5 Popular flowers which are said to have hidden meanings
Flowers can be the language of love - or hate!
IN Victorian times, the sending and receiving of flowers often conveyed special messages between the parties.
For instance, according to the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition website, while sending a red rose signified love, a dark red bloom may be interpreted to imply shame, and sending a very light red flower could mean the sender wished to keep the love secret.
Chrysanthemums meant love if they were red and truth if they were white.
Chrysanthemum. (Pixabay)
A pansy said ‘you occupy my thoughts’.
Flowers were also used to insult – an orange lily meant hatred.
The most odd definition given to a flower has to be that of the green rose; the website indicates this means that the sender is from Mars!
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