What Flowers Beat Roses on St Valentine's Day - Fantastic Gardeners

The almighty rose can easily be dubbed as the queen of flowers. It’s one of the most popular plants to give but it’s also an easy way out of the flower shopping hassle around St. Valentine’s Day. However, there is different types of flowers for Valentine’s day or any other cheerful celebration.

Especially if you take into consideration the fact that various flowers, depending on their colour or people’s culture, carry a different hidden meaning. Let’s put moods and tastes on the side, while we speak about the most popular flowers for St. Valentine’s and their meaning.

This is a flower that says it feels like heaven to be with you and that’s a sentiment you’d like to convey to your Valentine’s date. Indeed, white lily has long been connected with religion and deities. Apart from its natural charm and intricate beauty, the flower will take you to cloud 9 in a spoof.

Carnations have been cultivated for over 2 000 years and it’s no wonder that they are a subject to many discussions, regarding their symbolism and hidden meaning. While their name origin is shrouded in Greek and Roman history, carnations are connected with incarnation and royalty.

Today you can find carnations in an extensive variety of colours and each one of them is associated with a unique meaning. Dark red carnations show a deep love and affection for someone, white ones symbolise luck, while paler reds will say that your Valentine admires you.

With intricate beauty, the iris comes in more than 200 different colour variations. Conveniently, its name comes from the Greek word for “rainbow”. It’s widespread around the globe and it’s both commercially and domestically grown. The iris also happens to be perpetuated as the national symbol of France, as the