15 Perfect Flowers to Celebrate a New Baby

Flowers are a perfect gift for a new baby celebration because they’re low-maintenance, and everyone loves them. This is an occasion to celebrate life and congratulate the new parents while showing your support and offering your best wishes. When such a momentous occasion occurs, this guide is here to help you pick the best types of flowers to gift for new baby celebrations.

The Best Types of Flowers to Give for New Baby Celebrations

Which different types of flowers make an excellent choice for new baby celebrations? In the Victorian language of flowers, also known as floriography, the following blossoms are synonymous with gestures of congratulations, joy, love, friendship, and more. Consider these for gifting for new baby celebrations:

1. Daisies

Daisies are sometimes considered to be simple flowers, but their uncomplicated beauty – a ring of white petals surrounding a sunny, golden center – is what makes them so cheerful. What’s more, daisies symbolize purity and innocence in addition to being associated with new beginnings, hope, happiness, fun, and affection. 

They are an excellent choice for a new baby bouquet, and they will look lovely on their own or mixed in with various other blossoms in pastel or vibrant colors. They are especially pretty mixed with the next flower on our list, daffodils.

2. Daffodils

Daffodils are a perfect choice for celebrating the birth of a new baby because, as some of the first flowers to bloom in springtime, they symbolize spring, new beginnings, new life, and birth. 

Plus, daffodils are some of the most cheerful-looking flowers around. Their trumpet-shaped blossoms bloom in bright shades of golden yellow paired with snowy white atop verdant green stalks. These are the perfect new baby gift on their own, included in a mixed bouquet, or potted in a cheerful container.

3. Chrysanthemums

Generally, chrysanthemums symbolize joy, optimism, longevity, and trust. They bloom in just about every color of the rainbow in various shapes and sizes. While any color of chrysanthemum will look lovely in a flower arrangement, green chrysanthemums are the most appropriate for celebrating a new baby because the color green symbolizes new life and new beginnings in addition to purity and innocence.

4. Baby’s Breath

These petite flowers aren’t just appropriate for a new baby bouquet in the name; they also have the perfect symbolic meanings: everlasting love and innocence. 

Baby’s breath is commonly included as accent flowers in bouquets of larger blooms, and they’re also a popular addition to dried arrangements. However, baby’s breath is also used in floral design, where these delicate white flowers add a lovely charm and nice sentiment to any floral gift.

5. Tulips

The traditional symbolic meaning of tulips is perfect and deep love, which is the exact emotion most parents describe feeling for their children, making tulips a fantastic choice for a new baby celebration gift. 

As with other flowers, different colors of tulips have different symbolic meanings, but all of these flowers are truly beautiful and cheerful in their appearance, and tulips in any color are an excellent option for celebrating a new life.

6. Carnations

Carnations are commonly included in floral designs because their attractively ruffled petals bloom in several colors, shades, and patterns. They are often thought to be some of the prettiest flowers out there. Generally, carnations symbolize love, fascination, strength, healing, and protection – all of which are lovely sentiments for celebrating the birth of a new baby with his or her parents.

7. Roses

The venerable rose is an excellent choice for celebrating just about any occasion, and they’re okay to give to anyone, too. Roses (especially red and pink ones) do, however, have some connotation with romantic love, which makes them the perfect gift for a new mother from the father of her child. After the birth of a new baby, fathers often give bouquets of roses to new mothers as a sign of devotion, appreciation, and love.

If you’re welcoming the new baby with a bouquet of roses, you can always go with a friendly yellow bouquet or traditional pink roses for a baby girl and blue roses (yes, there are blue roses) for a baby boy.

8. Hydrangeas

Like all flowers, the symbolic meaning of hydrangea flowers changes with the blossoms’ color. For a baby’s birth, the most appropriate choices are green (symbolizing new life, new beginnings, renewal, and rebirth), pink (representing love and admiration), white (symbolizing purity and innocence), and purple (symbolizing understanding and prosperity). Blue hydrangeas traditionally convey a heartfelt apology and forgiveness. However, they can still be appropriate when included in a bouquet for a new baby.

9. Stargazer Lilies

Stargazer lilies are mesmerizing flowers to behold. They’re stunning on their own and also lovely when showcased in a mixed bouquet. Like other flowers, the symbolic meaning of stargazer lilies changes depending on the color of the blooms. 

White stargazers symbolize purity and innocence, yellow stargazers symbolize joy, and pink stargazers symbolize abundance and prosperity. Any of these colors would present the perfect sentiment for celebrating a new baby, so why not go with a bouquet that includes all three?

10. Gerberas

Gerberas (also called gerbera daisies for their large, daisy-like blossoms) can add a splash of vibrant color to any floral arrangement or bouquet because their flowers feature all the warmest colors of the rainbow in highly saturated, eye-catching hues. 

Generally, gerberas symbolize loyal love, cheerfulness, innocence, and purity which are all wonderful symbolic sentiments for a new baby’s celebratory bouquet.

11. Larkspurs

Larkspurs have lovely cone-shaped racemes of delicate flowers that bloom in purple, blue, indigo, lavender, and pink shades. These flowers lend a pretty yet wild appeal to a bouquet of flowers, giving a floral arrangement a whimsical, just-picked-in-the-meadow look. Larkspurs are a nice choice for a new baby bouquet because they symbolize the strong bond of love, an open heart, grace, and positivity.

12. Peonies

In all their varied forms, Peonies are some of the most stunningly beautiful flowers in the world. The most popular types of peony flowers are full doubles and bomb forms that produce iconic, heavy, pom-pom-like blossoms in delicate shades of pink. 

Peonies, however, also blossom in other forms like single, double, and Japanese, and they bloom in many different colors. Peony flowers symbolize love and happiness in addition to beauty, wealth, honor, and romance – all blessings worthy of wishing upon a new baby.

13. Calla Lilies

Creamy-white calla lily flowers have elegant, gentle silhouettes that create stunning bouquets on their own and graceful accents to any mixed bouquet. Calla lilies symbolize purity, which is always appropriate in a floral arrangement for a new baby. Calla lilies also symbolize holiness and faith, making them equally perfect for recognizing a new baby’s baptism or christening celebration.

14. Gardenia

Gardenias are beautiful and have lovely white fragrant flowers (that will be welcome in a newly graced home with diaper changes). In addition to their striking beauty and sweet scent, gardenias symbolize purity and gentleness in the language of flowers, which go perfectly in a floral bouquet for a new baby. Mixed in with other blossoms or gifted on their own, gardenias will make a wonderful gift when you’re celebrating the beginning of a new life.

15. Birth Month Flowers

If you aren’t sure which type of flowers are best for celebrating a new baby, you can always send a bouquet of the flowers associated with the new baby’s birth month. These are the official birth month flowers:

The Official Birth Flower Calendar:

Month:	Birth Flower:	Meanings & Symbolism:
January:	Carnations & Snowdrop	Pink Carnations (love and appreciation), White Carnations (luck, love, and affection, Red Carnations (love and friendship). Snowdrop (hope and rebirth).
February:	Violet, Iris, and Primrose	Violets (faithful love, truth, loyalty, humility), Iris (hope, faith, passion, purity, and innocence), Primrose (affection, young love, undying affection)
March:	Daffodils	Daffodils (new beginnings, faithfulness, luck, prosperity, and hope)
April:	Daisy & Sweet Pea	Daisy (purity, love, new beginnings, fertility, and motherhood). Sweet Pea (blissful pleasure, gratitude).
May:	Lily of the Valley & Hawthorn	Lily of the Valley (romance, luck, happiness, purity, humility). Hawthorn (hope, love, beauty, fertility, and supreme happiness).
June:	Roses & Honeysuckle	Roses (love, passion, romance, purity, gratitude). Honeysuckle (happiness and eternal love).
July:	Larkspur & Water Lily	Larkspur (happiness, love); Water Lily (enlightenment, resurrection, purity, beauty, creation).
August:	Gladiolus & Poppy	Gladiolus (integrity, honor, respect); Poppy (remembrance, prosperity, enchantment, sympathy).
September:	Aster & Morning Glory	Aster (faith, love, achievement, and wisdom); Morning Glory (affection, intimate love, patience).
October:	Marigolds & Cosmos	Marigolds (devotion, commitment); Cosmos (harmony, love, innocence, beauty, modesty, joy, and balance).
November:	Chrysanthemum & Peonies	Chrysanthemum (friendship, love); Peonies (romance, prosperity, good fortune, honor, and compassion)
December:	Narcissus, Poinsettia, and Holly,	Narcissus (innocence and purity); Poinsettia (success, celebration); Holly (happiness and optimism).

Choosing birth month flowers for a new baby present is very thoughtful. It shows you care and that you put some effort into selecting a gift for recognizing a new life.

When Should I Gift Flowers for New Baby Celebrations?

You can gift flowers for a new baby celebration at any time. Send them to the hospital to say congratulations or wait for the new parents to return home and have them delivered there to welcome their new baby. 

Flowers are especially lovely, thoughtful gifts for parents who already have children or who do not require many items for their baby. Flowers are a great way to acknowledge the birth of a new child and welcome the baby to the world without crowding the recipient’s house with unnecessary toys and other items.

Are Plants a Good Option to Gift for New Baby Celebrations?

Plants can make nice gifts for a new baby celebration. That being said, it’s essential to choose low-maintenance plants that are easy to grow and require little attention. Since new parents are busier than they have ever been before, they will not have much time available to worry about a delicate or fussy plant that has very specific care requirements. If you do gift new parents a houseplant, choose something like a succulent, cactus or pothos that can survive a bit of neglect.

Welcome the New Baby and Congratulate the Parents With a Thoughtful Gift

Whether you choose to send flowers or a non-floral gift or both to congratulate the new parents and welcome their new baby to the world, your gift and acknowledgment of this extra-special occasion are sure to be much appreciated and fondly remembered.