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Language of Flowers
On the magical properties of flowers and herbs can say a lot. Today, many in the West are working to return the secrets of green magic. Time thoroughly hide them in their formations and distorted beyond recognition.

Different religions in their own way interpret the symbolism of colors, tying them to their gods, myths and legends. Becomes sacred, flowers acquire a new, uncharacteristic for their properties, losing true.

As soon as the human civilization is increasingly divorced from nature, people ceased to understand its cryptography, deprived of its independence. As a result, plants and flowers start to talk about what really is not talked about before in ancient times, help is what really could not help.

In European nations there is a rich language of flowers, almost forgot us. In Russia, at the beginning of the century women are widely used language of colors - as a symbolic language of love, pinning them to the dresses, hats. Everywhere you could buy a booklet with a list of names of colors and their meanings. Each wore a schoolgirl pleated dresses with a secret pocket a little book in which it was possible to find a different interpretation of the importance of plants, interesting women.

Our grandparents managed to carry on long conversations and explain the feelings, without saying a single word, only with flowers. We think you will be interested to know about some of the common values ​​in the past in various colors. Please describe the significance of color and flower color bouquet wrapping and packaging.

Pink - love,
bright red - fiery passion,
Green - hope,
light blue - faith,
Blue - loyalty,
dark yellow - deceit and jealousy,
light gray - poverty,
dark gray - despair,
light brown - the mountain,
purple - obedience,
Purple - friendship,
Orange - pride and coquetry,
Gold - dignity,
Silver - immortality.

Thus, packing bouquet of bright red paper, adding to the flowers some green branches and tied with paper dark-gray band, you said a phrase: "I am ablaze with passion, hope for reciprocity and in despair without you».

Plants, too, from ancient times served as symbols. Myrtle and Pomerantseva (orange) flowers symbolize purity and innocence of the bride; laurel crown winners and artists; oak wreath dedicated man of outstanding civil merit; olive and palm branches - symbols of peace; weeping willow and cypress - a symbol of grief and sorrow.

That is the meaning of some colors:

Acacia yellow and white - platonic love.
Acacia Rose - elegance.
Anemone - helplessness or illness.
Astra - the sadness.
Basil - hatred, disgust.
Periwinkle - a sweet remembrance.
Hawthorn - hope.
Cornflower - the delicacy, elegance.
Heather - loneliness.
Field bindweed - humility, obedience.
Convolvulus tricolor - flirting.
Carnation red - passionate love, passion.
Carnation white - sadness.
Carnation yellow - contempt.
Carnation pied - inflexible virtue coldness in love.
Dahlia - appreciation.
Hyacinth - fun, a joke.
Hydrangea - coldness.
Jasmine - courtesy.
Bell - talkativeness.
Night blindness - date.
Lavender - distrust.
Levkoy - haste, temper.
Lily white - youth.
Mack - consolation.
Daisy - innocence.
Mimosa - modesty, shyness.
Mint - the heat of the senses.
Narcisse-selfishness.
Marigold - grief.
Peony - Shame.
Snowdrop - consolation.
White Rose - bud - the heart, not yet knowing love.
White Rose - a flower - silence.
Rose red - love, suffering from love.
Rose red and white - the fire of the heart (tied together).
Yellow Rose - infidelity.
Rosemary - your presence, I am pleased.
Lilac - the first emotion of love.
Tulip - a declaration of love.
Violet - modesty.
Rosehip - poetry.

There are standard rules - do not give a bright, fiery red color and the older married women, do not give the bouquets of flowers that number is odd, carefully selected color combinations in a bouquet.

If you do make up a bouquet, try to make it not look like a bunch of flowers. Harmonious color combinations in the bouquet are: yellow - purple, red - green (leaves), orange - blue, yellow - red, blue - red, yellow - blue, purple - orange. White flowers look great with any other. Very nice look bouquets of plants of the same color but in different shades, for example, of roses - from dark to pale cherry pink.

Bouquet - is very fragile and ephemeral gift, so if we want the joy of it lasted longer, it is necessary to consider the following: certain types of flowers can not be combined, if you do not want them too quickly lose freshness.