Flowers are a simple fix for Mother's Day, especially when you've forgotten.
They may mean even more to mums seeking a sanctuary in Women's Refuge safe houses.
Around the country, more than $50,000 worth of flowers have been snipped, tied and wrapped into Mother's Day bouquets - all part of a new initiative.
Flowers will be delivered as part of the Feel Good with Flowers' charitable initiative, honouring mothers sheltering with their children in Women's Refuge.
Women's Refuge communications manager Susan Barker couldn't believe there were enough flowers.
"At first I was like 'do you know how many safe houses we have?' because we have like 40 throughout New Zealand and they were like 'we can do it'."
Nearly 50,000 women and children have used Women's Refuge this year, an increase of 35 percent following the COVID-19 pandemic.
"New Zealand has the highest rates of family violence in the developed world, it is shocking," says Barker.
New Zealand women are disproportionately more likely to experience family violence, at 2.8 percent of all adults.
Of those assaulted in family violence incidents, around 23 percent suffered injuries
and 15 percent required treatment for either physical, mental or emotional health issues.
"A lot of the mums who come into our service, they're not in a good place, they've just left an abuser and I know a lot of them feel they've failed as a parent," Barker says.
For them, Mother's Day may be difficult, and that's what prompted the nationwide campaign.
Research has shown flowers can improve everyone's moods.
"It [flowers] just instantly uplifts, it brings a smile to everybody," says florist Michelle Kempthorne.
Fifty florists throughout the country helped Sunday's cause, bringing cheer to around 400 women who will each receive their own bouquet in a vase.
