For my Mother
Blooms for May and Mothers (sasanqua camellia in my garden)
and the Mother in all of us on Mother’s Day, 2014.
The Cradle
Berthe Morisot (January 14, 1841 – March 2, 1895)
White sasanqua camellia for the Mother in all of us
For a short history on Mother’s Day and the older celebration of Mothering Sunday click here.
And click here to read the 1914 proclamation of Mother’s Day by Woodrow Wilson, and for the history of Mother’s Day in the US click here. Mother’s Day founder Anna Jarvis fought against its commercialisation and died penniless. Her white flower of choice for Mother’s Day was the carnation.
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