Seasonal British Flowers, July 2023

Welcome to the end of July! The year is racing by and wedding season is in full swing!
Think of long balmy summer evenings, dancing the night away… something to consider when booking your venue – do they have a late music licence so you don’t get shut down at midnight?
I have been to a wedding where this happened once, only the lights came on at 11.30, it was pretty anticlimactic…

Don’t forget to book your wedding florist asap as well! Our calendars fill up pretty quickly for this time of year and prospective couples are reaching out 12 – 18 months in advance, so you don’t want to miss out if you’ve had your eye on someone!

July is such a perfect time for wedding flowers, we have a few of the late spring flowers still lingering, such as astrantia and nigella, but we are well into those gorgeous summer blooms – the roses are in their element, the honeysuckle is spreading it’s heady scent, and the delicate blooms like cosmos are adding those floaty touches to bouquets, but we are far enough into the year now that we are starting to see the autumnal flowers popping up – the dahlias are a firm favourite and here to stay for the foreseeable future! Let’s get onto those all important seasonal blooms:

Achillea – various colours of tiny flowers forming plates of colour, great in bouquets
Agapanthus – large balls of bluey purple flowers
Ageratum – clusters of small fluffy balls oflilac flowers
Alchemilla Mollis – vibrant green yet dainty flowers, great filler
Alstroemeria – always
Asters – small round daisy like flowers, in various colours
Calendula – orange marigolds
Campanula – tall stems of bells shaped bluey flowers
Celosia Plumes – like tiny Christmas trees of fluffiness
Cerinthe – deep purple draping flowers, great for texture
Chinese Forget-Me-Not – tiny beautiful blue flowers
Cosmos – blousy and wonderful, very popular for bouquets
Crocosmia – reds and oranges, not dissimilar to freesias
Dahlias – plates of many petalled blooms, a must have flower
Delphiniums – tall spikes of pale blue flowers
Echinacea – round balls of pinks and yellows, similar to large daisies
Eryngium – thistles in luminous blue, stunning and brings extra depth
Gladioli – tall spires of large flowers in various colours
Gypsophila – small, dainty white flowers
Lily (Oriental) – heavily scented large blooms
Limonium – similar in style to gypsophila but in various colours, great filler
Linaria – tall pink flowers, the seed heads make incredible dried flowers
Lysmachia – small spikes or dainty flowers
Malope – little bells
Monarda – various colours, similar to scabious
Phlox – balls of star shape flowers, becoming very popular, especially creme brulee
Salvia – tall delicate flowers in various colours, work very well in bouquets
Scabious – round, almost scraggly daisy shapes but hardy and wonderful for a cottage garden feel
Snapdragons – very popular, delicate spires of fluffy blooms
Solidago – bright yellow, fluffy filler
Statice – larger version of limonium, great filler and for drying
Sunflowers – do these need an explanation?
Tanacetum Daisy – clusters of little daisies
Trachelium – plates of fluffy purples flowers
Veronica – small spires of dainty white flowers

Are you getting married? You can book your free consultation by emailing me at esme@thehoneyseeker.co.uk, I can’t wait to hear from you!

Esme x