The meaning of the color of tulips in a bouquet
Each flower has its own symbolism, and the color and shades of the plant carry a certain subtext. In order to express the desired feelings in the language of flowers, you should know the meaning of the palette.
Red tulips
The color of passion, admiration and loyalty. They enhance a person’s energy, awakening feelings in him. In the interior, these flowers symbolize strength and positive energy, bringing joy and prosperity. A bouquet of red tulips is presented mainly to lovers.
White tulips
White tulips represent love, sincerity and nobility of feelings and intentions. These flowers absorb negative energy and bring peace and happiness. The bouquet is suitable as a gift to your beloved, for a wedding, for a marriage anniversary.
Pink tulips
They symbolize tenderness and the beginning of a romantic relationship. These flowers are also given to friends, colleagues, and for the birth of a child. In the case when a man presents a bouquet to his beloved (at the beginning of a relationship), the buds should be unopened. Flowers gradually bloom, the couple's relationship becomes stronger.
Purple tulips
The symbolism of the buds carries devotion and deep respect. In ancient times, these flowers were presented only to people from a noble family, emphasizing their high status. Nowadays, a bouquet of purple tulips is given to business partners, bosses at work, the director or head teacher at school.
Yellow tulips
These flowers represent luck, success and joy. Yellow tulips present:
- to the sick, wishing them a speedy recovery;
- colleagues, expressing sincere intentions for their success;
- for artists, the bouquet will symbolize success and good luck;
- children as an expression of joy.
It is believed that yellow tulips are a sign of separation. This is not entirely true. The bouquet can be presented before a long trip; its meaning will be longing and sincere feelings.
Lilac tulips
The lilac shade is interpreted as fidelity, affection, and an expression of spiritual warmth. The bouquet symbolizes respect and gratitude to its recipient. For business partners, these flowers will be a sign of long-term relationships.
Orange tulips
The personification of health. Flowers are given to express feelings of care and love. A bouquet of orange tulips is suitable as a gift to parents or relatives or friends.
Blue tulips
These buds signify good luck and prosperity. There is a belief: if you accidentally see a blue tulip, a person will be lucky in all his endeavors. A bouquet of flowers will be a great addition to any celebration.
Black tulips
The black tulip represents strong love and justice. The bouquet is given to very important people, showing their feelings and affection. The flower received its second meaning from stories about Robin Hood, because its symbol was the black tulip.
Bouquet of colorful tulips
A luxurious composition of multi-colored tulips will symbolize a unique palette of emotions to a person dear to your heart. The bouquet will become an unforgettable gift to your loving soulmate if you present it sincerely and with a pure soul.
Exquisite tulips with a delicate aroma are considered the ideal flower for expressing love. Whatever color decorates the bouquet, it will symbolize only positive moments. This is love, happiness, harmony and peace of mind, luck and joy.
Pink
Pink has always been considered the color of tenderness.
The meaning of the color of pink tulips in your bouquet is a hint of tender and reverent feelings that you do not yet dare to say out loud. Also, the color pink represents youth and its belief that all obstacles are surmountable. Pink tulips in a bouquet say that there is no burning passion in love yet, but there are wonderful feelings filled with dreams and hopes. Among the varieties of pink tulips, Aprilcott Beauty is the most common. The petals of its flowers are so delicate that they seem fragile. Angelica tulips are very interesting, their fullness is similar to peonies. Among the fringed ones, New Look and Bellflower are popular.
Tulip symbol in different countries
The first mention of the tulip was in the 11th century. The birthplace of this flower is the Middle East. The plant combined elegant shades with simplicity of form and graceful lines. This contrast in Eastern philosophy embodied their key ideas. For Easterners, the tulip has become a symbol of harmony and spirituality.
Later, the image of the flower was seen on the coat of arms of the Ottoman dynasty. Spiritual symbolism is replaced by the meaning of power.
When the buds were brought to Europe, the tulip gained universal love. Residents of some countries began to actively grow this plant. Bouquets with high prices, equivalent to a house, began to appear in shops and stores. The symbolism of the flower has changed again, to wealth and luxury.
Due to its early flowering in the USSR, the tulip became a popular gift on March 8th. At one time it was inferior to mimosa, but every year they are more often chosen as a bouquet for people dear to their hearts. So the flower acquired a new symbol, personifying female beauty.
Legend of origin
There is a very sad legend about the appearance of this wonderful flower.
- It tells about the immense, passionate love of the Persian king for one beautiful woman. He was going to marry her, but he was deceived, saying that his beloved had died. Then the king, mad with grief, jumped down from a high cliff, and amazing flowers were born from drops of his scarlet blood.
Therefore, they mean crazy, ardent love.
Why do you dream about tulips?
The tulip represents love. If you see this flower in a dream, it will have the same meaning. The interpretation of the flower should be tied to actions.
If you give a tulip in a dream, it means that you have feelings for the person and are ready to start a relationship. If your chosen one accepts the bouquet, it means he feels the same as you, and vice versa.
Breaking a bud or tearing its petals means that you do not have reciprocity for the person who presented the flowers. Or there is sympathy, but you don’t want to accept it.
The color of a presented bouquet in a dream is interpreted in the same way as the meaning of the flower itself. Red is love, yellow is success, etc.
Nowadays, few people understand the language of flowers. Most people do not know what a bouquet given to them can tell them. Giving tulip bulbs as a gift is considered a beautiful and interesting tradition, and the ability to unravel the meaning of the gift is a pleasant addition.
Reds
This color is the most common.
Bright, eye-catching buds can decorate any flower garden. It is believed that the first tulips were red. They appeared at the moment when Prince Farhat, madly in love with his bride Shirin, crashed against the rocks. Evil people lied to the prince that his Shirin had died. The unfortunate man could not survive this news, spurred his horse and rushed straight towards the sharp stones. The tulips bloomed exactly where drops of poor Farhat’s blood fell. Since then, a red tulip has meant fiery and passionate love. There are a great many varieties of red tulips. There are simple ones, there are terry ones, there are ones with fringed petals. In the Red Emperor variety, the flower fully opens its buds. And the Garden Spot remains half-open. The color red has many shades: from scarlet to dark red, almost burgundy. Most often in our flower beds you can find varieties Parade, Madame Curie, Boston. Recently, Edda, Redwing and other tulips, whose petals have the finest fringe, have become popular.
Blue and light blue
What color tulips are never found in nature?
The answer is clear: blue and cyan shades, because the chromosomes of these colors do not contain the so-called “blue” delphinidin gene. But blue and blue tulips still exist, although they are very rare. They were brought out by the enterprising Dutch. However, in order to grow an unusual tulip from a ready-made bulb, you need to try. Such tulips in a bouquet are a desire to amaze the one to whom the flowers are given. The giver seems to be talking about such the strength of his feelings that he will be able to achieve the impossible. Also, the color blue is a harbinger of great luck and success. There is a legend that blue tulips bloom high in the mountains for just a few days, and whoever finds them will be lucky in life.
White
Each tulip color has many shades. And only one white one. Since ancient times, it has been associated with purity and sincerity. A bouquet of white tulips no longer hints, but openly speaks of the purity and seriousness of your feelings. White tulips also help to ask for forgiveness. Agree, there are situations when it is difficult to do this with words - either pride gets in the way, or false shame. There is no need to despair. A bouquet of pristine and delicate snow-white tulips will do this for you and make the one to whom you give flowers smile. And then the words will come. The most famous varieties are Angel Whis with a large bud, peony-shaped Cardinal Mingenti, and fringed Honey Moon.
Economic bubble
In 1636, the demand for rare varieties of tulips grew so much that permanent markets were opened for their sale at the Amsterdam Stock Exchange, Rotterdam, Haarlem, Leiden, Alkmaar, Hoorn and other cities. Here, for the first time, the economic background of the mechanisms of the exchange game was revealed. Brokers, always on the lookout for new speculation, put the tulip trade on a grand scale, using every trick they knew to cause price fluctuations.
At first, as is typical for all speculative manias, confidence was maximum, and everyone benefited. Tulip brokers speculated on the rise and fall of tulip prices and made large profits by buying tulips when prices fell and selling them when prices rose. Many suddenly became rich. A tempting golden bait loomed before the people, and one after another they flocked to the tulip markets like flies to honey.
Trading operations became so extensive and complicated that it was decided to adopt a code of laws regulating the activities of traders. These laws also applied to notaries and clerks who devoted themselves exclusively to the interests of trade. In some cities, the purpose of the ordinary notary was almost forgotten, since his place was usurped by the “tulip” notary.
In those towns where there was no stock exchange, the main tavern was usually chosen as a showroom, where people of all ranks traded tulips and reinforced their deals with abundant gluttony. These dinners were sometimes attended by two or three hundred people, and vases of tulips in bloom were placed at regular intervals on the tables and buffets for the enjoyment of those dining.
Everyone thought that the fashion for tulips would last forever, that rich people from all over the world would send their people to Holland for them, who would pay any money for them, that wealth from all over Europe would concentrate on the banks of the Zuider Zee and need would be driven out of the fertile climate of Holland. Nobles, townspeople, farmers, craftsmen, sailors, livery footmen, maids, and even chimney sweeps and ragpickers were engaged in tulips.
People of all ranks converted their property into cash and invested it in flowers. Houses and lands were put up for sale at ruinously low prices or were transferred to the ownership of others as payment for transactions concluded in the tulip markets. This madness also gripped foreigners, and money flowed into Holland from all sides. At the same time, prices for basic necessities gradually rose, houses and lands, horses and carriages, as well as all kinds of luxury goods rose in price along with them, and for several months Holland was a real hallway of Plutos.
Variegated
It is impossible to list all the colors of tulips and all the combinations of shades that simultaneously appear on the petals of these flowers. Red with yellow, white with pink, red with white fringe and thousands of others turn tulips into unusually bright and variegated flowers. It is believed that the person giving such a bouquet intends to highlight the beauty of the eyes of the person for whom the bouquet is intended. If you don’t think about the eyes, variegated tulips, captivating with their fantastically beautiful strokes and dots on the petals, unusually lift your spirits, give smiles and bring many pleasant moments into relationships.
