WEDDING FLOWERS: Spring Flowers
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Spring wedding flowers

Today we are looking at spring weddings. This is an excellent time of year to be married with lots of gorgeous spring flowers around. 
For budgets, I would say be careful of higher prices around St Valentines Day (14th Feb) and Mothering Sunday (11th March 2018, 31st March 2019, 22nd March 2020).

To the flowers; These gorgeous daffodil bouquets for your bridesmaids will make for a bright and cheerful wedding. If yellow is your colour, or accent (these would look fab with navy dresses). Just make sure the stems are fully wrapped so as the sap doesn't stain any dresses.



For the bride, a traditional shower shaped bouquet with lots of narcissus, small daffodils and roses. This was a highly scented bouquet and smelt divine.


In spring we can also get the beautiful cyclamen as a cut flower. Again these make excellent small posies for your maids. Coming in a range of colours from white, pink, purple and reds. Another highly scented bouquet.


Classic spring white and green (Greenery is colour of the year), this is a lovely fresh colour scheme with gorgeous germini, freesia, viburnum, bupleurum and foliage


and the maids posy too.


For something more vibrant, blue hydrangea, cappuccino roses and pink tulips


Another hand tie design of roses, double tulips, hyacinths, and foliage.


Or how about anemone? An all anemone bouquet brings lovely jewel colours together, or stick with one shade. These come in reds, purple, deep pink, blue, and white.


A blue colour scheme needn't miss out. The beautiful blue muscari are delicate and highly scented and make cute posies for your ladies.




The wonderful lily of the valley. This is available all year round now but beware, it is pricey for such a small flower. It is best (and cheapest) in it's natural season.


A beautiful all white/ivory bouquet. Filled with roses, spray roses, eustoma, ranunculus, and freesia with added sparkle to catch those early rays of sunshine.


Tulips!! What's not to love? These all tulip bouquets are so simple yet so pretty. Tulips come in a vast colour range, size of head and single, double and parrot varieties, there is bound to be something for your colour scheme.

Bridesmaid bouquet


Brides bouquet of single tulips


Brides bouquet of double tulips with a lovely silver collar.


Pink tulips



On to the men;

Buttonholes, should we feel, mirror the bridal bouquet. The groom and best man traditionally had a double flower from the bridal bouquet, but anything goes today.
A daffodil buttonhole wil certainly brighten up a dark suit.



For the groom a design of mixed narcissus


Page boy? How about two tiny sol d'or flower heads and fern


Tulips make great buttonholes, double or single


or teamed with another flower.




For the ladies don't forget we can create traditional lapel corsages, wrist corsages or a bespoke design  for their hand bag.


To decorate your ceremony we can create archways. This one is filled with a mix of narcissus and cuscus foliage, the scent just filled the room. 



For the guest tables we can provide these lovely nest designs, perfect for spring, filed with daffodils,


a mix of seasonal flowers, maybe in vibrant colours




or a more neutral theme.


Love fish bowls for your guest tables? These were filed with yellow stones and floating daisy heads






Wanting tulips? A tulip display in your colours with fern and ginista make a perfect spring display your guests can take home with them.


And don't forget the top table, mirror your guest table flowers in a larger display for you.


Are you getting wed in the spring time? We have many ideas and can source any spring flower. We are also working closely with British growers and this should work fantastic as we are a nation of lovers of spring blooms and Lincolnshire are where many grow. 
Get in touch today to start planning your springtime wedding flowers

Sandra x

Spring Flowers are combined flower of the month - March

Spring is imminent - the perfect opportunity to celebrate with not one, but three Spring flowers on the Flower Agenda: ranunculus, hyacinth and daffodil. 
The origin of ranunculus, hyacinth and daffodil
Ranunculus originally comes all the way from Central Asia. It travelled through many exotic places before arriving in Europe, where it was given its official name. The hyacinth arrived in Europe in around 1560 from Turkey, Syria and Lebanon. Daffodils grow wild in meadows, forests and rocky places in Western Europe.
Colours and shapes of ranunculus, hyacinth and daffodil 
Ranunculus comes in white, yellow, orange, red, pink and purple. Hyacinths are waiting for you at the florist’s in white, red, yellow, pink, purple, orange, green or multiple colours per flower. Obviously bright yellow is the most familiar colour for daffodils, but there are also beautiful combinations with white or salmon pink. And did you know that daffodils come in various variations? With leaves, without leaves, with large trumpets and small, strongly scented and unscented.

Care 
These care tips will enable consumers to enjoy their Spring flowers for even longer:
• Use a clean vase and fill it with fresh water.
• Add cut flower food to the water for a longer vase life.
• Trim the stems diagonally with a clean and sharp knife or secateurs.
• Place the flowers in a cool spot away from the fruit bowl and not in the sun.
• Replace the water once every three days so you can enjoy your bouquet for as long as possible. 
Symbolism of Spring flowers
The Spring flowers ranunculus, hyacinth and daffodil are bursting with symbolism, from pride and vanity through to charm and love. Plenty of options for giving someone a real surprise! 
Bouquet recipe with Spring flowers
Close your eyes and imagine the season of Spring. Which colours do you use? To really capture the feeling of Spring in a vase, it’s a good idea to use colours like orange, blue, purple and white. With so much colour, the vase doesn’t need much else. A tall, cylindrical vase is contemporary, puts the spotlight on the flowers, and offers enough room for the large number of stems. 
More about Spring flowers
Consumers can find more inspiration to really get stuck in at Funnyhowflowersdothat.co.uk. Check out the beauty of the ultimate on trend colour, create a bouquet for the morning people around you, start the Spring cleaning, and be enchanted by the most adorable flowers of the year. 

Spring flowers are fabulous for your home as a gift or if you are having a spring wedding keep it seasonal. We have many ideas for adding these flowers to your wedding displays and bouquets, including daffodil posies for your bridesmaids and narcissus for your shower bouquet. Ask us about our full portfolio to help you choose from the many options available.

Spring flowers are available to buy as gifts during the season, ask what we have in stock for your displays.

Sandra X


Potted Bulbs - Garden Plant of The Month February






Garden Plant of the Month for February: Potted bulbs

Heralds of spring in the home or garden!
Bulb crops give you a feeling of spring. They're flowers that emerge from their bulbs bursting with energy and colour. In February it’s often still too cold to see the bulbs that you planted in the garden in autumn emerge from the ground. But there’s a handy solution to this: potted bulb products, which are widely available in February thanks to the grower’s skill.  Potted bulbs bring an early spring to the garden and the living room. When the first warm spell arrives, you can see the flowers bursting out of the pot as cheerful, fragrant heralds of spring.
Potted bulbs can be planted in the soil or in containers for on the balcony or patio. They are also all available as cut flowers. Within the potted bulb range, we see familiar products from the main species, each with a large number of cultivars in many colours and sizes. These potted bulb products - hyacinths, narcissi and grape hyacinths (Muscari) - are the real stars of the range. The larger the bulb that the growers have planted in the pots, the better the quality that emerges with more and larger flowers on a stem.

Potted bulbs: Hyacinth, Narcissus, Muscari: early spring in the garden! 
The something special about narcissi, hyacinths and Muscari. They need a period of cold in order to flower. So if you want to enjoy them earlier than the normal flowering months (from March to May), the grower has to perform two tricks. First the (dry) bulbs need to spend a few weeks in low temperatures of between 5 and 10°C. Then the growers plant them in pots, and they are ‘forced’ in greenhouses at considerably higher temperatures as if spring has arrived. The plants then flower in February, tricked into thinking that it’s already spring. 
The pot hyacinth is a beautifully scented plant in pink, white, blue, purple, salmon or pale yellow. The individual flowers on the stems are called claws. The pot Narcissus also comes in a wide number of varieties, ranging from beautifully scented spray narcissi to flowers with everything from very small to gigantic trumpets, as well as double flowered varieties. The most important colours are yellow and white. We also see a lot of bicoloured varieties, on which the flower contains salmon pink and orange. The Muscari or grape hyacinth is a small, grape-shaped flower, usually blue. However, there are also white or purple ‘grapes’ and there are also crested grape hyacinths. Muscari is one of the most fabulous potted bulb products, and has a light musk scent, as is reflected in the name Muscari. 
Caring for potted bulbs: Hyacinth, Narcissus, Muscari
The three different potted bulb plants - Hyacinth, Narcissus and Muscari - all require the same care to ensure they give you pleasure for a long time. The plants are undemanding in the garden - they can be placed in both the shade and the sun. Potted bulb products do particularly well even at temperatures around freezing. Indoors the plant requires a spot which is as cool as possible to ensure the longest flowering.Make sure that the soil never dries out. You should therefore water the plant regularly, but don’t get the bulbs too wet since this can cause them to rot. There’s no real need to feed, since most nutrients are already present in the bulb. And obviously the plants are only for decoration and not for consumption. 
Storage tips for potted bulbs: Hyacinth, Narcissus, Muscari
When the flowers on the bulbs have finished blooming, you can store the bulbs in order to plant them in the garden again for the next growing season. This is easier with narcissi and grape hyacinths, since hyacinths are more prone to disease. Allow the foliage on the narcissi and grape hyacinths to die back fully in the pot. Then remove the bulbs from the pot and store them until October in a dry, dark place, such as a shed or cellar. Because these are spring flowering bulbs, they should be planted in the autumn. They will then experience a period of cold in winter, and will flower again in the spring from March. 
More information about potted bulbs - Hyacinth, Narcissus, Muscari - and other garden plants can be found at Thejoyofplants.co.uk.
Garden Plant of the Month 
The Garden Plant of the Month spotlight is on potted bulbs: Hyacinth, Narcissus, Muscari in February. ‘Garden Plant of the Month’ is an initiative by Thejoyofplants.co.uk. Growers and horticultural specialists from the floriculture sector select a garden plant every month at the request of Thejoyofplants.co.uk in order to inspire and enthuse. Because a garden isn’t a garden without plants.

These and other bulbs are available as potted designs or as cut flowers. There is more to February than red roses!!
Are you getting wed? Add in a variety of bulbs to your designs for a seasonal look. Give small or single bulbs as favors to your guests or have potted bulbs as your table centerpieces and plant in your garden for years of enjoyment long after the day has gone.

To ask about availability please get in touch for daily varieties.

Sandra x 

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