Larkspur — July's Flower
July
also Water Lily
Summer
Myanmar's Mogok valley has long produced its finest deep reds. A vivid, hard-wearing keepsake for a July birthday.
What the larkspur says
In the Victorian language of flowers, meanings were a shared code — close enough to look up, personal enough to feel chosen. The larkspur traditionally carries:
- Traditionally a flower of an open heart and positivity
- Associated with lightness and love
July keeps a second flower too — the water lily — for the months where one bloom never felt like enough.
The month around it
A July birthday sits under Cancer and Leo, alongside the month's stone (Ruby) and its full moon, the Buck Moon. The flower is the soft-spoken one of the three.