Flowers have a lot of different meanings, but essentially about birth and growth and they connect us with the planet, showing us the beauty that can be created as well as the wonderful scents that can be made.  Finally we can watch them wilt away, depicting the fleeting nature of beauty and the mortality of us all.

If you choose to have a flower tattoo, the symbolism would include the cycle of life, but the different types of flowers in themselves also have their own distinctive meanings.  White flowers signify purity, and red symbolises passion, yellow is friendship and compassion while pink is for adulation and unrequested love.

Rose are by far the most popular tattoo design and represents love in all its forms.  The rose tattoo however has a dark history with roses being tattooed onto those people who were sentenced to death in the 16th century.  If by chance they managed to get away, they would eternally be marked with the rose and whoever saw it would know of their crimes.

While the rose may be the flower to represent love in the West, the East depict this emotion through the lotus flower which also is symbolic of wealth, peace and all things good.

The rose tattoos is a staple in the tattoo chronicles.  The rose is probably the most popular flower of all time and like the lotus in the east, the rose represents love and purity in the west.

The different colors of the rose depict different emotions with the yellow rose being the symbol of joy, white is for reverence and pink is considered the rose of sympathy and admiration.  The white rose was considered the rose of purity in medieval times and was such given to ladies who had not yet lost their virginity.  The red rose is the rose of love and covers all aspects of love from romantic gestures to sacred love of family and faith.