Types of Flowers Good for Bouquets

Spring

• Some of the best spring flower bouquets are created from blooms found in your garden. Tulips, daffodils, hyacinths, forsythia, iris, peonies, freesia and sweet peas are good flowers to use when you create a bouquet in the springtime. Allow daffodils to stand in a container of water by themselves for a day before adding them to your bouquet, which allows the toxic sap of daffodils to drain from the stem, making the daffodil harmless to the other flowers in the bouquet. Depending on the USDA temperature zone you live in, you may have roses and lilies blooming that can be added to your bouquet or purchase a few from your local florist.

Summer

• The bounty of flowers available to you during the summer months for bouquets might seem overwhelming. Select flowers for a particular color scheme to determine which blossoms to include in a summer bouquet. Good flowers to choose because of the availability and wide color range are roses, gladiolus, snapdragons, lilies, daisies, asters, zinnias and carnations. Sunflowers have become a favorite flower to include in summertime bouquets and are found in a variety of shades of yellow to rust and in sizes from very large to daisy size. Accent the sunflowers with cool blue of delphinium, blue bachelor buttons and purple asters.

Autumn

• When autumn arrives, so does the the wide variety of chrysanthemums, dahlias, zinnias, lilies and roses in bright, vivid colors of gold, rust, maroon, orange and yellow. Fall flower favorites also include the very large blooms of sunflowers and hydrangeas, which are good for a larger bouquet in a big vessel, with a variety of smaller flower blossoms and colors surrounding the giant flowers. Add greenery, branches of colored autumn leaves or bright red berries for a dramatic autumn bouquet arrangement.

Winter

• Traditional winter bouquets tend to grow in the colors of white red, and green with flowers of roses, carnations, lilies, poinsettias and chrysanthemums. Adding gardenias or freesias to your winter bouquet will fill the room with a delightful fragrance. Make your winter bouquet with bright and vibrant colored blooms from flowers like carnations and gerbera daisies to chase the winter blues away. Dried flowers are good for winter bouquets because they last and require no additional care. Dry flowers like statice, hydrangeas, straw flowers, roses, lavender, goldenrod and heather from your summer garden to create an attractive, long-lasting winter bouquet.