Mother's Day Special

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Did you know the white carnation is the official flower of Mother's Day? Anna Jarvis, the creator of Mother's Day, used to tend a garden full of white carnations with her mother as a girl. In 1907, Anna delivered 500 white carnations to her church. She requested that each mother in the congregation get one as they arrived at church that week. Every year after that, the church upheld the tradition and continued to hand out carnations at the Mother's Day service. Neighboring communities and churches soon took notice and began giving away white carnations at their own Mother's Day services, too. In the mid -1940's carnations the white carnation was dubbed the official Mother's Day flower.