By Sierra Schwab Staff Writer
When Valentine’s Day arrives, people everywhere are scrambling to find the right gift. The most common gift is flowers that are beautiful and have a lovely smell, but do you know the meaning behind the flower you just gave to a significant other? Hopefully, you’ve never given them a flower that symbolizes heartbreak. So how about you learn the meaning behind a flower?
Let’s start with the flowers of Valentine’s Day roses. Roses are the most popular, with 25.17 percent of individuals claiming it as their Valentine’s Day preference according to a survey from bouqs.com. Red roses symbolize true love, white roses convey purity and everlasting love, lavender symbolizes love at first sight, pink symbolizes elegance, and yellow represents friendship.
Next up are pink tulips with a solid 7.28 percent preference. These symbolize love and friendship, purple represents power and royalty, yellow symbolizes joy and happiness, and white tulips symbolize forgiveness and purity.
Lilies make up 8.61 percent, generally representing purity and refined beauty. To be specific, orange symbolizes passion, white represents modesty, yellow for joy and health, red for roses, and pink for elegance.
Sunflowers, although not always used for Valentine’s Day, on the occasion that they do, symbolize admiration, commitment to your partner, longevity, friendship, and loyalty. To your surprise, the survey shows that 6.62 percent of individuals prefer sunflowers on Valentine’s Day.
As for the rest of the flowers represented by the survey, 24.5 percent of people claimed they weren’t picky about their All information came from bouqs.com, which covers more information than just flowers. In the end, pick whichever flower you think is best it may not even be on this list but trust your judgment.