Jo-Ann's Corner: Your Best Guide to Flowers in Auckland

🌸 Birth Flowers, Birthstones & Star Signs – A Fun NZ Guide

Guide by Best Blooms – Auckland’s local florist. Learn about birth flowers, NZ native blooms, and birthstones by month.Have you ever wondered what your birth flower is — or which birthstone matches your star sign? Here’s a fun chart that lists each month alongside its star signs and symbols, traditional birth flowers, and birthstones. New Zealanders, take note: when birth flowers by month were first set, they followed the Northern Hemisphere’s seasons. So while it’s fascinating to explore these floral traditions from the Southern hemisphere, remember that our Kiwi seasons bloom differently down under in Aotearoa.

When are my Favourite Flowers in Season in New Zealand?

Planning flowers for a Wedding or a Special Event? This helpful guide from the Auckland florists at Best Blooms, will help you choose the best fresh flowers, based on seasonal availability in New Zealand. PLUS a handy Calendar List of the N.Z. Flower Seasons from January - December.

Rose Colour Meanings - White Roses meaning, Yellow Roses, Pink Roses Symbolize

What does that Rose Colour symbolize? I want to give her Roses - but not Red. What colour Rose means I Like You? What do White Roses mean? What is the symbolism of Pink Roses? Do Yellow Roses mean Jealousy? Read more about the Meaning of Rose Colours here...

Traditional Wedding Anniversary Gifts by Year

When you are looking for Wedding Anniversary gift ideas, whether for parents, aunties and uncles or close friends. Often people start with the traditional Anniversary gifts by year, as a place for inspiration for the perfect present.Here is the list of anniversaries from the 1st Anniversary till the 10th and then 20th, 25th, 30th, 40th, 50th and 60th Wedding Anniversary gifts.

What is the Meaning of Different Flowers?

The Meaning of Flowers - What does that flower mean? Victorian secret language of flowers, used to convey secret messages between lovers, all with the coded flowers they used in their symbolic tussie-mussie flower posies. Very romantic!

Which Flowers are Fragrant?

When choosing your fresh cut flowers, it is popular to send a sweet-smelling, scented bouquet. Flowers with a fragrance are romantic, seductive, and the aroma can conjure up happy memories, whenever you catch a whiff of the same lovely perfumed flower again.