Symbolic Meaning of Color in Roses

Color and meaning

1. red
The creative spirit of love. True love stronger than thorns.True red is the lover's rose.

2. yellow
In Victorian times the rose meant jealousy. Maybe our thoughts have changed. Today it is given as a sign of friendship, sometimes as a sign of sympathy. It is the rose of familiar love and domestic happiness.

3. white
Loyalty, penetrating and platonic love. Able to captivate secret thought, love stronger than death. In England there is a saying about the white rose referring to the sub rosa, death to him who under my secrecy betrays his oath. In Scotland when the white rose bloomed in autumn it was seen as a token of early marriage. The rose of confession, the bridal rose, the rose of servitude. Can be otherworldly.

Grace, gentility, elegance and refinement. The rose of sweet thoughts.

5.purple
Purple adds enchantment. Can be transcendental. Possible need to proceed cautiously.

6.orange
A warm color that says, I am proud of you.

7.blue
Fantasy and impossibility. Hoping for a miracle and new possibilities. Many people have a quest or a fascination for blue roses.

8.black
The color of the crone, the wise lady of death. The promise that soon you will know something you did not know before. Some see it as a bad omen. Death of fixed thoughts or ideas. Signifies a rejuvenation on the horizon. May not be understood as a gift. Les fleurs du mal from which beauty springs. Sometimes a beautiful deep red rose will bloom from a blackened bud