In the twelfth month of the year is the season we all love, you can feel the joy in the air as Christmas draws near. And nothing equals the feeling you get from giving and receiving flowers and gifts in keeping with the traditions of the season. In a story about Jesus’s birth it was flowers bought by two young children that outweighed all the fancy gifts carried by the three Wise men. Along the years certain flowers and arrangements have come to be linked with Christmas.
Poinsettia
Undoubtedly ‘The’ Christmas flower is also known as the ‘Christmas star’. There is interesting trivia about how it came to be so inextricably linked with Christmas. A Mexican legend has it that a child who could not afford to offer a gift to Christ on Christmas Eve, plucked some weeds growing wild from the side of a road. When the weeds were brought into the Church, they bloomed into exotic green and red flowers and the congregation was convinced that they had seen a Christmas miracle. It reaffirmed their belief that a humble gift given with love would always be acceptable in God’s eyes. Poinsettias have been used for ages as a Christmas floral decoration because of it s striking red display.
Christmas Holly
Hollies are a very popular Christmas flower. The Holly tree is believed to be the tree of Christ’s cross. While the other trees in the forests defied this defilement by splintering into smithereens at the touch of an axe, the Holly allowed itself to be cut and molded into a cross. Since then the flower has become a symbol of the Passion of Christ and is used as a Christmas decoration so that people may look at it and reflect upon that Passion. German’s refer to holly as ‘Christdorn’ because they believe that a painful crown of Holly branches was woven around Christ’s head. That is where the Holly berries are said to have got there color, it is believed that they use to be white but Christ’s blood left them with a permanent Crimson stain.
Christmas Wreath
Wreaths are an essential part of Christmas decorations. From large corporate establishments to single individual homes, Wreaths are a joyous sight throughout the season. Wreaths are symbolic of the crown of thorns placed on Christ’s head and his subsequent resurrection. To add color to the Christmas wreaths flowers like poinsettias, and holly are used. Colonists used pomegranates that indicated wealth and prosperity. Other items used to decorate Christmas Wreaths are seashells, pinecones and trinkets. Different cultures have different traditions weaved around the Wreaths, including the very colloquial lighting of the Christmas candle placed in the center of a wreath to indicate the birth of Our Lord.
Other flowers like the Ivy, honeysuckle, pinecones and Christmas berries too are popular Christmas flowers.
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