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When you call one of your favorite florists to make a flower delivery to that special person, before ordering consider the color, meaning and history of some of your choices. We all know that red flowers express the “I love you” concept but consider what others are. Like white for purity

As far back as Shakespeare we know plants and flowers had special meanings since Ophelia talks about \”rosemary for remembrance\” and other flowers in one of her speeches. The more modern meanings of flowers arose in the very proper and social restrictive Victorian era when everything was formal and a person could not just openly declare their intentions.

A bouquet of flowers could take the place of a love note or flirting in person, which would have been considered too forward. Very complicated guides to the meanings of individual flowers and colors of flowers were written and the arrival of a bouquet meant translating its meaning.

Rose bouquets have always been popular, and roses also star in mixed-flower arrangements. Red roses are well known to celebrate passionate love, and roses of other colors have their own meanings. White roses symbolize purity and are often seen at weddings. When different colors are combined, the meaning becomes even more complex.

Yellow roses weren’t available until the 18th century and before their discovery the only roses there were came in colors from white to red. At first, yellow roses were not thought of in a positive light and they were thought to represent fading love, envy or infidelity. But other yellow flowers were thought to represent sunlight and happiness. Today people send yellow roses as messages of friendship, celebration and joy.

If you should travel to Texas, you’ll discover that the people there feel yellow roses can signify passion too. This is due to a famous old tune called “The Yellow Rose of Texas”. Although this little ditty is actually about a girl named Rose, history tells us that a new rose, dubbed Harrison’s Yellow, was first bred shortly before the song was initially recorded and might have been the true inspiration for these lyrics. Whichever the case may be, yellow roses still enjoy enormous popularity with Texans these days.

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