What Do Flowers Mean? Victorian Floral Symbolism
We often think of flowers for Valentine’s Day, but instead of relying on your local florist to choose an arrangement, why not try your hand at the Victorian art of sending secret messages via flowers?
Flower Sentiments from the Victorian Era.
Victorian Scrapbook Clipart: A Basket of Flowers.
- Acacia, Yellow = Concealed Love
- Acanthus = Art
- Almond = Heedlessness
- Amaranth = Immortality
- Alyssum = Worth beyond Beauty
- American Star Wort = Welcome to a Stranger
- Anemone, Garden = Forsaken
- Auricula = Painting
- Aspen Tree = Lamentation
- Azalea = Romance
- Bay Leaf = I change but in dying
- Bell Flower, Pyramidal = Gratitude
- Bilberry = Treachery
- Black Poplar = Courage
- Blue Canterbury Bell = Constancy
- Borage = Bluntness, or Roughness of Manners
- Bundles of Reeds = Music
- Bramble = Remorse
- Carnation, Yellow = Disdain
- Candy Tuft = Indifference
- Cherry, Winter = Deception
- Cinquefoil = Parental Love
- Convolvulus Minor = Night
- Crown Imperial = Pride of Birth
- Crocus = Cheerfulness, Smiles
- Columbine = Desertion
- Clematis, English = Traveler’s Joy
- Corchorus = Impatience of Absence
- Coboea = Gossips
- Coreopsis = Love at First Sight
- Cross of Jerusalem = Devotion
- Cypress = Death
- Daisy = Innocence
- Daisy, Michaelmas = Farewell
- Dandelion = Coquetry
- Dead Leaves = Sadness
- Evergreen = Poverty
- Eglantine or sweet briar = Poetry
- Eupatorian = Delay
- Fig Marygold = Sacred Affection
- Geranium, Mourning = Despondency
- Guelder Rose = Winter
- Hackmetack = Single Blessedness
- Hawthorn = Hope
- Heath = Solitude
- Helenium = Tears
- Houstonia = Content
- Honeysuckle, Trumpet = I have dreamed of thee
- Hydrangea = Heartlessness
- Hyacinth = Grief
- India Cross = Resignation
- Ivy = Friendship
- Laburnum = Pensive Beauty
- Larkspur = Fickleness
- Lettuce = Cold Hearted
- Locust = Affection beyond the grave
- Love in a Mist = You puzzle me
- Linden Tree = Matrimony
- Lilac = First Emotion of Love
- Live Oak = Liberty
- Lucern = Life
- Marygold, French = Jealousy
- Meadow Saffron = My best days are gone
- Moss = Maternal Love
- Mountain Pink = Aspirings
- Milfoil, Common = War
- Moonwort = Forgetfulness
- Myosotis, or Mouse Ear = Forget me not
- Nasturtium = Patriotism
- Nettle = Slander
- Nightshade = Dark Thoughts
- Oleander = Beware
- Olive = Peace
- Pansy, or Heart’s Ear = Think of Me
- Passion Flower = Religious Fervor
- Pea = An appointed Meeting
- Peach, Blossom = This Heart is Thine
- Periwinkle = Sweet Remembrances
- Petunia = Thou art less proud than they deem thee
- Persimmon = Bury me amid Nature’s beauties
- Pheasant’s Eye, or Flos Adonis = Sorrowful Remembrances
- Phlox = Our souls are united
- Poplar, White = Time
- Primrose, Evening = Inconstancy
- Poppy = Consolation of Sleep
- Primrose = Early Youth
- Pride of China = Dissension
- Pink, Red = Woman’s Love
- Pine = Pity
- Pine Spruce = Hope in Adversity
- Pine Apple = You are perfect
- Ranunculus = You are radiant with charms
- Rose = Beauty
- Rosemary = Remembrance
- Saffron Flower = Excess is dangerous
- Snap Dragon = You are dazzling, but dangerous
- Snow Ball = Thoughts of Heaven
- Stramonium, Common = Disguise
- Sorrel = Wit
- Spindle Tree = Your image is engraven on my heart
- Syringa = Memory
- Thrift = Sympathy
- Tiger Flower = For once may pride befriend thee
- Tulip = Declaration of Love
- Tulip, Tree = Rural Happiness
- Venus’s Looking Glass = Flattery
- Venus’s Fly Trap = Have I caught you at last?
- Virgin’s Bower = Artifice
- Wall Speedwell = Fidelity
- White Lily = Purity
- Weeping Willow = Melancholy
- Woodbine = Fraternal Love
- Wood Sorrel = Joy
- Wormwood = Absence
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