Lilies can be used for a large variety of floral arrangements, from a simple wildflower bouquet to futuristic set design and meaningful housewarming gift. It’s well known for its role in funerals, but we’d like to highlight the happier side of this fascinating, colourful flower.
Green isn’t the most obvious colour when you think about cut flowers, but that doesn’t mean they are less pretty. There is something astonishing about a plain bouquet of natural green flowers.
Sofie Danielson created an arrangement with natural materials. Want to make one yourself? Follow her process step by step.
Some people know them as feather grass, others as pampas grass or even as Cortaderia. But all these names lead to the same silky type of ornamental grass. Its fluffy fronds will turn any place super cosy in a jiffy.
The time has come for pink, blue and white hydrangeas to make way for the classic versions in green, red and brown hues. With their magical flower balls that swap their colours for antique and dark hues, these cut hydrangeas are a perfect fit for autumn and winter. They are the ideal basis for a bouquet, but also work really well as a single flower in a vase.
Sedum plants are found in the wild in dry, rocky areas. So it is hardly surprising that they effortlessly survive dry periods and are therefore very easy to look after.
No matter how beautiful nature may look at this time of year, if you suffer from hay fever, that wonderful spectacle will only lead to itchy eyes and continuous sneezing. However, your customers no longer need to go without their daily dose of flowers.
Majestic and impressive: what better way to describe the Gladiolus? This 'hero' shoots upward like a rocket from where it shows off a wide range of colours from late spring until well into autumn.
Are they little blue bells that ring, or tiny dolphins jumping in and out of the green undergrowth? Proud and tall in a field of grass, blessed with shades of blue otherwise unheard of in the floral world. Cousin to the buttercup, queen in her own right.
Even the slightest hint can take you back. A whiff of something that reminds you of summer in France with your first love in 1984, or visiting your potpourri-loving grandma every Sunday.
