Best filler flowers

Having a steady supply of foliage and filler is key to successfully making bouquets throughout the season—in spring, during the long months of summer, and into early autumn. Scent is a bonus with many of these varieties and a few fragrant stems will add perfume to your arrangements and bouquets.

We love making a big beautiful bouquet. To make a truly fantastic bouquet, you need three key elements: focal flowers, secondary flowers, and foliage. Even though the stars of a "bouquet show" are usually big, showy blooms like dahlias, peonies, roses, lilies, orchids, or sunflowers, their beauty is set off even more by the "supporting actors," beautiful filler flowers and foliage.

Antonio Valente Flowers on Instagram: "✨Pennycress✨ The soft, fresh green colouring of ‘Pennycress’ make it a perfect accompaniment to most any other flower. Edible and beautiful, cress produces the most charming seed pods on tall, elegant stems. Excellent as a bouquet filler, and a textural addition to floral design."

Filler flowers are considered a secondary flower to large focal flowers because they are smaller and fill in the spaces between. For a more dimensional and creative cut flower garden, consider trying filler flowers. Even if you grow just a couple, you'll see how they enhance your arrangements with a delightful diversity.

Looking for the perfect stems for your DIY arrangement? Here are 26 popular types of filler flowers and greenery. Nothing brings a bouquet to life like gorgeous filler flowers and the various types of greenery that surround it.

WAXFLOWER “Chamelaucium uncinatum” These already gorgeous blooms are only made better by the lemon pine scent their stem gives off when cut! CASPIA “Limonium” This whimsical filler flower comes in a variety of shades including white, purple,and pink! SOLIDAGO Commonly knownas “goldenrod.”This cheery bloom accent is perfect for summer and fall bouquets alike!

There are expensive wedding flowers and cheap wedding flowers — this, we all know. But what doesn't have to be obvious is which ones are which. Sure, most people planning a wedding know that peonies can cost a pretty penny (particularly when out of…

Having a steady supply of foliage is key to making bouquets throughout the season. This post covers the best staple foliages and foliage-like fillers.

A list and visual guide of the most popular types of greenery and filler flowers to complete your bouquet broken down into the top 10 of each.