My fav bulky bouquet fillers that bloom all summer!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ก.พ. 2025
- My Top Five bouquet fillers for summer bouquets are important because they add size and beauty to bouquets; but there's one more thing these filler flowers have in common on my cut flower farm. I'm calling these "neverending" fillers and I'm sharing what they are, my favourite varieties of each, some growing tips and information, and specific floral design tips for working with each on in bouquets and arrangements.
This video is one of the most helpful videos that I have watched from anyone. I really like how you not only spoke about your favorite fillers but also about where you placed the flowers in your bouquets. Great video!
Oh wonderful, thanks for your feedback, Deb! Glad you found this one helpful!
Great presentation with helpful styling tips and growing suggestions. Thank you!!
So glad it was helpful! 💖
What a fantastic video. Honestly, your bouquets are absolutely beautiful - lots of inspiration there. I must admit I have dropped sweet peas off my list for now - I've found it has such a short vase life that despite its beauty and perfume, it'd be disappointing for customers in bouquets. I'm also going heavier on perennials - echinacea, perennial phlox and campanula, echinops etc etc. Loved this - thanks 🎉🎉🎉
Perennials are amazing! If you have the space for them, they are invaluable! My customers love the sweet peas; BUT we all have to do what works best for us, our farms, our customers! All of my bouquets go out with flower food; which really helps sweet peas! Perennial phlox is lovely too, I think you will love those, just wish it stuck around longer!
Please keep coming with these great videos! 😍👏🏻💐
I will! Thank you! 💖💖
I just found your channel and love that you are also in BC. I live in Prince George, so have a slightly different climate. One of my favourite flowers in the garden is sedum. I bought 15 of the Proven Winners tall sedums on sale for a $1 at the end of last season. I'm hoping they come back this spring.
@@madaboutflowers3136 I love end-of-season clearance markdowns.
Let’s talk about that fabulous sweater! I love it so much. And the colours. For fillers here at home I really like ammi, statice, bupleurum, basil..
I like basil too, it’s just a bit more seasonal for me! As is bupleurum! I should do another video like this for spring fillers. And another for late summer 🤣
Great idea about using the sedum as the base
It’s neat that way! I’ve also used it as a mechanic/base in styled bouquets!
Just starting flower farm in uk . Your knowledge is super helpful
I’m glad to hear that! Have a great growing season!!
Always love a “ Florists on Farms” notification! I’m growing more peachy/apricot colored blooms directly because of your color wheel/peach flowers videos, I’m excited to arrange with them.
Yay! I don’t think you will regret bringing more of those hues in! 💖💖
Thank you x Love from Ireland as always ❤
Right back at you from Canada! 💖
Ok you sold me on Monarda! I’m going to try it this year. I hate the red I”ve seen everywhere - but the panorama mix looks great!
Let me know how you like it! There a a few different colour options!
Wow, you make absolutely gorgeous bouquets and wreaths!! Such a great video!
Thank you for the high praise! I’m glad this one was valuable for you!
Thank you
So good! I did learn new information! My sweet peas were amazing this last season and I did cut branches quite often and found them to be so beautiful in my designs and people were surprised and delighted. That came from watching your work! Statis… yes I keep hearing about how great it is. I must grow next season. And the sedum, another one I must get into. Thank you so much 🌺🌹🌺
Yes, the design tips were extremely helpful! I can't wait to be playing with flowers again this season after learning so much from you regarding design and color!
Oh yay! Wishing you a bountiful flower garden to work with! It is not too far off now!!
I love the colors of your bouquets!
Thank you! I have a board of lots of them saved on Pinterest, if that’s helpful! pin.it/WDVuqeoh4
Awesome video and I love your sweater!!
Glad you enjoyed this one, and thank you! I so rarely get to wear my “not farm” clothes, even on TH-cam hahahah
Love the bouquets and colors! Great content and I'm happy to hear about bee balm since I have plenty of it. Planting more flowers this year as I love gathering them to bring their beauty into my home.
I hope you have a bountiful garden season, Rosemary! In some of the comments we are chatting about mildew in bee balm. I don’t find mine gets mildew until late season; but some people have more problems with it. Do you find yours gets mildew?
@floristsonfarms Thank you! No mildew until very late, if at all, with full sun exposure. Wishing you a bountiful season as well!
That is great to know, thanks Rosemary!
I’m growing flowers for my son’s wedding next August 9th. Unfortunately my daughter in law is fixated on Orange flowers. (No yellow, no pink) The dresses are rust. Last summer I grew flowers as a trial and got a good idea for what she likes and am all set to fill the garden with orange flowers. I love how you show how to choose a flower and then connect it to others in the palette. I’m growing shades of oranges, peaches, terracotta in snapdragons, zinnias, dahlias, statice, straw flowers, Gomphrena and celosia. I’m growing Orlaya, babies breath, Tanecetum, for some whites and dusty miller and basil for greens. I’ve also started lisianthus from seed but I don’t think any of them will be “orange” enough but there are some lovely salmon and apricot. In the trial bouquets last summer I didn’t like dusty miller with the orange or white with the orange. Any suggestions? Should I just keep the bridesmaids bouquets to the shades of orange and forget the whites and grey? I’ve also overwintered eucalyptus. I’d like to make her bouquet whites and light apricot, peaches but that’s a conversation for another day. 😁
Aaah yes, those are tricky because brides don’t usually understand how colour works or how using even different shades and tints of a hue creates the beauty and dynamic look they actually like! I’d lean into what bride wants, for sure! Pinterest or web searching orange bouquets might help give you some inspo!
I’m not a grower for market, but this was useful for me, too. Thank you.
Wonderful! Designing from the garden is for EVERYONE 💖💖🥰
Always love your videos! Great idea to use sedum for base structure, I’ll have to give that a go! 💚
Yes! I’ve used it as a natural mechanic/base for styled bouquets also!
You just convinced me to grow out some sweet pea seeds I have ☺️
Oooh! Let me know your thoughts later this year, Jessie! Curious how they will do for you. Bonus: they fix nitrogen! You can take advantage of the shade they offer too for certain crops. Lots of things to play with there if they become a worthy crop for you!
What a great video, thank you! You are SO helpful ❤ with such a perfect mix of growing and design. Growing sweetpeas for the first time - not sure how far into the summer they'll last but we'll see! Started them in today!
We can’t know until we try, right? So glad this one was helpful for you! 💖💖 Enjoy those sweet peas!
Great video, thanks! Feverfew: my third year growing, gets prolific but I find it flowers in peak summer when my sales are low, then when sales pick up again few weeks later they are all past their best. I do however dry them 👌
Oooh yes, that’s not helpful! I dry it too! Completely forgot to mention that!
Your bouquet style is so very beautiful I absolutely adore it. I LOVE bee balm! I love the way it smells! it's also great for teas My only issue is the specific one I have at my other house is extremely prone to powdery mildew. Last year I used autumn joy I my bouquets because of watching your videos and discovered I LOVE them! Feaver few should perennialize In your area. The ones I have on the west side of mountains (cascade) are still blooming 😅
Ok, phew, I am really glad to know I’m not the only one who likes the smell of the monarda! 🤣 I forgot to mention the mildew! If powdery mildew is a big issue with it, then that would definitely drop it lower on the list in my book! Mine gets a bit of mildew; but it’s not until later in the season. So glad you’re enjoying the sedum! And that great to hear about the feverfew, mine is trying to bloom too so far this winter, though we haven’t really dropped into low temperatures yet!
@@floristsonfarms yes its been a very mild winter here. Our house is only a few hours away from the Washington, Canadian boarder (we are selling it soon) Right now we are setting up 2 hours east from our house. I am glad they finally got snow over there. Unfortunately, here in Ellensburg we are very low on snow we barely got a dusting yesterday.
Yes, report back on how the sweet peas do! Do you do acting different in the way you grow them when you know you’re cutting the vine as well? I know people have various opinions on cutting off the tendrils. What have you found most helpful.
I’d also love to hear your thoughts on how annual acts perennial phlox compare to each other in a future video.
Super useful video thanks!
No, I treat them the same; BUT I can say that my hoop house sweet peas exceed my field sweet peas for stem length. I dont cut off the tendrils. I do pinch the plants back once when they are young, to encourage branching.
Perennial phlox pretty much flowers just once for me. Sometimes it might do a secondary flush, but that’s never very strong. Perennial phlox has large bulky stems. Annual phlox, on the other hand, is more dainty but blooms for me all summer long.
Hope that helps! 💖
Thanks!
Thank you! 🥰
Love your choices, so many great flowers. I’m surprised your Feverfew didn’t bloom until July, with you being in zone 8. They are a cold hardy annual and can survive up to -10 degree Fahrenheit. They may surprise you next year!
I’m glad to hear that about feverfew, like I said, it was probably user error 🤣. I likely started and planted them late! Can’t wait to see what they will do this year! We never get to -10 F around here, so that is great news for the feverfew!
Wonderful video - loved the artistic value of each variety coupled with growing, harvesting and handling info. Would you care to share the source of the white paper wrapping some of your bouquets ?- Love this look instead of brown kraft paper. Many thanks, Michelle
Hi Michelle! I can’t share a direct source because it was one of those one-time Amazon purchases that doesn’t stick around. Haven’t really found something like that anywhere else. But it is a thinner waxed paper. Sorry, not very helpful!
Those red dahlias are gorgeous-what variety is that?
I’m thinking you are seeing the Cornel dahlias; but if you want to comment with the time stamp, I can double check for you!
Thank you for this video, much appreciated. I have a question about perennial phlox. Do you process them differently or the same as the annual phlox?
No different! Harvest timing is also similar - I’m wanting to see some unopened buds !
quick question, what variety of Eryngium do you have? Did you start it from seed? I need to figure that one out- I would love to get a variety that has a more substantial 'collar' but I can't seem to find seeds for much other than glitter.
This is great content. Thank you.
Glad it was helpful! 💖💖
Loved this video and seeing all your beautiful flowers! It makes me excited for the spring. Is the peachy spike flower at 13:19 foxglove? I love that. Any tips on growing/harvesting it?
Yes, that one has been in a few videos from last year! That was my first year with that one: Polka Dot Polly and it’s my current fav. I loooove foxgloves! Harvesting when about 1/3 to 1/2 of the flowers are open - the ripest ones near the bottom will have been pollinated and will be the first to go. To grow, I start on heat mats. 😄
@floristsonfarms I will look for those videos. Thanks so much!
I used that digitalis in this bouquet palette video and there’s some good up close footage of it in there: th-cam.com/video/NpLhfTECV-4/w-d-xo.htmlsi=69l5CQrBhvc7J-t9
I learn so much from you, and love your style! I love sweet peas. Where do you source your phlox seeds?
So glad this was helpful! 💖💖 I have sourced all of my annual phlox from William Dam seeds! I saved seeds from it this year so I’m curious to see what colours I get from those too!
@floristsonfarms do you grow lisianthus? If so, which colors work best for you
I would love to; but no, I don’t, they don’t really fit my business strategy. But if I did, I would be growing the Roseanne brown and anything peachy and possibly cream!
@floristsonfarms Thank you , they are expensive plugs and not cost effective from seed.
Exactly! I think they definitely have a place depending on one’s business! If I did a lot of weddings, I’d probably be growing them!
Royal Family, Mammoth, and Butterfly Blend sweet peas all last for me from the beginning of June through to September and all three are available through West Coast Seeds, thought you might like to know. I buy these three because they are less scented then the others. I plant mine behind my dahlias and potatoes to keep their feet sheltered from the heat.
Specifically, when do you start cutting Autumn Joy in the spring?
I usually wait until I start to see some florets on the sedum, so late May. Thank you for the sweet pea recommendations! 💖💖
@@floristsonfarms I don't yet grow Autumn Sedum so I wasn't sure even when the florets start. I am a bit week on bouquet product June 1-ish, so the possiblity of using it possibly at that time period peaked my curiosity, apparently it does, so, thanks!
Yes! They are just getting tall enough for bouquets around then in my gardens so hopefully will do so for you too! I also have lupine, geum, columbine, sweet rocket, honeysuckle, astrantia, physocarpus, and foxgloves around then as well!
@@floristsonfarms I really should try honeysuckle, perenial lupin, AND Autumn Joy.
Haha I’m sure you’ll find space! Lupine are really pretty…not super great in warm environments. I used a a bucket full of them for some vases for my own wedding and I remember they had all flopped by the end of that very hot late day in late May! I’m partial to the pink lupines and i really want to find some peach lupin seeds, if you ever see any! I just relocated all of my Lupines because they haven’t been completely happy with where they were - I think it was too wet there for them. Hoping they aren’t too worse for wear!
I like yarrow but I have such a hard time knowing when to pick it. Any suggestions?
I pick it when the larger centre section is fully open. If the whispy side blooms aren’t ready yet, those will wilt; but they can be removed. Ideally, I pick it when all the individual blooms are open including the side shoots. It has an extended harvest window which is nice, so it can also be picked when it’s more ripe and starting to fade out a bit.
Does sweetpea regrow when You cut it on the wine ?
Yes! I find it keeps growing!
Sweet peas into the summer?! Ours never make it to June. We start them in November. This year we were late and barely started them. I’m going to attempt a 30% shade cloth so we can get a little bloom time (zone 10b) but our statice grows 365 days here.
Allll summer long for me for sweet peas! I’m sorry they fizzle out for you! But 365 days of statice?! That’s incredible!
Matricaria is a biannual, they rebloom earlier year 2
Aaah, thank you!
No basil or mint?
While I like both as foliages; basil has a much shorter season for me. And mint isn’t as bulky as my Top 5s for sizing up those bouquets!