Bouquet foliage

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.

If you want to have bouquets that really shine, you need three key ingredients: focal flowers, filler flowers, and foliage. Obviously our favorite focal flowers are dahlias (in all their many forms!), but we have favorite filler flowers and foliage too. We’ve written about our favorite filler flowers and now we’d like to share with […]

Galena Berkompas • Urban Flower Farm • Education on Instagram: "This was a hard list to narrow down, but these are the 7 fillers I’d grow if I could only grow 7! Some are picked because they do very well here (yarrow is a native and berries LOVE it here in the PNW) and others for how much I use them in design. I interplant these all in my cottage gardens with my focal flowers and then cut as I need them. This list isn’t exhaustive of course, but I turn to these over and over again in my…

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The Flower Farmer & The Florist on Instagram: "MY TOP 3 FOLIAGES you can grow in your garden. These three are my favourites and have proven to be foliage trees that keep on giving. Pittosporum || this foliage has lots of little petals in different shades of lime and green. Its the perfect filler for arrangements and the shape and colour create so much texture. Viburnum Tinus || I use this foliage to create a base to an arrangement or installation. Its strong stems and leaf is perfect for…

Let's say it together: Eco-friendly wedding. Yeah, we're in love with this concept! Amanda and David's free-spirited Uluwatu Surf Villas wedding has us embracing our inner adventurer. This couple's goal was to keep their destination wedding weekend as simple as possible. All of the beautiful greenery Florette Bali used was locally sourced, as was delicious-looking food

March is a great month for weddings in Tasmania. I love autumn! Last March I was so happy to be involved in this gorgeous wedding at Bangor Vineyard Shed. It was a second marriage, and the brides dress wasn't traditional. It was a gorgeous coloured dress with a large pattern all over it - the colour choice was going to need to be just right. As soon as I saw the dress, I knew it would work. I used white Protea Donna, orange pincushions in Fountain and Cordifolium varieties, with late…