Flowers vary in price and availability. When designing your special event it is important to consider budget, time of year and overall look of the event. This guide is organized to help you choose the perfect florals for you.
This list isn't completely comprehensive and we are always adding to it. We would love to begin the conversation with you on what florals are perfect for you and your vision)
A-Z Flower Guide
Blooms and Fillers
Air Plant
Allium
Description: These sphere-shaped blooms are well known for their lavender color and modern look.
Season: April-August, sometimes October
Color: white, purple/blue
Meaning: love
Cost: high
Season: April-August, sometimes October
Color: white, purple/blue
Meaning: love
Cost: high
Alstromeria (Peruvian Lilies)
Description: With the look of mini lilies, these hardy, elegant flowers are very affordable and work especially well in corsages. They come with multiple blooms to a stem and can last well over a week.
Season: year-round
Colors: white, yellow, orange, purple, red, pink, white and multi
Cost: low
Hardiness: high
Season: year-round
Colors: white, yellow, orange, purple, red, pink, white and multi
Cost: low
Hardiness: high
Amaranthus
Description: These dramatic fillers come either hanging or upright.
Season: year-round
Colors: green and burgundy/dark red
Cost: mid
Hardiness: mid
Season: year-round
Colors: green and burgundy/dark red
Cost: mid
Hardiness: mid
Anemone
Description: These lovely blooms have a large black center and come in a variety of petal colors.
Season: December-May
Colors: white, purple, burgundy, red, pink
Cost: high
Meaning: expectation
Hardiness: very delicate
Season: December-May
Colors: white, purple, burgundy, red, pink
Cost: high
Meaning: expectation
Hardiness: very delicate
Anthurium
Asiatic Lily
Description: These elegant and large blooms are traditionally seen at Easter time in white. They come in a variety of bold colors and will add elegance and drama to arrangements.
Season: year-round
Colors: white, orange, pink, yellow, red
Cost: high
Meaning: virtue
Scent: Heavy/Oriental
Hardiness: high
Season: year-round
Colors: white, orange, pink, yellow, red
Cost: high
Meaning: virtue
Scent: Heavy/Oriental
Hardiness: high
Aster
Description: These feathery-petaled flowers give soft texture to any arrangement. The blooms are quite small and like any chrysanthemum, are extremely hardy.
Season: year-round
Colors: white, purple, pink, red
Cost: low
Meaning: beginnings
Hardiness: high
Season: year-round
Colors: white, purple, pink, red
Cost: low
Meaning: beginnings
Hardiness: high
Astilbe
Description: A great filler flower to add texture and height.
Season: year-round
Colors: white, red, hot pink, light pink
Cost: mid
Hardiness: high
Season: year-round
Colors: white, red, hot pink, light pink
Cost: mid
Hardiness: high
Astrantia
Babies Breath
Description: A classic filler.
Season: year-round
Colors: White and yellow
Cost: low
Hardiness: high
Season: year-round
Colors: White and yellow
Cost: low
Hardiness: high
Bells of Ireland
Description: These tall, elongated cone shaped greens add whimsy and height to a floral arrangement. Each stem is extremely long with little bell-shaped protrusions along the stem.
Season: year-round
Colors: green only
Cost: mid
Hardiness: high
Season: year-round
Colors: green only
Cost: mid
Hardiness: high
Birds of Paradise
Description: This purple and orange tropical flower makes a statement in large arrangements.
Season: year-round
Cost: high
Hardiness: high
Season: year-round
Cost: high
Hardiness: high
Blushing Bride Protea
Bouvardia
Description: These small flowers pack texture and interest in arrangements.
Season: year-round
Colors: white, red, light pink, dark pink, fuschia
Cost: mid
Meaning: enthusiasm
Scent: faint sweet/floral scent
Season: year-round
Colors: white, red, light pink, dark pink, fuschia
Cost: mid
Meaning: enthusiasm
Scent: faint sweet/floral scent
Brunia Berries
Calla Lily
Description: This large cone shaped flower wraps around itself with a yellow center poking through. These long-stemmed elegant flowers have enough presence to stand alone as the sole flower of a beautiful bouquet.
Season: year-round
Colors: white and yellow
Cost: high
Hardiness: high
Season: year-round
Colors: white and yellow
Cost: high
Hardiness: high
Calla Lily mini
Description: These flowers are a smaller version of the regular calla, however, they come in a wider variety of colors.
Season: year-round
Colors: white, yellow, pink, orange, lavender, dark burgundy
Cost: mid
Hardiness: high
Season: year-round
Colors: white, yellow, pink, orange, lavender, dark burgundy
Cost: mid
Hardiness: high
Campanula (Canterbury Bells)
Description: Round, flat heads made up of tiny, ball-shaped blooms
Season: spring Colors: white, light pink, purple Cost: mid Hardiness: low |
Carnation
Description: These flowers are typically perceived as cheap and trite, however, they have beautiful texture and can make a lovely statement in any arrangement mixed with other flowers or even with just its mates.
Season: year-round
Colors: purple, green, white, yellow, peach, dark pink, light pink, burgundy, color-tipped
Cost: low
Hardiness: high
Season: year-round
Colors: purple, green, white, yellow, peach, dark pink, light pink, burgundy, color-tipped
Cost: low
Hardiness: high
Celosia (Coxcomb)
Description: These blooms are triangular in shape with wavy ends. They remind me of coral and add a touch of the unexpected to an arrangement.
Season: July-October
Colors: burgundy, orange, pink, yellow, green
Cost: high
Season: July-October
Colors: burgundy, orange, pink, yellow, green
Cost: high
Chrysanthemums- Novelty Button Poms
Description: These small flowers actually are button size. They come several blooms to a stem and add playful texture to a casual or modern arrangement.
Season: year-round
Colors: white, yellow, green, pink
Cost: low
Hardiness: high
Season: year-round
Colors: white, yellow, green, pink
Cost: low
Hardiness: high
Chrysanthemum - Cushion Poms
Description: These small blooms have a tight shape and small, spiky petals.
Season: year-round
Colors: white, yellow, purple, dark pink, light pink, burgundy, green
Cost: low
Hardiness: high
Season: year-round
Colors: white, yellow, purple, dark pink, light pink, burgundy, green
Cost: low
Hardiness: high
Chrysanthemum - Daisy Poms
Description: These classic wildflowers come in a variety of colors. They are medium sized flowers and create high impact for low cost.
Season: year-round
Colors: white, yellow, burgundy, purple, pink, yellow with black centers
Cost: low
Meaning: innocence
Hardiness: high
Season: year-round
Colors: white, yellow, burgundy, purple, pink, yellow with black centers
Cost: low
Meaning: innocence
Hardiness: high
Football Mums
Description: These large mums have soft buttery petals and will fill a lot of space in any arrangement.
Season: year-round
Colors: white, yellow, orange, lavender
Cost: mid
Hardiness: medium
Season: year-round
Colors: white, yellow, orange, lavender
Cost: mid
Hardiness: medium
Spider Mums
Description: These large mums have soft, spiky petals and will fill a lot of space in any arrangement.
Season: year-round
Colors: white, yellow, orange, lavender
Cost: mid
Hardiness: medium
Season: year-round
Colors: white, yellow, orange, lavender
Cost: mid
Hardiness: medium
Cornflower
Description: Round, medium blooms with thin, spiky petals
Season: summer Colors: blue, bright pink Cost: mid Hardiness: high |
Cosmos
Description: Round, small, delicate blooms with thin, radial petals
Season: year round Colors: white, light pink, chocolate, dark burgundy Cost: mid Hardiness: low |
Crespedia Billy Buttons
Description: These small, spherical blossoms are whimsical and modern. They add playfulness and a blast of color to arrangements.
Season: year-round
Colors: yellow
Cost: mid
Season: year-round
Colors: yellow
Cost: mid
Curly Willow
Description: These whimsical branches a perfect for a woodsy arrangement. They add tremendous height and beauty as the tips curl up into the sky.
Season: year-round
Cost: mid
Hardiness: high
Season: year-round
Cost: mid
Hardiness: high
Cymbidium Orchid
Description: This is one of the largest orchid blooms money can buy. They come with many blooms on a single stem.
Season: year-round
Colors: white, yellow, orange, pink, purple, green
Meaning: ecstasy
Cost: high
Hardiness: fairly high
Season: year-round
Colors: white, yellow, orange, pink, purple, green
Meaning: ecstasy
Cost: high
Hardiness: fairly high
Daffodil
Description: These beautiful, springy blooms have a round center that extends from surrounding radial petals.
Season: Spring, primarily November-April
Colors: white, yellow, peach, orange
Cost: mid
Scent: heavy Oriental scent, especially in white
Meaning: respect
Hardiness: fairly high
Season: Spring, primarily November-April
Colors: white, yellow, peach, orange
Cost: mid
Scent: heavy Oriental scent, especially in white
Meaning: respect
Hardiness: fairly high
Dahlias
Description: These large blooms come in bright colors and have unopened side blooms for added texture
Season: June-October
Colors: white, purple, lavender, pink, red and yellow
Cost: mid
Hardiness: mid
Season: June-October
Colors: white, purple, lavender, pink, red and yellow
Cost: mid
Hardiness: mid
Delphinium
Description: Round, flat heads made up of tiny, ball-shaped blooms
Season: slate winter-early spring
Colors: white, light pink
Cost: mid
Hardiness: high
Season: slate winter-early spring
Colors: white, light pink
Cost: mid
Hardiness: high
Dianthus Green Trick
Disbud Mum
Dogwood
Feverfew Buttons
Feverfew Daisy
Fiddlehead Fern
Description: These spiral-headed stems are the unopened form of the well-known leather leaf fern. They add a touch of whimsy and playfulness to arrangements.
Season: spring
Cost: high
Hardiness: mid
Season: spring
Cost: high
Hardiness: mid
Forsythia
Description: These tall, woody branches have tiny yellow blooms spanning the length of the stem.
Season: March-April
Cost: mid
Hardiness: blooms are delicate, stems are very hardy
Season: March-April
Cost: mid
Hardiness: blooms are delicate, stems are very hardy
Foxglove
Freesia
Description: These fragrant blooms have a crescent-shaped end. The blooms start at one end and tiny buds extend outward.
Season: year-round
Colors: white, yellow, purple, pink, white, orange
Cost: mid
Hardiness: delicate
Scent: strong and lovely
Season: year-round
Colors: white, yellow, purple, pink, white, orange
Cost: mid
Hardiness: delicate
Scent: strong and lovely
Gardenia
Description: Large delicate blooms, lovely, strong scent
Season: year-round Colors: white Cost: very high Hardiness: very delicate Scent: strong and lovely |
Garden Roses
Gerbera Daisy
Description: Large, colorful, trendy blooms that come in two sizes, regular and mini
Season: year-round
Colors: variety
Cost: high
Hardiness: high
Season: year-round
Colors: variety
Cost: high
Hardiness: high
Gloriosa
Gomphrena
Heather (Calcynia)
Hellebores
Heliconia
Hops
Hyacinth
Description: Extremely fragrant, small blossoms in a cone-shaped cluster.
Season: Early Spring
Colors: pink, white, lavender
Cost: mid
Hardiness: mid
Scent: strong and lovely
Season: Early Spring
Colors: pink, white, lavender
Cost: mid
Hardiness: mid
Scent: strong and lovely
Hydrangea
Hypericum Berry
Description: Small pointed berry clusters
Season: year-round
Colors: light pink, dark pink/red, green, white/pink
Cost: low
Hardiness: high
Season: year-round
Colors: light pink, dark pink/red, green, white/pink
Cost: low
Hardiness: high
Iris
Description: Large, full blooms that unfold from stems
Season: spring Colors: white, yellow, purple, blue-purple Cost: high Hardiness: mid |
Kalanchoe
Description: tight, small blooms clustered on a tall stem
Season: year-round Colors: white, pink, orange, hot pink Cost: mid Hardiness: mid |
Kangaroo Paw
Description: Long, knobby clusters on long stems, great for tropical arrangements
Season: year-round Colors: white, orange, pink, lime green, red, yellow Cost: high Hardiness: mid |
Kale
King Protea
Larkspur
Lavender
Leucodendron
Liatris
Description: Spiky flowers on tall stalks, add height to any arrangement
Season: year-round
Colors: purple lavender
Cost: mid
Hardiness: high
Season: year-round
Colors: purple lavender
Cost: mid
Hardiness: high
Lilac
Lily of the Valley
Lisianthus
Description: These lovely rose-like blooms have many off-shoots and add great height and texture to arrangements
Season: year-round
Colors: lavender, royal purple, terra-cotta, white, pink
Cost: mid
Hardiness: mid
Season: year-round
Colors: lavender, royal purple, terra-cotta, white, pink
Cost: mid
Hardiness: mid
Lotus Pod
Matsumoto Asters
Mini Hydrangea
Description: Smaller version of the large hydrangea blooms
Season: year-round
Colors: green
Cost: mid
Hardiness: high
Season: year-round
Colors: green
Cost: mid
Hardiness: high
Mokara Orchid (Tiger Tail variety shown)
Description: Similar size to Dendrobium orchids, petals are more spiked and slender, coloring is spotted
Season: year-round
Colors: white, orange, red, purple, tiger tail and yellow
Cost: high
Hardiness: mid
Season: year-round
Colors: white, orange, red, purple, tiger tail and yellow
Cost: high
Hardiness: mid
Nerine
Description: Frilly, feather petals atop tall green stems
Season: winter-early spring Colors: white, light pink Cost: mid Hardiness: mid |
Orchid Dendrobium
Description: These smaller orchids come with multiple blooms on a stem. The blooms at the top are unopened and have a cocoon shape. These stems extend outwards and can add height or width to arrangements.
Season: year-round
Colors: green, white, pink and white, pink, white and purple, purple, orange, blue-bom (died variety)
Cost: mid
Meaning: ecstasy
Hardiness: medium
Season: year-round
Colors: green, white, pink and white, pink, white and purple, purple, orange, blue-bom (died variety)
Cost: mid
Meaning: ecstasy
Hardiness: medium
Peonies
Pepperberry
Phalaenopsis Orchid
Description: Large rounded petals
Season: year-round
Colors: white. pink and purple
Cost: high
Hardiness: mid
Season: year-round
Colors: white. pink and purple
Cost: high
Hardiness: mid
Phlox
Description: Small, star-shaped blooms, large clusters of blooms on one stem
Season: summer Colors: white, purple, light pink, dark pink Cost: mid Hardiness: mid |
Pincushion Protea
Pink Ice Protea
Poppies
Poppy Pods
Description: Medium sized, round heads with black fringe on top, great for organic and natural arrangements
Season: spring and summer Colors: green Cost: mid Hardiness: high |
Privet
Pussy Willow
Queen Anne's Lace
Ranunculus
Description: This delicate blossom resembles a rose but is smaller and its petals and more tightly clustered. Side blooms are small balls
Season: year-round
Colors: white, red, light pink, hot pink, peach, orange, chocolate and yellow
Cost: high
Hardiness: low
Season: year-round
Colors: white, red, light pink, hot pink, peach, orange, chocolate and yellow
Cost: high
Hardiness: low
Riceflower
Rose Hips
Description: Clumps of berries on long stems that cascade loosely
Season: year-round Colors: red, orange Cost: mid-high Hardiness: high |
Scabiosa Pods
Description: These sphere-shaped pods are very whimsical and fun.
Season: December-June
Colors: brown
Cost: low
Hardiness: high
Season: December-June
Colors: brown
Cost: low
Hardiness: high
Scabiosa
Description: Soft, delicate, medium-sized blooms with large centers
Season: year-round
Colors: white, lavender and burgundy
Cost: low
Hardiness: low
Season: year-round
Colors: white, lavender and burgundy
Cost: low
Hardiness: low
Sedum
Snapdragon
Snowberries
Solidago
Spray Roses
Description: Smaller-head roses, add beautiful and romantic texture to bouquets and arrangements, perfect size for corsages and boutonnieres
Season: year-round
Colors: variety
Cost: mid
Hardiness: high
Season: year-round
Colors: variety
Cost: mid
Hardiness: high
Stephanotis
Star Of Bethlehem
Stock
Description: Large, cone-shaped blooms, great for fillers and adding height to arrangements
Season: year-round
Colors: white, purple, lavender, pink, red and yellow
Cost: low
Hardiness: high
Season: year-round
Colors: white, purple, lavender, pink, red and yellow
Cost: low
Hardiness: high
Strawflower
Succulents
Sweet Pea
Thistle
Tulips
Description: A classic and beautiful flower, it drapes nicely in arrangements
Season: February-Mother's Day
Colors: white, pink, orange, red, black jack, purple and yellow
Cost: mid
Hardiness: mid
Season: February-Mother's Day
Colors: white, pink, orange, red, black jack, purple and yellow
Cost: mid
Hardiness: mid
Tweedia
Veronica
Viburnum Berries
Waxflower
Description: Sweet, small blooms with spiky leaves to add texture and depth to any bouquet, wonderful licorice-esque fragrance
Season: mostly year-round
Colors: white, pink, pinkish-purple
Cost: low
Hardiness: mid
Scent: A lovely licorice-like smell
Season: mostly year-round
Colors: white, pink, pinkish-purple
Cost: low
Hardiness: mid
Scent: A lovely licorice-like smell
Zinnia
Description: Round, flat heads with radial petals and large centers
Season: slummer Colors: white, light pink, dark pink, orange, yellow, purple Cost: low Hardiness: high |
Foliage/Greenery
Agonis
Aralia
Aspidistera
Baby Blue (Spiral)Eucalyptus
Bear Grass
Bayleaf
Bupleurum
Coculus
Dusty Miller
Huckleberry
Pampas Grass
Parfavolia (Bonsai)Eucalyptus
Seeded Eucalyptus
Seeded Willow Eucalyptus
Grevillea
Ivy
Jasmine Vine
Leatherleaf Fern
Maidenhair Fern
Mint
Nagi
Mini Variegated Pittosporum
Monstera Leaf
Description: Giant Elephant ear palm leaves
Season: year-round
Colors: green
Cost: high
Hardiness: high
Season: year-round
Colors: green
Cost: high
Hardiness: high
Myrtle
Ninebark
Olive
Podocarpus
Rosemary
Sage
Salal (Lemon Leaf)
Description: The leaves are a vibrant shade of green, great for bouquet wrapping
Season: year-round
Colors: dark-green with lemongrass undertones
Cost: low
Hardiness: high
Season: year-round
Colors: dark-green with lemongrass undertones
Cost: low
Hardiness: high