In Victorian England (19th century), it became traditional for hardworking maids or servants in large country houses to be given leave from their duties on the fourth Sunday of Lent in order to visit their mothers. Hence, the tradition of celebrating Mothering Sunday or Mother's Day was born.

Maids would often have lived some distance from their homes and much of Mothering Sunday may have been spent making slow progress on foot or by horse-driven coaches to return for a few precious hours with the family matriarch. Maids with little income may have given gifts of wild, handpicked flowers to their mothers, and nowadays, giving hand-crafted flowers for Mothers Day is as popular a tradition as ever.

Fortunately, with online ordering, sending your flowers to mothers anywhere in the world is possible within a few minutes and there's no need to trudge anywhere on foot anymore!