Since the days of the Victorians, people have been using various flowers to represent different human emotions. Both colorful and diverse, flowers provide many opportunities to speak your heart and mind with beauty, and a bit of mystery.
In Victorian days, each different bloom was assigned a meaning, and people could literally speak in a known and understood language of flowers. While we've strayed from that common language, humans still use flowers to convey emotions, and flowers continue to be used as symbols of friendship, grief, romantic love, mourning, celebration, thanks, and more. Here are some common flowers and their current or historical symbolic meanings.
Poppy:
Victorian Symbolism: extravagance.
Current use: symbolizes war heroes lost in battle
Peony:
Victorian Symbolism: bashfulness
Current use: 12th wedding anniversary flower, romance and prosperity