Why Do We Give Red Roses on Valentine’s Day?
Why do we give red roses on Valentine’s Day? For centuries, flowers have symbolised fertility, love, marriage, and romance. During the Victorian era, it became popular to use flowers to send secretive messages. Known as floriography, sending flowers became a commonly used way for lovers and admirers to express secret messages that Victorian etiquette deemed unacceptable to share openly. The meaning behind each flower was often pulled from various myths, fables, or legends. When the need is, the meaning was made up to suit the occasion.
Can you send other less “classic” flowers and still get the same level of love and romance across to your sweetheart?
Tulips If you think red roses are to cliché, a red tulip means “perfect love,” although it springs from a tragic love story. A Turkish legend (tulips originally came from Persia and Turkey) tells of a prince named Farhad who was madly in love with a woman named Shirin.
When Farhad learned that Shirin had been killed, he was so overcome with grief that he killed himself by riding his horse over the edge of a cliff. Supposedly a scarlet tulip sprang up from each droplet of his blood, giving the red tulip its meaning. Pink and yellow tulips represent the feelings of caring and being hopelessly in love. Tulips also last longer in a vase with water than most other flowers, so if you want a bouquet that will make it past Now giving a bouquet of flowers is considered February 15 then tulips are your best bet. a classic Valentine’s Day gift. Luth Research shows that 91% of men who give flowers to their significant other on Valentine’s Day do so simply to show their love. What’s more, more than 75% of men have given flowers for Valentine’s Day in the past two years. Red roses, for instance, typically represent love and romance and have been a powerful symbol of passion for many cultures through the ages. The rose was sacred to a number of goddesses including Isis of Egypt, and the ancient Greeks and Romans identified the rose with their goddesses of love, Aphrodite and Venus.
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