Red Roses & Fall Flowers for Bouquets

Monochromatic

• Monochromatic flower bouquets, flowers that are shades of the same color, are dramatic and stunning. Start with your chosen red roses, then select the rest of your flower varieties in complementary shades of red. Autumn flowers in shades of red that blend well with roses are chrysanthemums, lilies, gerbera daisies, carnations, freesias and snapdragons. Add greenery or ivy vines to create a complementary color scheme bouquet from your monochromatic theme.

Analogous

• A serene and harmonious fall bouquet can be created by using an analogous color scheme, which uses colors that are next to each other on the color wheel. With red roses, the analogous color theme could include red, orange and yellow; red, orange and violet; or red, violet and blue. Autumn flowers that fit the analogous color scheme with red roses are sunflowers, chrysanthemums, snapdragons, daisies, hydrangeas, dahlias, statice, asters and cock's comb.

Triad

• Triad color schemes are quite vibrant, especially if you have one color dominate and the two other colors accenting it. Triad color schemes use the colors that form a triangle on the color wheel. With red roses, the triad colors are blue and yellow. Various shades of the triad colors can be used in your fall bouquet, with one of the colors being predominant. A dramatic autumn flower bouquet might have yellow sunflowers, daisies, and dahlias, with accents of red roses and blue salvia, blue verbena and blue balloon flowers.

Split-Complementary

• To really accent your red roses and have them stand out in your fall bouquet, try a split complementary color combination, where the primary color is red, with yellow green and blue green flowers and foliage as accents. Along with the red roses, include one or two other red flowers to add interest and texture. Yellow-green chrysanthemums, zinnias and hydrangeas give one of the split complementary colors, while blue scabiosa, monkshood, baptisia, and stokesia add the blue to the bouquet. Foliage, like Dusty Miller, can also be used for the secondary split complementary colors.