Daisies are among the most well-known and popular flowers of all, as well they might be: who can resist the simple, cheerful, sunny faces and delicate petals of a fresh bouquet of them? Charming harbingers of spring, daisies will bring a smile to anyone’s day.
Daisies, Daisies, and More Daisies – Yellow Daisies In A Basket
Yellow Daisies In A Basket

Daisies have long been associated with youth and purity….hence the phrase “fresh as a daisy”. Wedding bouquets with daisies would certainly be appropriate for a young bride or her attendants. In Victorian times, when hidden meanings were associated with many flowers (see our June 2003 FSN Newsletter about “The Symbolic Meanings of Flowers”), daisies signified innocence and gentleness. Perhaps it is these qualities which makes them such good fortune-tellers (“…she loves me, she loves me not…”)! Today of course, we often think of sending daisies whenever we want to cheer someone up.

The flowers which are most often sold as daisies in modern flower shops are usually a daisy-flowered type of spray chrysanthemum, or “daisy pompon” as it’s known in the trade. Occurring with several flowers to the stem, these daisy pompons are sturdier and longer lasting than traditional Marguerite daisies, and they’re available in a wide range of colors and sizes. Gerbera daisies, originally native to South Africa, have become enormously popular in recent years, and they’re being used in everything from casual vase arrangements to sophisticated wedding bouquets. Hybridizers have succeeded in developing gerbera daisies in a tremendous variety of sizes, textures, and colors; there is a gerbera which will coordinate with virtually any decorating scheme or wedding theme.

As always, your local professional florist can guide you in selecting the right daisies for the right occasion. Buy them for yourself or for someone else…no one could ever send a bad message with daisies. Just please don’t eat them! But that’s a tale for another day.

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