June Blooms: A Devon Wedding Florist's Guide to Seasonal Flowers for Your Summer Wedding.
As a Devon Wedding Florist I am lucky enough to be surrounded by the beauty of nature and more importantly to focus on seasonality in my wedding work. My couples come to me because they adore the way seasonal flowers feel and look, and so it is paramount that I offer them the best that each season has to offer. Quite often the most beautful blooms are the most fleeting, and so I want to explore what flowers are in season in June within this blog post. A must read for any couples getting married in this popular month!
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I have to begin this blog post with possibly the most requested flower, ever! Peonies are a stunning, blousy bloom usually available from May through to June/beginning of July. Their short season is very much weather dependent and so if you are desperate to use peonies within your wedding flowers I would recommend booking your wedding date late May/early June to have a guarantee of including these super special flowers. Peonies come in a wide range of colours from pure white, through to soft cream, yellow to blush, warm pink and then onto the deeper colours such as cerise and burgundy. Oh and coral, how could I forget the coral peonies! Its the most unique coral colour that can only be brought to the table by this flower.
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Peonies are a large headed blousy flower so they work well in large installations such as flower arches or big statement urns. When using them in bridal bouquets I tend to use just a few, depending on their size, nestled in amongst other summer seasonal flowers to give texture and interest. For an early summer wedding, peonies really are one of the most exquisite flowers you could hope to have in your wedding.
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Moving onto another firm favourite seasonal June flower, the garden rose. I adore garden roses for their elegant and romantic nature, the soft blousy petals ooze country garden elegance and add an air of luxury to your wedding flowers that standard roses do not. There is no competition between an imported rose and a locally grown hand picked garden rose. David Austin roses are the very best and I urge you to browse through the varieties here! The colours of garden roses are more tonal so one bloom can have a variety of tones within that flower, making this flower a brilliant choice for wedding flowers.
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Wedding florists are constantly on the look out for new flowers or potentially new colour shades to use, therefore garden roses are the perfect plant for exploring trends as they offe a huge range of colours, shapes, bloom size with rose breeders releasing new roses all the time. Garden roses can be very versatile when used properly in wedding flowers, the big trailing stems can be used to add focal texture to a large scale installation, or the shorter, smaller heads can complete a bridal bouquet. Personally I think blousy summer roses, scented sweet peas and trailing honeysuckle epitomise June, in a timeless yet elegant manner.
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The first flush of garden shrub roses happens around late May/June so you will be enjoying the beautiful blooms during this period for three-four weeks. Once the rose petals have finished you can deadhead them, which will encourange new growth and a second flush of blooms around 6-8 weeks later. I have just deadheaded a few of my garden shrub roses, which have fortunately given my borders such stunning colour and interest, I must say I am missing them and 6-8 weeks seems a long time to wait for more blooms!
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The third beautiful flower I want to talk to you about in my June seasonal flower blog is Mock Orange. Also known as Philadelphus, it is more of a foliage than a flower and could go a little unoticed in the gardens, when up aainst the colourful blousy nature of the rose or peonies. But, one you notice this incredible plant, you will keep on noticing it, yet only for a bery short period of time. Mock Orange has a fleeting season and again very weather dependent, I used it for a beautofil wedding last year and really had my hopes on using it for a special wedding at the same time this year. Luckily for the couple, the mock orange was just perfect and I am sure you will agree it not only elevates the arrangements, but completes them.
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nI am lucky enough to have a trusted local supplier in Pat The Forgotten Garden, who nurtures her plants, keeping a watchful eye on them and thankfully giving me the heads up when certain special plants are ready to go! And then we go, go, go... no time to stop, this flower is ready and we are going to make sure we pass it over to use in our beautofil weddings for our happy couples! A huge amount of work goes into the sourcing of local flowers and making sure they are utter perfection for the wedding day.
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Aside from the three June wedding flower favourites mentioned above, there are of course plenty of other gorgoues flowers I love to use at this time of year. Too many to mention, however for more wedding flower inspiration I will share some with you. Cornflowers, Sweetpeas, Corncockle, Larkspur, Orlaya, Ammi, Honeysuckle, Astrantia, Clary Sage... see what I mean, there really are too many to mention! If you are getting married in June in the South West and looking for seasonal blooms, then I would love to hear from you! As a Devon Wedding Florist I have flowered 100s of weddings in the local area, specialising in at home marquee weddings or full day events at exclusive wedding venues. To see more of our work please look through the gallery, here!
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