Learn the Wishes of Classic Chinese New Year Flowers Before you Shop at the Flower Market

Decorating homes with auspicious flowers and giving flower gifts is an important tradition of the Chinese New year. Blooming spring flower arrangement can brighten the room and attract good fortune. In this article, we will introduce the wishes classic new year flowers carry to help you quickly settle flower decoration for this year. We will also recommend our original flower arrangement featuring the year of dragon. Shop at the flower market with us and bring home your sincere best wishes.

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Big Incurved Chrysanthemum

Big Incurved chrysanthemum indicates an exciting new year just like the  hot red and purple color. They have big corolla, and the color is generally bright peach or purple. The dense and tender petals cluster cluster and form a ball, presenting the puffy and ample appearance. Big incurved chrysanthemums symbolize good luck and everything going well. Due to the bright and eye-catchy colors and vibrant vitality, many people place them in the center of the new year flower arrangement.

Peony

Peony was ever referred to as the national flower in ancient China. In the glorious Tang Dynasty, peonies were planted throughout the capital city Chang'an. A poem was wrote to praise peony and reflect it to the peaceful society "Peony is the true national color and its stunning blooming amaze everyone in the city." An idiom was created to describe the beauty of peony and also to imply women with similar quality: Modest aroma from the heaven and gesture of nobility and elegance. Many New Year posters and Chinese ink paintings depict peonies, as they represent a comfortable life and prosperous society. Placing peonies during the New Year wishes for big profit in business, wealth and peaceful and comfortable environment.

Nipple Fruit

Nipple Fruit is an evergreen herbaceous plant, featured with five pocket-shape lumps on the fruit. Its Chinese name is “five generation

at the same home”. In Cantonese, "bags" sounds similarly to "generation", and "five generations in the same home" refers to the longevity of the elderly and the birth of offspring. There is also a saying in Hong Kong that "prepare money bags to carry a ton of money". Nipple fruit has 5 money pockets, so that it’s considered a wealth-capturing mascot. Nipple fruit is often made potted plants, cut branches full of fruit and floral arrangement with various other flower kinds.

Phalaenopsis Orchid

Phalaenopsis orchids have petals like flapping butterfly wings, and it is also named butterfly orchid. Two casual hot-red paint spread make the  graceful petals, supported by slender yet tough branch. Phalaenopsis orchids always gives an impression of elegance and confidence. It has been a symbol of nobility and decent character. Whether it is displayed alone or arranged in a group, you can always feel calmness and peace with its presence. The new year Phalaenopsis orchid carries wishes of rich life, happy family, successful career and longevity. It is suitable for decorating homes and business premises and also a wonderful gift for family and friends.

Narcissus flower

Narcissus is a hydroponic flower with a sweet and and thin scent. The pure white petals wrap a tender yellow center, along with the flexible and hollow stem, contributing to an adorable and delicate appearance. To make a narcissus pot, first you lay pebbles at the bottom and then fix the narcissus root in the pebbles. Water should only submerge one-third of the root and allow the water fairy to grow freely above water surface. Narcissus has the power of purifying and removing negative spirit. People living in the south of China relate water to source of wealth, they usually place the narcissus pot in the southwest of a room, in the reception and on cash registers to gather wealth. Yet the flowering period of narcissus is as short as about a week, you shall calculate the flower time before you make the narcissus pot for the Chinese New Year.

Money Tree

Especially for businessman, they always set a pot of money tree in front of the door or in the entryway from New Year, which obviously means bringing in money. Besides, the vital green plants with moist and strong leaves could add a touch of spring to the house. Money tree adapts well to indoor environment, it can live for 3-5 years or more under proper condition. Money trees are easy to maintain and do not require frequent watering. Not only homes, but also office entrance and hallway of the shopping malls could use some nice pots of auspicious money tree.

Oriental Lily/Casablanca

Many family buys casablanca for the new year. This large corolla with exquisite and clean shape can make beautiful flower arrangements. In addition, light pink and bright yellow easily match other flowers and adds to the joyful atmosphere. The longer appreciation period is another advantage of casablanca. From the Chinese name you could tell that they symbolize a harmonious new year with everything going as you hope.

New Year Citrus Potted Plants

Buying New Year potted citrus plants is another major custom to celebrate the New Year. The golden citrus has both "gold" and "good luck" in it, symbolizing rolling in wealth and good fortune. The refreshing green plants full of golden fruits serve a great messenger of spring. It’s traditional to place potted citrus plants at homes, hotel entrances, in office buildings, restaurants, shopping mall corridors and on counters. However, the natural plant needs pruning for desired shape and size. People hang new year decorations on the potted citrus such as twin carps, Year-of-the-dragon mascot and auspicious couplets. Interestingly, they hang red pocket with money inside on the plant, symbolizing "money harvests from tree". Children undertake to buy potted citrus for their aged parents since selecting and carrying the heavy potted plant is difficult work. People send potted citrus to their family, friend and business partners as wish gifts too. 

Peach Blossom Tree

Peach blossom is believed to be beneficial for promoting attraction and popularity, also it may increase customer flow. The pronunciation of "red peach" is the same as “Bright future”, that’s why people, especially businessmen, are accustomed to setting a large peach blossom tree in the living room, restaurants and office. Dense peach blossoms on the tree give delicate look with beautiful pink color. It’s the perfect spot where you hang the new year decoration and colorful light bulb chains on.

Silver Willow Branch

The pronunciation of the silver willow is the same as "money proceeds". People display colored or silver willow branch at home to incur wealth growth. You will be surprised how common it is that plants are endowed with wealth-related wishes, which is largely owing to Hong kong people’s respect for nature. Resilient vitality of plants is compared to the generation of money, hoping wealth to keep growing. The silver willow branch has a strong adaptability to the environment, you may treat it as dry flower and simply put it in a vase, it does not even require water. The appreciation period of the silver willow branch is generally over three months.

How to Choose Fresh Flowers for the Chinese New Year?

To be secure, you shall arrange flower shopping around 4 days before the Chinese new year, so that flowers can remain alive through the first day of the new year and even survive the entire spring festival. If the temperature gets warm during CNY, you shall select semi-open flower buds to prevent premature flowering. If the temperature tends to become cool, take fully blooming ones instead. Check the flowers from crown to root and avoid those with brown patches on their petals or significantly yellowed leaves. Flowers with thin petals require sufficient water and flowers with hollow stems should be placed in high bottle to prevent bending.

Give Gift Boutique Flower Design for Year of the Dragon

Carp Becomes Dragon Flower Arrangement

The assorted CNY flower arrangement series features combination and match of abundant colors. As you could see in this style Carp Becomes Dragon, blooming casablanca, bright-purple mokora and lively green leaves are fused to depict the hope of spring, matching with Chinese-style vermilion round pot with golden ”福” character(a lucky charm in China). Cymbidiums in nice outline are carefully selected to shape an arch with ascending tendency, recreating the scene that a carp thrust out of water with all its endeavor and the perfect curve. As we all know, the carp finally succeeded to leap over the Golden Gate and became a divine dragon. This legend represents that people eventually perform their talent in the suitable field and achieve breakthroughs in career and academy.

A Happy Blessed Home

The style A Happy Blessed Home is a floral pagoda built with layers of nipple fruit, aka the five generation at the same home fruit. The more layers of the pagoda and the more pieces of fruit symbolize the more blessings. Nipple fruit carries wishes of earning big money, the pagoda of nipple fruit is also considered as a tower of gold, representing the home filled with lots of wealth. A bunch of colored willow branch create the auspicious arch on top, complemented by Chinese accessories to add festive atmosphere of the New Year.

Spring Light Glow

The Lunar New Year is the beginning of a year and also the season for the earth to rejuvenate. The Spring Light Glow flower arrangement combines large casablanca, dazzling purple mokora, and delicate hot pink carnation, each competing with their aggressive beauty amid the blooming cluster. The silhouette form by a variety of flowers requires excellent skills of material implementation. Free lines of branches are incurved for sense of space. Spring returns to the earth, we shall embrace this cheering moment and fill our home with vitality and beauty.

Dragon Ball Potted Citrus

In the Year-of-the-Dragon theme potted citrus plant, the big citrus plays the precious Dragon ball which will make every wish come true. In Chinese culture, a crouching dragon is a sign of blessing, while the golden fruit sounds similar to gold and good luck. The firework shape golden confetti represents prosperity and happiness wherever the dragon is. It’s a traditional and auspicious new year decoration.

Stars and Spring Water

Inspired by the poetry collection “Starry and Spring Water”, this flower arrangement presents the gentle and silently nourishing side of the spring. Oriental lilies, champagne-purple orchids, pink lisianthus, light pink forget-me-not and matching leaves contribute to the low-saturation main color tune and warm sense. Exquisite yellow freesia, purple mokora, and fushia rose scatter and adorn the stream of flower, with slender lining branches casually inserted. The assorted flowers display charm of elegance and together compile a poem of spring. In the peaceful time, life is rich and comfortable. Everything will naturally develop the way as you wish.

Dragon Dance Impression

Dragon Dance Impression is designed to celebrate the year of the dragon. It uses graceful colored silver willow branches to shape the majestic and fluffy mane of dragon, the ambitious cymbidium to shape the domineering dragon horn, cut waxflowers as the dragon eyebrows and whiskers, and make the dragon head and mouth with curvy lining leaves. The active dragon dance floral arrangement has an auspicious meaning of welcoming blessing and epiphany. The New Year decorations hanging between the silver willows adds more dynamism to the design.

Every year, we create new year flower decoration and potted citrus plant adopting elements of art and tradition, promising you surprising selections each year. All of our original indoor and outdoor floral arrangements are meticulously crafted with fresh flowers of the day by our sophisticated florist, striving to fully interpret the design. To decorate homes, office, hotels and restaurants, or send flower gifts, you could simply order online through our complete shopping platform and have your ideal floral decoration delivered to door. Celebrate the new year with our instinct and auspicious flower arrangement.