A Rose For Each Day of the Month
“A life with love will have some thorns, but a life without love will have no roses,” goes an anonymous saying. It is only fitting that we have a special day only for the Queen of all flowers.
Yes, June is the month for roses and what better way to celebrate life than to celebrate the flower that represents all the beauty and romance of life?
But like all else, roses of different colours have different meanings. Check these out before heading out and buying a bouquet for your near and dears ones at office or at home.
Red Roses
Red roses are commonly associated with love and romance and, particularly with Valentine’s Day. Nothing can be more intense than love represented by a single long-stemmed rose, conjuring up visions of a couple doing the Tango. 
The deeper and darker the shade of red, the better. The red rose with sharp, prominent thorns are significant of the truth that pain and sorrow are worth it … for love.
Save these for your romantic partner – gifting them to your secretary will just land you in court.
Pink Roses
Just like pink is a gentler shade of red, it symbolises a gentler, more unassuming kind of love or affection. With that love the pink rose carries gratitude and appreciation toward the recipient.
Deep pink roses signify gratitude, admiration, appreciation and sympathy. They can be presented to a sick person suggesting ‘Get well soon’. Light pink roses denote liveliness and fun. Pale pink roses suggest admiration, sweetness and gratitude. They can be used to express feelings strictly confining to friendship.
All pink roses can be used in friendship bouquets.
Pick your occasion well when opting for these roses.
White Roses
Innocence, pure love, reverence and humility are the qualities associated with the white rose. 
It is an ideal flower to begin a relationship with, representing a kind of spiritual love.
White roses are common for both the most joyous and painful occasions, as they are a symbol of honour and purity at a wedding and a token of remembrance and reverence at funerals.
Again, the occasion on which you choose to use these roses makes them appropriate, or not.
Coral Roses
These are highly vibrant roses with
the multitude of colours layered and overlapping each other.
They reveal desire and passion and are often picked up by those who are passionate by nature.
Orange Roses
Although they are more commonly used for decoration purposes, orange roses are also great initiators of a relationship,
but hinting at desire, fascination and enthusiasm, unlike the purity of the white rose. They are also a popular way of congratulating a friend or a partner.
Yellow Roses
The happy colour of yellow is seldom used for romantic purposes. Yellow roses mostly signify ‘congratulations,’ joy, gladness and delight, caring, ‘Welcome back,’ and ‘remember me’. They are symbols of happiness and friendship.
In earlier times, in Europe, they were also used to suggest jealousy or dying love. But today the sunshine colour means happiness, mental stimulation and good cheer.
These are great for the office – they spread a feeling of happiness without unnecessary romantic connotations.
Lilac or Lavender Roses
The lilac or lavender rose is a rare flower and said to be one of the most beautifully elegant flowers on this Earth. 
Due to its unusual nature, it is fast becoming a popular choice for the expression of romantic feelings.
Their unusual colour also led them to be associated with enchantment in older times.
Peach Roses
It is very similar to the pink rose in terms of significance, but the peach rose is much more of a rare find.
Peach roses portray feelings of gratitude, admiration, sociability and friendship. Pale peach roses symbolize modesty.
Black Roses and Dead Roses
In all honesty, there is no such thing as a black rose. It may exist in Goth culture, signifying a tragic romance, but if you find them in a florist’s shop, it means the florist has dried the rose and dyed it black. 
To send anybody black roses is to make your ill-wish towards that person known. Dead roses indicate the culmination of a relationship.
Rose Combinations
When combined together, roses change their significance. While a bouquet of red roses signify love, combine them with yellow roses to symbolize joy and celebration.
White with yellow brings a sense of delicate harmony into the surroundings.
A combination of red and white roses communicates unity or an engagement.
On the whole, if rose buds are your choice of flower, they signify gratitude, youth and beauty in any colour.
Rose Numbers
There are also some hidden messages in the number of roses you choose to select for your home or office.
The single rose, whatever its colour, depicts utmost devotion to a single person.
Two roses entwined together communicate the sentiment of a marriage proposal.
Six roses signify your need to be loved or cherished.
If you need to assure your love that he/she is truly and deeply loved, eleven should be your number.
Thirteen is far from an unlucky number where roses are concerned – it indicates a silent admirer.
Flamboyant and ardent lovers can also splurge on 365 roses, denoting that your love is constant throughout the year.
Going one step further, 1001 roses speak volumes of a faithful love that promises to live on forever.
So give your feelings the right accompaniment with the right colour and the right number of roses.
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