Bring in the New Year in style with our favourite flowers to celebrate the occasion.
It’s the season for parties, resolutions, and new beginnings! Whether you want to brighten up your home for a New Year’s Eve party, or send your best wishes to loved ones for the year ahead, a bunch of flowers is a lovely way to celebrate.
Keep reading to find out the best flowers to bring in the New Year.
Amaryllis
Amaryllis are more typically associated with Christmas, but they’re great for the New Year too. These showy winter blooms symbolise determination, success, and strength, making them a great way to express your hopes and optimism for the year ahead, especially if you’re setting some tough resolutions! They’re long-lasting as well, meaning any Christmas amaryllis might still be going strong well into the New Year!
Lilies
Lush, fragrant lilies look fabulous in every bouquet. Their irresistible scent means they’re the perfect way to freshen up your home for the New Year. There’s plenty of colours to choose from too – white lilies are classics, and also happen to be the most fragrant, but we love orange ones as a symbol for the New Year. They symbolise energy and confidence, making them a lovely and inspiring pick-me-up to start your year the right way.
Roses
Roses are renowned for their elegance and beauty, making them a perfect choice to usher in the New Year. Red roses work wonderfully with Christmas decorations and colour schemes; try them with golden foliage and pinecones for a beautiful festive look. Alternatively, white roses signify purity and new beginnings, making them a fitting symbol for the start of a new year.
Chrysanthemums
Chrysanthemums are available in a staggering number of colours and varieties, making them one of the most versatile flowers for bouquets. Red chrysanthemums are perfect for a traditional festive look, but we also love lime green chrysanthemums for an eye-catching pop of verdant colour.
Chrysanthemums are also incredibly long-lasting – often lasting two weeks or more – meaning they’ll brighten up gloomy January days well beyond the New Year. They also symbolise loyalty, optimism and longevity, making them the perfect way to express your hopes for a happy and prosperous year.
Carnations
Carnations are one of the rare flowers able to bloom in winter, and fittingly they’re January’s birth flower, making them an apt choice for a New Year bouquet. Their main meanings are beauty and fascination, but these versatile flowers come in a variety of colours, each with their own meanings. White carnations symbolise luck and purity, so they’re a lovely symbol of good fortune for the New Year, whilst red carnations are a classic festive choice and represent love and affection. For a more unusual pick, opt for purple carnations, which signify creativity and success – perfect for anyone’s who got big plans for the year.
Daffodils
Daffodils are one of the first signs that spring is on its way, with the earliest flowers blooming in late winter. These happy flowers are the perfect pick-me-up for dreary days, and they symbolise new beginnings, rebirth, and renewal, making them one of the most fitting choices for a New Year bouquet. Yellow daffodils are the obvious option, but fragrant paperwhites are a fantastic option if you loved scented flowers!
Tulips
Tulips can bloom as early as January (if the weather cooperates!), and these joyful spring blooms are always an instant mood-booster. They’re available in a whole rainbow of colours, all with their own meanings. Yellow tulips symbolise happiness and optimism, whilst pink ones represent care and confidence, making them ideal flowers for New Year bouquets. If you’re hoping for a quiet year ahead, white tulips work too, as they are symbols of peace and purity.
Hyacinths
If you’re starting your spring cleaning early this year, hyacinths are the perfect finishing touch. They’re gorgeously fragrant, and their elegant spires of blooms look striking in any floral arrangement. They’re also fitting symbols for the New Year, as they represent peace, constancy, sincerity, and love.
Looking for the perfect New Year gift? Celebrate with our range of beautiful bouquets paired with prosecco, chocolates, wine, and more.
