Flowers for gifts
Given for love, thanks, birthdays, visits and apologies.
Doubtful knight's-spurConsolida ajacis
Tall garden annual with spikes of blue, pink or white flowers
🇨🇳 China · Garden flower
Consolida
Annual larkspurs grown for their spurred flowers in pink, blue, purple and white
🇹🇷 Turkey and 6 more · Wildflower
Blazing starLiatris
Tall North American wildflowers with feathery purple or pink flower spikes
🇺🇸 United States and 3 more · Wildflower
Elegant zinniaZinnia elegans
A bright annual garden flower from Mexico with many colourful forms
🇲🇽 Mexico and 5 more · Garden flower
Begonia × tuberhybrida
Hybrid begonias grown for their large, colourful flowers from tubers
🇨🇳 China and 1 more · Garden flower
Zonal geraniumPelargonium × hortorum
The classic potted and bedding plant with rounded leaves and ball-shaped flower heads
🇿🇦 South Africa and 2 more · Garden flower
Petunia × atkinsiana
The hybrid garden petunia grown for its colourful, trumpet-shaped blooms
🇨🇳 China · Garden flower
Decoration
Mothering Sunday
A British day for honouring mothers and the mother church, marked with violets and cake
🇬🇧 United Kingdom and 1 more · Custom, Mar to Apr
Phlox
A North American genus with bright, fragrant blooms from spring to fall
Phlox · Wildflower
Decoration
Mother's Day
A day to honor mothers and motherhood around the world
🇺🇸 United States and 6 more · Custom
Decoration
Valentine's Day
A day for expressing love with cards, flowers, and gifts on February 14
🇮🇳 India and 1 more · Custom, February
Decoration
White Dayホワイトデー
March 14 gift-giving day in Japan and East Asia, one month after Valentine's Day
🇯🇵 Japan and 4 more · Custom, March
Sweet WilliamDianthus barbatus
A garden flower with clusters of colourful, spicy-scented blooms
🇨🇳 China · Wildflower
Stargazer lilyLilium 'Stargazer'
A sky-facing, fragrant hybrid lily first bred in California in 1974
Lilium 'Stargazer' · Garden flower
Decoration
Saint George's Day in CataloniaDiada de Sant Jordi
Catalonia’s day of exchanging books and red roses on April 23
🇪🇸 Spain and 2 more · Custom, April
Love-in-a-mistNigella damascena
A lacy blue annual with misty bracts and balloon-like seed pods
🇨🇳 China and 1 more · Garden flower
Shasta daisyLeucanthemum × superbum
A white-petalled garden daisy created by crossing several wild species
🇨🇳 China · Garden flower
Tenweeks stockMatthiola incana
A fragrant garden flower in many colours, grown for beds and bouquets
🇪🇸 Spain and 4 more · Garden flower
Calla lilyZantedeschia
Showy funnel-shaped flowers from southern Africa, grown worldwide as ornamentals
🇿🇦 South Africa and 7 more · Garden flower
Sea lavenderLimonium
Salt-tolerant wildflowers with papery blooms, known as statice or sea lavender
Limonium · Wildflower
Decoration
Nowruzنوروز
Spring New Year festival marked by fire, greenery, and festive gatherings
🇮🇷 Iran and 9 more · Custom, March
SnapdragonAntirrhinum
Garden flowers with dragon-shaped blooms that open when squeezed
🇩🇪 Germany and 4 more · Garden flower
Decoration
Martenitsaмартеница
Red and white yarn tokens worn to greet spring in Bulgaria and nearby countries
🇧🇬 Bulgaria and 5 more · Custom, March
Schlumbergera
A forest cactus with jointed stems and bright flowers, grown as a holiday houseplant
🇧🇷 Brazil · Wildflower
Decoration
Harvest festival
A yearly celebration marking the end of the harvest with feasts and decorations
🇮🇳 India and 3 more · Custom, Jan to Oct
Tahitian gardeniaGardenia taitensis
A fragrant white flower woven into Pacific island garlands and oils
🇹🇴 Tonga and 1 more · Garden flower
Common snapdragonAntirrhinum majus
A tall garden flower with dragon-shaped blooms that open when squeezed
🇫🇷 France and 2 more · Garden flower
Paperwhite narcissusNarcissus papyraceus
A white, fragrant daffodil from the Mediterranean grown indoors for winter bloom
🇬🇷 Greece and 3 more · Bulb flower
Garden hyacinthHyacinthus orientalis
A spring bulb with dense, fragrant flower clusters in many colours
🇹🇷 Turkey and 6 more · Garden flower
Hippeastrum
Large-flowered bulb plants from the Americas, often called amaryllis
Hippeastrum · Bulb flower
Adey abebaBidens macroptera
The yellow eight-petalled flower of Ethiopia’s New Year
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Wildflower
Proteasuikerbos
Large-headed South African flowers called sugarbushes, with many wild species
🇿🇦 South Africa and 7 more · Wildflower
Miltonia
Medium-large Brazilian orchids with showy, long-lasting flowers
🇧🇷 Brazil and 2 more · Orchid
New South Wales waratahTelopea speciosissima
Large red flowered shrub and emblem of New South Wales, Australia
🇦🇺 Australia and 2 more · Wildflower
Yellow ʻilimaSida fallax
A golden-yellow flower woven into Hawaiian and Pacific Island garlands
🇰🇮 Kiribati and 2 more · Wildflower
Vandaवन्दाका
A tropical orchid genus prized for its vivid, long-lasting flowers
🇮🇳 India and 5 more · Wildflower
Heliconia
Tropical plants with bold, colorful bracts and banana-like leaves
Heliconia · Wildflower
Decoration
Lunar New Year Fair年宵市場
A festive flower market held before Lunar New Year in Cantonese communities
🇨🇳 China and 1 more · Custom
China asterCallistephus chinensis
A showy garden flower from China with many colorful cultivated forms
🇨🇳 China and 2 more · Garden flower
Floribunda rose
A garden rose group with many blooms in clusters
Garden flower
Gypsophila
A group of delicate, small-flowered plants known as baby's-breath
🇹🇷 Turkey and 2 more · Wildflower
Decoration
Flower preservation
Ways to keep flowers looking fresh long after they are picked
Flower craft
Chinese peonyPaeonia lactiflora
A fragrant perennial with large white, pink, or crimson flowers from Asia
🇨🇳 China · Wildflower
Decoration
Artificial flower
Imitation flowers made from fabric, plastic, paper, clay and other materials
🇨🇳 China and 5 more · Arrangement
Decoration
Sachet
A small scented cloth bag filled with herbs or aromatic ingredients
🇮🇳 India · Flower craft
Cabbage roseRosa × centifolia
A highly scented old rose grown for perfume and gardens
🇨🇳 China · Garden flower
Decoration
Perfume
A scented liquid made from oils, flowers, and aromatics for body and space
🇫🇷 France and 6 more · Arrangement
Gladiolus alatus
A small South African gladiolus with bright orange, sweet-scented flowers
🇿🇦 South Africa · Wildflower
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Doubtful knight's-spur: Alberto Salguero, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Consolida: Picture taken by BerndH, CC BY-SA 2.5, source
- Blazing star: Chrumps, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Elegant zinnia: Simon Koopmann, CC BY-SA 2.0 de, source
- Begonia × tuberhybrida: MaedaAkihiko, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Zonal geranium: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Petunia × atkinsiana: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Mothering Sunday: Jonathunder, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Phlox: Atilin, Public domain, source
- Mother's Day: Dave Parker, CC BY 2.0, source
- Valentine's Day: Upload: Chordboard, Public domain, source
- White Day: Flickr user mersy ( Masashi Yanagiya), CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Sweet William: Benjamin Zwittnig, CC BY 2.5 si, source
- Stargazer lily: The original uploader was Skarg at English Wikipedia ., CC BY 2.5, source
- Saint George's Day in Catalonia: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Love-in-a-mist: Kaldari, Public domain, source
- Shasta daisy: Captain-tucker, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Tenweeks stock: Meneerke bloem, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Calla lily: Octagon, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Sea lavender: Stan Shebs, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Nowruz: Katzenfee50, CC0, source
- Snapdragon: Sabina Bajracharya, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Martenitsa: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Schlumbergera: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Harvest festival: High Contrast, CC BY 3.0 de, source
- Tahitian gardenia: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Common snapdragon: Victor M. Vicente Selvas, Public domain, source
- Paperwhite narcissus: Dominicus Johannes Bergsma, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Garden hyacinth: Rasbak, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Hippeastrum: JJ Harrison ( https://www.jjharrison.com.au/ ), CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Adey abeba: (c) Luke Lythgoe, some rights reserved (CC BY), CC BY 4.0, source
- Protea: Andrew massyn, Public domain, source
- Miltonia: Dalton Holland Baptista, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- New South Wales waratah: Casliber, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Yellow ʻilima: Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0, source
- Vanda: The original uploader was Lithiumscream at English Wikipedia ., Attribution, source
- Heliconia: Justin Lebar, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Lunar New Year Fair: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 2.5, source
- China aster: Dalgial, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Floribunda rose: Anna reg, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Gypsophila: John Alan Elson, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Flower preservation: Flor4U|Wolfgang Roth|Blumenwerkstatt Roth, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Chinese peony: Ulf Eliasson, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Artificial flower: Flor4U|Wolfgang Roth|Blumenwerkstatt Roth, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Sachet: Jebulon, CC0, source
- Cabbage rose: Nadiatalent, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Perfume: Takkk, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Gladiolus alatus: Abu Shawka, CC0, source