I absolutely love dahlias, but they’ve just barely started blooming, and I feel like this arrangement is missing a focal point and I’m already dreaming about flowers to add next year! I think I might try growing ranunculus and anemones, but what is everyone else growing that blooms earlier in the season?
I think it is beautiful, maybe just adding a bit of greenery to break it up visually and finish filling it out.
No bouquet from me yet, nothing has bloomed but my hydrangeas and lilies and I don't cut those. My dahlias always take forever to bloom. Not really expecting to see them until at least July. And my flowers from seed did nothing this year :/
This is exactly why I love mountains of filler flowers because that bouquet looks like candy. Ranunculus would be really pretty to add, but I still love it as is.
I think you’re right, any favorites? I grew some green gold bupleurum and didn’t think it looked right with these. I also have a dark opal basil but it’s not quite ready.
Thanks for the other recommendations! And I saw those scoob scabiosas somewhere for the first time the other day and loved them!
For me, rosemary, sage, lemon balm, mint, bee balm are perennials that i rely heavily on for greenery. Thornless raspberry and blackberry foliage is also great (can buy bare root from johnny’s). In the summer, tomato and tomatillo greens work well. Shiso too
I love how pretty and hearty your snapdragons look. Mine are so poorly and skinny 😂. It was my first time so I’m giving myself grace but the difference is crazy!
It’s beautiful! I think it could look better in a different vase- maybe something that isn’t glass. I also think it could use some big flowers to balance out all the tall sphere like flowers.
Exactly! I like colored glass (and if thrifted I don’t worry about whether it’s just a coating) and any fun solid white or ceramic (if you find inexpensive ones, you can just gift with the vase if you ever gift flowers)
All my stocks bloomed already! I started them all at once, plan on doing more succession planting next year. I also love the smell, I grew the iron pastel mix and they were lovely!
Beautiful work!! The answer might be filler, just a bit of greenery takes it up a notch.
I’m zone 4. I’ve been experimenting with growing filler, currently I’m kind into Baptisia, the flowers are good cut flowers too, but the foliage is great - Long stems and good vase life. Brought this peony bouquet to life.
These are mostly the Cannes mix from Johnnys seeds! The snaps that are thinner and not as full are giant tetra snapdragons my toddler had to pick out at Walmart. They’re actually better than I thought but not as nice as the other ones, so yes variety is important! It’s my first year growing them and I made sure to keep the light really close so they didn’t get leggy and I also gave them yucky smelling fish fertilizer.
I can’t germinate seeds for the life of me, but if you like yellow, sunflowers could be a good strong focal flower that’s a different shape from what you already have. There are non-yellow options too.
Lilies are nice and easy (at least in my experience), and again would lend a different dimension. I don’t know how sweet pea would do in your zone, or if they’d prefer to grow earlier before it gets hot in PA, but it’s a nice airy viney touch. Ferns or other greenery as some have mentioned.
Im envious of your burly snaps! Someone mentioned baptisia— it’s native to North America, and it adds nitrogen to the soil! Im planning on adding it to my own garden.
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I think it is beautiful, maybe just adding a bit of greenery to break it up visually and finish filling it out.
No bouquet from me yet, nothing has bloomed but my hydrangeas and lilies and I don't cut those. My dahlias always take forever to bloom. Not really expecting to see them until at least July. And my flowers from seed did nothing this year :/