Bouquet Combination Inspiration
Throughout the growing season, we took some time to capture some of our best bouquet combinations. From the soft, pastel flowers of spring, bright colors of summer, to the muted colors of fall, each season brought some stunning combinations that we can’t wait to share with y’all today. Our hope is that by sharing some of our best combinations, that you’ll be inspired to put together some of these combinations from your garden, or add seeds/plants to your garden for the growing season.
This is the time of year to focus on shopping for flower seeds, either browsing from paper catalogs, or shopping online. If you’re inspired to start a cut flower garden or simply a flower that you’ve never seen before in our bouquets and want to grab seeds, our online seed shop will be opening this February, so stay tuned for details! Until it opens, it will be password protected, so we can make updates to inventory.
SPRING BOUQUET INSPIRATION
Spring ephemerals are some of the most beautiful and fragrant flowers to enjoy. We love their soft, pastel colors, but love to play with adding a splash of color to mix things up occasionally.
Making beautiful spring bouquets isn’t difficult, but it is sometimes hard to make a large volume of bouquets. Like all of us, Mother Nature starts her stride off slow in the spring, gradually increasing blooms as the sun stays out longer and things get warmer and warmer. Still, there are plenty of wonderful flowers to enjoy during the spring season.
Shown below are some beautiful spring bouquets we made that include favorite spring flowers such as daffodils, tulips, ranunculus, allium, snowball viburnum, redbud blooms, and other goodies. Click on each to see what’s included!
Be as Creative as Possible
Spring is the season where there are limited flowers in bloom, so we have to be really creative with what we put together for our flower bouquet combinations. Think outside of the box and think about using whatever you have available, such as dried flowers from the season before.
Shown in this early spring bouquet are dried globe amaranth, which give these bouquets a unique, lovely pop of color that you’re not expecting. Just perfect!
Keeping it Simple
Spring ephemerals are beautiful by themselves and look incredible in a bouquet by themselves in a mono-botanical combination. However, adding a few pops of something unexpected that compliments the season is a great idea, like these gorgeous tulip bouquets with pops of salix cinerea. The soft pastel colors with the bits of gray of the salix cinerea are classic and absolutely stunning.
Summer Bouquet Inspiration
As the season progresses from spring into summer, we start to transition slowly into bright and vibrant colors. With the long, warm days of summer, these colors match the season. During this time of year, we love to lean into sunflowers and zinnias to add the best pops of color and make the BEST bouquets.
The transition from the soft pastel colors of spring into the vibrant colors of summer happens with a little bit of overlap. In the month of June, is when we start to make the transition towards brighter colors, but during the earlier part of this month, we still make bouquets with some of the more pastel colors, transitioning into some of the brighter colors towards the end of the month. However, one thing we’ve noted over the last 13 years of flower farming is that it’s about 50/50 on what color combinations our customers love. Half love bright and bold and the other half love soft and romantic, so we try to bring a mix of both each week to give our customers and option on which they’d like.
Shown below are some great summer bouquet combinations we made throughout the season. These bouquets include flowers like zinnias, sunflowers, snapdragons, ammi, dahlias, lisianthus, celosia, scabisoa, rudbeckia and others! There are so many options and different types of flowers in bloom during this time of year that it’s easy to make some lovely bouquet combinations.
Soft and Romantic
Are you a fan of soft and romantic colors in a bouquet? These were pretty ‘barbie’ themed bouquets we put together during the summer and were a customer favorite. They were elevated by an extra addition of pink tissue paper, which really gave them a polished look.
Included in these pretty bouquets are zinnias, snapdragons, echinacea, strawflower, yarrow, lisianthus, and apple mint.
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Bright and Bold
Are you a fan or bright and bold colors in bouquets? Our wrapped jar bouquets are a customer favorite, especially when they’re backed with bright, beautiful blooms at the height of the growing season.
Our customers look for our signature wrapped jars with their distinctive black & white ribbon and often tell us they see them and know instantly the they’re PepperHarrow bouquets.
The flowers shown in these beautiful bouquets are zinnias, ageratum zinnias, lisianthtus, dahlias, tansy, celosia, snapdragons, and cosmos greens.
Fall Bouquet Inspiration
Warm, autumnal colors are typically what we like to focus during the fall season. We lean into oranges, browns, reds, and yellows for bouquet making. However, we’ve been increasing our inclusion of pinks and purples for a nice contrast of color to provide a nice contrast against the warm colors of fall.
Fall is a time to play with as many color combinations as you can, but always keep a seasonal color tie as part of the bouquet color scheme. Most of the colors customers gravitate towards during this time of year are what we stated above: browns, reds, yellows, burgundy, and oranges, but it’s fun to play off of these colors to experiment and create beautiful combinations.
We plan out the flowers that we’ll have blooming during this time in very early spring, start our flowers in early June and plant them out around the beginning of July. If you’re interested to learn more about how we do this, check out our YouTube video of blooms we plan in July for fall harvest, or a video that explains our succession planting schedule.
This is the time of year when nature’s bounty is at its best and our flower farm has a rainbow array of flower colors to chose from. This especially true of our most favorite flower that we’re know for this time of year: DAHLIAS! It’s easy to see why they’re our favorite. Not only do they come in so many shapes, sizes, and colors, but they bloom like crazy during the fall season, which makes them a staple at our flower farm.
Shown below are several of our bouquet combinations from the growing season. Our favorite was to accent our seasonal fall bouquets with pink and orange shades, which gave them a vibrant, but seasonal look. We also loved creating what we call our ‘pumpkin spice’ bouquet, which has a mix of warm orange dahlias and celosias, dahlias, globe amaranth and other goodies.
Leaning into Everlasting Flowers
During this time of year, it’s also good to use dried flowers to make everlasting bouquets for customers that are looking for a bit of color throughout the winter months.
Dried flower bouquets have been a customer favorite during the fall season. The thing we love best about them is it seems that any color combination looks pretty, so there isn’t a wrong way to put them together to make something pretty.
Digging on Dahlias
Dahlias are blooming so much during this time of year that we can only include them in so many mixed bouquets. With any extra dahlia blooms we have to offer, we put them in a mono-botanical combination of different types of dahlias. They’re a customer favorite, despite their short vase life, which varies, but is typically between 5-7 days.
For our growing zone, dahlias have to be dug up and stored throughout winter, but we use this opportunity to divide them to sell them to the public. We’re sold out for the season, but if you love dahlias, keep us in mind for future purchases.
We hope you loved seeing some of our favorite bouquet combinations and found inspiration for your own cutting gardens. Were there any flowers you saw in this blog post that you’ll be adding to your gardens this year? Or are there combinations of flowers you love together for a certain season we missed? If so, share them with us in the comments below!
For more inspiration, check out our YouTube video where we cover more of our seasonal favorites.
XX Jenn and Adam
