Florario – Flower calendar
About Florario
Florario brings together in one place every date of the year on which flowers are given in Spain and Latin America, with its history, its flower and its reason why.
What Florario is
Florario (flor + calendario, “flower” + “calendar” in Spanish) was born from a simple question: when is it time to give flowers? Between the long-standing dates, like Valentine’s Day or Mother’s Day, and the ones that pop up every year on TikTok, like yellow, blue or purple flowers, it’s easy to get lost. Florario brings them all together: today there are 26 dates, each with the flower that is given, the countries where it is celebrated, its origin and a countdown so you’re never late.
As well as the dates, each flower and each month has its own page, with its meaning, its season in Spain, Mexico and the Southern Cone and tips to make the bouquet last.
The website was written in Spanish and this English version is a translation, so you can read about these traditions whatever language you speak. Names of dates and songs are kept in Spanish where that’s how people know them.
Who makes it
Florario is a personal project: I write it, code it and maintain it myself, Héctor Abenia. Developer in training (Multiplatform Application Development). He created Florario to gather in one place the dates on which flowers are given in Spain and Latin America, and he checks every date and every trend against at least two media outlets from different countries before publishing it.
On this page I speak in the first person. Elsewhere on the website, when you read “we review” or “we check”, that’s Florario speaking: I’m the one behind it.
Florario is independent: I don’t sell flowers, I don’t charge flower shops to be featured and I don’t use affiliate links. If that ever changes, I will say so clearly on the relevant page.
Who reviews the content
For now I write and review all the content myself, based on the sources cited at the bottom of each guide. I am not a florist, so I am looking for a flower shop or grower to review the guides before each date: checking that the flowers I recommend are really available at that time of year and that the care tips are correct. If you work with flowers and are interested, write to me. Once there is a professional review, each page will say so below its title, with the name of the reviewer.
How I research each date
- Only dates where giving flowers is the central custom are included. If flowers are merely seen at a festival, such as a parade, it doesn’t go in the calendar (although I may mention it on the month’s page).
- I check every trend against at least two media outlets from different countries (Argentina, Mexico, Peru, Colombia, Spain…). The sources appear at the bottom of each guide.
- When sources disagree, I use the most cited date and show the other as a variant, like the October 9 date for purple flowers in Colombia.
- Movable dates are calculated, not copied: the “second Sunday of May” or the “third Sunday of June” are worked out for each year, so the calendar never goes out of date.
- I don’t reproduce song lyrics: I cite the title, the performer and what it’s about.
How often it is updated
I review the guides before each important date and the whole calendar at least once a quarter, because color trends appear quickly. Each page shows when it was published and, if it has changed since, when it was last updated. Website last updated: .
The photos
All the photos come from Wikimedia Commons under free licenses (CC BY, CC BY-SA and CC0). Each page shows the author and license of the photos it uses, as those licenses require. The flower illustrations, the wheel of the year and the printable calendar are made for Florario.
Is your date missing or is there a mistake?
If flowers are given in your country on a date that isn’t listed, or you see something that isn’t right, write to me from the contact page. I review every suggestion and, if the date meets the criteria, I add it with its source.