| Spring Wedding
Bouquets |
September, October
and 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 flowering varieties.
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