The best Mother’s Day presents, according to Telegraph readers

Bryan, from the South East, was deeply moved while clearing out his mother’s belongings after her death.

“She’d held onto every single card I’d ever sent to her since before I could actually write her name. I expect she’d bought that one and guided my infant hand to write it.”

“She was a pragmatic, hard-lived woman not given to emotion, but she’d clearly valued those cards. It’s not the expensive presents she wanted, just a quiet, sincere expression of appreciation and knowing she was loved,” Bryan says.

The best gift Jayne, from Yorkshire, received was her first as a grandma. “My daughter couldn’t afford much, so she made a card and inside it was a foot and hand print of my then 6-month-old grandson, I cried!”

“I still have that print alongside larger ones of when he was a little older in a frame, on my stairway,” she says.

Jayne will never forget how her mum reacted when she gifted her a Pendelfin bunny, which she bought when she was 12 years old with her babysitting money.

“It was in the window of the paper shop on the way to school. Each week, I went in and paid a little bit off it until it was mine,” she explains.

“My mum cried when I gave her it on the morning of Mother’s Day and she had it until the day she died.”

Seasonal blooms

Flowers topped the list as one of the most-mentioned gifts from our readers.