Other traditions flower traditions
Shinto, Taoist, Zoroastrian, folk and ancestral traditions.
HawthornCrataegus
A thorny shrub or tree with white or pink spring flowers and small edible fruits
🇮🇪 Ireland and 7 more · Wildflower
Bay laurelLaurus nobilis
Evergreen tree with aromatic leaves used as bay leaf in cooking
🇬🇷 Greece and 9 more · Flowering tree
HyacinthHyacinthus
A spring-blooming bulb with fragrant, colourful flower spikes
🇹🇷 Turkey and 7 more · Bulb flower
Decoration
Papel picado
Mexican folk art banners made by cutting designs into colored tissue paper
🇲🇽 Mexico and 1 more · Flower craft
Decoration
Rose waterگلاب
Flavoured water made by steeping or distilling rose petals
🇮🇷 Iran and 2 more · Offering or rite
Clematis paniculatapuawānanga
A white-flowered climbing vine native to New Zealand forests
🇳🇿 New Zealand · Wildflower
Decoration
Japanese garden日本庭園
A traditional garden style shaped by nature, philosophy and seasonal change
🇯🇵 Japan · Garden style
Crown of thornsEuphorbia milii
A spiny flowering shrub with red, pink, or white bracts, native to Madagascar
🇲🇬 Madagascar and 5 more · Wildflower
Decoration
Qingming Festival清明节
The Chinese spring festival for honoring ancestors with tomb sweeping and offerings
🇨🇳 China and 7 more · Custom, April
Decoration
Nowruzنوروز
Spring New Year festival marked by fire, greenery, and festive gatherings
🇮🇷 Iran and 9 more · Custom, March
Decoration
Monoï oil
Traditional Tahitian scented oil made from tiaré flowers and coconut oil
Flower craft
Pussy willow
Soft, silvery spring catkins from several small willow species
🇷🇺 Russia and 4 more · Wildflower
Poppy anemoneAnemone coronaria
Red, white, or blue Mediterranean flower with a dark crown centre
🇮🇱 Israel and 7 more · Wildflower
Sacred daturaDatura wrightii
White trumpet-shaped flower with a strong scent, sacred in Native American rites
🇺🇸 United States and 3 more · Wildflower
Decoration
Pohela Boishakhপহেলা বৈশাখ
Bengali New Year marked by processions, fairs, and flower-adorned gatherings
🇧🇩 Bangladesh and 1 more · Custom, April
KouCordia subcordata
A coastal flowering tree with orange blooms and buoyant fruit
🇦🇺 Australia and 7 more · Flowering tree
Decoration
May Day Festival
A spring festival with flowers, greenery, maypoles and bonfires on the first of May
🇮🇪 Ireland and 5 more · Custom, May
Decoration
BeltaneBealtaine / Là Bealltainn / Boaltinn
The Gaelic May Day festival with bonfires and yellow flower decorations
🇮🇪 Ireland and 1 more · Custom, May
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Pohela Boishakh: Abidhasan00, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- May Day Festival: Bryan Ledgard, CC BY 2.0, source
- Beltane: Stefan Schäfer, Lich, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Papel picado: Ferfive, CC BY 4.0, source
- Rose water: E4024, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Bay laurel: Forest and Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0 us, source
- Clematis paniculata: Avenue, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Hawthorn: Nadiatalent, Public domain, source
- Anemone: Aviad2001, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Hyacinth: The wub, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Japanese garden: 663highland, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Crown of thorns: Ezra Katz, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Qingming Festival: Jacklee ., CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Nowruz: Katzenfee50, CC0, source
- Monoï oil: Verodemortillet, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Pussy willow: Bernie, Public domain, source
- Sacred datura: Dlarsen, Public domain, source
- Kou: Tauʻolunga, CC BY-SA 3.0, source