January birthday flowers
Birthday flowers for January: Carnation, Snowdrop
Carnation represents pride, beauty, admiration and gratitude; the carnation’s multilayered, feathery soft petals conceal a hardy core – an appropriate paradox for this first-month-of-the-year flower. Originally from Asia, where they’ve been cultivated for the last 2,000 years, today this winter birth flower is a richly colorful and fragrant gem.
People who are born during this month have carnation as their birthday flower. Carnation buds symbolize deep love and eternal fidelity.
Individuals born between December 22 and January 20 are believed to have these traits.
Prudent and practical - these are traits associated with the goat sign. Their birth flower includes African violet, ivy, jasmine, holly, snowdrop, and kentia palm.
Capricorns come under the Earth Sign, they are hard-working, ambitious, respectable
Capricorn Flowers & Plants are: statice, holly, African violet, ivy, philodendron, kentia palm, snowdrop, jasmine.
The carnation is the January birth flower. Carnations have been cultivated for the last 2,000 years. Originally from the East, these hardy and fragrant flowers have the flower meaning of pride, beauty, fascination, love and distinction. They are now associated with January as the January birth flower.
About Carnation- January birth flower
The carnation is a pretty birth flower that can be dyed in any color. Carnations have a pleasant smell unlike some cut flowers with no fragrance. Worldwide, the carnation is the top producing crop in floriculture. The carnation also known as dianthus and maiden pink. This January birth flower is derived from Greek words that mean "flower of the gods". The carnation has many meanings depending on the color it takes. A white carnation has the flower meaning of friendship, a pink one romance, red carnation for love, striped carnation for refusal and yellow for disdain. On Mother’s Day wear a pink carnation to honor a living mother, or a white carnation to remember a mother that has passed on.
The carnation is a very ornamental plant. It is widely cultivated in the flower garden. This January birth flower is grown commercially in France for its oil. The Latin name for carnation is dianthus which means "divine flower". The carnation is a tall flower growing one to three feet high. The carnation plant usually has many lightly smelling sweet blossoms. The carnation is used by some for protection, strength and healing. In Spain the carnation is the main flower in many religious celebrations and national festivals.
