Local Alaskan Wedding Flowers D - H
Most people planning their wedding aren’t experts on flowers. There are so many varieties, color combinations, textures, seasons etc.
In order to help you become more flower literate, I’m creating a series of blogs to work through the entire alphabet of local Alaskan wedding flowers, A to Z, in order to show you all the flowers I grow or source locally.
Now I can’t promise every flower will be in here, but I’m going to attempt to give you a good picture of the possibilities of local Alaskan wedding flowers
Each variety has a brief description and is categorized by type: Focal flower, secondary flower, seed pod or head, foliage, and interesting element.
In this blog I’ll be covering local flowers D through H.
OK, let’s dive in!
Local Alaskan Wedding Flowers A to Z
Part 2: D-H
Dahlias are front and center on this floral arch. Photo by Lauren Roberts
D
Dahlias
Category: Focal flower
Season: late July through Late September or first frost
Colors: almost all colors except blue
Feel: refined beauty to lush feathery extravagance
Shape: a range small textured ball to large dinnerplate sized disks
Top right of bouquet: Dill seed head and the spiky eryngium flower. Photo by Lauren Roberts
Dianthus
Category: Secondary flower or focal flower
Season: July through September
Colors: white, pink, red, maroon, “black” or deep purple/maroon
Feel: unique, cottage-garden
Shape: round dome made up of individual small flower discs
Didiscus
Category: Secondary flower
Season: July through September
Colors: white and light blue
Feel: airy, romantic
Shape: soft feathery disc
Dill
Category: seed head
Season: July through September
Colors: Green to brown (Seed head)
Feel: antique, unusually, multi-dimentional
Shape: large umbril disc
Dusty Miller
Category: Foliage
Season: Late July through Late September
Colors: light green/soft white
Feel: feathery, soft
Shape: long thick oval leaves
E
Echinacea
Category: focal flower or interesting element (cone)
Season: August and September
Colors: Cone only, light purple
Feel: wild-flowery, prairie-flower-like
Shape: open disc of petals on a cone shaped center
Eryngium
Category: Interesting element
Season: August through September
Colors: white/soft green, frosty blueish-purple
Feel: bold, different, spikey
Shape: thistle-like spikey flowers
Feverfew is usually white, but here it is in a fun yellow to orange color. Photo by Gardenwild Floral
F
Fennel
Category: foliage
Season: July through September
Colors: green and bronze
Feel: feathery, soft
Shape: feathery, intricate frond-like leaves
Feverfew
Category: secondary flower
Season: Late July through September
Colors: antique white with ow without yellow centers
Feel: fun, cottage garden-like
Shape: small pompons, mini discs
Bright red Godetia makes this retail arrangement pop. Photo by Lauren Roberts
G
Godetia
Category: secondary flower
Season: August through September
Colors: white, purple, magenta, pink
Feel: old fashioned
Shape: upturned conical flower on strong stem
Grasses
Category: interesting element/seed head
Season: July through September
Colors: bronze, dark brown, green, cream
Feel: breezy, light, airy
Shape: drooping or erect spikelet
H
Heliopsis
Category: Secondary flower
Season: August and September
Colors: bright yellow with deep orange/red center
Feel: cheery, loud
Shape: open disc of petals
Hibiscus
Category: foliage
Season: Late August through September
Colors: Deep reddish green
Feel: textured, unique
Shape: decorative, deeply cut foliage with maple-like appearance
Hyssop
Category: secondary flower
Season: July through September
Colors: light purple/lavender
Feel: soft, unique
Shape: a soft spikelet of flowers at the end of the stem