17/06/2019
Popular Wedding Flowers
With recent inspiration from the stunning blooms at Chelsea Flower Show and RHS Chatsworth Flower Show, here is the latest of our occasional series featuring popular wedding flowers to really enhance your special day.
If you are struggling to choose the perfect flowers for you big day, here are a few suggestions, whether you are looking for classic or trendy, showy or minimal colourful or neutral. If you are struggling to know where to start, here is another selection of beautiful, timeless and popular wedding flowers.
Hydrangeas, with a full bushy head and intense shades of pink, blue, burgundy and purple represented ‘vanity’ in the Victorian language of flowers. One of the most popular varieties changes in colour from bubble-gum pink to sky blue as it grows, depending on the acid level of the soil. A stem or two of this moderately priced, scentless shrub flower fills out arrangements and is available in white and shades of green, pink, burgundy and blue.
Peony, best known for its delicacy and impressive beauty, has a voluminous strong perfume and bright colour.
Despite its outward showiness, the flower acquired the Victorian meaning of "bashfulness." Cultivated in Asia for more than a thousand years and developed further by the French, the peony is available in two main types, the herbaceous and the tree peony. Grown in single- and double-flower styles, this expensive bloom is seasonally available from late spring to early summer but can be imported in autumn.
Gardenia, surrounded by dark green, waxy leaves, exudes a strong, sultry scent. It was this intoxicating fragrance that captivated an English sea captain traveling through South Africa in 1754, prompting him to bring home one of the native plants as a souvenir. Gardenias are lovely tucked into a bouquet or floating in a low bowl as a centrepiece, and a single gardenia makes a wonderful scented buttonhole or hair accessory. The delicate ivory petals of this expensive flower can bruise easily and large three- to four-inch blossoms, as well as miniature varieties, are available.
Lily of the Valley, with tiny bell-shape florets dangling from a thin stem, is sometimes called ‘the ladder to heaven’. The fresh, perfumed scent from its petite flowers is unmistakable. In Norse mythology, the flower is linked to Ostara, the goddess of springtime and also featured in Kate Middleton's royal wedding bouquet in 2011. Whilst plentiful during the spring, it is available, but quite costly, all year.so may be more affordable used with just a few stems to infuse a bouquet or centrepiece. Best known is the white variety, but lily of the valley also comes in a very rare rosy-pink.
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