Sunday, March 4, 2018

Wild Foliage Bouquets for a Spring Wedding


For a November wedding at Bangor Vineyard Shed, the bride wanted wild, leafy green bouquets with lots of seed pods and textures.  With so much spring goodness to choose from, these bouquets were a joy to make.  



Beautiful creamy white Proteas were the main flower.   The brides bouquet also had a large fir tree cone.  



 I added some golden leucadendron cones too.  So much texture!  The other 'golden' flowers are a beautiful native that used to be called Dryandra, but have been reclassified as a Banksia now.  I still call them golden dryandra.  Such a beautiful spring native flower.  


There are also lots of leucadendrons in the mix with these bouquets.  The creamy white ones are a female Discolour Leucadendron called Lemon Spice.  In spring they are a gorgeous creamy white with pink tips.  


The other standout Leuco is the Golden Fireworks - explosions of bright yellow on the end of pendulous stems.  I really loved using these!



Green Leucadendrons such as Goldestrike, Laureolum and Silver Tree were also included.  For foliage, there is Tasmanian Myrtle Beech, Agonis Flexuosa, and some beautiful cyprus foliage with golden highlights.  Can you imagine all the good perfumes mingling together in these bouquets!


For white, there are Bushman's Bootlace, a native with the formal name of Pimelea Nivea.  I also popped in some snowball verbena, which are so pretty in spring.  To cool the whole look down I added some beautiful blue Sea Holly.  


I really enjoyed making these bouquets - the colours, the textures, the fragrance.  Its an explosion of spring goodness!


I hope the bride and groom had a wonderful day!





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