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!

Early Spring Wedding

Spring is a fabulous time for native flowers, and a fabulous time for weddings.  I get to put the two together when I'm doing spring wedding flowers!   Early this spring,  I did flowers for a lovely Hobart bride who wanted bouquets with highlights and pops of colour. 

The bride's bouquet combined the creamy white of Maui Sunset Leucadendrons, a late-winter or early-spring flowering leuco, with one of the first of flowers from a newly planted Protea called White Ice.  White highlights were added with Bushman's Bootlace, a local native Pimelea.  

Providing pops of colour were early flowering Waratahs in rich deep pinky red, Protea Satin Mink in pink with black fringing, and the startling pink of Boronia which also smells fantastic, which made working with the bouquet all the more enjoyable.  

Dryandra Formosa, with its glowing golden flowers and beautiful leaves provides texture, as does the fabulous Berzelia.  It's green in early spring and is such a great texture plant right through the season until it bursts into fluffy white flowers just before summer.  I also used some native Tasmanian Richea Dracophylla flowers which you can just see poking out on the left at the rear of the bouquet.  

The grooms boutonniere combined all the colours and textures of the bouquets in a tiny package.  I love the colour combination of the dryandra and boronia.  That pink really packs a punch!

Groomsmen's boutonnieres were a simple combination of the golden dryandra, some berzelia and pimelea.  

I really enjoyed the opportunity to play with these early spring flowers.  I hope the bride and groom had a brilliant day.