Yellow Flowers Meaning

Yellow roses are probably the most common of yellow flowers given and received through humanity. Their history is relatively short, they've only recently have been discovered in the Middle East in the 18th century quite by accident. The first flowers were growing naturally and their cultivation has only happened after when people have tried to experiment with hybridization of the existing colors of roses.

If you've ever smelled a yellow rose, you'll remember how sweet and lovely it really is. Apparently the early yellow roses that were growing naturally in their habitat didn't smell quite like it at all. So we have to thank the cultivators and breeders of this type of roses for the added bedazzling scent.

So what does a yellow rose mean to anyone giving or receiving it? Yellow has always been associated with warmth and the sun, so the meaning has always been pretty positive - well except Europe in darker times when it was first introduced, as it seems that the yellow color was associated with jealousy and bitterness of a love that was dying.

In the meantime it has long removed this negative connotation and thankfully the happy feelings associated with the yellow rose are now here to stay.

Yellow roses are traditionally given as a sign of warm and real friendship, joy, happiness and fuzzy feelings. Btw, it is not really given as a symbol of love, unless it is a pure platonic love that has no physical desires behind it.

So when you're next visiting a dear friend - even if he or she is recovering in the hospital, giving yellow roses is a great gesture and one that will be immediately understood and received in the spirit in which it is given.

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The yellow daffodils have several meanings depending on the context in which they are given. For example it is the flower bouquet to give for a 10th wedding anniversary. In fact a great gift idea for the couple is to organize a completely daffodil themed day for them, including daffodil themed party supplies, giving jewelry with daffodils on them, etc.

Traditionally daffodils have a strong association with wealth, rebirth and prosperity. It is said that in China if you get a daffodil to bloom on the New Year's Eve, you will be prosperous for the entire year ahead.

The daffodil, also called narcissus, is a happy flower announcing the coming of spring. However going back to the name, narcissus, it in fact speaks of a myth about Narcissus, a Greek man in mythology who simply fell in love with his own reflection while looking at himself in the water. He was so enamoured with his own view that he fell in the pond and drowned. The Greek gods filled the entire area surrounding the pond with yellow daffodils to honor Narcissus.

Usually giving a bouquet of yellow daffodils symbolizes joy, friendship and happiness, along with a wishing of good wealth.

However a single daffodil stem has a quite different - and and in fact opposite meaning: Giving someone a single daffodil is like wishing him or her bad fortune, misfortune and bad luck. So if you give this flower to any of your friends or family members, make sure to give at least 2 or 3 in a bouquet.

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