How do you choose the right flowers for summer? You opt for any of the following beautiful blooms.
Aster
The aster looks a bit like a wildflower and a little like a sunshine. It’s a perfect flower to keep in a summer garden or to give in a seasonal bouquet. And, it’s an exquisite and cheerful addition to a home – either kept in a kitchen or a living room. The aster can be casual or formal, depending on the vehicle it’s in and the flowers that surround it. It’s September’s birth flower and it’s sometimes given for 20th-year wedding anniversaries.
Carnation
Carnations are lovely flowers to have around during summertime. Florists use these blossoms as go-to stunners in wedding floral arrangements and boutonnieres, and they’re often given for birthdays. Carnations come in shades of white, pink, red, purple, green, and more hues. They’re long lasting and they’re easily revitalized after extensive car (or flower truck) rides.
Freesia
Freesia is a member of the Iris family. It’s often considered one of the most fragrant flowers on earth, and it’s frequently grown for ornamental and practical purposes. Some freesia have a stronger scent than others, but all of them offer a delightful aroma that’s perfect for a garden or floral arrangement. Freesia is a bulb flower that comes in many colors and in many variations.
Local florists usually have all of these flowers in stock. Sometimes, you’ll find these flowers’ seeds or bulbs in nurseries or in home improvement stores. You can always purchase them online, through a local or national web-based florist.
There are two types of daisy flowers, though you’ll only commonly find one of them in a florist, or in a flower bouquet or arrangement. The daisy you’ll find most often in nature, though rarely in the florist, is the Common Daisy, also known as the Lawn Daisy or sometimes English Daisy. This daisy flower is native to much of Europe, though now widely naturalised to the Americas as well. Your British author remembers as a young child making daisy chains out of the small daisies growing on our lawn, and maybe you remember doing something similar too. The name daisy is thought to be a corruption of “day’s eye“, because the whole daisy head closes up at night, opening again with the morning sun.
The Common Daisy is perhaps the archetypal daisy, the one that comes first to mind whenever we think of a daisy flower, but it is only one member of the Asteraceae family (also known also as the aster, daisy, or sunflower family), the second largest family of flowering plants in the plant kingdom, with approximately 23,000 recognized species. In your daily life, you’ll see many members of the aster family, including lettuce, chicory, globe and Jerusalem artichokes, 
The aster is a large genus of flowers named by the ancient Greeks for the star-like shape of its flower head, with the Greek word aster meaning star. When the Greek goddess Asterea wept, saddened by the lack of stars on earth, it was said that everywhere a tear drop landed, an aster grew. The aster took on magical and mystical properties; one of them is that the foliage has the power, when burned, to keep away evil serpents. In France, cut asters are often laid on the grave of a fallen soldier, partly to honor his bravery and partly to symbolize the wish that things had turned out differently.
They’re ancient wild flowers, with many alternative, common names. Michaelmas daisies (they bloom around the time of Michaelmas, September 29th), starwort, and Frost flowers. True asters being native to Europe and Asia, and with only one aster native to North America. There used to be many more flowers formerly known as “asters” growing in the New World, but they were almost all reclassified in the 90s, and this change left slightly fewer than 200 true aster species in the genus. For florists, though, Indeed, the aster you’ll often see in florists is the Chinese Aster (Callistephus chinensis). An interesting aside; in China, the aster symbolizes fidelity.
Asters usually have small to medium-sized flower heads, with some as much as a foot across. They’re similar in shape to a daisy, or the star after which they’re named. Enchanting, elegant and refined, the color range, thanks to many, many years of cultivation and hybridization, is from white through yellow, orange, pink, lavender, blue and violet to purple. The center of the flower is most often yellow. Bi-colors are also often found. When you send someone a gift including asters, you’re sending them a symbol of love and patience. They would make a wonderful way to patch over a misunderstanding or disagreement, or to request forgiveness if you’re late on a commitment or belatedly recognizing an event. Our favorite online florist, 
Asters are also known as Michaelmas daisies, as they blooms from late summer through to October (with the Feast of Michaelmas being September 29th). The flower predates Christian traditions, though, with the name aster coming from the Ancient Greek word for star. One look at the bold shape, and typically bright color (usually with a yellow center, the petals can be white, pink, lavender, blue and purple), and you can immediately see how appropriate the name is.
It was said, in ancient times, that burning aster leaves was a great way to keep away snakes. You can use this little snippet of flower meaning trivia when you gift a bouquet or arrangement, but be sure to let the recipient know that the reason you’re giving them is because they are are a symbol of love, patience and daintiness or elegance. Some varieties of aster grow to be over 3 ft tall, with bold blossoms reaching a foot in diameter. And yet despite the size to which they can grow, asters remain elegant and dainty, strong and gorgeous to look at. A very worthy symbol of love and high regard.
The morning glory is well-named; new funnel-shaped or trumpet-shaped blossoms flower every morning, to be pollinated by early-rising birds and industrious insects. Then, by the afternoon, the morning glory fades and dies, with new flowers appearing the next day.
The Victorians, for whom every flower had a specific meaning, thought the morning glory meant “love in vain”, but in modern times the meaning is one of genuine affection. You’ll most often see morning glory as blue, pink or purple, often with white markings. It’s another hard-working flower, the morning glory, as it’s also the flower associated with the 11th wedding anniversary.