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Rose Color Meanings
By Gloria LivenRed roses, white roses... here is a list of what the different colors mean. Photos are all copyright.
Red Rose Meaning:
The
most popular color of rose, the red rose is a universal symbol for passionate
love and romance. It can also symbolize courage and beauty. A deeper red
color signifies uncontrived beauty.
In
Greek and Romany mythology, the red rose was tied to the love godess.
A
bouquet of a dozen red roses is
a way of saying, "I love you".
Yellow
Rose Meaning:
The sunny color of a
yellow rose symbolizes happiness, friendship, and caring. In Victorian times,
it symbolized jealousy. Today it is used to convey warmth and affection.
It can mean familiar love and domestic happiness, as in the song, the Yellow rose of Texas.
It can also symbolize freedom. Yellow roses were used during Desert Storm in the nineties to represent freedom.
Pink
Rose Meaning:
A light pink rose
symbolizes grace and appreciation. Many of the first cultivated roses
were pink.
They carry a meaning of elegance and sweetness. Like red roses, but a
softer, sweeter meaning.
Dark pink is gratitude and appreciation, while light pink is gentleness and can be a symbol of sympathy. Light pink can also mean, "I admire you".
Meaning
of White Roses
White is a symbol of purity, humility, truth, and innocence. It can symbolize platonic love. It can also mean loyalty, "I am worthy of you".
White roses can symbolize
new beginnings and marriage, and young love. In Scotland, a white rose
blooming in autumn symbolized a an early marriage.
White roses are also known as bridal roses, because they are traditional
at weddings. Here they represent unity, virtue, and the pureness of new
love.
They can also represent secrecy. A resistance group in Bavaria, Germany during WWII was called The White Rose.
White roses can also be used in remembrence, because they can symbolize honor and reverence, and heavenliness.
Meaning
of Orange Roses:
Orange is brighter than yellow, but not quite red. It's the color of enthusiasm and desire... send orange roses if you feel you're beginning to feel attraction for someone. It's a color that can symbolize admiration and attraction, and a blooming desire.
It can also mean "I'm
proud of you".
Lavendar/Purple
Rose Meaning:
Purple is historically the color of majesty, but purple or lavendar roses can mean enchantment. It can mean "love at first sight".
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Meaning
of Cream Roses
Cream roses mean charm, thoughfulness, and gracefulness.
Yellow Rose with Red Tips Meaning
A yellow rose with red tips signifies friendship turning into love.
Peach
Roses
Peach roses signify appreciation, gratitude, and modesty.
Deep Red/ Burgundy Roses:
Uncontrived beauty, unconscious beauty.
Coral
Roses
Signifies desire.
Blue
Roses:
The blue rose remained
elusive throughout years of breeding. White roses are placed into water
with blue dye to turn them blue.
Researchers finally genetically engineered a rose with the blue pigment
producing gene, but it is more of a mauve color than blue.
These symbolize the mysterious, fantasy, or new possibilities. It can mean the impossible, or love beyond reach.
Black Roses:
A black rose means death.Tea Roses:
"I'll always remember you."Meaning of a rose with no thorns:
Love at first sight.
White, dried rose:
Death is preferable to the loss of virtue.
Rose
Leaves:
"You may hope".
A
rosebud:
Youth & Beauty
A bouquet of rosebuds:
Can symbolize innocent love, and mean, "You will always be young and beautiful"
A bouquet of mature roses:
Expresses gratitude.
A single rose:
Can mean, "I still love you" or "Thank you".
Two roses entwined:
"Marry me"
Roses, Red & White Mixed:
Expresses unity or engagement
Roses, Red & Yellow Mixed:
Happiness & Celebration
White & Yellow Mixed:
Sybmolizes harmony
Dead
roses, of any color:
"It's over".
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