Mother's Day

Your Mum is special and deserves the very best! It's the one day in the year when you can show her just how much she really means to you.

It's her special day, so look no further than Sir Plants-Alot for the perfect gift for your Mother - created by Mother Nature herself - the most beautiful plants which say those three little words - Happy Mother's Day.

Mother's Day is not a fixed day each year. It is always the middle Sunday in Lent (which lasts from Ash Wednesday until the day before Easter Sunday).

This means that Mother's Day in the UK will fall on different dates each year and will sometimes fall in a different month. Mothering Sunday has been celebrated in the UK on the fourth Sunday in Lent since at least the 16th Century.

Like the rest of Europe, England and Ireland observed the mid-Lent holiday and decorated their "Mother Church" which is the church where they were baptised. Eventually, the Church extended the observation to honour all mothers, and the English called this Mothering Sunday. In the 1700s, it was celebrated by taking a break from the fasting and penitence of Lent by having a family feast.

Children would make a rare journey home from their apprenticeships and jobs to spend the day with their mother and family.

In the early 1900s Mother's Day fell out of practice. However, after World War II the tradition was once again picked up, inspired largely by the United States, and today in the UK Mother's Day continues in much the same way as the old tradition with cards and dinners in honour of Mum.

It is customary to serve Simnel Cake, which is a glazed fruit cake inspired by a folk tale about a married couple, Simon and Nell. The story goes that the pair could not decide whether to bake or broil a cake and so in the end they did both!! And so Simnel Cake was born. In the olden Mediaeval days of the 17th century female servants would bake this fruit rich cake to take home on their rare visits home to their mothers on Mothering Sunday.

Today in the UK, flowers and plants are also given to Mum to celebrate Mother's Day.

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