    LARKSPUR: Fickleness

    NARCISSUS: Egotism, conceit, self love, self admiration

    ORANGE, MOCK: Deceit

    ROSE, CORAL: Desire

    TULIP: Perfect lover (he gives this part of the bouquet to himself)

    EREMURUS: Endurance (he'll over compensate with this flower)


    I'm stalking you (appropriately, this is the biggest bouquet—and the ugliest).

    ASPARAGUS FERN: Fascination

    BEGONIA: Beware

    CAMELLIA, PINK: Longing for you

    DAHLIA: Instability

    EUPHORBIA: Persistence

    GLOXINA: Love at first sight

    HYACINTH, WHITE: Loveliness

    HYACINTH, YELLOW: Jealousy

    MARIGOLD, POT: Grief, despair

    MONKSHOOD: Beware, a deadly foe is near, danger

    OLEANDER: Caution

    PRIMROSE: I can't live without you

    RHODODENDRON: Danger, caution

    I screwed up.

    HYACINTH, PURPLE: I am sorry

    SNAPDRAGON: Deception

    BITTERSWEET: Truth

    CAMELLIA, WHITE: You're adorable

    GERANIUM: Stupidity

    RETURN BOUQUET TO THIS ONE:

    CARNATION, YELLOW: Disdain, rejection, you have disappointed me

    CHRYSANTHEMUM, YELLOW: Slighted love

    I'm secretly gay.

    CARNATION, STRIPED: Refusal, No, sorry I can't be with you

    LILY, YELLOW: I'm walking on air, false, gay

    ORANGE, MOCK: Deceit


    I'm not going to put out.

    HYDRANGEA: Thank you for understanding, frigidity

    IRIS, WHITE: Purity

    ROSE, WHITE: Innocence, purity, secrecy

    ACACIA: Concealed love, chaste love

    ROSE, WHITE, DRIED: Death is preferable to loss of virtue

    I have Oedipus Complex

    CARNATION, PINK: A woman's love, I'll never forget you, mother's love

    MOSS: Maternal love, charity

    Boy, you crazy???

    SPIDER FLOWER: Elope with me

    Here's your source to making your own bouquets that say a lot

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