FLOWERS and FLOWER COLOR
Meaning, Symbolism & History
UNDERSTANDING HOW Flowers and their Colors
AFFECT EMOTIONS, MOODS, FEELINGS
A "Baslee Troutman" Giclee Fine Art Print
"Bearded Irises Along the Ladybug Path"
From the "Day Star Garden" Art Series Collection
Giving Flowers, Flower Gifts,
Colors in Home & Office Décorative Art
Color affects the way we perceive the world, evoking certain emotions, feelings and can alter our moods and sense of well-being.
Either consciously or subconsciously our minds understand that all colors have deep seated meanings and natural associations with certain expressions. Sometimes we understand the message we are sending with certain colors, and other times, we choose colors because it feels right and expresses what we would like to share.
The symbolism of flower colors runs deep in tradition and history. Every color and flower combination has his own particular meaning. Every flower color from deep red roses to a bright yellow daffodils offer meaningful stories and outcomes. The flower colors we choose for bouquets, or in our art, are as important as the types of flowers placed in our arrangements.
The colors we decide to use when giving flowers, in the ART we display, and in decorating our home, have both subtle or bold impacts on perceptions of our surroundings, and how others feel about who we really are, what we represent and what we want in life.
BLUE
Soothing, Relaxing, Calms Worries
The pale blue hues of a hydrangea or the deep, rich blues and purples of an iris flower can calm a person’s worries and preoccupation with troubles. It represents and fills one’s mind with peace, openness, and serenity. Fresh cut floral arrangements or bouquets that have blue flowers can help relieve anxiousness and stress.
Because Blue represents the color of the ocean and sky, it is intrinsically linked to water and space. Water is seen as source of purifying or cleansing, and this represents having a pure, clean heart. The blue from the our vast skies and expansiveness of the ocean represents openness, eternity and feelings of calm. It removes any feelings of being closed in or trapped. It brings the outdoors, inside. Forever, open, clean.
BLUE
Color Symbolism
Blue overall symbolizes freedom, strength and new beginnings. Blue is both a cooling color and soothing relaxing color. Blue represents water, our source of life, and the sky, our heavens which offer us when we look up we find optimism, opportunity, hope, inspiration, spiritualism and meaning.
A "Baslee Troutman" Giclee Fine Art Print
"Close Your Eyes & Believe" Blue Irises
From the "Day Star Garden" Art Series Collection
PINK Color Meaning
Pink blossoms convey grace, gentleness, warmth, love, joy, innocence, softness, quietness, stillness, comfort and happiness. Any type of pink flower will evoke these feelings of gentle warmth and softness.
Pink flowers have a more sophisticated look than red, which is more appealing to most adults than straight pure red. Pink being a gentler color is more appropriate for healing. If you’re feeling blue or down, pink can elevate your feeling of well-being by soothing the hard edges of life. It is a comforting color bringing us feelings of love and warmth.
Being a young color, it is a bit flirtatious, bringing us childhood fun and even a little bit of silliness. It allows us to let our guard down and find that inner child that wants to feel safe yet playful.
PURPLE Represents
Purple flowers are seen as representing royalty, nobility, pride, depth, dignity, accomplishment, admiration, success, wealth and ceremony. Purple is both a bold, rich and vivid color with many different hues and contrasts.
It’s not a loud or obnoxious color, in it’s many different shades but it does quietly and subtly brings feelings of being special, of having class, elegance and dignity.
A RED FLOWER
Red flowers bring out the essence of passion, desire, strength and love. The bolder colors of red are the queen of showing deep beauty, boldness, pleasure, desire, vitality, survival and heat. Red represents strong passion, symbolizing the heart and soul of a person, on display. Our love, passion and commitment can be expressed well here.
Warmer colors of red or ‘soft reds’ with orange and yellows stimulate our senses with many different feelings. Red is also a color of energy and vitality and heightened senses, so it brings with it some seductiveness when expressing the desires of one’s heart.
PRECIOUS WHITE
White flowers stand for innocence, purity, reverence, humility, simplicity and elegance. They take on a pure, luxurious silky hue. It represent being spiritual, divine, heavenly and having inner significance. Our angels wear white, our brides wear white, the newly baptized wear white, all to show their purity of heart. It is pure and youthful and shows simplicity, goodness, honesty and reverence.
A grown child sending a fully white flower bouquet to their mom, mixed with only greens and a very small touch of another color, is the perfect way to say you’re sorry, or ask for forgiveness, and have her feel the warmth of your love for her as a mother. This works well if you’ve missed her birthday because of your hectic, overly busy schedule and life. Use white in abundance.
SUNSHINE YELLOWS
Yellow flowers are bright, cheerful, lighthearted and joyful. They make you feel like smiling and being happy, joyful, optimistic, out-going and social. Yellow flowers make you feel good, enthusiastic, fun and able to see the humor in life. They bring you friendship, happiness and represent hopeful new beginnings.
A "Baslee Troutman" Giclee Fine Art Print
"Bearded Irises Cheerful" Sunny Day in Garden
From the "Day Star Garden" Art Series Collection
ORANGE Color Meaning
Orange flowers are playful yet proud, confidence, bringing you energy, enthusiasm, satisfaction, passion for life and warmth. Being a secondary color, it’s combination or reds and yellows, portray a vibrancy and subtleness that shows confidence, satisfaction, thoughtfulness, compassion and passion for both love and life. Orange brings you intuition, friendliness, spirit and brings out creativity. It brings people in, it gets their attention.
Orange is a color the brings out being excited, it’s the primary color of warmth and enthusiasm. Orange has to be put together just right, with the right combination of other colors to come across as both strong and subtle. Because orange is used as a warning color outside of flowers, use some caution in clothing or furnishings, so it doesn’t come across as too bold, loud, flamboyant, outrageous or exuberant.
GREEN – the most NATURAL OF ALL COLORS
Green flowers and foliage are one with nature. It makes you feel that all around you is healthy, clean and natural. It creates the common bond between all that is alive and shares this earth together. Green colors represent youth, good fortune, renewal, growth, resilience and optimism.
Representing life and all living things, green is nurturing and supporting. It is a healing and secure color representing wealth, careers, perseverance, patient, learning and being flexible and adaptable. Green, in the United States, is also the color of money so it represents wealth, fortune, prosperity and good luck.
Elegant
Lovely
Soft
Lavender, Lavender, Lavender
Lavender colored flowers brings you a combination of grace, refinement, elegance, with a touch of sacredness. They make you think of soft beauty that is refined and delicate.
Beautiful in
BLACK
Black is usually not a solid color in flowers but you can find mixtures of it on some. It brings out the vibrancy of other colors. Black is not considered a color because it absorbs all other colors and stores them, thereby not reflecting back any color that the brain can perceive. Black at funerals can be viewed as representing all experiences, fullness of life, a bringing together of everything that has existed. It is respectful and reverent. Black in social setting is a foundation for being complete, accomplished, confident and fulfilled.
FLOWER SYMBOLISM – What do they Mean?
Roles of Flowers in Life
With many plants blooming for only a few weeks, most often in spring or summer, individual flowers tend to be short-lived. Flowers have a birth, and mature into delicate, colorful, and scented beings, and then start their decline until they vanish as quickly as they came. From these qualities emerge the symbolic meanings of flowers representing life and death, and all in between.
Flowers have many meanings, swelling from tender bud to full bloom, they are associated with youth, beauty, and pleasure. They are connected with the birth, the return of Spring after winter. Encompassing all that is in between, from purity to passion. But because they do wilt and die, flowers also represent fragility and the swift passage of time, leading us from life into death, and then into a heavenly rebirth.
Flower shapes also have had significance meaning. Blossoms that have petals projecting outward much like rays of light from the sun have been associated with being centered – within the world, the universe, or our consciousness.
A "Baslee Troutman" Giclee Fine Art Print
"Sunlit Tulip Family" Red Tulips
From the "Day Star Garden" Art Series Collection
Historical Language of Flowers
Home grown Tulips
During the late 1800’s in Europe, a system grew for understanding and communicating what flowers represented and what messages were attached through flower arrangements. They created Code Books to guide people in composing or reading floral messages. They would be required to recognize flowers and blooms and how tradition or myth affected the use of the elaborate language presented in any flower arrangements.
Many symbolism are in play today and their original meaning is carried forward from ancient times, stories, mythology and significance in other cultures.
Iris Symbolism – What does it Mean?
The fleur-de-lis, a designed stylized iris, came from the white iris which is native to Florence and Italy. It even grew in its city walls. This white iris is placed on top of a red background and originally became the symbol of Florence. It was changed when the Medici family wanted to show a change in political power, so they reversed the red and white colors, making the white iris red with a white background. This drove them to trying to develop a red iris for many centuries, without complete success. Catherine de Medici carried the changed symbol of Florence to Paris when she married the king of France, where the irises obtained it’s famous name, fleur-de-lis. The Iris is used in symbols including on the Quebec flag, the logo for the New Orleans Saints professional football team, and on the Saint Louis, Missouri flag. This iris symbol has been associated with France as Louis VII when he adopted it as a symbol in the 12th Century and it is also widely known symbol of Scouting and the sorority, Kappa Kappa Gamma.
Iris Flowers & Art
Expressing Ourselves with Color in Art & Flowers
Millions of people surround themselves with art, and find that it brings a fulfilling satisfaction, not only to themselves but to others. It’s both a simple and sophisticate way of sharing and expressing our views, beliefs, hopes, desires and dreams. When a colorful gift is given, it is remembered and cherished.
All of us need inspiration in order to prosper and live lives filled with satisfaction, fulfillment and meaning. Without a means of expressing ourselves, we’ll have less vitality and substance and depth. Our world is filled with an overwhelming number of advertisements that are sent out all day, every day and flood us with messages. Many of them unwanted. Color, Art and Flowers let us get away from the over-business or routine, mundane tasks and mechanical motions we sometimes find ourselves in.
That is why we are always on the search for something that inspires us, restores us, inviting us in and letting us belong. The reward is knowing that you took part in bringing beauty into the world, you were the source.
Blue Iris Flower
The Iris is a perennial flower, which blooms from rhizomes, that got its well-deserved name from Latin, meaning 'rainbow'. The deep blue Iris flowers are a rich variety of the flower. Mixed with Yellow Irises they look exceptional.
While irises appear in almost all shades except black with many, many combinations of colors and designs, the blue iris flowers are highly used as cut flowers in bouquets in vases or flower arrangements.
The popularity of the blue iris flower is mostly attributed to the sheer magnificence and beauty of these flowers. They are gorgeous. The blue iris has significant meanings associated with it. For centuries, Iris flowers have been used to show appreciation and devotion and faith. Many feel that it represents royalty and richness, magnificence, heroism, valor and courage.
Blue Iris flowers always make popular bouquets and look lovely in vases. Best of all, they are appropriate for all occasions.
Birthday and Mother’s Day flowers
As a present or additional gift
Birthday Flowers are always received well and loved. Giving flowers makes them feel even more special. There are so many different kinds but some important factors are your relationship with them and your budget. You can always refer to the color meanings and flower symbolisms or look to see what their Birth Month Flower is and go with that, attach a special note about the meaning of the flowers or colors.
All women love flowers, don’t they? There is nothing that says ‘I love you’ more or better than sending or delivering flowers on their birthday. Flowers say a lot about how you feel about them. It’s a classic, never-fail gift.
You can choose from traditional, classic floral bouquet or specialized ones that represent a theme such as spring or Irish tea garden style. For more out-going women try ones with unusual or exotic blooms. Another good choice is a sunny bouquet with large sunflowers or bright playful flowers.
DO THEY LIKE ATTENTION?
Women’s Birthday Flowers can be adorned with balloons or stuffed animals, or other items, so everyone around knows it’s their birthday. Baskets filled with goodies are another way for them to share their special day with everyone around them.
Are them more Quiet?
Women that are quieter will like bouquet that have elegance and gentle hues. Another hit is orchids or planted gardens. Orchid symbolize beauty and refinement and they last a very long time. Perfect for birthday gifts or Mother’s Day gifts to show your love, gratitude and appreciation.
MEN’S Birthday or Anniversary flowers
Many Men love flowers, and have gardens full of huge, specially grown flowers that are impressive. You want to make him feel really special, send him flowers that represent your relationship and personality. Elegant displays, delicate flowers or vivid, bright, solid colors. Send along a gift with the flowers that he can enjoy once the flowers are gone. Gift planters or gift baskets are also great ideas. Many men are excellent plant growers and gardeners. They usually like unique, big, ‘cool’ flowers that stand out from the rest and are easy to show off.
Children’s Birthdays
Children love getting flowers, especially girls. Send the flowers with a gift that they can enjoy after the flowers are gone. Mugs, toys, stuffed animals, or balloons are good matches.
QUICK LIST of
Birthday Month Flowers
Each month a person was born in has different flowers that represent that month of birth.
January's flower.
Carnation, snowdrop.
Dark blue, red, white.
Fascination, admiration, devoted love, my heart, mother’s love, friend.
February's flower.
Iris, violet, primrose. (see Iris section)
Violet, sky blue, yellow.
Faithfulness, virtue, young love, modesty, respect, one, love.
March's flower.
Daffodil, jonquil.
Yellow, White, pink, light blue.
Desire, affection, devotion, respect, one, sunshine, love.
April's flower.
Daisy, sweetpea.
Yellow, red.
Blissful, pleasure, love, friend, rest, loveliness, optimism, abundance, wealth, innocence, youth, purity.
May's flower.
Lily, lily of the valley, hawthorn.
White, Yellow, red, green.
Sweetness, purity, completeness, humility, happiness, fertility, hope.
June's flower.
Rose, honeysuckle.
Any color of Rose, Light blue, White, Cream.
Love, passion, happiness, devotion, affection.
All roses symbolize love, but each color has it’s own meaning. Red means love, passion, respect, courage. White means innocence, purity, secrecy, worthiness, heavenly, humility. Red and White means unity. Pink means grace, perfect happiness. Dark pink means gratitude. Light pink means admiration, sympathy. Yellow means soft respectful love, friendly love, friendship. Orange means passion, attention, desire. Blue means extraordinary, mystery.
July's flower.
Larkspur, water lily.
Green, russet, red.
Lightness, attachment, agility.
August's flower.
Gladiola, poppy, gladiolus.
Imagination, sincerity, splendid beauty, strength, character, sincerity,
generosity, natural, grace, eternal, graceful.
September's flower.
Aster, morning glory.
Brown, deep blue.
Elegance, affection, love, daintiness, star, after thought.
October's flower.
Calendula, cosmos.
White, Yellow, varied.
Joy, modesty beautiful.
November's flower.
Chrysanthemum.
Dark Blue, red, yellow.
Optimism, cheerfulness, wonderful friend, rest, loveliness, abundance, wealth, truth.
December's flower.
Narcissus, holly.
Indigo, green, greenish-blue.
Formality, good will, sweet, foresight, good wishes, self-esteem.
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