{"id":788598,"date":"2026-05-11T11:07:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T11:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/788598\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T11:07:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T11:07:23","slug":"flower-sales-bloom-as-new-yorkers-celebrate-mothers-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/788598\/","title":{"rendered":"Flower sales bloom as New Yorkers celebrate Mother&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Yorkers celebrated Mother\u2019s Day with flowers, family traditions and heartfelt appreciation for the mothers in their lives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy mom, you know, she\u2019s one of the best,\u201d Terri McLeod said.<\/p>\n<p>While many people express their love for their mothers year-round, Mother\u2019s Day offers a chance to recognize them in a special way.<\/p>\n<p><b>What You Need To Know<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>According to the National Retail Federation, flower sales nationwide were expected to exceed $3.2 billion this Mother\u2019s Day<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Starbright Floral Design in the flower district has prepared bouquets for 33 Mother&#8217;s Days in a row<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Starbright Floral Design&#8217;s owner Nic Faitos says the star flower this year is the peony<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cI mean they\u2019re always there for you, they\u2019re always there for you no matter what, so that makes them special,\u201d McLeod said.<\/p>\n<p>According to the National Retail Federation, nationwide flower sales were expected to exceed $3.2 billion this Mother\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean my mom, my aunt, my mother-in-law, all really love them, and they\u2019re just a really nice token of appreciation for them,\u201d Brendan McLellan said after purchasing flowers for the holiday.<\/p>\n<p>At Starbright Floral Design in Manhattan\u2019s Flower District, owner Nic Faitos said preparations for Mother\u2019s Day began weeks ago. The business purchased more than 40,000 flower stems ahead of the holiday weekend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLots of color, everyone wants color this year,\u201d Faitos said. \u201cThey want to see things they have not seen before, and the star of the show this year is the peony.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Faitos said another growing trend this year is companies hiring florists to create flower bars for Mother\u2019s Day events.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCompanies are bringing in flowers and letting their employees make their own arrangements to take home for their moms, for themselves,\u201d Faitos said.<\/p>\n<p>For some, Mother\u2019s Day can also be a difficult reminder of loss. Valerie Cutinello said her mother died last June.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou think about the happy times you spent with your mom. We went to flea markets, we would go down the shore and walk on the beach,\u201d Cutinello said.<\/p>\n<p>She also offered advice to other mothers celebrating the holiday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpend time with them, because I have a 26-year-old and a 28-year-old. They grow up fast. Years go by, so when you\u2019re enjoying them when they\u2019re little, value that time,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Yorkers celebrated Mother\u2019s Day with flowers, family traditions and heartfelt appreciation for the mothers in their lives.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":788599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,7448,405,403,50,5226,5225,5228,5227,55432,52,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,5284],"class_list":["post-788598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-app-top-stories","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-olivia-leach","tag-top-stories","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-vod"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116555628486662447","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/788599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}