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No tradition helps in expressing human feelings in a better way than gifting flowers or bouquets. Flowers and bouquets have come to be used for varied purposes, from congratulating someone on his or her birthday or anniversary to expressing an apology, or even to just see a smile on someone’s face.

Some people believe that this tradition began way back during prehistoric times with archaeologists discovering proof of its existence at ancient sites. Flowers have always occupied an important role in ancient Rome and Egypt and in the glorious civilizations of ancient Greece and China whose legends and tales clearly reflect this custom. In these civilizations, it was thought that feelings could find their most suitable expression through the gifting of flowers. The ancient Greeks even considered some flowers to be related to divinity.

The Middle Ages saw a continuation of this tradition, and France and England were chiefly responsible for carrying this legacy down the ages. The present tradition of assigning a specific significance to each flower was imported to the West from Turkey, from where the French and the British imbibed it and spread it in Europe.

The tradition of flower giving touched new heights in the Victorian era. As blatant expression of feelings was considered objectionable during the Victorian era, the genteel Victorians practised great restraint in language and they balanced this control over language by their gesture of presenting flowers to communicate feelings.

This period saw the rolling out of guidelines for gifting flowers or bouquets that we still follow. For instance, a bouquet of red roses bought from a florist would evoke a rather unfavourable reaction form your beloved if you gifted it to her upside down. Red roses, that otherwise symbolize love, can symbolize anger if gifted upside down. In fact, a large number of books were printed and disseminated on the language of flowers in the 19th century.

This tradition continues till the present day, where people give flowers to others to express their feelings. Through gradual evolution over the years, we have reached a stage where many flowers now have some meaning and gifting flowers or bouquets has to be done according to fixed norms. An elegantly gifted bouquet of red roses is said to express love while lilies symbolize purity and grace. A single marigold flower is regarded as an expression of grief, while friendship is best exhibited by a yellow coloured rose.

Any tract of land can be made suitable for cultivating any flower, as a result of the progress in modern science and technology. If you live in Singapore, and walk into any Singapore flower shop, you will be overwhelmed by the sheer variety of flowers offered for sale that can express almost any human feeling.