Simple yet elegant, tulips are refreshing and beautiful blooms great to have around. They are found in a wide variety of colors like yellow, red, white, purple, pink, and green among others. Their distinctive shape and bright colors make them a popular choice among many and you can easily spot them adorning a living room as a table arrangement or included in the decorations or bouquets at a celebratory occasion. Considered to mark the arrival of spring, tulips are heavy on symbolism and enriched with a broad range of meanings. Each of its different color variants is said to carry a distinct feeling. If you’re contemplating buying some tulips as gifts for a loved one, it’ll do you good to have some knowledge regarding the diverse meanings of different tulip flowers.
Red Tulips:
The color red has long been associated with love, romance, and passion. Similarly, red tulips are also the hue of choice when looking for a flower that would certainly impress your crush or significant other and convey your feelings of long-lasting love, warmth, and adoration to them. Their affection representing quality also makes them perfect for occasions like wedding anniversaries, valentines, or a birthday gift for your romantic partner.
White Tulips:
When you look at white color a feeling of serenity and sincerity is automatically evoked. In tulips as well, the white color represents all positive emotions like respect, honor, purity, faith, innocence, and forgiveness. If you’re looking for a flower that says “I’m sorry” or a flower that shows your support in face of hard times, white tulips are the ideal pick for you. Often associated with religion they’re the perfect gift for occasions like bar mitzvahs, communions, or baptism.
Pink Tulips:
Pink Tulips are generally considered to be associated with feelings of warmth, care, admiration, and good luck. They’re the most rational choice for you if you want to congratulate a friend or relative for achieving a praiseworthy milestone. As symbols of good fortune, they’re perfect gift for baby showers, job promotion celebrations, or college graduation parties.
Purple Tulips:
Purple dye apparently used to be an expensive luxury, only used by the very wealthy populations of the society. As a matter of fact, in the 1500s, Queen Elizabeth I officially put a ban on anyone but the royal family members wearing purple. Purple tulips also became symbols of royalty, wealth, and elegance. In Shakespeare’s Hamlet as well, the character Ophelia associates the color purple with nobility. Today accessible to everyone, purple tulips are widely used. Alluding to exuberance, purple tulips are often seen complementing centerpieces, bridal bouquets, and other wedding flower arrangements. Some believe for purple tulips to also represent rebirth and new beginnings.
Yellow Tulips:
In the Victorian-era floral language yellow tulips were used to say “you have sunshine in your smile.” Today their meaning has evolved to also include emotions such as happiness, joy, and cheerfulness. It’s because of the many positive, spirit-uplifting messages that they contain that yellow tulips have become a popular choice as the “just-because” gifts. Meaning you don’t necessarily have to have an excuse for an occasion to send these flowers to bring a smile to the face of your loved ones, you can just send them without any specific reason and with just a card wishing them a good day to let them know that you’re thinking of them.
