What’s Your Floral Signature?

(And Can You Guess Someone Else’s?)

Have you ever noticed how certain flowers just feel like someone?

Your mom might always gravitate toward classic roses.
Your best friend lights up at wild, colorful blooms.
And you? You may not even realize your floral preferences say a lot about your personality, your energy, and how you show love.

That’s what makes discovering your floral signature so much fun.

Whether you’re choosing flowers for yourself or creating the perfect arrangement for someone special, understanding floral personality can turn a simple bouquet into something deeply personal.

✨ Ready to find yours?
This quick quiz will help you uncover your floral style—or help you decode someone else’s.

How the Floral Signature Quiz Works

Answer the 7 questions below
Choose one answer per question
Keep track of which letter you select most often
Scroll down to reveal your Floral Personality Result

💡 Tip: Take it once for yourself… then take it again while thinking about your mom, partner, or best friend. You might be surprised how accurate it feels.

🌷 The Floral Signature Quiz

1. When you walk into a room, you want people to feel:

A. Comforted and calm
B. Inspired and energized
C. Impressed by elegance
D. Delighted by creativity

2. Your ideal weekend looks like:

A. Cozy time at home or in nature
B. Exploring, socializing, trying new things
C. A refined experience—dining, culture, or self-care
D. Something spontaneous and a little unexpected

3. Pick a color palette that draws you in:

A. Soft pastels or neutrals
B. Bright, bold, joyful colors
C. Deep, rich, timeless tones
D. Mixed patterns and playful contrasts

4. When giving a gift, you usually:

A. Focus on meaning and sentiment
B. Go big and fun
C. Choose something classic and high quality
D. Personalize it so no one else would think of it

5. Your personal style could best be described as:

A. Natural and effortless
B. Lively and expressive
C. Polished and sophisticated
D. Artistic and unique

6. What matters most to you in relationships?

A. Trust and warmth
B. Joy and connection
C. Loyalty and depth
D. Creativity and authenticity

7. If someone surprised you with flowers, you’d love them most if they were:

A. Soft, soothing, and meaningful
B. Cheerful and colorful
C. Elegant and timeless
D. Unexpected and imaginative

Your Floral Signature Results

Count which letter you chose most often.

Mostly A’s – The Gentle Bloom

🌸 Your Flowers: Tulips, peonies, daisies, soft roses
You value sincerity, warmth, and emotional connection. Your floral style is comforting and heartfelt—perfect for everyday beauty and meaningful moments.

Mostly B’s – The Joyful Garden

🌻 Your Flowers: Sunflowers, gerbera daisies, mixed seasonal bouquets
You bring energy wherever you go. Bright, happy blooms match your upbeat personality and love of celebration.

Mostly C’s – The Timeless Classic

🌹 Your Flowers: Roses, orchids, calla lilies
You appreciate tradition, elegance, and beauty that never goes out of style. Your floral choices are refined and memorable.

Mostly D’s – The Creative Wildflower

🌺 Your Flowers: Wildflower mixes, tropicals, artistic arrangements
You love standing out and expressing individuality. Your ideal bouquet is one-of-a-kind—just like you.

Why Knowing Floral Personality Matters

Flowers aren’t just decorations—they’re emotional shorthand.

When you understand someone’s floral signature:

You give better gifts
You create stronger emotional connections
You turn flowers into a story, not just a purchase

That’s the magic of flowers—and why they’ve been part of human expression for centuries.

Tulips Talk Question:
Did your result surprise you—or describe you perfectly?
And whose floral signature are you going to discover next?

Because the right flowers don’t just say “I was thinking of you.”
They say “I see you.”

The Language of Flowers thru the Ages

Jun15

The language of Flowers started in Constantinople in the 1600s, and was brought to England in 1716 by Lady Mary Wortley Montague who had spent time in Turkey with her husband. The interest then moved to France (of course) where the Book Le Langage des Fleurs was printed with over 800 floral signs. Many were toned down in the English translation at the time of Queen Victoria because they were quite lusty and risque!

Flowers are part of our daily life. For virtually every event we have assigned a special flower. Flowers for love, church, church graveyard, marriage, etc. In the 16th century inn’s use to have a branch or flower stalk as signboard which later often changed only into the name of a specific tree or flower. Many times one finds flower gardens in mythological sceneries.

The use of flowers is uncountable: attributes for the springtime, the youth, the sunrise, the rhetoric, the virtue etc.

Most people are aware that a red rose means love but did you know that almost every flower and sometimes the different colors of a single flower has its own meaning? Why is Stephanotis such a popular flower to use in wedding bouquets? Why put Bells of Ireland or Cattails in a bouquet for someone getting a new house or embarking on a new career?

Check out our Language of Flowers Chart (pdf, no optin) for the many different flowers and their meanings. This includes the more traditional meanings according to the original language of flowers.

Flower Study Unearths Buyers Generational Preferences

May29

The Society of American Florists conducted research to find out what flowers “mean” to different generations. Here’s an excerpt of that study:

“SAF’s Generations of Flowers consumer research study, completed in January 2009, explores the motivations and barriers of how different age groups perceive, buy, and use flowers and floral outlets. Three generations of consumers were assessed through qualitative and quantitative measures: Generation Y (ages 18-30), Generation X (31-44), and Baby Boomers (45-60). The study methodology included:

Interviews with generational and gift giving research giants, Iconoculture and Roper
Two online focus groups of 57 individuals
Online survey of 1,557 flower consumers”

Key Inisghts Included Flowers and Gifting, Flower Purchase Behaviors and compared Boomers, Gen X’ers and Gen Y feelings toward flowers in general.

For instance when it comes to floral purchases

Gen Y is “most likely to purchase flowers in person and deliver flowers themselves. This echoes a “personalization” trend in gifting characteristic of this generation.”

And Gen Y is also “more likely to purchase flowers to impress guests in their home, significantly higher than other generations. This indicates an opportunity to reposition the value of flowers for the younger consumer.”

Compared to Gen X which “most likely purchases flowers as a traditional holiday/occasion gift for someone else, as a “just because” pick-me-up gift, and for home decoration.”

The Baby Boomer Generation “is significantly more likely than other generations to keep flowers in their consideration set when purchasing a gift, and to find flowers appropriate for a broad range of gifting situations.”

To read the rest of the study visit http://www.canadiangardencentre.ca/content/view/2017/38/

To order flowers visit: Eden Florist Today!

Florascope for Gemini

May22

Gemini: May 22 – Jun. 21

Gemini’s symbol is the twins. Geminis are versatile, highly adaptable and somewhat mysterious. Gemini are playful, youthful and fun-loving. Bordering on the mischievous, Geminis are expressive, clever and social.

You can choose narcissus or buttercup, roses or poppy. Lady Gemini like almost every flower and her preferences depend on her mood, that changes very quickly.

Geminis delight in fun loving, cheerful flowers such as daisies, gerberas, summery sunflowers or quiet sophistication of the rose. Geminis like nearly every flower so match the flower to the ever changing mood of the creative, lighthearted Gemini, are one of the most creative of all the zodiac signs. Roses are a perfect choice with the range of colors that symbolize friendship. love and even passion.

Geminis colors are bright yellow, black and white and their birthstone is agate.

Today is Plant a Flower Day… In Honor of Earth Day

Apr21

“Flowers are good for the Earth AND for the Soul” Heidi Richards Mooney

Remember when you were a school girl (or boy as the case may be) and your teacher gave you a project of planting a seed in a paper cup? I do, I think the first time we did that was in 1^st grade and the nuns (did I mention I’m a recovering Catholic? *SMILE) gave each student a paper cup, and some seeds which I don’t even recall what they were. We marched outside to the school yard, hoes in hand and began digging up the earth so we could put the dirt in our humble paper cups, add seeds, a little water and then wait. We waited for what seemed like eternity (probably only a few days in adult time) as the paper cups sprouted little green leaves. I remember how proud I was of that little plant… that I (and God) could actually create a living thing! In fact, it is probably the only good memory I have of Catholic School. This is, I am sure what started my love, awe and respect for flowers.

According to the National Gardening Association, gardening is one of the nation’s most popular pastimes. One in four Americans says that gardening is a real hobby or interest of theirs. About one in four spends four or more hours per week tending lawns, flowers, and vegetables. It makes me wonder how it is around the world? In some parts the numbers are probably much higher!

It got me thinking about how flowers affect us in such profound ways.

In Honor of Earth Day and Plant a Flower day….. Here’s a story Gloria Mount shared on the WIN network on RYZE Social network shared about how flowers have impacted her life:

THE FAMILY ROSE by Gloria Mount

Elizabeth is standing along side of what we are now calling, “The Family Rose”, at our home in California.

It was just a nice little red rose bush, to begin with and suddenly, it has taken on a life of its own.

It began with Liz’s wedding back in December 2004. The morning of her wedding, for various reasons, I was not able to attend her “original” ceremony. That morning, when I went to get the morning paper, I was heavy hearted.

Then I noticed this red rose, in full bloom….in the dead of winter, the only plant in the garden blooming. I was amazed, but knew the Lord was comforting me.

Come February 2005, the morning of my Mother-In-Law’s funeral….suddenly in our barren rose garden was this Red-Rose in full bloom!!! We cut it and took it with us to the services.

When Baby Luke was born, Oct. 2005 there was this Red-Rose!!

December 2005 when Christina was here for Christmas holidays, the day we took her to her Grandma’s grave site….here was this red-rose in full bloom!! We cut it and Chris put it on Grandma Mount’s lovely grave.

Now, May 2006, the morning of Liz’s Bday. I walked outside and saw 2 brilliant red buds….by the time we came back from her Bday breakfast…there was the Red Rose, in full bloom !!!!

Now, I’m wondering how Christina came to name her website….Cyerra Rose…I’m sure Chris wasn’t thinking of our roses here in Whittier….but “Some One” had guided her heart and mind.

As I’m writing this, the connection, now is amazing.

Cyerra Rose was always a beautiful name, but, now it all makes sense with our “Family Red Rose”.

God loves to delight us!!!!

If you’d like to stop by Gloria’s page and say HI and thank her for her story, it’s here: http://www.ryze.com/go/Italianmamma

In case you’d like to read about the other benefits, check out a post I wrote last month entitled “NATURES BENEFITS” at http://tulipstalk.wordpress.com/2008/03/12/natures-benefits/

And if you like flower humor, here’s one for you:

What did the bee say to the flower?

“Hey bud, when do you open?

Time to get out the shovel … Happy Plant a Flower Day!

Heidi