Mother’s Day Flowers

Mother’s Day is a well-known day, celebrated in the honor of mothers. It wasn’t usually celebrated on the 2nd Sunday of May until Anna Jarvis made popular the phrase “2nd Sunday in May” and “Mother’s Day”. Countries all over the world celebrate Mother’s Day but some on different days and even month. In the years that passed, most people will just present their mother with carnations or roses as Mother’s Day flowers. This came from the tradition started by Anna Jarvis who gave out 500 white carnations at her mother’s church for each mother on the 10th May 1908. The original location where the first Mother’s Day was celebrated is now the International Mother’s Day Shrine and a National Historic Landmark. The custom of giving Mother’s Day flower eventually spread to the whole United States.

The white carnations that Anna Jarvis gave out to mothers were chosen to represent the purity of mothers’ love. The true purpose has been slightly deviated through the years to the custom of wearing carnation pinned on clothing on Mother’s Day. A red carnation symbolizes that the wearer’s mother is still alive while white signifies that the wearer’s mother is no longer alive. Nowadays, commercialization of Mother’s Day celebration as with other celebrations is wide and rampant. Catering to the busy and people who can afford to spend, Mother’s Day gifts are still the traditional flowers but with many additions that will make any mother pleased. In United States alone, American can spend approximately $2.6 billion on flowers. That is way above pampering gifts and greeting cards. This showed that the top gift for mothers is still flowers.

With the availability of internet, easy and cheap communication, sending a Mother’s Day flower has never been easier. Just a quick call from visible advertisement or a click on a link will make possible the delivery of fresh beautiful flowers to the sender’s mother anywhere in the world. When it used to be a gathering of family member on Mother’s Day, now most mothers understand enough if their busy children don’t come home on Mother’s Day. There are after all contented with the eCards, and of course, the Mother’s Day flowers sent online.