Family Vase of Silver and Golden Flowers

May 27, 2025

Learn more about family vases of floral jewellery, the tradition of collecting and preserving silver or golden flowers for future generations, or about gifts your mum or grandma can keep in her family vase. Jeweller's flowers as gifts also offer one additional advantage, in the sense that they can be eventually passed down to the children.

Our friends had a vase with tiny shining flowers on their shelf. They noticed us looking. “Our great-grandmother got those three silver snowdrops from our grandmother and grandfather as a graduation gift. Those daisies are grandmother’s; grandpa gave them to her when they met… And over there, that’s our mum’s vase; dad adds a new flower every year… Every time mum passes by she smiles. She might even be secretly talking to those flowers…”

Vase of family flowers and its meaning

Family history and memories

Family memory holds quite a strong meaning—as does the practice of surrounding yourself with objects which strengthen your sense of family history, experiences, and stories and keep them going. At our present times, homes or family businesses tend to be seen as trade objects rather than means of securely preserving family memories. Today, people use mostly photographs, diaries, family jewellery or art, grandma’s old clothes, or oral tradition to preserve their family memories.

Flowers as a family tradition

When we began making our jewellery flowers, there was no manual or template, no similar flowers from which we could draw inspiration. Additionally, we had to formulate entirely new vocabulary to describe yet unnamed objects and experiences.

Among other things, our vision touched on ways in which people maintain their family history and relationships. We decided to use the term “family vase” to describe vases in which women in a family, usually the mother or grandmother, keep their precious flowers.

Family vases of floral jewellery and their meaning

Silver and golden flowers embody nature’s ephemeral beauty, as well as the timelessness of precious metals, borrowing their form from a part of the natural world and stopping beauty in time to create a valuable object that lasts for generations.

The mum or grandmother then passes the floral jewellery they collected or were given to the women of subsequent generations, typically to their daughters or granddaughters who continue the tradition.

Thus, a family vase ends up holding flowers of different generations of women, as well as their stories. The graceful, precious flowers help preserve the family’s history, becoming a part of the family’s household silver and maintaining their own value.

Elegant décor or gifts for your mum and grandmother

A vase of jewellery flowers also makes for an elegant piece of home décor. It doesn’t take much space and can be easily transported to accompany you as you experience the many changes life brings. Moreover, the flowers’ understated nature which often calls for elaboration or explanation, can be valuable in and of itself.

The flowers can be used as a unique gift for your mum or grandmother, in which case they offer an additional advantage—the recipients know that the vase helps bolster a sense of generational and family togetherness, and that they’ll be keeping the gifted flowers for their children. This can be quite a significant aspect of the practice.

Flowers for a family celebration

The flowers can be incorporated into all your family celebrations, be their held to recognize the children’s academic or professional achievements, the birth of a child, the grandmother or mother’s birthday, anniversaries, or holidays. Make the flowers a part of your family customs, gift-giving traditions, or holiday and festive tables. Every family member can make such a celebration more special by adding new flowers to the vase.

Four women of four generations holding silver flowers to family vase

Gift for mum’s family vase

Family vase for your mum

Your mum loves you even before you’re born. There’s nothing quite like mother’s love. A mother’s charm lies in the fact that she places her children above herself, guiding us since the moment we’re born, teaching, supporting, listening, and healing. And we love her despite any disagreements. Tending to the hearth and home, as well as family relationships, is a mother’s bread and butter.

A good way to show your gratitude is with gifts, be they practical, experiences, beautiful, personal, emotional, or romantic. You can try combining your mum and dad’s gifts into a single family gift to celebrate their anniversary, holidays, or any other joint occasion.

Gift for mum’s family vase

Tending to the relationships in the family involves thinking of the past and future. This can make a gift for a mother’s vase quite meaningful.

Browse the flowers from our silver garden or find an extraordinary gift in our golden garden. Gift your mum a single flower or a small or large bouquet of your choice. All these options make for an impressive celebration of femininity and beauty that gives your mum endless joy. You can gift her flowers regularly and guide her to establishing the family vase tradition.

Various silver GIYOU flowers in vases, with family photos

Family flowers of different preciousness

The flowers’ diversity and the option of binding them in various bouquets of different precious metals creates a space for understated and extraordinary gifts, as well as small or valuable family vases. It’s up to you how precious you want your family vase to be.

You can collect or gift silver or golden flowers exclusively, take the occasion into account when choosing the metal, or adapt it to the current stage in your life. Approach the flowers with ease and joy - that is their entire point. Maintaining a family vase is a long-term generational tradition.

Your family vase can be a small glass vial of a few silver flowers, or a large bouquet of golden flowers placed in a crystal vase. And who knows, perhaps the next generation will turn your small glass vase into a large bouquet of pure gold, and vice versa.

Regardless of form and preciousness, a vase of family flowers will spread joy, decorate your home, and subtly preserve your family’s history and memories.

A vase with large bouquet of golden flowers, family vase of gifts to mum and grandma

Family flowers as a gift for a grandma

Choosing a gift for grandma

We know you consider your grandma to be the best in the entire world, and there may be something to it. What makes grandmothers special is their personal experience and kind, soft view of life and ourselves. This is why we often wish to show our affection to them with gifts, at the very least to celebrate her birthday, anniversary, or Christmas. Or we may see gift-giving as an apology for not spending as much time with them as we’d like.

Ideas for a gift for grandma

We’ve all been there—pretty much every grandmother claims that she already has everything and doesn’t need more. Where does that leave you? What kind of a gift should you pick for her?

Pay attention to her practical needs and triumph by giving her a new sweater or warm blanket. If your grandmother leads an active lifestyle, you can send her to a seaside beach, new restaurant, or luxury spa. And if she emphasises elegance, surprise her with a fashionable piece or jewellery.

Most grandmothers also love receiving a hand-written card they can display on their shelf. Of course, you can focus on the popular wellness category of presents and gift your grandma vitamins, massage vouchers, or modern anti-aging products. And here’s our final tip on a great present.

Gift for your grandma from our jewellery garden

Jewellery flowers can be used as personal and family gifts, including a gift your grandma will love. Our jewellery flowers combine the beauty of natural flowers with the craft of jewellery-making. When placed in a vase they’ll decorate your grandma’s house and give her joy throughout her life. Moreover, she may find additional joy in the fact that one day she can pass the flowers down to her daughter or granddaughters.

Pick your grandma’s favourite jeweller's flower from our silver garden, silver bouquet, or browse our garden of golden flowers. You can gift the flowers over time, for example every year to celebrate your grandmother’s birthday or Christmas by giving her a single flower.