This year we're celebrating life in the roaring twenties! As part of that celebration, we're looking into birthday flowers, which are the flowers that are associated with the month in which a person was born. Birthday flowers have symbolic meanings attached to them (Floriography is the art of communicating a message through the flowers given to another person). The message may be in the flower itself, and for some flowers, the color of the flower.
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| July - Water Lily (San Francisco Conservancy) |
For July, the birthday flower is the water lily, which symbolizes Birth and Resurrection, Purity and Majesty, and Enlightenment. In case that isn't weighty enough, the color of the flower can also send a message, such as:
- White - purity and mental purity
- Purple - power
- Red - pure love, passion, romance, wealth
- Blue - the power of knowledge, calm, wisdom, recovery
- Pink - joy, youth, friendship
- Yellow - energy, good health, new starts
- Green - growth, money, family
- Orange - power, fun success
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| Water lily at the MCConnell Arboretum and Botanical Garden |
Water lilies (Nymphaeaceae spp.) are a family of flowering plants that live as rhizomatous aquatic herbs in temperate and tropical climates. Water lilies are rooted in soil in bodies of water, with leaves and flowers floating on the surface. The leaves are round, with a radial notch in some species (Nymphaea and Nuphar), but fully circular in other species (Victoria and Euryale). They are perennials and are pollinated by beetles.
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| Water lily at the McConnell Arboretum and Botanical Garden |
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