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Bouquet Flowers

Anthurium Flower

The word “Anthurium” comes from Greek and means “Tail Flower.” Its open, heart-shaped bloom represents hospitality, making it a thoughtful gift for relatives and friends.

Anthurium flowers are perfect bouquet flowers, they add bold, modern elegance to any composition with their glossy texture and striking shape. Their long-lasting blooms create a sense of luxury and individuality, making them perfect for arrangements designed to stand out and leave a lasting impression.

flamingo flowers

Anthuriums are often called “flamingo flowers” because of their bright colors and sleek, tropical shape.

longest-lasting cut flowers

It’s one of the longest-lasting cut flowers, often staying fresh for 2–3 weeks in a bouquet with proper care, making it a favorite in modern floral design.

Alstroemeria Flower

Alstroemeria is assumed to symbolize the ever-lasting beauty of commitment, care, friendship, and devotion. There are others however, who claim that this flower symbolizes.

Alstroemeria is a versatile and elegant flower that adds fullness, color, and gentle movement to any bouquet. Its long-lasting blooms make it perfect for birthdays, anniversaries, thank-you arrangements, celebrations of friendship, and everyday gifts, offering beauty that feels both meaningful and effortlessly stylish.

Peruvian lily

Alstroemeria is known as the “Peruvian lily” and symbolizes friendship, devotion, and mutual support, making it a meaningful addition to bouquets.

long-lasting flower

Despite its delicate look, it’s a surprisingly long-lasting flower, often staying fresh for up to two weeks and continuing to open new blooms after being arranged.

Aster (genus) Flower

The name “Aster” comes from the Greek word for “star,” reflecting the flower’s star-like shape. Asters symbolize love, daintiness, fortune, prosperity, and remembrance. In France, people placed asters on soldiers’ graves to express sorrow and hope for a different outcome. Gardeners grow many varieties of asters across all hardiness zones.

Aster flowers bring light, airy charm to bouquets with their daisy-like blooms and delicate texture. They fill arrangements beautifully while adding color and movement, making them perfect for autumn designs, birthdays, thank-you bouquets, sympathy flowers, and everyday gifts.

Greek Star

The name Aster comes from the Greek word for “star,” inspired by the flower’s star-shaped form.

late bloom

Asters are often associated with patience, elegance, and lasting love, and they bloom late in the season when many other flowers have faded.

Bird of Paradise Flower

The flower symbolism associated with the bird of paradise flower is freedom, good perspective, faithfulness (when given from a woman to a man). The bird of paradise flower is so-named because of a resemblance to the actual bird of paradise. In South Africa, it is commonly known as a “crane” flower. The leaves are large, 30-200 cm long and 10-80 cm broad, similar to a banana leaf but with a longer petiole, and arranged to form a fan-like crown of evergreen foliage.

pollinated by birds

The flower is specially shaped for sunbirds (in its native South Africa). When a bird lands on the “beak,” it opens and dusts the bird’s feet with pollen — basically a natural landing pad + pollen catapult.

lasts surprisingly long

A single flower can stay attractive for 2–3 weeks on the plant and even up to 2 weeks after cutting in a vase, which is why florists love using it in arrangements and tropical bouquets.

Carnation Flower

The carnation (Dianthus caryophyllus) stands out for its delicately ruffled petals and soft clove-like fragrance, giving it an elegant yet cheerful personality. As a result, florists often feature carnations in classic and modern bouquet flowers alike. Additionally, each color carries its own meaning—red symbolizes love, pink expresses admiration, white represents purity, and deeper tones convey remembrance. Because of this versatility, carnations work beautifully in bouquet flowers for Mother’s Day, weddings, graduations, thank-you gifts, and sympathy arrangements. Moreover, their long-lasting nature makes them a practical and meaningful choice for bouquet flowers designed to celebrate life’s most important moments.

Italian carnagione

The English name derived from the flower name, from French carnation, meaning “complexion,” from Italian carnagione, meaning “flesh-colored.”

flower of the gods

Carnation flowers were used in ancient Greece and Rome for ceremonial crowns — the name Dianthus even means “flower of the gods.”

Rose

The rose (Rosa) captivates with its layered, spiral-forming petals and rich fragrance, making it the ultimate symbol of emotion. For this reason, bouquet flowers featuring roses remain a timeless favorite for romantic and meaningful occasions. Each color tells a story—red expresses deep love, white symbolizes purity, yellow celebrates friendship, and pink shows appreciation. Consequently, roses fit perfectly into bouquet flowers for anniversaries, weddings, apologies, and joyful celebrations.

Furthermore, wild roses with five petals hold spiritual symbolism in Christian tradition, representing the wounds of Christ. The rose also symbolizes the Virgin Mary, often called the “Mystic Rose.” Thus, beyond beauty, roses bring deep history and meaning to bouquet flowers.

oldest cultivated flowers

Roses are among the oldest cultivated flowers (grown by humans for over 5,000 years).

immortal blooms

A single rose plant can live for decades — some historic garden roses are over 100 years old and still blooming.

Chrysanthemum

Flowers mark every meaningful moment in life. Whether you celebrate a new baby, birthday, anniversary, or simply want to say thank you or get well soon, bouquet flowers always help you share heartfelt emotions.

In particular, chrysanthemums symbolize wealth, fidelity, and truth. For over 2,000 years, gardeners have cultivated them in Chinese gardens, valuing both their beauty and significance. Therefore, adding chrysanthemums to bouquet flowers conveys sincerity and pure intentions—whether you send them to a spouse, friend, or business associate. Additionally, their full blooms and vibrant colors give bouquet flowers a lush, abundant appearance that feels both thoughtful and refined.

golden flower

The name chrysanthemum comes from Greek chrysos (gold) and anthemon (flower). In traditional Chinese medicine, chrysanthemum tea has been used for centuries to cool the body, ease headaches, and improve eye health — so it’s not only decorative, but also healing.

different meanings

While in China and the U.S. chrysanthemums symbolize happiness, honesty, and well-wishes, in several European countries (like France and Italy) they are strongly associated with remembrance and are commonly placed on graves.

Cymbidium (Orchids)

Orchids rank among the most coveted ornamental plants, and their delicate, exotic elegance has come to symbolize love, luxury, beauty, and strength. In ancient Greece, people closely linked orchids with virility. In fact, Greek women believed that the size of the orchid tubers the father ate could influence their baby’s gender: if he ate large, new tubers, they expected a boy; however, if the mother ate small tubers, they believed she would give birth to a girl. Meanwhile, in ancient China, people revered orchids as “Lan Hua,” honoring them as the very epitome of human perfection.

hybrid flowers

Orchids are one of the largest plant families on Earth — there are over 25,000 natural species and more than 100,000 hybrids created by growers.

mother of vanilla flavor

Vanilla flavor comes from an orchid! The vanilla bean is actually the fruit of the Vanilla planifolia orchid species.

Delphinium (Orchids)

In the Victorian language of flowers, delphiniums expressed devoted attachment, big-heartedness, enthusiasm, fun, and lighthearted joy. Their magnificent beauty, star-shaped blooms, and vibrant—often brilliant blue—color naturally inspired these meanings. When you decorate your home with bunches of delphiniums, you instantly brighten the space and create a cheerful, uplifting atmosphere. At the same time, you send a warm message of hospitality, enthusiasm, and genuine kindness to everyone who walks through your door.

Greek dolphin

The name Delphinium comes from the Greek word for dolphin — its flower buds look like tiny jumping dolphins.

source of good energy

Traditionally, delphiniums symbolize positivity and protection, and in the past people planted them near homes to keep away negative energy.

Freesia

Freesia flowers convey a variety of meanings, including friendship, innocence, thoughtfulness, perseverance and being high-spirited. In the language of flowers, freesias were traditionally used to convey friendship. Contemporary florists, noting its graceful appearance, recommend freesia for someone who is graceful under pressure.

perfumes base

Freesias are famous for their sweet citrus-like fragrance, which is why they’re widely used in perfumes and scented cosmetics.

flower of trust

They symbolize friendship and trust, making them a popular flower in thank-you bouquets and thoughtful gifts.

Gardenia

The added beauty of these flowers is that they convey intense emotional meanings, which if given as a gift, helps express a person’s feelings to someone. The gardenia, therefore, signifies joy, purity, secret love and is associated with thoughts of beauty.

luxurious scent

Gardenias are prized for their strong, creamy fragrance, often considered one of the most luxurious natural floral scents used in perfumes.

secret lover

They symbolize secret love and purity, which is why they’re popular in wedding bouquets and romantic arrangements.

Gerbera

Gerbera is an ornamental plant from the sunflower family (Asteraceae). It was named in honor of the German naturalist Traugott Gerber. Gerbera is the fifth most important cut flower in the world. The Gerbera flower suggests enduring purity.

colorful blooms

Gerbera daisies naturally come in almost every color except true blue, making them one of the most colorful cut flowers.

source of joy

They symbolize joy and positive energy, which is why they’re often given to cheer someone up or celebrate happy occasions.

Hydrangea

The language of flowers was first developed during the Victorian Era. During this time, flowers became a popular method of exchanging secretive messages. Flowers have been used to express love, desire, rejection, thanks–a variety of human emotions. Before giving blue hydrangea flowers to a loved one, understand the meaning of the flower.

changing colors flower

Hydrangea flower color can change depending on the soil — acidic soil turns them blue, alkaline soil turns them pink.

flower of gratitude

They symbolize gratitude and heartfelt emotions, making them popular in thank-you and apology bouquets.

Iris

The flower symbolism associated with the iris is faith, wisdom, cherished friendship, hope, valor, my compliments, promise in love, wisdom. Irises were used in Mary Gardens. The blade-shaped foliage denotes the sorrows which ‘pierced her heart.’ The iris is the emblem of both France and Florence, Italy.

Greek rainbow goddess

The iris is named after the Greek goddess of the rainbow, because it naturally grows in many vivid colors.

flower of wisdom

It represents wisdom and hope, and the fleur-de-lis symbol used in heraldry is inspired by the iris flower.

Lily Oriental

Lilies have traditionally been associated with purity and chastity. The flower is associated with the Virgin Mary. In Greek mythology, it is a symbol of motherhood and rebirth as it is believed to be formed from Hera’s milk. The Oriental lilies are extremely beautiful and a ‘universal symbol for beauty’. They express an air of wealth and decadence. Therefore, they are great as congratulatory gifts for people who have been recently promoted or even those who have found their dream job.

intense fragrance

Oriental lilies are prized for their strong, sweet aroma that can perfume an entire room with just a few stems.

dramatic blooms

Their large, star-shaped flowers and vibrant colors create a bold, elegant statement in any arrangement.

Peony

A peony represents wealth and honor. They also embody romance and love, and they are regarded as the omen of good fortune and happy marriage. It is also the state flower of Indiana and the 12th wedding anniversary flower.

good fortune

Peonies are often associated with good fortune, romance, and honor, making them a popular choice for celebrations and meaningful gifts.

long-lived blooms

With proper care, peony plants can bloom reliably for decades, becoming more beautiful each year.

Snapdragon

The snapdragon flower has something of a dual nature when it comes to symbolism. Because of their history of cloaking women from undesirable affections, they are often thought to mean deception and denial. On the other hand, snapdragons are thought to be representative of a whimsical, gracious nature. They are also occasionally associated with strength, dignity and unique beauty. When given as a gift, these flowers may encompass either meaning, or perhaps even both – telling the recipient that you find them to be enchanting, but dangerous.

playful blooms

The flowers resemble tiny dragon faces that “snap” open when gently squeezed, giving them their charming name.

strength & grace

Snapdragons symbolize resilience and inner strength, while adding height and movement to arrangements.

Stock

A symbol of a happy life and contented existence, the stock flower is cherished for its sweet, heady fragrance and soft, clustered blooms. Native to Southwestern Greece and the Mediterranean, it has long been admired for adding warmth, texture, and a gentle romantic charm to floral arrangements, making it a favorite for both celebratory and heartfelt designs.

sweet symbolism

Stock flowers represent happiness, lasting beauty, and a contented life, which makes them especially meaningful in thoughtful bouquets.

rich fragrance

Their dense, softly layered blooms release a warm, clove-like scent that adds depth and character to floral designs.

Sunflower

The sunflower moves in the most direct position in front of the sun so it can get the maximum sun rays. This is symbolic of spiritual faith, and worship because we follow our belief system as the sunflower moves to face the life-giving rays of the sun.

sun chasers

Young sunflowers naturally turn their heads to follow the sun across the sky, a movement called heliotropism.

symbol of joy

Sunflowers represent happiness, warmth, and loyalty, instantly bringing a cheerful energy to any space.

Tulip

Tulips are symbolic of fame and perfect love. The symbolic meanings also change with the color of the tulips. Red tulips mean “believe me” and are a declaration of true love. Variegated tulips mean “you have beautiful eyes.” Yellow tulips mean “there’s sunshine in your smile” and cheerful thoughts. Cream-colored tulips mean “I will love you forever.” White tulips symbolize heaven, newness, and purity. Purple tulips symbolize royalty. Pink tulips mean affection and caring. Orange tulips mean energy, enthusiasm, desire, and passion.

spring icon

Tulips are one of the earliest signs of spring, symbolizing renewal, hope, and fresh beginnings.

color meanings

Each tulip color carries its own message, from red for love to yellow for happiness and friendship.