Welcome to our ever-growing A-Z list of different types of flowers. Here you’ll find a quick reference guide to the common types of flowers that florists use, including what they’re used for, when they’re available, how long they last (vase life) and what they cost (if you’re looking to grow flowers, check out our gardener’s guide to the 100 most common types of flowers).
At the bottom, we’ve also included buying tips and a FAQ section with answers to some commonly asked questions about flowers.
The information is intended as a sort of rough guide. Many flowers are grown out of season, too, but you can expect to pay less for them during their peak season.
All timeframes are for cut flowers unless otherwise specified, but how long cut flowers last will depend tremendously on how well someone cares for them.
What a flower is used for is also entirely dependent on what someone uses a flower for. We’ve given you some common uses for all the different flowers, but there is nothing to say that a marigold is not a wearable flower, or that you cannot have foxglove at a wedding.
We based our cost assessment on a range of wholesale prices available at the time of writing:
| $ Under $2/stem | $$$ Between $4-6/stem |
| $$ Between $2-4/stem | $$$$ Over $6/stem |
Actual costs will vary by species, supplier, season and by the number of flowers you buy.
Different Types of Flowers
Alstroemeria (Alstroemeria)
Description: These delicate blooms, with characteristic spots and stripes on their centre petals, come in a range of colors, both soft and bold.
Season: Summer
Uses: Cut arrangements, bouquets, container garden
How Long it Lasts: 2 weeks
Cost: $
Amaryllis (Hippeastrum)
Description: Large and dramatic, amaryllis comes in a range of warm colors, as well as white. It typically blooms once a year, over the winter holidays.
Season: Winter
Uses: Potted plant, holiday gift, cut arrangements, wedding bouquets
How Long it Lasts: 2-3 weeks
Cost: $$$
Anemones (Anemone)
Description: Anemones feature dark or yellow centres and beautifully ruffled petals in white, pinks, red, purples and yellow. They’re reminiscent of poppies, but last longer.
Season: Spring
Uses: Cut arrangements, bouquets, bridal bouquets, wedding arrangements
How Long it Lasts: 3-5 days
Cost: $$
Asters (Astereae)
Description: With their yellow centres, asters share the daisy’s cheery disposition, but their flower shapes can vary dramatically. They’re found in white, pinks, purples, blues and red.
Season: Late summer, fall
Uses: Cut arrangements, bouquets
How Long it Lasts: 5-10 days
Cost: $
Azaleas (Rhododendron)
Description: These hardy shrubs bloom in just about every color. Azaleas flowers are generally funnel shaped and full, set off against darker leaves.
Season: Spring, although some varieties bloom later
Uses: Cut arrangements, container plant, potted plant
How Long it Lasts: 2-3 days
Cost: $$
Baby’s Breath (Gypsophila)
Description: These iconic, small white blooms were long used only as filler around showier flowers. They’ve developed loyal admirers, however, who appreciate the delicate sprays.
Season: Summer
Uses: Cut arrangements, bridal bouquets, wedding arrangements
How Long it Lasts: 5-10 days
Cost: $
Begonias (Begonia)
Description: Begonias are a diverse flower, with single or double blooms in white, pinks, yellows, oranges or reds. Leaves are green or bronze, often glossy.
Season: Summer to fall
Uses: Container plant, potted plant, cut arrangement
How Long it Lasts: 10-14 days
Cost: $
Billy Buttons (Pycnosorus)
Description: Formerly known as Craspedia globosa, these globe-shaped golden-yellow flowers bring cheerful contrast and interest to arrangements and bouquets.
Season: Spring-summer
Uses: Cut arrangements, bouquets
How Long it Lasts: 5-7 days
Cost: $
Black-Eyed Susan (Rudbeckia)
Description: Bright yellow blooms with dark brown centers. This native wildflower has a daisy-like shape, but different species offer a variety of shades, sizes and forms.
Season: Summer to fall
Uses: Bouquets, cut arrangements, bridal bouquets, wedding arrangements
How Long it Lasts: 10 days
Cost: $
Bleeding Heart (Dicentra)
Description: Long, graceful sprigs of heart-shaped flowers are the bleeding heart’s most beloved characteristics. These unmistakeable flowers come in pinks, red and white.
Season: Spring
Uses: Bouquet, cut arrangement
How Long it Lasts: 14 days
Cost: $
Bluebells (Hyacinthoides)
Description: These flowers live up to their name, with blue-purple hues and small, bell shaped blooms ranging up a delicate stalk. The flowers have a lovely fragrance.
Season: Spring
Uses: Bouquet, cut arrangement
How Long it Lasts: 7 days
Cost: $
Bougainvillea (Bougainvillea)
Description: These profuse bloomers are usually admired not for their flowers, but for their showy bracts, which turn hues of yellow, orange, pink, purple and white, often several times a year.
Season: Spring, summer, fall
Uses: Container garden, cut arrangement
How Long it Lasts: 4 days
Cost: $$
Calla Lilies (Zantedeschia aethiopica)
Description: The calla lily’s iconic flower comes in white, yellow, orange, pinks and purples on a long, elegant stalk. Leaves are also long and graceful.
Season: Summer
Uses: Bouquets, cut arrangements, wedding bouquets, wedding designs, container plant
How Long it Lasts: 1-2 weeks
Cost: $$$
Camellias (Camellia)
Description: These full, beautiful blooms range from white to pinks to reds. There are many varieties, which lend a lot of choice in terms of flower size and shape.
Season: Spring, fall
Uses: Container plant, cut arrangements
How Long it Lasts: 4 days
Cost: $$
Carnations (Dianthus caryophyllus)
Description: The many cultivars of carnation give this flower a wide variety of colors. Each features full, fringed petals and a single flower per stem.
Season: Year-round
Uses: Cut arrangements, bouquets
How Long it Lasts: 1-2 weeks
Cost: $
Celosia (Celosia)
Description: Celosia adds drama and flair to any arrangement, with its bright colors and flamboyant forms reminiscent of plumes or coral.
Season: Summer-fall
Uses: Cut arrangements, bouquets, wedding bouquets
How Long it Lasts: 2 weeks
Cost: $
Coneflowers (Echinacea)
Description: This wildflower features a prominent centre and flat petals on a strong stem. The most common color is purple, but newer varieties offer yellow, red and white, as well.
Season: Summer to fall
Uses: Bouquets, cut arrangements
How Long it Lasts: 1-2 weeks
Cost: $
Chrysanthemums (Chrysanthemum)
Description: This rich, full flower is many-petalled, round in shape and can be large or small. Their warm palette of colors is a classic sign of fall.
Season: Fall
Uses: Container plant, cut arrangements
How Long it Lasts: Up to 5 weeks
Cost: $
Clematis (Clematis)
Description: The many species of this flowering vine offer different sizes, colors and even bloom times. Flowers tend to be showy, and can be single or double, bell-shaped or flat.
Season: Spring to fall, depending on variety
Uses: Cut arrangements, bouquets
How Long it Lasts: 7-10 days
Cost: $$
Crocus (Crocus)
Description: These spring-blooming bulbs feature smooth single flowers. Most species are small, and they’re most often found in shades of white, yellows and purples.
Season: Spring
Uses: Potted gift
How Long it Lasts: 2-5 weeks (potted)
Cost: $
Daffodils (Narcissus)
Description: The daffodil’s cheery flowers are a spring favorite. Set on long, elegant stems, their blooms come in many different sizes and many hues of yellow and white.
Season: Spring
Uses: Potted gift, bouquets, cut arrangements
How Long it Lasts: 3-5 days
Cost: $
Daisies (Bellis perennis)
Description: Best known in their white-petaled form, daisies can also have pink or red petals around a yellow centre.
Season: Summer
Uses: Cut arrangements, bouquets, bridal bouquets
How Long it Lasts: 7-10 days
Cost: $
Delphiniums (Delphinium)
Description: Tall spikes of delphiniums, in gorgeous blues, purples, pinks and whites, are a summer favorite. Varieties can range from dwarf size to impressive heights.
Season: Summer
Uses: Bouquets, cut arrangements
How Long it Lasts: 6-8 days
Cost: $
Dianthus (Dianthus)
Description: Dianthus flowers vary widely depending on species. These vibrant flowers can have single or double blooms, single flowers or clusters of flowers on each stem, and a bright array of colors.
Season: Spring to summer
Uses: Bouquets, cut arrangements
How Long it Lasts: 2 weeks
Cost: $
Forget-Me-Not (Myosotis)
Description: Charming masses of blue flowers with dainty yellow or white centers are the chief characteristic of this beloved small plant.
Season: Spring
Uses: Bouquets, cut arrangements, wedding bouquets
How Long it Lasts: 5-6 days
Cost: $$
Foxglove (Digitalis purpurea)
Description: Small, bell-like flowers run up the tall spires of this graceful plant. It ranges in shades from white to apricots, pinks and purples.
Season: Summer
Uses: Cut arrangements, wedding designs
How Long it Lasts: 7 days
Cost: $$
Freesias (Freesia)
Description: Freesias come in an astonishing array of colors. Their graceful stems support sprays of trumpet-shaped flowers that can be single or double blooms.
Season: Spring
Uses: Bouquets, cut arrangements, wedding bouquet, wedding arrangements
How Long it Lasts: 3 weeks
Cost: $
Gardenias (Gardenia)
Description: The gorgeous white blooms of the gardenia contrast nicely with its deep, glossy leaves. Bloom sizes vary, but all share the classic gardenia fragrance.
Season: Summer
Uses: Bouquets, cut arrangements, wedding bouquets, wedding arrangements, wearable flower
How Long it Lasts: 2-3 days
Cost: $$$$
Geraniums (Pelargonium)
Description: Vibrant flower clusters are the most recognizable trait of the many geranium species. The flowers can be single or double and the leaves are sometimes variegated and striking.
Season: Spring to fall
Uses: Potted plant, potted gift, container plant
How Long it Lasts: All season (potted)
Cost: $
Gerberas (Gerbera)
Description: Gerberas, often called gerbera daisies, share the daisy’s shape and can be found in a delightful range of bright, vibrant colors.
Season: Spring to fall
Uses: Bouquets, cut arrangements, bridal bouquets, wedding arrangements
How Long it Lasts: 7-10 days
Cost: $
Gladiolas (Gladiolus)
Description: Gladiolas feature large flowers on impressive spikes. With their lovely, sword-shaped leaves and enormous variety of colors, gladiolas are impressive beauties.
Season: Summer
Uses: Bouquets, cut arrangements
How Long it Lasts: 10 days
Cost: $$
Heather (Calluna vulgaris)
Description: This fragrant evergreen shrub features wispy foliage and long flower spikes in the white and pink family.
Season: Summer/fall
Uses: Cut arrangements, bouquets, wedding designs, filler
How Long it Lasts: 1-2 weeks
Cost: $
Hibiscus (Hibiscus rosa-sinensis)
Description: Extra-large, ruffled blooms, a long floral tube and lovely, glossy leaves are the chief characteristics of this dramatic shrub.
Season: Summer
Uses: Container plant, cut arrangement, wearable flower
How Long it Lasts: 1-3 days
Cost: $$
Hostas (Hosta)
Description: Better known for its foliage than its racemes of small flowers, the leaves of the hosta are broad and deeply veined. Leaves can be light, dark or variegated.
Season: Summer
Uses: Cut arrangements
How Long it Lasts: Leaves last several weeks
Cost: $$
Hydrangea (Hydrangea macrophylla)
Description: Large bunches of small florets in white, pink, purple, blue and even green contrast with this bush’s lovely, dark green foliage.
Season: Spring/summer
Uses: Potted gift, cut arrangements, bouquets, wedding designs, wedding bouquets
How Long it Lasts: 2-3 days
Cost: $$
Hypericum Berry (Hypericum androsaemum)
Description: Hypericum berries are a popular addition to arrangements. You can find them in rich reds, peaches, pinks, browns, whites and greens.
Season: Summer
Uses: Cut arrangements, holiday arrangements, bouquets
How Long it Lasts: 1-2 weeks
Cost: $
Impatiens (Impatiens)
Description: Small on size, but big on color, the warm and pastel hues of the impatiens make it a beloved summer flower. Some varieties feature double blooms.
Season: Summer
Uses: Container plant
How Long it Lasts: All season (potted)
Cost: $
Iris (Iris)
Description: This spring flower boasts many cultivars of many heights and colors. White, yellow and purples are the most common, but blue, pink, orange and bi-color varieties exist.
Season: Spring
Uses: Potted gift, cut arrangements, bouquets
How Long it Lasts: 5-10 days
Cost: $
Jasmine (Jasminum officinale)
Description: Jasmine’s small, white, delicate flowers are best known for their lingering scent.
Season: Spring-fall
Uses: Cut arrangements, bouquets, potted gift, hanging basket
How Long it Lasts: 7 days
Cost: $
Kalanchoe (Kalanchoe blossfeldiana)
Description: This succulent is widely popular for its large, glossy leaves and bright, cheerful flowers. The flowers come in many bold colors, and last for months.
Season: Spring, fall
Uses: Potted plant, holiday gift, bouquets
How Long it Lasts: 6 months (potted)
Cost: $$$
Laurel (Laurus)
Description: Most famous for its fragrant leaves, laurel shrubs and trees feature glossy, leathery foliage and flowers that range from white to yellows to pinks and reds.
Season: Spring
Uses: Container plant, potted gift, potted plant, greenery for bouquets, edible plant
How Long it Lasts: Leaves last several weeks
Cost: $$$
Lavender (Lavandula angustifolia)
Description: Grayish-green foliage sets off lavender’s long stems and clusters of fragrant, purple flowers.
Season: Summer
Uses: Potted gift, cut arrangements, bouquets, dried
How Long it Lasts: 10 days
Cost: $$
Lilac (Syringa)
Description: Lilacs are as famous for their gorgeous scent as for their blooms. White, pink, blue and purple clusters of blossoms adorn these shrubs and small trees.
Season: Spring
Uses: Bouquets, cut arrangements, bridal bouquets, wedding arrangements
How Long it Lasts: 3-4 days
Cost: $$$
Lilies (Lilium)
Description: Many species of many colors can be found under this genus. Lilies typically feature large, fragrant petals with prominent stamens.
Season: Year-round
Uses: Potted gift, cut arrangements, bouquets, wedding designs, wedding bouquets, holiday gift
How Long it Lasts: 1-2 weeks
Cost: $$
Lisianthus (Eustoma)
Description: These long-stemmed elegant flowers can feature single or double blooms. Ruffled petals come in a variety of pinks, purples and blues as well as white.
Season: Summer
Uses: Cut arrangements, bouquets, bridal bouquets, weddings arrangements
How Long it Lasts: 10-14 days
Cost: $$
Lotus (Nelumbo)
Description: These stunning aquatic flowers have an iconic, many-petalled shape, and come in a surprising range of colors. The large flowers are showy, but not long-lasting.
Season: Summer
Uses: Wedding arrangements, cut arrangements, wearable flower
How Long it Lasts: up to 24 hours
Cost: $$
Magnolia (Magnolia)
Description: Large, fragrant flowers are the hallmark of this iconic flowering tree. Their shapes and sizes vary between species, and their colors range from white to yellows to pinks.
Season: Spring to summer
Uses: Bouquets, cut arrangements, bridal bouquets, wedding arrangements
How Long it Lasts: 7 days
Cost: $$
Marigolds (Tagetes)
Description: With a warm color palette and a full, ruffled flower, cheerful marigolds are a summer garden staple. Size varies depending on variety.
Season: Summer
Uses: Container garden, potted gift, cut arrangements
How Long it Lasts: 7 days
Cost: $
Morning Glories (Ipomoea)
Description: These climbing plants feature trumpet shaped flowers in white, blues, pinks, red and purples. Their charming, heart-shaped leaves offer beautiful contrast.
Season: Summer to fall
Uses: Container garden, cut arrangements
How Long it Lasts: 1 day
Cost: $
Orchids (Orchidaceae)
Description: Belonging to the largest family of flowers, orchids come in a delightfully wide range of colors, sizes and characteristics.
Season: Year-round
Uses: Potted gift, cut arrangements, wedding designs, wedding bouquets, boutonnieres and corsages
How Long it Lasts: 1-2 weeks
Cost: $$$$
Pansies (Viola)
Description: Pansies come in about any color you could think of. Its flat petals with their rounded edges range in size, depending on variety.
Season: Spring
Uses: Container garden, potted gift, cut arrangements, bouquets
How Long it Lasts: 7-10 days
Cost: $
Passionflower (Passiflora)
Description: This striking flower features a fringe of petals around a prominent and complex centre. Passionflowers vary in size and color with the white and purple flowers being the most common.
Season: Summer
Uses: Container plant
How Long it Lasts: 1 day (on the vine)
Cost: $$$
Peonies (Paeonia)
Description: These shrubs produce lovely foliage and double-bloomed flowers that can be 5 to 7 inches across. They come in white, pinks, red, and yellow flowers.
Season: Spring to summer
Uses: Cut arrangements, bouquets, bridal bouquets, wedding arrangements, wearable flower
How Long it Lasts: 5 days
Cost: $$$
Petunias (Petunia)
Description: These flowers produce a wealth of trumpet-shaped blooms in varying sizes. Petunias come in an astonishing range of solid and patterned colors – even black.
Season: Spring to fall
Uses: Container garden, potted gift
How Long it Lasts: All season (potted)
Cost: $
Phlox (Phlox paniculata)
Description: Garden phlox boasts masses of flowers in pinks, purples, blues, red and white. It’s tall and upright, with a lovely fragrance.
Season: Summer
Uses: Bouquets, cut arrangements
How Long it Lasts: 7 days
Cost: $$
Plumeria (Plumeria)
Description: More widely known as lei flowers, or frangipani, plumeria bloom in white, pinks, red, orange and yellow. Their leaves are dark and glossy, making for a lovely contrast.
Season: Spring to fall
Uses: Cut arrangements, wearable flower
How Long it Lasts: 3-4 days
Cost: $
Poinsettias (Euphorbia pulcherrima)
Description: This holiday favorite has small, unremarkable flowers, but large bracts that come in crimson, white, pink and newer bicolor varieties.
Season: Winter
Uses: Holiday gift
How Long it Lasts: 4-6 weeks (potted)
Cost: $
Poppies (Papaver)
Description: Poppies are prolific bloomers, with the look of crepe-paper flowers on long, slender stems. The colors, as well as the size of the flowers, are diverse.
Season: Spring to summer
Uses: Container plant, cut arrangements
How Long it Lasts: 2-3 days
Cost: $
Primrose (Primula polyantha)
Charming clusters of flowers with bright yellow centres are the distinctive feature of this compact plant. Wide array of colors.
Season: Spring
Uses: Potted gift, container plant
How Long it Lasts: 1-2 days (potted)
Cost: $$ per plant
Protea (Protea)
Description: The unique flowers of the protea are surrounded by vibrantly colored bracts. Colors include white, pinks, reds, yellows and oranges, many with attractive edging.
Season: Fall to winter (in the southern hemisphere)
Uses: Cut arrangements, wedding arrangements, bridal bouquets
How Long it Lasts: 10-14 days
Cost: $$$
Ranunculus (Ranunculus)
Description: Many species of flower come under the genus Ranunculus. The most popular for florists feature delicate double-blooms in warm colors on elegant stems.
Season: Winter/spring
Uses: Cut arrangements, bouquets, wedding designs, wedding bouquets, boutonnieres and corsages
How Long it Lasts: 10-12 days
Cost: $
Roses (Rosa)
Description: Although many species of rose exist, each with different characteristics, the most popular roses are fragrant, large, full-petaled flowers on a single stem.
Season: Year-round
Uses: Cut arrangements, bouquets, wedding designs, wedding bouquets, boutonnieres
How Long it Lasts: 7 days
Cost: $$
Scabiosa (Scabiosa)
Description: Tall and charming, scabiosa’s distinctive pincushion shape blooms in shades of blues and pinks, as well as white and darker purples.
Season: Summer
Uses: Bouquets, wedding bouquets, cut arrangements
How Long it Lasts: 7-10 days
Cost: $
Snapdragons (Antirrhinum)
Description: Snapdragons feature tall, strong racemes with multiple flowers in a huge array of colors, from pastels to deeper, velvety hues.
Season: Spring to fall
Uses: Container garden, cut arrangements, bouquets
How Long it Lasts: 7-10 days
Cost: $
Sunflowers (Helianthus annuus)
Description: Large and bold, these flowers classically have a sunny yellow fringe and a dark brown or yellow centre, although varieties in color and size exist.
Season: Summer/fall
Uses: Cut arrangements, bouquets, wedding designs, wedding bouquets
How Long it Lasts: 5-12 days
Cost: $
Sweet Peas (Lathyrus odoratus)
Description: These charming blooms, with their delicate, climbing stems, range in color from white to yellow to red to pinks, purples and blue.
Season: Summer to fall
Uses: Cut arrangements, wedding arrangements, bouquets, bridal bouquets
How Long it Lasts: 4-5 days
Cost: $
Tulips (Tulipa)
Description: There are many species and varieties of tulip with smooth or fringed petals, single or double blooms, long or compact stems and about any color one could wish for.
Season: Spring
Uses: Cut arrangements, potted gift, bouquets, wedding designs, wedding bouquets
How Long it Lasts: 10 days
Cost: $
Violets (Viola odorata)
Description: Wild violets are compact plants with heart-shaped foliage. The flowers are small and open, and are found in purple, white and yellow hues.
Season: Spring
Uses: Container garden
How Long it Lasts: 1-2 months (potted)
Cost: $
Wisteria (Wisteria floribunda)
Description: This vine features pendant clusters of florets in white, pink, violet and blue. The fragrant flowers open from top to bottom.
Season: Spring
Uses: Cut arrangements, bouquets, wedding designs, wedding bouquets
How Long it Lasts: 7-10 days
Cost: $$
Zinnias (Zinnia)
Description: Bright and cheerful, the rainbow colors of the zinnia are unmatched. Its many species offer a variety of heights and flower forms.
Season: Summer to fall
Uses: Bouquets, cut arrangements
How Long it Lasts: 7-12 days
Cost: $
Flower Buying Tips
First, consider when you’ll need your flowers to be fully open. Buds that are tight could take up a week to bloom, depending on the species. On the other hand, flowers that are fully open are at their literal peak and it will all be downhill from that moment on. Plan your flower purchases with any specific timelines in mind.
Second, buy locally and seasonally if you can. Local flowers will be fresher, while seasonal flowers will be accustomed to the outdoor temperatures they’ll encounter whenever you need to transport them. They’ll need less protection from the elements and will be hardier if they encounter them.
Third, always inspect your flowers for freshness before you buy to ensure that they’ll be long lasting. Fortunately, checking that the flowers you’re purchasing are healthy and fresh is simple. The first step is to check visually for wilting, drying, transparency or discoloration on the flowers and leaves. Avoid flowers that are brown or black around the edges, are bruised or have brown spots on the petals.
Look at the petal count, and also at the vibrancy of the leaves. Avoid flowers whose leaves are browning, wilting or spotted. Inspect the stems for signs that leaves have wilted off. If leaves were removed, they should have been trimmed off cleanly.
Also look over the length and straightness of the stems. Avoid stems that are broken or bent, or any that are turning yellow or brown. Look for stem fraying, as well—it’s a sign that the stems were not cut well and won’t last as long.
You can also check a flower’s freshness by touching it. The flower bud should be firm but not too tight. Stems should also feel sturdy and be firm to the touch when you gently squeeze them. There shouldn’t be any damage to the stems. Be sure to feel the bottom of the stems for fraying or other signs of wear.
If after reading this guide to the many different kinds of flowers, you’re still stuck on which type of flower to choose, talk to your florist. They know literally all of the flowers and will have great ideas on the exact right ones to send.
FAQ
How many types of flowers are there?
Biologist Wayne P. Armstrong explains that the “total number of described species exceeds 250,000.” It might not be possible to pin down exactly how many flowering species exist, however.
Many species, Armstrong says, “are as yet unnamed.” The Royal Society adds that unnamed species are probably “overwhelmingly rare and local, and disproportionately in biodiversity hotspots, where there are high levels of habitat destruction.”
So the number could fluctuate both ways—increasing as scientists name more species and decreasing as rare species (whether named or not) are destroyed forever.
What types of flowers are edible?
Some edible flowers include: angelica, begonia, bergamot (beebalm), calendula, clover, cornflower, dandelions, day lilies, dianthus, English daisies, fuchsia, hollyhock, honeysuckle, hyssop, impatiens, lavender, marigolds, nasturtiums, pansies, primrose, roses, sunflowers and violets.
The flowers of many vegetables and herbs are edible, too, including: arugula, basil, borage, chamomile, chervil, chicory, chives, cilantro, dill, fennel, garlic, mint, peas, pumpkins, rosemary, safflower, sage, scarlet runner beans, squashes and zucchini.
Be careful of flowers that have been sprayed with pesticides—if you want to eat flowers that come from a nursery, find organically grown options.
How many types of flowers in a bouquet?
There’s no limit to how many types of flowers you should put in a bouquet. The number of different types you include depends on the look you’re going for. Many bouquets are made of a single flower and look amazing—roses, for example, but also hydrangeas, sunflowers, carnations or lilacs.
Mixed bouquets could include two, three or many different flowers. Informal wildflower bouquets, for instance, could have a dozen different flower types. The trick is to blend them together so there’s enough contrast to be interesting but enough similarity that the whole bouquet appears unified.
What types of flowers do hummingbirds like?
Some hummingbird favorites include: bee balm, butterfly bush, cardinal flowers, catmint, columbines, coral bells, daylilies, delphinium, foxgloves, hollyhocks, honeysuckles, hosta, hyssop, impatiens, irises, lilies, lupines, penstemon, petunias, phlox, salvia, scabiosa, verbena and zinnia.
Curious what the most popular flowers are? Check out our article The 20 Most Popular Flowers to find out»
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