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Meaning & Symbolism of Flower Colors

Every flower color from a deep red to a bright yellow offers a rich and meaningful story. The flower colors you choose for a bouquet can be as important as the types of flowers used in an arrangement. Read on to learn the meaning of your flower colors.

Blue Flowers

Blue Flowers

The pale blue hues calm worries and preoccupation. Blue represents peace, openness, and serenity. Fresh floral arrangements filled with blue flowers offers a cooling antidote to anxiousness. Shop for blue flowers. Shop all blue flower arrangements

Blue Flowers
Pink Flowers

Pink Flowers

Pink flowers represent grace, gentility, and happiness. Regardless of the shape of the flower – from the tight, small buds of a pink garden rose to the delicate, open petals of a pink peony in full bloom – pink blossoms convey youth, innocence, and joy. Shop for pink flowers. Pink Arrow

Pink Flowers
Purple Flowers

Purple Flowers

With its origins tied to royalty and ceremony, purple flowers represent dignity, pride and success. Whether grouped alone in a bold range of rich hues or mixed in with other colors to provide depth and contrast, an arrangement filled with purple blooms represents accomplishment and admiration. Show for purple flowers.Pink Arrow

Purple Flowers
Red Flowers

Red Flowers

There’s an indisputable energy to the color red – an energy that has the power to transform an otherwise unassuming flower. Red flowers represent desire, strength, and passionate love. With beauty, courage and heat as its symbolism, it’s no surprise that a bouquet filled with rich, red blooms knows no restraint. Shop for red flowers. Pink Arrow

Red Flowers

White Flowers

White Flowers

Often associated with innocence, humility, and reverence, white flowers evoke simple beauty. Whether they take their shape as the luxurious, silk petals of fragrant gardenias, the small, white bells of a lily of the valley, or the quiet drama of a dozen white roses, fresh floral arrangement dominated by white blossoms represent modesty and elegance. Shop for white flowers. Pink Arrow

White Flowers
Yellow Flowers

Yellow Flowers

There’s a good reason why it can feel all but impossible to refrain from smiling when you spot a bouquet of bright daffodils or a pot filled with sun-drenched chrysanthemums. Yellow flowers represent joy and lightheartedness. They are also a symbol of friendship, new beginnings, and happiness. Shop for yellow flowers. Pink Arrow

Yellow Flowers
Orange Flowers

Orange Flowers

Orange is a vibrant, bold color. It’s no surprise that sending a bouquet of orange flowers represents joy, warmth, and happiness. Whether you are mixing orange with other colors or sending it on it’s own, an orange bouquet will be full of life and excitement, so the passionate people in your life will immediately relate to this color flower arrangement. Shop for orange flowers. Pink Arrow

Orange Flowers
Green Flowers

Green Flowers

Synonymous with nature and the perfect complement to any other bloom, green flowers mean health, resilience, good fortune and youth. Whether used to throw together a diverse mixture of shapes and hues or as a restful tone-on-tone bouquet, green flowers send a message of optimism and renewal. Shop for green flowers. Pink Arrow

Green Flowers
Lavender Flowers

Lavender Flowers

While purple is the color of royalty, and pink the color of youth, lavender is femininity all grown up. Lavender flowers represent refinement, grace, and elegance. Lavender holds an almost sacred place in nature - with violet flowers often considered the most delicate and precious. An arrangement filled with these genteel blossoms send a message of feminine beauty. Shop for purple and lavender flowers. Pink Arrow

Lavender Flowers