If you are planning a wedding or have a family member planning to get married growing your own wedding flowers is a great gardening project. Plus can also save you a small fortune on the cost of cut flowers.
The key is to plan ahead ideally you need a least 4 growing months before the wedding to produce some flowers in your garden
First, make a list of the types of uses you will need the flowers for. For example wedding bouquets, buttonholes, tables decorations and general flowers around the wedding venue such as the wedding marquee.
Next, consider the style of flowers overall. For example maybe a Caribbean style flowers or a soft English summertime type of style
Using Instagram or social media sites is a great way to view lots of examples of flowers from other weddings to identify a style of flowers for your wedding.
Once you have collected some pictures that identify the style of the flowers you wish to use then you need to identify the individual flowers.
The GardenAdvice MyGardenTeam service has specialist advisors to help you identify the wedding flowers that suit your style from pictures you have found.
Also, you can use a website such as Sarah Ravens gardening plants which will help identify the flower needed to create the wedding style flowers you wish to use.
For a wedding flower style using soft English flowers as a style or theme where the wedding is taking place in the summer, you can grow a lot of the flowers from perennial plants and existing shrubs for foliage
Examples of possible plants are
Scabiosa caucasica ‘Perfecta Blue’
Verbascum x hybrida ‘Southern Charm’
Sweet peas
Cosmos bipinnatus ‘Apricot Lemonade
Delphinium x ‘Benary’s Pacific Summer Skies
agapanthus
Roses
Phlox paniculata ‘David’
Carnation
Alstroemeria
Campanula rotundifolia
antirrhinum
Penstemon ‘Apple Blossom’
Pale Zinnia Mix
Salvia patens ‘Guanajuato’
Salvia x jamensis ‘California Sunset’
Salvia nemorosa ‘Caradonna
Chrysanthemum ‘Spider Bronze’
Chrysanthemum ‘Avignon Pink’
Echinacea purpurea ‘Magnus Superior’
Echinacea purpurea ‘Virgin’
Foliage plants
Pittosporum tenuifolium ‘Tom Thumb’
Pittosporum tenuifolium
Pittosporum tenuifolium ‘Variegatum’
When growing flowers for a wedding it’s important to have a backup plan just in case some of the flowers fail to grow or flower on time, For example, failure through pest attacks or unseasonal weather. We normally contact a local flower wholesaler and see which plants will be available at the time of the wedding event if needed to supplement your homegrown flowers.
Some flowers might have two uses for example in a church and at the evening event as tabletop decorations.
The MyGardenTeam service from GardenAdvice is a 12-month membership designed to support your gardening project including growing flowers for a wedding.
