Easter

What happens

After the bare weeks of Lent, when many churches go without flowers, Easter morning brings them back. In the United States the flower is the Easter lily, a white trumpet lily native to the southern islands of Japan and grown for the season in pots. White stands for purity and for the resurrection. In Britain and Germany the daffodil does the same work. Its old English name is the Lent lily and its German name, Osterglocke, means Easter bell. Many parishes build an Easter garden of moss and spring flowers.

The flowers

Easter lilyThe Easter lily, forced in pots to open for the day.NarcissusThe daffodil, called the Easter bell in German.TulipA common Easter flower in northern Europe.Madonna lilyThe Madonna lily, the white lily of older church art.

More flowers and customs of Easter

Decoration Papel picado Mexican folk art banners made by cutting designs into colored tissue paper 🇲🇽 Mexico and 1 more · Flower craft Place Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden A 50-acre botanical garden with themed gardens and a conservatory near Richmond, Virginia Richmond, 🇺🇸 United States · Botanical garden Decoration Floristry The craft and trade of arranging and selling flowers 🇳🇱 Netherlands and 3 more · Arrangement Calla lilyZantedeschia Showy funnel-shaped flowers from southern Africa, grown worldwide as ornamentals 🇿🇦 South Africa and 7 more · Garden flower Easter orchidCattleya mossiae A very fragrant Cattleya orchid, called the Easter orchid, with a white form Cattleya mossiae · Orchid Calla lilyZantedeschia aethiopica A tall white-flowered wetland plant from southern Africa 🇿🇦 South Africa and 8 more · Wildflower