Flowers for gifts
Given for love, thanks, birthdays, visits and apologies.
LilyLilium
Tall bulb flowers with large, colourful blooms in many gardens and cultures
Lilium · Wildflower
Iris
A large group of perennial flowers with striking, six-lobed blooms
Iris · Wildflower
CornflowerCentaurea cyanus
A bright blue wildflower once common in European grain fields
🇩🇪 Germany and 7 more · Wildflower
Anemone
Perennial wildflowers with colorful, petal-like sepals known as windflowers
Anemone · Wildflower
PeonyPaeonia
Large spring flowers in pink, red, white, yellow and purple, grown in gardens worldwide
🇨🇳 China and 7 more · Wildflower
Plumeria
Fragrant tropical tree with waxy, five-petaled flowers in many colours
🇲🇽 Mexico and 6 more · Flowering tree
Showy stonecropHylotelephium spectabile
A pink-flowered succulent from China, popular in gardens and bouquets
🇨🇳 China · Garden flower
Common red bottlebrushMelaleuca citrina
A hardy Australian shrub with bright red brush-like flowers
🇦🇺 Australia · Flowering shrub
HolywoodGuaiacum sanctum
A slow-growing Caribbean tree with purplish blue flowers and famously hard wood
🇧🇸 Bahamas and 4 more · Flowering tree
Arabian jasmineJasminum sambac
A small white jasmine with a strong, sweet scent, treasured in Asia for garlands and ceremonies
🇨🇳 China and 7 more · Flowering shrub
Flamingo FlowerAnthurium andraeanum
A tropical plant with heart-shaped leaves and vivid red or pink spathes
🇨🇴 Colombia and 2 more · Garden flower
Bells of IrelandMoluccella laevis
Tall green spikes with bell-shaped calyces, grown for fresh and dried arrangements
🇹🇷 Turkey and 5 more · Garden flower
African violetSaintpaulia
A small, velvety-leaved house plant with violet, blue or white flowers from East Africa
🇹🇿 Tanzania and 1 more · Wildflower
Doubtful knight's-spurConsolida ajacis
Tall garden annual with spikes of blue, pink or white flowers
🇨🇳 China · Garden flower
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
Phlox
A North American genus with bright, fragrant blooms from spring to fall
Phlox · Wildflower
Stargazer lilyLilium 'Stargazer'
A sky-facing, fragrant hybrid lily first bred in California in 1974
Lilium 'Stargazer' · Garden flower
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
SnapdragonAntirrhinum
Garden flowers with dragon-shaped blooms that open when squeezed
🇩🇪 Germany and 4 more · Garden flower
Common snapdragonAntirrhinum majus
A tall garden flower with dragon-shaped blooms that open when squeezed
🇫🇷 France and 2 more · Garden flower
Adey abebaBidens macroptera
The yellow eight-petalled flower of Ethiopia’s New Year
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Wildflower
Miltonia
Medium-large Brazilian orchids with showy, long-lasting flowers
🇧🇷 Brazil and 2 more · Orchid
China asterCallistephus chinensis
A showy garden flower from China with many colorful cultivated forms
🇨🇳 China and 2 more · Garden flower
Stephanotis floribunda
A tropical vine with clusters of fragrant white, waxy flowers from Madagascar
🇲🇬 Madagascar · Climber
Globe amaranthGomphrena globosa
A round-flowered annual grown for its lasting, colorful blooms
🇬🇹 Guatemala and 4 more · Wildflower
Garden cosmosCosmos bipinnatus
A tall annual with feathery leaves and pink, purple or white daisy-like flowers
🇲🇽 Mexico and 7 more · Wildflower
Big Bend bluebonnetLupinus havardii
A tall bluebonnet from the deserts and mountains of Texas and Chihuahua
Lupinus havardii · Wildflower
Purple coneflowerEchinacea purpurea
A North American wildflower with purple-pink petals and a spiny central cone
🇺🇸 United States · Wildflower
Curled OncidiumOncidium alexandrae
A cool-growing Colombian orchid with crisped white or rose flowers
🇨🇴 Colombia · Orchid
Tasmanian waratahTelopea truncata
A red-flowered shrub or small tree from Tasmania’s highlands
🇦🇺 Australia · Flowering shrub
Pink Mulla MullaPtilotus exaltatus
A spiky pink wildflower from Australia’s dry interior
🇦🇺 Australia · Wildflower
Garden rose
The classic ornamental flowering shrub of gardens worldwide
🇨🇳 China and 7 more · Garden flower
Hybrid tea rose
The classic long-stemmed garden and cut rose with high-centred blooms
🇫🇷 France · Garden flower
Papilionanthe Miss Joaquim
The national orchid of Singapore, known for year-round blooming
🇸🇬 Singapore · Garden flower
Tulip treeLiriodendron
A tall deciduous tree with tulip-shaped flowers and four-lobed leaves
🇨🇳 China and 1 more · Flowering tree
KouCordia subcordata
A coastal flowering tree with orange blooms and buoyant fruit
🇦🇺 Australia and 7 more · Flowering tree
Brodiaea
A group of corm-growing lily-like flowers from western North America
🇺🇸 United States and 1 more · Bulb flower
Alpine roseRosa pendulina
A nearly thornless wild rose with deep pink blooms from Europe’s high mountains
🇧🇬 Bulgaria and 2 more · Wildflower
Nematanthus
A trailing Brazilian plant with pouch-shaped flowers that resemble goldfish
🇧🇷 Brazil and 1 more · Garden flower
Japanese irisIris ensata
A tall, rhizomatous iris with bluish-purple flowers and yellow-marked falls
🇯🇵 Japan and 3 more · Garden flower
Spanish broomSpartium junceum
A tall shrub with rush-like stems and fragrant yellow flowers
🇵🇪 Peru and 6 more · Flowering shrub
Baby's breathGypsophila paniculata
A cloud of tiny white summer flowers used in bouquets and gardens
🇨🇳 China and 4 more · Herb or useful flower
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Rose: User:Tigerente, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Plumeria: Renesis, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Spanish broom: Hans Hillewaert, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Baby's breath: PiPi, Public domain, source
- Showy stonecrop: André Karwath aka Aka, CC BY-SA 2.5, source
- German iris: Za, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Common red bottlebrush: DirkHoffmann, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Cornflower: TeunSpaans, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Lily: Denis Barthel, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Anemone: Aviad2001, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Peony: Taken by Fanghong, CC BY 2.5, source
- Holywood: Mangostar, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Arabian jasmine: Taken by Fanghong, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Flamingo Flower: Hatem Moushir, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- African violet: Kor!An (Корзун Андрей), CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Stephanotis: Lenore Edman, CC BY 2.0, source
- Doubtful knight's-spur: Alberto Salguero, 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
- Phlox: Atilin, Public domain, source
- Stargazer lily: The original uploader was Skarg at English Wikipedia ., CC BY 2.5, 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
- Snapdragon: Sabina Bajracharya, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Common snapdragon: Victor M. Vicente Selvas, Public domain, source
- Adey abeba: (c) Luke Lythgoe, some rights reserved (CC BY), CC BY 4.0, source
- Miltonia: Dalton Holland Baptista, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- China aster: Dalgial, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Globe amaranth: Photo by David J. Stang, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Garden cosmos: George Chernilevsky, CC BY 4.0, source
- Big Bend bluebonnet: Adbar, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Purple coneflower: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Curled Oncidium: Dick Culbert, CC BY 2.0, source
- Tasmanian waratah: JJ Harrison ( https://www.jjharrison.com.au/ ), CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Pink Mulla Mulla: Photograph by d3j4vu, CC BY 3.0, source
- Garden rose: Laitche, Public domain, source
- Hybrid tea rose: A. Barra, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Papilionanthe Miss Joaquim: Calvin Teo ., CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Tulip tree: Bruce Marlin, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Kou: Tauʻolunga, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Brodiaea: Stan Shebs, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Nematanthus: KENPEI, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Japanese iris: Laitche, CC BY-SA 3.0, source