Easter Flowers & Floral Bouquets

When it comes to Easter celebration, there is undoubtedly no better idea than presenting our loved ones with beautifully decorated Easter flower baskets. Easter flowers will blossom your life by spreading their fragrance everywhere. The beautiful view of blooming flowers will shower its freshness and fill your life with golden charming moments.
There are lots of sentiments attached to flowers. In fact, flowers convey the eternal feelings of your heart. There are different flowers that can make their way to Easter flower bouquets. Read further to know about flowers for Easter and their significance...
Chrysanthemum (general) - it indicates cheerfulness and the fact that you are truly a precious friend.
Chrysanthemum (white) - Truthfulness
Chrysanthemum (yellow) - it's a case of more than friendship as in slighted love.
Daffodil - it conveys that you are the only one for me and everything seems to be bright, when you are around.
Azalea - it conveys to the person to take care of himself/herself for your sake.
Lily (white) - It indicates purity and also says that it's a wonderful experience knowing you.
Tulip (red) - Declaration of Love
Tulip (general) - Perfect Love
Tulip (variegated) - Beautiful Eyes

Flowers: Easter Lilies

The Easter lily is a symbol associated with motherhood. A symbol of Easter, the white lily signifies purity and hope. There are many legends related to the Easter lily flower. It's not just a flower meant to adorn house, but it has a lot of significance too. According to Roman mythology, the white Lily is associated with Juno, the queen of gods. It is said that at the time when queen Juno was feeding her baby son Hercules, some milk fell from the sky. The part of it that remained above the earth, paved way for the formation of Milky Way and the rest of it that fell onto the earth, led to the blooming of beautiful white lilies. White lilies are then an outcome of the milk of the mythological queen of heaven, Hera, through which these gorgeous flowers had sprung.

As part of the Easter tradition, to honour Jesus' resurrection, churches are decorated with beautiful white lilies. At homes, they find a special place for themselves in colourful flower baskets. Also, they serve as wonderful Easter gifts, heading their way to splendid flower bouquets. Since the white lily symbolizes purity, it is often associated with mother Mary. This explains the reason why the paintings for Easter picture saints presenting gorgeous white lilies to mother Mary, while congratulating her for being the mother of Jesus. Thus, the Easter lily is a sacred flower that marks the commemoration of Jesus' return to life.

Roses and their Symbolic Meaning in Literature

In literature, roses often symbolize love and beauty; therefore, they represent ladies, also. Roses are a frequently used flower symbol. From a Christian perspective, a rose is a symbol of heaven and harmony in the world. Furthermore, the rose is considered the flower of the Virgin Mary.

The colour of the rose is often significant.

red for romantic love
white for purity, charm, silence, "You are heavenly", reverence, humility, youthfulness, innocence
pink for youth, early love
yellow for friendship
black for death, twisted relationships (Black Rose)
blue for fantasy, something unattainable

Like other plants, a rose, especially one that is still alive, can also carry overtones of growth, renewal. Roses have thorns which represent the pain or hurt hidden in the beauty, as in "love hurts". Rose bushes can also provide a barrier

The Rose is an important symbol in English literature, especially in romantic love literature. Christianity introduced the rose symbol. But later it assumed secular connotations. In the Elizabethan age, poets in their innumerable lyrics and sonnets used the rose symbol from multiple points of view.
Like the sun, the 'Rose' is an important symbol in literature. Long ago Robert Burns sang : 'My luve's like a red, red rose'. Since then the rose is an integral part of romantic love literature. Chirstina Rossetti wrote about the wonderful rose in the ever poetic style of her own : O Rose , thou flower of flowers, thou fragrant wonder'. The Rose was deep in Yeats' heart. Who can ever forget O.Henry's 'The Rose of Dixie'?

Wedding Bouquets: The Purple Touch

Four wedding floral bouquets using shades of purple as the main source of inspiration...

Art: Van Gogh's Flowers

Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890) a Dutch painter who went to live in southern France and who helped to develop the style of post-impressionism. His paintings use bright colours and have thick lines of paint in circular patterns, and the most famous ones include Sunflowers and Irises. He is also known for being mentally ill and for cutting off one of his ears and later killing himself. Although Van Gogh was poor during his life, his paintings are now extremely valuable and are sold for very high prices.

Flower Wallpapers - Set 01

Flower wallpapers are used by many around the world. There are several reasons for that. Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men and animals. Some seem to smile, some have a sad expression, some are pensive and diffident and others again are plain, honest. Flowers in the above wallpaper are the suitable example. Each flower is a soul opening out to nature.

Flowers are Love's truest language; they betray, like the divining rods of God. Flowers are precious wealth lies buried, not of gold, But love--strong love, that never can decay!

Welsh National Emblems: Daffodils & Leeks

Many Welsh people wear one or both of the national emblems of Wales (the leek and the daffodil) on their lapel to celebrate St. David, which falls on 1 March each year. The daffodil (a generic Welsh symbol which is in season during March) or the leek (Saint David's personal symbol) are worn on this day. St. David is the patron saint of Wales. He was a monk who lived on bread, water, herbs and leeks and died on March 1, 589 A. D.
The association between leeks and daffodils is strengthened by the fact that they have similar names in Welsh, Cenhinen (leek) and Cenhinen Pedr (daffodil, literally "Peter's leek"). Younger girls sometimes wear traditional Welsh costumes to school. This costume consists of a long woollen skirt, white blouse, woollen shawl and a Welsh hat.
The daffodil is an emblem for Wales which gained popularity in the 19th century. Women, especially, were fond of this bright, cheerful flower as an emblem of Wales.
At the beginning of the 20th century it became even more closely associated with Wales when Welshman and British Prime Minster David Lloyd George wore it on St David's Day and at ceremonies to mark the investiture of the then Prince of Wales.

Daffodils in March

In the UK and northern US, March is thought of as the first month of spring, and many people think of March as the time when spring flowers, especially daffodils, appear. There is an old saying that "March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb", which means that March begins with cold weather windy weather and ends with warmer weather.


The leek has an old association with Wales with references to this green and white plant dating back to the six-century poet Taliesin.
The leek is also mentioned in 13th century Red Book of Hergest which contains manuscripts of the Welsh mythological tales known as The Mabinogian.
Eating leeks was believed to encourage good health and happiness and they were worn by the Welsh in the Battle of Crecy in 1346.
It has been suggested, too, that the green and white family colours of the Tudor dynasty are taken from this most Welsh of symbols.
By the time Henry VIII - whose father Henry VII founded the Tudor dynasty - presented a leek to his daughter on St David's Day in 1536, the leek was firmly associated with Wales.
St David is, of course, the patron saint of Wales and the patriotic wear small, ornamental leeks and daffodils on March 1 to celebrate Wales’ own saint's day.

The Importance of Roses in Religion

The structured prayer form of 150 Hail Marys was termed a "rosary". This expression came from the Latin rosarium or rosarius, a name given to works collecting the best of teachings. Arnold of Villanova wrote a Rosarius Philosophorum, explaining that it was a compendium, a thesaurus, a treasury of philosophy. Here the symbolism of the rosary stands as a precious anthology of spirituality.
Our Lady of the Rosary is Our Lady of the roses, because the flowers are the symbols of greeting offered to the Mother of God. We greet her with spiritual flowers.

Rosa Mystica ~ Mystical Rose

The rose was symbol of mystery (antiquity), and for early Christians a metaphor of both martyrdom and paradise. A classical illustration of Mary shows her emerging from a giant rose bush planted in a French garden. Two potted rose trees flank the central image. All three serve as visual support to the scriptural references of the rose symbolism applied to Mary. The rose bush with open petals serving as throne of Our Lady bears the following caption: “Open up your petals like roses planted near running water”

Rosicrucian Rose

The rose is a yonic symbol associated with generation, fecundity, and purity. The fact that flowers blossom by unfolding has caused them to be chosen as symbolic of spiritual unfoldment. The red colour of the rose refers to the blood of Christ, and the golden heart concealed within the midst of the flower corresponds to the spiritual gold concealed within the human nature. The number of its petals being ten is also a subtle reminder of the perfect Pythagorean number. The rose symbolizes the heart, and the heart has always been accepted by Christians as emblematic of the virtues of love and compassion, as well as of the nature of Christ—the personification of these virtues.
Occasionally the symbol of a cross rising from a rose was used in connection with their activities.
The Rosicrucian rose was drawn upon the Round Table of King Arthur, and is the central motif for the links forming the chain from which the "Great George" is suspended among the jewels of The Order of the Garter.