All flowers have traditional meanings, and beaded flowers are no different.
The next time you want to create a beaded flower gift, or you receive one, you might want to consider the meaning behind that beautiful blossom! A bouquet of withered flowers means rejected love, but with beaded flowers this can't happen -- they're everlasting! Roses are likely the most popular of all flowers.
A red rose means love and respect, also courage and a job well done.
The yellow rose represents joy and friendship, but also can mean jealousy.
Put a red and yellow rose together, and the meaning is congratulations.
Enhance your arrangement with baby's breath - it means happiness.
Carnations are very popular as a beaded flower -- a white one stands for pure love, sweet love and innocence, while the yellow carnation means disdain and rejection.
We all know the four-leaf clover is a symbol of good luck.
Did you know there's a five-leaf clover? It symbolizes bad luck.
The forget-me-not appropriately means faithful love and memories, and the gardenia says "I love you in secret".
At the holidays, mistletoe is the symbol of affection and love, no surprise there! The poinsettia means "be of good cheer".
A red tulip is a declaration of love, and the variegated tulip stands for beautiful eyes.
A violet is the symbol of modesty and simplicity, while wisteria is youth and poetry.
Even spice plants and herbs have traditional meanings.
Allspice means compassion, and cinnamon symbolizes love and beauty.
The clove represents dignity and restraint, while fennel means strength.
The fir tree means time and evaluation, and arbor vitae is true friendship.
While it's fun to learn the meanings of all these plants, it can also add a special thoughtfulness to your beaded flower gift.
The next time you decide on a beaded flower to create for someone, give consideration to what you'd like your gift to symbolize, then bead something pretty with a special meaning.