Midsummer Bouquet Inspiration!
As the radiant sun reaches its peak in the sky, nature rewards us with a breathtaking display of its finest artistry - the blossoming of vibrant blooms! In this midsummer enchantment, our world transforms into a gorgeous quilt of many colors, fragrances, and textures. As we immerse ourselves in this floral wonderland, we can't help but be inspired to create extraordinary bouquets that capture the essence of this wondrous season.
Whether you're a seasoned flower farmer, flower enthusiast, or just starting to explore the joys of floral arrangements, we've gathered an array of stunning bouquet combinations to awaken your creativity and bring your vision to life. Let's embark on a floral journey together and craft delightful compositions that embody the spirit of summer's boundless beauty!
Flowers & Sunset make the perfect combination
We love using all of the best seasonal flowers grown from our flower farm to add to bouquets, but most often, we tend to gravitate towards a lot of pink and orange or pink and purples for our bouquet combinations. The bouquet above contains zinnias, yarrow, tweedia, snapdragons, bishop’s lace, strawflower, scabiosa, forget me not, lisianthus, and salvia.
Barbie Bouquets
When our employee was making grocery bouquets she said, “This bouquet reminds me of Barbie,” and it’s from that small comment, that the Barbie Bouquet was born.
We took these to farmer’s market, lined with special pink tissue paper and sold every last one. It’s easy to see why! We love pink and so do our customers!
CSa Bouquets for our July customer pick up
CSA bouquets are made with as many special flowers from the farm as we can muster. We save back and use as much of our best flowers as possible to treat our CSA customers, because they’re pretty special customers. CSA stands for Community Supported Agriculture. Our CSA customers make an investment with us early on, even before our season has started, to provide a bouquet each second Saturday May-September. Their investment early on helps us fund seeds and plants to grow these special flowers for them each month.
The bouquets above contain some of the first blooming zinnias, snapdragons, apple mint, ammi, strawflower, scabiosa, and blue glob thistle. The blue globe thistle is our favorite and one we’ve been nurturing since last year, just to have them for these special bouquets.
When deciding on a recipe for our flowers, we try to stick to something simple, instead of trying to recreate the wheel. We have 20 CSA members that we make bouquets for, so we try to use flowers we know we can repeat and scale for this many bouquets. For example, if we know there are going to be 3 zinnias in every vase, we try to cut 60 zinnias of the same color just for these bouquets. There’s always a little variability in this area, notice some of these bouquets above have orange snapdragons and others have white. You can deviate from your recipe and work with what you have.
Garden inspired. It’s a term that we use to define the different types of flowers we use in our bouquets. We think what defines this look is many different types of botanicals incorporated into a bouquet in a cohesive color scheme.
In the bouquet above, we strolled through our flower gardens and cut as many types of flowers right before a beautiful sunset to include in this beautiful bouquet. One of our favorite new flowers we grew this year was Queen Lime Orange Zinnias, which you can see in this example. They’re on the shorter side from flowers we typically grow, but they’ve been a popular flower with our market customers, you-cut guests, and a personal favorite of ours as well. In particular, we love adding a light blue and white pop of color with these beauties, because they compliment well and give a bouquet an old fashioned feeling. So pretty!
Different flowers included in the bouquet above: zinnias, tweedia, cosmos, ageratum, snapdragons, scabiosa, statice, yarrow, and applemint.
Wrapped Jar bouquets
Our customers near and far absolutely love our wrapped jar bouquets. We bring these pretty bouquets to farmer’s market, and sell them directly on the farm each weekend. Our customers tell us that they look for our signature black and white ribbon each weekend and know we’re at the market when they see people walking around with our bouquets. Some actually track us down after they see others carrying around our bouquets!
For these cuties, we allow for a little more creative freedom instead of sticking to a certain recipe, well, kind of anyway. We’ll usually make 3-5 at the same time and all 3-5 will have the same basic recipe. What we’ve found at our local farmer’s market is that people want the ability to pick and like it when there are different color combinations to choose from, so we like variability in the recipe.
If you want to check out our online tutorial about how we make these pretty bouquets, you can access that here.
We hope you found these bouquet combinations inspiring! Each petal and leaf, carefully curated and placed, is a testament to the boundless beauty that surrounds us. Let your heart be your guide, and may your future bouquets be an expression of your own unique artistry.
XX Jenn and Adam
