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Guide to buy flowers for your girlfriend or wife

Thinking of buying flowers for a woman?

Buying flowers for a woman can be difficult. Red roses are an obvious choice for your girlfriend or wife on Valentine's Day but what about other flowers for women. What is the significance behind them? And which flowers should only be given for funerals?

You can buy flowers online for your loved one from the UK flower companies below:

Below is some information regarding giving flowers to women that should help you to decide:

Are you thinking of buying flowers for someone?

There are many different ways of presenting flowers to someone. Bunches of flowers are a basic way of buying flowers. They are not presented in an arrangement and are often several flowers of the same variety held together with an elastic band.

Bouquets of flowers are a very common method of presenting a gift. A bouquet is often a variety of flowers and leaves made up of just two or three colours and put together in a beautiful arrangement.

Posies are an old name for a bouquet of flowers. Many people now think of posies as smaller groups of smaller flowers. Interestingly the sentence "a pocket full of posies" refers to flowers that were kept in the pocket to ward off illnesses.

Many arrangements are presented in a woven basket of flowers giving a country or more natural look to the stems. It is also becoming fashionable to buy or order flowers in a vase so the whole item is delivered together rather than the recipient having to find a vase to arrange the flowers in themselves.

Faux flowers and silk flowers are becoming very popular again, with very realistic flowers being produced in Hong Kong. The beauty of these are that they need very little care so they are great for people who want to brighten up a room or a garden without the need for regular watering.

Most occasions traditionally have a certain flower allocated to the day. For example, D-Day would not be known to be without poppies. Most emotions have a particular flower to signify emotional meaning. For example, a red rose signifies love and romance, and Valentines Day would not be the same without roses.

Just like you wouldn't want to give a black rose for Valentines day (meaning death) you don't want to make a mistake on other occasions either.

See below a list of flowers and plants with their emotional meanings and times of use:-

ACACIA (Rose or white) Elegance, friendship, or (yellow) Secret love
ALLSPICE Compassion
ALMOND (common) Indiscretion, perfidy
ALOE grief, misplaced devotion, religious superstition
AMARYLLIS Beautiful, timid, proud
ANEMONE Fading hope
APPLE-BLOSSOM Preference
ASH Prudence, with me you are safe
ASTER Afterthoughts, love of variety
AZALEA Moderation, temperance, your blush has won me
BASIL Hatred
BEGONIA Deformity
BLUEBELL Constancy, sorrowful regret
BUTTERCUP Riches
CACTUS Grandeur, warmth
CAMELLIA (Red) Unpretending excellence, innate warmth, alas my poor heart, or (White) Perfected loveliness, without blemish
CHAMOMILE Energy in adversity
CARNATION Fidelity, love
CEDAR I live but for thee, think of me
CHERRY-BLOSSOM Spiritual beauty
CHESTNUT-BLOSSOM Do me justice
CHRYSANTHEMUM (red) I love, or (white) Truth
CITRON natured beauty
CLEMATIS Poverty or Mental Beauty
CLOVER (four-leafed) Be mine (white) Think of me
CORNFLOWER Delicacy, refinement
CROCUS Abuse not, gladness, mirth
CYCLAMEN Diffidence
DAFFODIL Deceitful, hope, unrequited love, regard
DAHLIA Elegance and dignity, forever thine
DAISY (coloured) Beauty, or (Michaelmas) Farewell, or (white wild) I will think of it or Innocence, or (garden daisy) share your sentiments
DANDELION Coquetry, love's oracle
FERN Fascination, magic, sincerity
FIG Argument, I keep my secret
FIR Time
FLEUR-DE-LIS Message
FORGET-ME-NOT Constancy, true love
FOXGLOVE Insincerity, stateliness, youth
FUCHSIA Confiding love
GARDENIA Refinement
GERANIUM (dark) Melancholy, or (rose) Preference, or (scarlet) Comforting, consolation or (wild) Steadfast piety or Gentility, peaceful mind
GOOSEBERRY Anticipation
GRAPE (wild) Charity, mirth
GRASS Submission
HAZEL Reconciliation, heart is agitated
HIBISCUS Delicate beauty
HOLLY Am I forgotten?, domestic happiness, foresight
HOLLYHOCK Ambition, fruitfulness
HONEYSUCKLE (coral) Fidelity, generous and devoted love, affection, or Bonds of love
HORSE-CHESTNUT Luxury
HYACINTH (purple) Jealousy, sorrow, or (white) Modest loveliness, or Constancy
HYDRANGEA Boaster, heartlessness
IRIS (German) Aflame, I burn adversity, or message, my compliments, eloquence
IVY Fidelity, friendship, marriage, wedded love
JASMINE (Spanish) Sensuality, or (white) Amiability, or (yellow) Grace and elegance
LABURNUM Forsaken, pensive beauty
LAVENDER Acknowledgment, distrust failure
LETTUCE Cold-hearted
LILY (water) Purity of heart, or (day) Coquetry, or (tiger) I dare you to love me, or (white) Purity and sweetness, or (yellow) Coquetry, falsehood, flirtation
LILY-OF-THE-VALLEY Perfect purity, return of happiness
LOBELIA Arrogance, malevolence
MAGNOLIA Benevolence, high-souled, love of nature, magnificence
MAPLE Reserve, retirement
MARIGOLD Cruelty in love, inquietude, jealous lover
MINT Let us be friends again, virtue
MISTLETOE I surmount difficulties, I want to be kissed, you are a parasite
NARCISSUS Egotism, you love yourself too well
NASTURTIUM Patriotism
OLIVE Peace
ORANGE-BLOSSOM Chastity, eternal love, marriage, bridal festivities
ORCHID You are a belle, you flatter me
PALM Victory
PANSY Modesty, pleasant thoughts, think of me
PASSION FLOWER Faith, holy love, religious fervour and superstition
PEONY Anger, indignation, bashfulness
PETUNIA You soothe me
PINK (double-red) Ardent love, or (white) Fascination, talent
POPPY (red) Consolation, or (scarlet) Fantastic extravagance, or (variegated) Flirtation, dreaminess, or (white) Forgetfulness
PRIMROSE (evening) Inconstancy, early youth
RHODODENDRON Beware, I am dangerous
ROSE (Burgundy) Unconscious beauty, or (deep-red) Admiration, bashful, embarrassment, or (pink) Ours must be secret love, or (red) Unity, romantic love, or (white) I am worthy of your love, silence, innocent love, or (yellow) Jealousy, let us forget, love is waning, friendship. Did you know that a dozen roses for Valentines day should be 11 red roses and 1 white, the white signifies the beloved who stands out in the crowd.
ROSEMARY Remember me
SAGE Domestic virtues, great respect
SHAMROCK Loyalty
SNOWDROP Consolation, friendship in trouble
ST. JOHN'S-WORT Animosity
SUNFLOWER (large) You are splendid
SWEET-WILLIAM Grant me one smile
SWEET PEA departure, remember me
TULIP (red) Declaration of love, or (variegated) Enchantment, your eyes are beautiful, or (yellow) Hopeless and perfect love
VENUS'S FLY-TRAP Duplicity
VIOLET (blue) Faithfulness, love, loyalty, or (white) Candour, modesty hope
WALLFLOWER Fidelity in misfortune or adversity

Buying Flowers for Your Girlfriend or Wife