Tulips- simple elegance - and perfect for the April bride

Another Spring favourite-tulips.

They come in so many fabuous colours from cool elegant white to hot shocking pink, with all the pastel pinks and mauves too.

Don't they just say SPRINGTIME!

Springtime at last!

Today it really feels like spring, and of course that means fabulous spring flowers!
Number one has to be daffodils!
Lovely growing en mass, and perfect in a simple glass vase in the home.

A host of golden daffodils

Daffodils come in a range of colours from the usual spring yellow os the ntural wild daffodil, to brighter yellows and oranges right through the yellow spectrum to pale cream and almost white.

A fabulous bouquet for a springtime bride! Simple and elegant.

Sunflowers for September

I recently received a card from a client, with a beautiful watercolour of sunflowers on the front. It instantly made me feel happy, and I thought that I must include these delightful flowers on my blog. This is guaranteed to bring a smile to your face....a bouquet of sunflowers. Such simple flowers, so bright with their large yellow petals and chocolate brown centres, you have to love them.
I have seen them growing in France by the fieldful....not for cut flowers,but to be turned into sunflower oil. Les Tournesols they call them, as they turn their faces to the sun as it moves across the sky. Fabulous.

For a late summer or  autumn countrystyle wedding they would look fantastic. They are so large that you don't need too many of them. 7 will make a super hand-tied bouquet for a bride, with maybe somethng matching and smaller for the bridesmaids. For a very informal country look use raffia to tie, or maybe gingham ribbon.

Sunflowers, and indeed any daisies need to be paired with a wedding dress of equal simplicity, maybe something short or ballerina length and in simple broderie anglais or cotton.

Trending- Blue and green

Lime green and blue make an interesting contrast.
Cool and elegant 

Lime green chrysanthemum shamrock with blue delphiniums and blue eryngium thistles.

Elegant Arum Lillies

Zantadescia, better know to you as arum lillies or calla lilies are a stunning wedding flowers. If your dress is a long elegant column style, then an over- arm bouquet of arums will work perfectly. Simple, stylish,elegant. And, not too expensive as you don't need too many of these flowers to make an impact.

I love the pure white beauty of them, the contrast of cool pure white with the golden yellow callyx.

I would build a whole theme around them with Hollywood style glamour as the trend.

They make the perfect flower in a church, as the have impact in a large space.


In the reception area, maybe large tall vases with white arums and bear grass.

Arums do come in many colours, the white is my favourite, but I do like the green variety. If you want to be really different , and if you dare,there is a very unusual brownish velventy one. Interesting.

They also coming in varying sizes, so the small ones aew ideal as Buttonholes.

Just a few of these elegsant blooms makes a simple bouquet for a bridesmaid Simply tied with a ribbon in colour of your choice.

Summer Weddings- Fragrant Lillies

Vase of pink stargazer lillies



White oriental lillies are perfect for a summer wedding.



White Lillies

Roses and Lillies- perfect for summer.

White oriental lillies

The other Royal Wedding

 Royal Weddings are a lot like buses, you wait for ages and then two come together. So, after the fabulous Kate.....and the equally fabulous Pippa (that is a hard act to follow)...we have Zara. 


Zara looked lovely on her wedding day, and the flowers she carried were unusual. A bouquet of white arums and thistles. Very nice. Her Matron of Honour carried a similar matching bouquet.




I expect thistles, otherwise known as eryngiums, to be very popular. They are always the obvious choice for anyone with a Scottish connection.