April Birth Flower Meaning: Daisies & Sweet Peas

In April, spring begins to bloom; flowers sprout, the sun shines warmer, and garden colors dot the landscape with beautiful floral blooms. With winter fading, like the sun parting the clouds on a cold and dark day, we are drawn out of our homes to bask in the spring weather, but we are not alone!

Daisies and sweet peas are joining us under the full sun! Like traditional birthstones, April's birth flowers, the daisy and the sweet pea, carry a special symbolic meaning.

Both flowers pull double duty. Daisies and sweet peas work as new baby flowers just as well as they do for birthdays, and our birthday flower delivery is hand-arranged and delivered by a local florist near your recipient.

The Daisy

One of April's birth flowers is the daisy, known by its scientific name Bellis perennis, part of the aster family. Daisies symbolize purity, innocence, new beginnings, young love, and the blissful pleasure that is the coming of spring. In literature, daisies are described opening at dawn to bask in the sunlight, then closing again at dusk.

The daisy is aptly named by its old English moniker, the day's eye. It blooms in various colors: most notably in petals of white, pink, red, purple, orange, and yellow. They can have both a black and a yellow center.

You may have heard other, more creative names for the daisy, such as bruisewort and woundwort. The flower earned those names for its purported medicinal properties; wild daisies and the English daisy were used in traditional herbal medicine to treat wounds and everyday ailments. No matter the name, these blossoms are beautiful in their simplicity.

The Daisy in History

The daisy has captured people's imaginations for centuries with its resilient nature and purported medical benefits. It grew in Egyptian gardens for medicinal and decorative purposes, and its blooms steeped into medicinal teas across temperate regions.

So the daisy has been helping us for thousands of years. In the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, healers believed the English daisy could treat a wide variety of diseases. One Tudor legend even claims King Henry VIII ate daisies to calm his stomach ulcers. Imagine a king munching on petals with every meal. Quite a choice of floral dessert if you ask us.

The Sweet Pea

Sweet peas are birth flowers that symbolize good wishes and happiness because of their sweet fragrance and vivid colors. Gifting sweet peas is known throughout the language of flowers as a thoughtful way to thank a friend, family member, or loved one and express appreciation because of its strong association with gratitude.

Wouldn't it be perfect to send a bouquet of these blooms to someone you appreciate? Consider a mix of colors whose sweetness balances gratitude and elegance.

The Sweet Pea in History

Sweet peas came to southern Italy in the 1600s and were identified by Sicilian naturalist Francesco Cupani. He is said to have sent seeds from sweet peas to Dr. Casper Commelin, a Dutch botanist who subsequently spread them across Europe.

Henry Eckford, a Scottish nurseryman, began breeding sweet pea hybrids in the early 1800s, turning a modest garden vine into a sensation. Eckford presented 115 unique sweet pea cultivars, more than half of the known cultivars at the time. Today, sweet peas are highly regarded for their color and sweet scent.

The Daisy and The Sweet Pea

April is a lovely time full of vibrant flowers, colors, and sweet scents, and daisies and sweet peas are notable in their own ways. Daisies reflect pure innocence with soft petals in white, pink, red, purple, orange, and yellow shades. Sweet peas bring joy through captivating aromas and colorful hues of blue, white, pink, red, and purple.

You'll find fresh daisy arrangements in our daisies collection, ready to carry the April look on their own or mixed with other spring stems.

One honest note from our designers: sweet peas are a short-season garden stem with a brief vase life, so they don't always make it into delivered arrangements. When they're out of season, we substitute blooms of equal or greater value, and daisies hold up year-round. Same-day orders just need to be placed by 2:00 PM Monday through Saturday, or noon on Sunday, in the recipient's local time zone.

What Do Daisies and Sweet Peas Say About April Babies?

The birth flowers, the daisy and the sweet pea, are connected to bliss, gratitude, and pleasure. This may indicate that those born in April are appreciative, gracious, and thankful for those within their lives, and they are not hesitant to express those feelings themselves. These birth flowers are an excellent gift for those who bring you joy and those who you appreciate.

Floral Highlight: Gerbera Daisies

As one of our most popular flowers at James Cress Florist, gerbera daisies are the perfect gift for brightening someone's day. Their long vase life and wide color range make them a gift that sticks around well past the birthday itself.

From bright whites to pastel pinks to deep oranges, reds, and purples, the gerbera daisy is hard to resist. It's one of the most popular cut flowers in the world for good reason.