A Year in flowers: sharing snippets of seasonal flowers from this past year as a wedding florist
I want to share with you just some of the beautiful flowers that I have been lucky enough to work with this past year. As we round of 2025 I want to celebrate the wonderful weddings I have worked on and the stunning flowers that have been sourced for many wonderful couples. You can see month by month how the seasonality changes, and how each season has so much to offer.
This is just a tiny amount of the flowers used, but one that shows a fabulous ever changing picture of the year in flowers! It’s a fun little post to explore and celebrate the beauty that seasonal flowers have to offer. One of my most favourite parts of my job as a wedding florist is just the sheer amount of flowers that pass through the studio each year, buckets upon buckets of bounty, which can so easily differ week to week.
January Flowers:
The darkest, coldest, quietest month where flowers are a little on the slim side so we started the year with delicate scented narcissi and crispy white snowdrops from Cornwall. These worked wonderfully in ceramic bud vases for a client who ordered flowers for their private dinner party. Multiple bud vases of dainty blooms are the way to go when the stem length of the blooms are on the shorter side. White is a great colour for January, after all the Christmas colourful chaos with weeks of glitter and sparkle, I enjoy the freshness of white in January. Against the mossy banks for the tree here, or lichen covered twigs, it is a start of the new year full of hope and opportunity.
February Flowers:
Heading into the month of love with Valentine’s Day meaning all florists have a busy week preparing flowers, creating lots of beautiful bouquets for happy Valentines. A little mire variety of seasonal flowers become available in February with British tulips coming in a wide range of colours and textures: The parrot ones are fabulous and add real drama to arrangements. Anemone and Hellebores are also great seasonal blooms for February with these ranunculus being imported from Holland. Hellebores are one the most gorgeous winter flowers to use, coming in a wide range of tones from crisp white through to pale pink, spotty tones and deep pink, plum and burgundy. They flower for a long time in the garden, however need special TLC as a cut flower. Boil the kettle, cut the ends of the stems and hold in the boiling water for ten seconds, watch the air bubbles come away and then place in room temp water for a good drink.
March Flowers:
As the brighter days begin to arrive, and spring is finally on its way we begin to see a lot more colour out and about in nature. This living wreath I created for Mother’s Day encapsulates the early spring colour of the primrose yellows, blues, purple and pale pink blossom tones. Created on a moss base, this is a great way to decorate your house for spring. Daffodils begin popping up everywhere, alongside more narcissi and muscari. Mimosa is an absolute dream bloom to use in March, the bright yellow fluffy texture it brings it can be considered a foliage as well as a flower, it has a delicate scent too and is traditionally the flower used to celebrate ‘International Women’s Day’ throughout the world.
April Flowers:
April is such a great month, where everything begins sprouting into life and the blossom will be more than likely flowering on the trees. Be it pear, apple or statement magnolia, blossom is everywhere during April. Amalamchier is the most beautiful foliage to use, one that will completely elevate any arrangement or bridal bouquets. Even just the touch brings magic with its copper/mocha foliage and dainty star shaped flowers. These tulips from The Forgotten Garden were hands down some of the most stunning flowers I have ever worked with. Hand picked from the flower tubs, I pulled them up bulb included so the stems were super long. The daffodils and narcissi above, are a mix of ones picked from my spring cutting patch and the gardens. There are just so many interesting varieties of narcissi available now, spring weddings can be colourful, flower filled and scented so do embrace the idea of getting married in the earlier months of the year to utilise these special blooms.
May Flowers:
It was quite mild this year so the garden roses began flowering in May, this is ‘Boscobel’ a David Austin rose I grow in my garden. I adore this time of year in the garden with the bright orange gems flowering, the alliums are in bloom, you have special foliage coming to life like the viburnum opulus. Alongside the first of the sweet peas. I grew these in a variety of traditionally country garden colours like the blues, lilacs pinks and purples. These tones really lend themselves to sweet peas and I genuinely look forward to not only picking them each year but growing them too. The process of sowing the seed, watching them grow, planting them out then religiously tying them up the canes a they grow, really is a labour of love and one that makes it even more satisfying when you can pick them to use in wedding flowers
June Flowers:
The month of the peonies, these big blousy beauties are the stars of the show and June is their month to shine! Alongside stunning foliage such as mock orange, this really is one of a kind foliage and I adore using the swathing branches in archways and statement installation. It has the softest scent and the large white blossom headed flowers on the fresh green foliage, make it a usable bloom in most colour palettes. The roses continue to flourish in June, really kicking out those stunning flowers. Garden roses are unbeatable in scent, and to be able to walk down the aisle holding these special flowers in your bouquet should be a treasured memory. Daisies are synonymous with June, you will see swathes of them in hedgerows and banks and they work well in wedding flowers looking for that true country garden feel.
July Flowers:
Heading into full summer, the days are full of bright sunshine and in this years case, a lot of long hot days in the form of heatwaves. Not great for locally grown flowers, lots of watering was required, but sunshine is great for sunflowers! The dahlias begin to come through in July, an absolute favourite to use in wedding flowers. The annuals really start working hard too such as the nigella, cosmos, and phlox flowering happily. Annuals require work to sow the seeds at the beginning of the year, but once in the ground they are fairly low maintenance and really are a floral moment in time… seasonality at its best. These creme brûlée and creme caramel phlox are a firm favourite of mine to use, with their soft mocha/cream colour they work in all kinds of colour schemes, and their delicate flowers look wonderful in bridal bouquets.
August Flowers:
There is nothing more magical than seeing flower beds full of dahlias and zinnias glowing in the August golden light. The zinnias this year were incredible, all that warm sunshine made them next level. These were grown from Floret seeds, the peach and soft yellow shades work so well in summer weddings, especially as we all had a moment with butter yellow this year. Completely stunning and will be on my growing list again next year. The dahlias did great too, a stalwart of the cutting garden, they are a prolific grower and keep throwing out blooms continuously. The great thing about dahlias is the more you cut them, the more you flower!
September Flowers:
September is a wonderful month for flowers although typically is very dependent on whether we have a wet or warm month. It was rather wet this year so the dahlias suffered a little and probably finished growing a little earlier than usual. We had weddings all throughout September so we were lucky enough to enjoy the seasonal blooms throughout the whole month ending on a super special wedding at the end of September. Flowering with lots of British foliage sourced from The Real Flower Company, including this Abelia, which everyone fell in love with. Hydrangeas are fabulous at this time of year, when they begin to lose the bright colour and change into the more usable, muted stylish tones.
October Flowers:
Rudbekia is a great one for October, and I use this wherever possible in my wedding flowers. The decades range from pale yellow, to orange to ruby red, deep burgundy and a range of brown/mocha tones, which all work perfectly heading into autumn. It is time to embrace the berries now too, with trailing rosehips and crab apples adding huge texture and interest to autumn arrangements.
November Flowers:
On the cusp of winter, but still autumn for me, but you can lean more into the winter tones and away from the more traditional autumn tones. By adding in these deep dark aubergine hydrangeas to the mocha and autumn foliage, it brings a depth to these November wedding flowers. Dried grasses are a great seasonal foliage to use at this time of year, providing movement and interest to bridal bouquets and arrangements. Chrysanthemums are another gorgeous autumn flower, and one that can be traditionally sniffed at by flower snobs. There is no room for flower snobbery here, just look at these delicate, texture petals in rich burgundy and classy blush tones grown by The Flower Tree in Somerset.
December Flowers:
Time to welcome the amaryllis, this beautiful bulb is a complete winter statement bloom, and comes in a stunning wide range of colours. From crisp icy whites, to pale peach, blush, bright red, deep red, coral, cerise and the deep burgundy shades. How to choose a favourite? Alongside the spider varieties and the two toned amaryllis, there really is an amaryllis to suit everyone! Plant the bulbs in rustic terracotta pots 8 weeks before Christmas to have them flowering on the big day or use with winter foliage in statement vases to create impact in the home. I cannot mention December flowers without mentioning wreaths, the traditional decoration we all hang on our doors for Christmas! We begin making them the last week in November and made well, they last for weeks. I use a variety of ingredients in my wreaths favouring rose hips, limonium, dried eryngium, skimmia alongside the traditional pine, spruce, conifer, juniper, and eucalyptus.
I really hope you have enjoyed this look back through just some of the buckets of seasonal flowers we have been lucky enough to work with this year. If you’d like more information of seasonality do download the free ‘flower guide’ on the homepage, this beautiful document has all kinds of gorgeous information about flowers month by month. Crucial flower info to help you on your wedding flower planning journey, or simply if you are a flower enthusiast wanting to learn more!