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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

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Description: Variety of shapes and sizes, long, spiky, curling tendrils from central root system
Season: year round
Colors: sage, silvery green
Cost: high
Hardiness: high

Allium

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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

Alstromeria (Peruvian Lilies)

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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

Amaranthus

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Description: These dramatic fillers come either hanging or upright.
Season: year-round
Colors: green and burgundy/dark red
Cost: ​mid
Hardiness: mid

Anemone

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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

Anthurium

Asiatic Lily

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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

Aster

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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

Astilbe

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Description: A great filler flower to add texture and height. 
Season: year-round
Colors: white, red, hot pink, light pink
Cost: mid
Hardiness: high


Astrantia

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Description: These cute little radial blooms make for a great filler flower to add texture and depth. 
Season: year-round
Colors: white, mauve, burgundy
Cost: mid
Hardiness: high

Babies Breath

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Description: A classic filler.
Season: year-round
Colors: White and yellow
Cost: low
Hardiness: high

Bells of Ireland

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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

Birds of Paradise

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Description: This purple and orange tropical flower makes a statement in large arrangements.
Season: year-round
Cost: high
Hardiness: high


Blushing Bride Protea

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Description: Medium, bell-shaped blooms clustered on a thin stem, a great way to add texture and whimsy to a bouquet
Season: year-round
Colors: white/blush pink/dark pink
Cost: mid
Hardiness: mid

Bouvardia

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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


Brunia Berries

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Description: These beautiful, elegant, silver berries add texture and interest to bouquets and arrangements, they are also great for boutonnières and corsages.
Season: year-round
Colors: silver
Cost: low
Hardiness: high

Calla Lily

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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

Calla Lily mini

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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

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

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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

Celosia (Coxcomb)

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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

Chrysanthemums- Novelty Button Poms

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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

Chrysanthemum - Cushion Poms 

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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

Chrysanthemum - Daisy Poms 

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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

Football Mums

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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

 Spider Mums

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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

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

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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

Curly Willow

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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

Cymbidium Orchid

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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

Daffodil

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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

Dahlias

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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

Delphinium

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Description: Round, flat heads made up of tiny, ball-shaped blooms
Season: slate winter-early spring
Colors: white, light pink
Cost: mid
Hardiness: high

Dianthus Green Trick

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Description: Seussian, round furry sphere-like heads, very whimsical and bright
Season: year-round
Colors: bright green
Cost: low-mid
Hardiness: high

Disbud Mum

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Description: Large blooms with thin, long petals
Season: year round
Colors: white, purple, lavender, burgundy, orange, burnt orange
Cost: low
Hardiness: mid

Dogwood

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Description: Red, twiggy, thin branches, a great way to add height and color to a natural arrangement
Season: winter
Colors: red branches
Cost: low-mid
Hardiness: high

Feverfew Buttons

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Description: Tiny, delicate little buttons, numerous blooms per stem, a great way to add whimsy and texture
Season: summer
Colors: soft yellow 
Cost: mid
Hardiness: mid

Feverfew Daisy

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Description: Tiny, delicate little blooms, numerous blooms per stem, a great way to add whimsy and texture
Season: summer
Colors: white with yellow centers
Cost: mid
Hardiness: mid

Fiddlehead Fern

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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

Forsythia

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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

Foxglove

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Description: Trumpet shaped blossoms, numerous blooms per stem, a great way to add whimsy and texture
Season: summer
Colors: white, pink, yellow with brown specks
Cost: mid
Hardiness: mid

Freesia

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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

Gardenia

Description: Large delicate blooms, lovely, strong scent
Season: year-round
Colors: white
Cost: very high
Hardiness: very delicate
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Scent: strong and lovely

Garden Roses

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Description: Larger version of a traditional rose with tighter petals, rounded shape, great substitute for peonies
Season: year-round
Colors: white, yellow, coral, pink, white, orange
Cost: mid
Hardiness: mid
Scent: strong and lovely

Gerbera Daisy

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Description: Large, colorful, trendy blooms that come in two sizes, regular and mini
Season: year-round
Colors: variety
Cost: high
Hardiness: high

Gloriosa

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Gomphrena

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Description: Smaller, fuzzy round blooms
Season: summer
Colors: white, blue, pink, purple, orange, red, raspberry, lavender
Cost: mid
Hardiness: high

Heather (Calcynia)

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Description: a wispy, beautiful filler, great to add texture and outward movement to natural arrangements
Season: year-round
Colors: white, pink
Cost: low
Hardiness: high

Hellebores

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Description: Delicate, medium sized star shaped weepy blooms
Season: winter-spring
Colors: white, pink, green, yellow, burgundy
Cost: high
Hardiness: low/med

Heliconia

Hops

Hyacinth

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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

Hydrangea

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Description: Large, full blooms
Season: year-round
Colors: white, blue, pink, green, purple, coral, green
Cost: med
Hardiness: low/med

Hypericum Berry

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Description: Small pointed berry clusters
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

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Description: Large, full, round heads with ruffly edges
Season: fall
Colors: white/green, dark green/pink, dark green/purple
Cost: mid-high
Hardiness: high

King Protea

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Description: Giant, round fuzzy center with thin, long papery petals
Season: year round
Colors: white/pink, light pink/dark pink
Cost: very high
Hardiness: high

Larkspur

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Description: These tall, elongated cone-shaped flowers are great for large arrangements.  They can be cut down for smaller arrangements and are a nice way to add a touch of blue.
Season: spring and summer
Colors: white, purple, lavender, light blue and dark blue
Cost: mid
Hardiness: low-mid

Lavender

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Description: Thin heads with tiny little blooms atop a thin stem
Season: spring, summer
Colors: lavender
Cost: low
Hardiness: high
Scent: strong, classic, lovely

Leucodendron

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Description: tall, spiked leaves extending out from center stalk, great for fall or tropical themes
Season: year-round
Colors: red, orange, yellow
Cost: mid
Hardiness: high

Liatris

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Description: Spiky flowers on tall stalks, add height to any arrangement
Season: year-round
Colors: purple lavender
Cost: mid
Hardiness: high

Lilac

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Description: These fragrant blooms have a cone-shape full of small, fragrant blooms.  This lovely spring flower can stand on its own.
Season: spring
Colors: lavender purple, pink, white
Cost: high
Hardiness: very delicate
Scent: strong and lovely

Lily of the Valley

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Limonium

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​Description: Timy blossoms, great filler
Season: year-round
Colors: light pink, dark pink, yellow, white
Cost: low
Hardiness: high

Lisianthus

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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

Lotus Pod

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Description: Round, flat, pock-marked pods, dried or fresh
Season: year-round
Colors: brown-dried, green-fresh
Cost: mid
Hardiness: high

Matsumoto Asters

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Description: Round, medium-sized blooms with large yellow centers, thin, short petals radiating from center
Season: summer
Colors: light pink, royal purple, lavender, white, dark pink
Cost: mid
Hardiness: high

Mini Hydrangea

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Description: Smaller version of the large hydrangea blooms
Season: year-round
Colors: green
Cost: mid
Hardiness: high

Mokara Orchid (Tiger Tail variety shown)

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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

Nerine

Description: Frilly, feather petals atop tall green stems
Season: winter-early spring
Colors: white, light pink
Cost: mid
Hardiness: mid

Orchid Dendrobium

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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

Peonies

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Description: Large blooms, sphere shape when closed, soft texture
Season: mid-April-end of June
Colors: white. pink, yellow
Cost: high
Hardiness: mid

Pepperberry

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Description: Beautiful sprays of dark pink berries that cascade down amidst their dark green foliage and add great texture and whimsy to arrangements
Season: mid-April-early fall
Colors: bright/dark pink
Cost: high
Hardiness: mid

Phalaenopsis Orchid

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Description: Large rounded petals
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

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Description: Spiky, round heads, great for a tropical touch or whimsy
Season: year round
Colors: orange, red, yellow
Cost: mid
Hardiness: mid

Pink Ice Protea

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Description: Large, cone-shaped heads with fuzzy centers and surrounded by thin, papery petals, great for a tropical touch, whimsy and texture
Season: year round
Colors: pink/dark pink
Cost: mid
Hardiness: high

Poppies

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Description: Large center with soft surrounding petals
Season: summer
Colors: white. pink, orange, red, yellow
Cost: high
Hardiness: very low

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 

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Description: small, round, tight clusters of berries
Season: fall
Colors: navy blue
Cost: mid
Hardiness: high

Pussy Willow

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Description: twigs with fuzzy puffs, great for seasonal and natural arrangements
Season: fall, winter, spring
Colors: silvery green
Cost: low-mid
Hardiness: mid

Queen Anne's Lace

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Description: These lovely wildflowers add that touch of whimsy and natural texture. 
Season: mid-summer - late-summer
Colors: white
Cost: mid
Hardiness: high

Ranunculus

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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

Riceflower

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Description: Round, flat heads made up of tiny, ball-shaped blooms
Season: late winter-early spring
Colors: white, light pink
Cost: mid
Hardiness: high

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

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Description: These sphere-shaped pods are very whimsical and fun.  
Season: December-June
Colors: brown
Cost: low
Hardiness: high

Scabiosa

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Description: Soft, delicate, medium-sized blooms with large centers
Season: year-round
Colors: white, lavender and burgundy
Cost: low
Hardiness: low

Sedum

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Description: Round, flat heads made up of tiny, ball-shaped blooms
Season: fall
Colors: light/dark pink
Cost: low
Hardiness: high

Snapdragon

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Description: Long, cone-shaped heads made up of small, closed blooms
Season: summer
Colors: white, light pink, hot pink, orange, red
Cost: mid
Hardiness: high

Snowberries

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Description: LLarge clusters of berries along a woody stem
Season: winter
Colors: white, light pink
Cost: mid
Hardiness: high

Solidago

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Description: Cone-shaped with long, spread out extensions, great filler 
Season: year-round
Colors: yellow
Cost: low
Hardiness: delicate

Spray Roses

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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

Stephanotis

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Description: Small, star-shaped flowers, heads only
Season: year-round
Colors: white
Cost: high
Hardiness: low

Star Of Bethlehem

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Description: Small, extended cone shaped flowers with small star-shaped blooms 
Season: year-round
Colors: white
Cost: mid
Hardiness: mid

Stock

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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

Strawflower

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Description: Round blooms with stiff, straw-like petals surrounding a large center
Season: summer
Colors: yellow, burgundy-red, purpleberry
Cost: mid
Hardiness: high

Succulents

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Description: Variety of shapes and sizes
Season: year round
Colors: lime green, silvery green, grey-green, blue-green, grey, purple
Cost: mid
Hardiness: mid

Sweet Pea

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Description: These fragrant blooms have a crescent-shaped end.  The blooms start at one end and tiny buds extend outward.
Season: late fall-early summer
Colors: white, yellow, purple, pink, white, orange, red
Cost: high
Hardiness: very delicate
Scent: strong and lovely

Thistle

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Description: Dark blue centers surrounded by thin, pointed petals, these wildflowers are perfect for a natural look
Season: Year-round
Colors: blue, green
Cost: mid
Hardiness: high

Tulips

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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

Tweedia

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Description: Tiny blooms on a woody stem, a great way to add baby blue to an arrangement
Season: spring-summer
Colors: light blue
Cost: mid
Hardiness: low

Veronica

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Description: Long, medium, cone-shaped heads on long stems
Season: year round
Colors: white, light pink, pink, purple, lavender
Cost: mid
Hardiness:  mid

Viburnum Berries

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Description: small, round, tight clusters of berries
Season: year-round
Colors: navy blue
Cost: mid
Hardiness: high

Waxflower

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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

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

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Description: Long and thin, feathery
Season: year-round
Colors: dark burgundy/brown
Cost: low-mid
Hardiness: high

Aralia

Aspidistera

Baby Blue (Spiral)Eucalyptus

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Bear Grass

Bayleaf

Bupleurum

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Coculus

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Dusty Miller

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Huckleberry

Pampas Grass

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Parfavolia (Bonsai)Eucalyptus

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Seeded Eucalyptus

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Description: Leaves range from round to long oval shaped depending on season,  with stalks of small berries
Season: year-round
Colors: silvery green
Cost: low-mid
Hardiness: high

Seeded Willow Eucalyptus

Grevillea

Ivy

Jasmine Vine

Leatherleaf Fern

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Maidenhair Fern

Mint

Nagi

Mini Variegated Pittosporum

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Monstera Leaf

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Description: Giant Elephant ear palm leaves
Season: year-round
Colors: green
Cost: high
Hardiness: high

Myrtle

Ninebark

Olive

Podocarpus

Rosemary

Sage

Salal (Lemon Leaf)

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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

Smilax

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Smokebush

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Sword/Flat Fern

Plumosus/Tree Fern

Thyme

Ti Leaves

Italian Ruscus

Israeli Ruscus

Variegated Pittosporum

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