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Mother's Day - Why is the Daffodil Associated With it?

• Published 11/03/2021

When you think of Mother’s Day, you think of the daffodil. But why is that? Is it as simple a reason as the fact Mother’s Day falls around the start of spring, or is there more to it; has it taken on a life of its own?

In today’s blog I’m going to take a look into how the association between flower and event has sprung up (pun intended).

Where does the association between Mother’s Day and daffodils come from?

There are multiple theories as to where the long-standing tradition of gifting a mother daffodils for Mother’s Day comes from. Some have reported that the practice arises from children picking the flowers and giving them to their mothers at church hundreds of years ago - which of course makes sense as Mother’s Day is celebrated on a Sunday.

Of course, the mind also turns to the fact that the celebration of mums across the globe falls at the start of spring, a season which is also associated with the daffodil, as it is one of the first flowers to bloom and one of the most colourful too.

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The popularity of daffodils around Mother’s Day has been known to lead to problems. In 2013, The Telegraph reported on a shortage of the colourful flower around the holiday, which led to retailers struggling to meet the demand of children buying last-minute floral gifts for their mothers.

And as with every tradition - Coronavirus has had an effect. This year, many companies are offering a service where they deliver a bouquet of flowers to the doorstep of the customer’s mum. Of course in usual times mothers will want to see their children, but this is a way to bring some of the usual joy to their day whilst also keeping them safe. At least this time next year it’ll be back to normal (fingers crossed!)

Did you know that you are able to place a Mother’s Day message in many of our papers? If you go to bookanad.com and select which paper you’d like it to feature in, you can compose a special message for your mum to appear in the paper, another perfect solution for this socially-distanced Mother’s Day.

Thanks for taking the time to read today’s blog on Mother’s Day, daffodils and of course Coronavirus, I hope you have found it interesting. For more blogs on similar subjects, please visit funeral-notices.co.uk/blog.