Mother’s Day Flower Colors and their Meaning

Not everyone knows that there’s a meaning behind every flower. A flower color is the best way to send a special “hidden” message to someone you admire. The ancient Greeks used flower colors as indicators to the moods of their gods (much like mood rings), and the ancient Celts forecasted weather and child gender using flower colors. This mother’s day, pick your colors wisely.

• Red Flowers: there’s a reason why everything associated with love is red. This reason being, red is the color of passion, energy, desire, heat, eroticism, and blood. Two types of red flowers can be found, Red Berlin (a light tomato red meaning devoted passion) and Black Magic ( a dark burgundy/black rose meaning beauty, perfection, and strong love) just remember the deeper the red, the deeper the meaning.

• Orange Flowers: when I say orange, you say Sun. That’s why a bouquet of orange flowers means warmth, growth, expansion, friendships, socializing, and happiness. Being a flashy color, orange flowers tend to boost out self-confidence and satisfaction.

• Yellow Flowers: yellow, is the closest color to gold when it comes to flowers. Gold is usually associated with purity, clarity, truth, intellect, and friendship. So if you want to slow things down in a relationship, sending out a clear message that you just want to be friends, yellow is the way to go.

• Green Flowers (vines/ivy): at the first sign of spring, green is everywhere. Green symbolizes growth, health, hope, new beginnings, fertility, richness, and harmony. Green flowers are uplifting and rejuvenating so can be used in get well soon bouquets.

• Blue Flowers: blue, the color of the ocean. It’s calming, inspiring, peaceful, stable, and serene. So a big bouquet of blue roses will definitely calm the recipient down and help them take their minds off things.

• Purple Flowers: being a unique color, the recipient can only feel the same. Purple flowers mean devotion, uniqueness, trust, nobility, and enchantment. Some people think it’s a royal color, and that’s why they link it to dignity, pride, and success.

• White Flowers: white = purity. Anything in white is angelic, pure, innocent, hopeful, and perfect. Great for mother’s day, and new relationships.

• Pink Flowers: pink has always been a girls color because it’s playful, innocent, uplifting, fun, feminine, and un-traditional. Truly a graceful color that’s why it would be perfect in your mother’s day bouquet.

Roses are red, violets are blue, I love my mum, and she loves me too.