Christmas is a winter festival and green indicates the hope that spring will return and reign victorious over winter. (Yay green) Green is associated with the tall evergreens, which symbolizes triumph, longevity and immortality. It is the color, which signifies the abundant providence of nature in the woods and in the fields. It brings us joy, love, and tranquility.
Green is the season of spring, which brings life, but winter brings death. So during Christmas people welcome this color with the hope that spring will return. Each Christmas flower has a particular significance and a role to play. Each of the flowers signifies peace, love and prosperity. So association of flowers likes Christmas rose , Holly , Ivy and Mistletoe all have a special significance.
During the Roman winter festival of Saturnalia, Romans decorated with and gave gifts of green plants, such as holly, for good luck. Green is also considered lucky in the Islamic tradition where green gifts may be given on any morning to wish someone a lucky day. Green has also been associated with justice, freedom, kindness, sympathy, charity, gaiety, and peace. The festival of Christmas is all about celebrating life and mankind and the color of green symbolizes that celebration.
Each day going forward I am going to post about an important Christmas flower and it's meaning. I hope you stay tuned to find out the significance of your families favorite Christmas flower tradition. Whether you know it or not each family does have a Christmas flower/fauna tradition. This seems especially true to me here in New England where family, home and tradition are still the bedrock of our lives.
I would love to invite you to come into our shop and stroll through all of the beauty of Christmas. We are located directly across the street from the South Hadley High School at 300 Newton St. (Rte. 116)
South Hadley, MA 01075. 413-536-0444 or at www.careysflowers.com but online you do miss the beauty of the shop and all of the happy people that work here and would love to help you pick out that special something for that special someone.
Another reason you should stop in....we are our OWN tradition our family has been happily serving your family/families since 1912. Can you do the math? that's 98 years on Jan 1st 2011 we will be in our 99th year of family flowers.