Flower Delivery UK 

Foliage

Foliage is vitally important in any flower display arrangement or bouquet. 
It provides a framework for your flowers and can form the vital finishing touch -
adding colour, contrast and texture. 
Exotic foliage can add that extra zing to elevate your bouquet or arrangement
 from a simple bunch to a work of art!

There are hundreds of different foliages from all over the world
which are available at the Dutch market.  Your local florist will have several different
 types depending on the work she has to carry out. 
We at Flower Delivery UK like to use foliage to provide a skirt around our bouquets
to give them a framework.  This tough foliage also helps protect
 the flowers during transportation.
For a bit of zing we add free-flowing grasses, burgundy Leucadendron as well as colourful twigs -
picked from the garden at the back of our workshop!

Here's a few ideas for foliage that you can use.  We've divided this two types -

Commercially Available Foliage and, Foliage from your Garden.

Commercially available Foliage

Where do we start - there are hundreds.......
Here's some of the more useful you could find at your local florist

Leatherleaf

Eucalyptus - there are several different varieties with varying colours and leaf shapes

Grevillea

Pittosporum

Leucadendron

Ming fern

Aspidestra, Ivy and Ferns (you can grow these as an indoor potted plants)

Bear Grass and Rekaola grass for a whispy look

Bird of Paradise leaves - for a large dramatic architectural statement

Chico Fern

Foliage from your Garden

Again there are so many different shrubs to choose from -
here are a few of the most popular to be found in flower arranging and flower bouquets

Grey Senecio

Santolina - also grey

Mexican Orange Blossom

Cottinus with its red foliage

Genista - not strictly foliage as it has flowers on the stems
 with no leaves - but still a great shrub which comes in different flower colours

Euphorbia - green and white

Molucella - Bells of Ireland - a green flower rather than a foliage

Alchemilla - a pale yellow 'fluff'

Eucalyptus - comes in so many leaf shapes colours and sized its a must!

Alchemilla mollis - green flower cups on a green stem - Wow!

Viburnum

Kochia - 'summer cyprus' a grey foliage

Honeysuckle

Hebe

Cotoneaster - great in the winter with its red berries

Bupleurum - a plant not a shrub- but great stuff to use for interest

Holly

Ivy - hundreds of different varieties are available in differing leaf sizes and colours

Laurel

Berberis

Euonymous

Cotoneaster

Hypericum

Lavender and Rosemary

Vinca

And don't forget twigs -

Rose hip twigs, Dogwood stems, twigs of pussy willow and hazel catkins,

Contorted willow and hazel

So next time you want a shrub or plant for your for your garden or patio pot -
get down to the local garden plant sale or your local garden centre and choose a
plant or shrub from the above list.

 Not only will they look great in the garden,
 you can snip off a few choice stems and bring them indoors!
 

To Contact Flower Delivery UK

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