Why Tulips Are Stealing Hearts on Valentine’s Day

Your relationship is unique so celebrate it with a non-standard Valentine’s Day flower. Choose tulips over roses this time and be more adventurous and intentional in your romantic flower choice.

Why pick tulips? Let’s get to know the second most popular flower for Valentine’s Day and see why this bell-shaped bloom is a great choice to represent and celebrate your love.

A Lover’s Heart

Inside the bell-shaped bloom of a tulip is a velvety black base said to represent a lover’s heart darkened by burning passion. The color intensity varies depending on the tulip color and variety.

Tulip Meaning and Symbolism

As mentioned, tulips carry different meanings and symbolism depending on color. There are 150 species of tulips and over 3,000 varieties.

Hot red tulips represent passionate and everlasting love. Yellow tulips signify friendship, hope, and cheerfulness. Purple tulips symbolize elegance and royalty. White tulips speak of forgiveness and respect. Pink tulips symbolize confidence, happiness, affection, and nurturing love.

In general, tulips convey perfect or deep love. They are also considered as a floral symbol for rebirth given that they’re the first flowers to bloom every year. Tulip is also the 11^th wedding anniversary flower.

Dancing in Vase

They won’t sit straight and upright on a vase because they still grow even after being cut. Yes, you’ve read that right. Their stem lengthens up to an inch per day even after it’s snipped. Tulips respond to light and will grow or bend towards it so don’t be surprised when a tulip arrangement changes on its own.

Perfect Match Three Petals and Three Sepals

A solitary tulip bloom may look like it has six petals. What you see are actually three petals on the inside of the bloom cupped by three complementing sepals on the outside. A perfect match just like you and your partner!

Can Sit With Fruits

Cut tulips are found to be not sensitive to ethylene, the gaseous hormone released by ripening fruits. This means they won’t wilt quickly when placed on a vase displayed near a bowl of fruits.

Every Bit As Unique As Your Love

If you’re feeling a little bolder and daring and would want to impress your significant other with a V-Day floral gift that’s truly unlike any other, get her a bouquet of fringed tulips. There’s an assortment of tulip varieties with unusual blooms or extra-striking colors. There’s the Tulip ‘Renown Unique’ that has big and full peony-like blossom. Double-bloom tulips look lush, voluptuous, and visually stunning. Parrot tulips are truly unique given their ruffled petals that resemble a parrot’s plumage. Then there are the fringed Crispa tulips with their eye-catching frayed and frilly edges.  The dramatic Viridiflora tulip won’t fail to impress, too.