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| Easter Celebrations : Easter Flowers |
Easter flower bouquet makes an excellent gift during Easter festival. Read on to know about Easter flower basket.
The festival of Easter heralds the advent of spring and as such Mother
Nature blooms with the myriad hues of gorgeous spring flowers. After the
gloom of the cold winter months, it is time to welcome back the tulips,
crocuses, daffodils, and white lilies in all their pristine elegance.
Thus in tune with the spring festivity, people exchange Easter flower
bouquets and the church altars are decorated with Easter flowers.
Easter flower baskets with flower arrangements of hyacinths, tulips and
other seasonal flowers in spring colors, decorated with Easter bunnies,
toys, and chocolates become very popular in this spring festival. Little
girls wearing Easter bonnets is another popular Easter tradition.
Bonnets are created with fresh cut or silk flowers, ribbons, laces and
even tiny stuffed toys.
Among the multitude of spring flowers, the white lily is the
traditional Easter flower and is considered the symbol of the
resurrection of Christ. The large, pure white blooms of the Easter
Lilies are symptomatic of the pure new life that comes through the
Resurrection of Jesus. Today some churches are decorated on Easter
morning with white lilies in remembrance of the loved ones, who passed
away.
Easter flowers have different connotations in different regions. In the
UK and Russia, the pussy willow is the Easter Flower. In the Southern
France and northern Italy, the most popular Easter flowers are
narcissuses. In Germany, bouquets made of red flowers are popular in
Easter time as they symbolize the God's blood.
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