Zodiac Flowers: Gemini
Did you know that there are 4 Gemini birth flowers? Lavender for charisma, lily of the valley for openness…read on to learn all about these flowers and how to grow them if you’re a Gemini!
If you were born between May 22 and June 21, then you’re a Gemini. Gemini is represented by the twins, ruled over by the planet Mercury, and represents the element of air.
Geminis are excellent at gathering information, making social connections, and exploring the world with childlike wonder and curiosity. You’re likely to be quite talkative and pick up languages and social customs with ease. But because you adapt so well, others may feel that they never know who you actually are. Is what they see really you or what you’re pretending to be? You may contribute to this problem by being evasive.
Here are 4 Gemini birth flowers and their meanings!
Lily of the Valley for Openness
Lily of the Valley symbolises simplicity, innocence, and openness, like seeing the world with child-like curiosity or nurturing your beginner’s mind. This describes the strength of Geminis to a tee. When you’re able to see like a beginner, you can expand your horizons beyond what you thought was possible.
In the language of flowers, Lily of the Valley means a return to happiness or humility. With your gift with people and ability to learn and adapt, you could become quite arrogant — but that’s unlikely to make you any friends. Use Lily of the Valley as a reminder to keep some humility along with pride in your abilities.
To grow this reminder in your garden, you don’t actually need much. They love partial shade and moist soil, but get along with full sun to full shade, or even dry. Plant in the late fall.
As all parts are toxic when ingested, take care when using it as a floral arrangement around pets and children. They’re a pretty adaptable flower, working well with many other flowers or as a simple arrangement on its own.
Lavender For Charisma
You never see one lavender flower alone. Even one stem contains many flowers, and a lavender plant keeps growing more stems. Like lavender, you’re rarely alone as you’re great at making friends. You’re both full of charisma and charm. There’s nothing that says “I got to go there” like a lavender field at sunset.
Representing silence and serenity, this flower also reminds you that even though you love being surrounded by friends or studying the world, you still need time to relax by yourself. Once you’ve rested and given your mind time to process, you’ll be even better at your pursuits.
To bring lavender into your garden, pick up seedlings from a garden centre or challenge yourself by growing them from seed (the difficulty may appeal to you as a Gemini). If you have mild winters, you can plant them directly into a garden bed, but they also thrive in containers.
As a cut flower, you can either use fresh lavender flowers or dry them for a bouquet that will last for years.
Daffodil for Hope
Like Lily of the Valley, daffodils represent rebirth and new beginnings as its one of the first perennials to bloom in the spring. It symbolises your beginner’s mind and the childlike wonder and curiosity you have as a Gemini when facing the world.
Their bright white, cheery yellow, and orange hues brighten up the garden wherever you go, just as you brighten up your friends’ day.
In China, they’re believed to bring good luck and prosperity. Cancer research organisations use the yellow daffodil as a symbol of hope to find cures. (The ability to learn quickly, taking a fresh look, and processing that information into real-world uses would certainly come in handy for that.) There’s even a variety called Gemini Girl!
To bring cheer and good luck to your garden, plant these perennial bulbs in the fall in clusters. When winter passes, they’ll pop right up.
Plant one of these 4 Gemini birth flowers for yourself or brighten up your favourite Gemini’s day with a bouquet.
Chrysanthemum for Cherishing
As a Gemini, you’re great at making friends and talking with a lot of different people. And while some may claim that having too many friends means those relationships must be superficial, that doesn’t have to be true. Chrysanthemums represent long-lasting and truly meaningful friendship.
Chrysanthemums also represent positive energy. Giving a bouquet of chrysanthemums will cheer up a despondent friend. Likewise, Gemini are full of childlike joy and delight, seeing the wonder in everyday minutia and bringing joy and ease to relationships. In North America, they represent longevity and love, and are a great flower to give friends suffering or recovering from illness.
To bring this cheerful energy to your garden, either start them indoors during the winter or direct sow in mid-September to October. In mild climates, with a little winter insulation, they will come back year after year.
For a bouquet, you can go with just chrysanthemums or match them with roses and lilies, or other large flowers.