Wedding Flower Summer Wedding English Country Style

Summer Wedding English Country Style

We're holding our July wedding in a marquee in my parents garden. Can you suggest wedding flowers that will be suitable for a classic English country style summer wedding - scented flowers would be lovely

There are plenty of beautiful English country garden style flowers around in the summer so you will have lots of choice. One thing to remember is that it can get quite hot and humid inside a marquee unlike an air conditioned building - and some of the more delicate country-style flowers may not stand up well if the day is very hot. So I have chosen some flowers for you that are guaranteed to make it through the day looking as fresh as when they started!

There are some new English roses named after Shakespearean heroines, which have been bred recently, which look like old-fashioned garden roses, but have the long life of a florist rose. They also have a beautiful scent and come in soft peach and pink, so these would be ideal. Sweet peas would be an obvious choice for fragrance, beautiful pastel colours, and for typical Englishness; ask your florist to ensure they have plenty of water to drink during the day to ensure maximum freshness.

Delphinium and larkspur cannot be beaten if you want height - their lacy delicate stems give a sense of drama to an arrangement, and they come in soft shades of blue, peach and pink which tone in well with most colour themes. Hydrangeas would also look lovely and you can get these as pot plants or as cut flowers; they come in blues, whites, pinks and pale green and their huge flower heads have real impact.

Don’t forget foliage too the reason cottage gardens look so ´right´; is that they have plenty of green between the flowers. Variegated ivy trails and umbrella fern would be delicate enough to suit the theme and add a welcome relaxing note of green. The elegantly weeping tails of green hanging amaranthus, or love lies bleeding, looks remarkably right when used in relaxed arrangements. Molucella (bells of Ireland) with a faint lovely rice-pudding scent also adds a cool touch of green.

Expert Advice From: Andrea Caldecourtof Plants and Flowers Association

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