Meaning Of Yellow Roses

By Elizabeth Crosthon
To say I love you, call your favorite florist and arrange for a delivery of red-colored flowers. When ordering your flower delivery consider the history and meaning behind the flowers you choose. Different flowers and colors all have an interesting history and a unique sentiment.

As far back as Shakespeare we know plants and flowers had special meanings since Ophelia talks about \"rosemary for remembrance\" and other flowers in one of her speeches. The more modern meanings of flowers arose in the very proper and social restrictive Victorian era when everything was formal and a person could not just openly declare their intentions.

Writing a passionate love letter or flirting eye-to-eye was considered inappropriate, so bouquets of flowers often took their place. There were complex guides to the meanings of different types of flowers and their hues, so the recipient of a bouquet could translate the message behind the flowers sent.

Everyone has always loved giving and receiving armfuls of roses or floral centerpieces made up of only roses. We're all aware that red roses signify intense love, but blossoms of other hues have their own meanings. You can say you want to be a friend if you give pink roses, and the white blooms symbolize chastity, which makes them excellent for displaying during marriage ceremonies. When you put various colors together, decoding the significances becomes further complicated.

Yellow roses weren't available until the 18th century and before their discovery the only roses there were came in colors from white to red. At first, yellow roses were not thought of in a positive light and they were thought to represent fading love, envy

or infidelity. But other yellow flowers were thought to represent sunlight and happiness. Today people send yellow roses as messages of friendship, celebration and joy.

Yellow roses have special meaning to Texans, because of the well-known song, "The Yellow Rose of Texas." Though the "rose" in this popular old-time song is a beautiful woman, there was also a hybrid rose variety, called Harrison's Yellow, that was developed around the time as the first recordings of the song. It's possible that this new rose inspired the song. Whatever the case, Texans are still passionate about yellow roses today.