Spring Wedding Bouquets

September, October November

Blossom branches, every bride dreams of a spring wedding and bunches of perfumed spring flowers in her wedding bouquets, we reminisce of armfuls  of blossoms that will eventually fall to the ground and form a carpet…don’t they?, in early spring the  blossoms from peach, almond, cherry, apple and pear trees are all bundled off to the market just waiting to  be scooped up and off to the wedding to show off!

Even the branches with tight buds have character!

*Sweet Peas are available from late winter to mid spring and are an all time favourite for wedding flowers, with their delicate perfume, frilled  petals and pale to vivid colours of white, cream, soft to rosy pink, red,  mauve, purple and now sometimes available in a new tangerine colour!

*Peonies, sometimes called Peony roses,  are available mid to late spring,  if we are very fortunate these full, many petalled blooms are unrivalled in their abundance. In Australia sometimes also imported out of season from the northern hemisphere and available in our autumn/fall, colours are white with a delicate  pink centre, pale, rosy and red pink.

*Lily of the valley,  only available for a very short season these delicate tiny white or palest pink flowers are spoken of in almost reverent terms In Australia from Victorian growers in late September and from cold parts of NSW up until mid October.

*Freesias, Hyacinths, tulips continue to delight until around mid October.
Roses though they have been available, start to flush in large quantity mid October so this is the time of best choice of varieties and colours.

*Delphinium is available for large church and reception bowls, blue is always  popular and is often in short supply, with Delphiniums there is abundant blue!, pale, mid to very dark blue! Through spring and summer.

*Daisies are synonymous with  pure simplicity and  spring, colours of white, pink, yellow, gold, orange, burgundy, red, purple,  in fact every colour but blue, the best long lasting daisies are the chrysanthemum daisy, glasshouse grown all year round these are the only truly reliable daisy for bouquets.

*Heather  for those with a hankering for the ‘old country’ there are numerous types of heather to use as sprigs or bunches.  The one most often used is the Erica, with both spring and Autumn / Fall flowering varieties.