What we can do for Wedding Clients:
Early Summer Display
- Provide beautiful wildflower style bouquets & arrangements during our growing season June-mid-October
- Provide healthy fresh cutflowers. Pickup or Delivery
- Provide wedding florals using our flowers, we grow over 300 varieties. Our minimum is $200.
- Provide you with a list of what we expect to be in bloom during any part of the growing season.
- Work with your color pallet.
- Provide bucketfuls of mixed flowers or standard floral bunches of one type of flower. Minimum purchase at the nursery is $45.Please order ahead.
Simple August Arbor
Peony Bridal Bouquet - early June
- Larger more expensive or woody flowers are offered on a per stem basis. These flowers include: Sunflowers, Peonies, Winterberry Holly, Hydrangea, Lilies, Lilac, Snowball, Viburnum and Snowberries.
- Offer delivery starting @$60, then a per mile basis outside of a 10 mile radius. Delivery is free the day of the wedding to our wedding site in Ashe Co.
- Work within your budget.
- Offer consulting for do-it-yourselfer for $50/hour by appointment. We can calculate the total number of flowers and cost as well as make flower suggestions.
What we cannot do for Wedding Clients:
- Offer a very specific color or variety, before the end of June. After the end of June we can provide a wide range of colors to suit most any Bride. Smaller all white and green weddings are possible after mid-June.
- Guarantee a specific flower, due to Mother Nature. We have never substituted yet.
- Offer free consulting. Our season is very short. But please feel free to call us with what you are looking for.
- Offer lots of white flowers other than Hydrangeas in August & September and Shasta Daisies in mid-summer.
- Tours of our fields. Due to Liability and time constraints. You can however, view the current flowers on Friday at the nursery or Saturday at the Farmers Market.
Before you Contact us or any other Florist:
Halo headpiece of Lavender and feverfew- late June
- Have your date, time and place lined up.
- Flower Delivery; have your date, time and place for flower delivery or pickup
- Have a contact # for the week of the wedding and for the wedding site.
- Have the # of wedding planner or designer.
- Budget
- Number of the wedding party, men, women, Moms and Dads.
- Have an idea of style and shape of Bouquet.
- Know what you want for the reception or a budget with an open mind.
- Have your designer to call with flower requirements
- Or choose a point person to contact us or any florist.
June Flowers
June is a popular month for weddings, and our cutting gardens are lined with the beautiful blooms for elegant arrangements. Here is the short list of flowers available by Mid-June:
- Yellows: Yarrow, Calendula, Coreopsis, Sundrops, Perennial Sunflower, annual Sunflowers, Crown of Rays, Lilies
- Blues: Delphinium, Larkspur, Blue Salvia, Baptisia, Viola, Blue Hydrangea, Japanese Iris
- Whites: Feverfew, Mock Orange, Viburnum, Yarrow, Queen Anne's Lace, Annabelle Hydrangea, Shasta Daisy, Butterflyweed, Japanese Iris, Oriental Lilies
A popular bridal bouquet for early June is Sweet William mixed with Shasta Daisy and Golden Alexander. White and Blush Peonies are often used with small touches of greenery.
Mid-June flowers for a Bridal Bouquet include Pearl yarrow, Baptisia, Lady's Mantle, perennial sunflower, Echinops, colored yarrows including soft pink and bright red, Artemnesia, and Larkspur.
Crocosmia, Hydrangea
& Mountain Mint
Present Mom with a traditional Mussie Tussie made with herbs and flowers such as Mountain Mint, Pearl Yarrow, Garden Roses, Rosemary and Lady's Mantle.
Exceptional boutonnières can be made to compliment the bride's bouquet by using Rose Scented geranium, Yarrow, grasses and grains, Sea Holly and Echinops.
Many wedding sites call for an arbor swag. Swags can be attractively fashioned from Hydrangea, Diablo Ninebark, bright colored gladiolas, Shasta Daisy, and Black-Eyed-Susan with Native Red Honeysuckle. We also decorate arbors in June, with ivy vines and peonies.
Small vases can be tied with raffia and placed at each table setting. Intricate flowers that will be enjoyed up close include Butterfly Bush, Rudbeckia, Shasta Daisy, Linaria, Dahlia, Coryadalis, Grasses, Millet, Lady's Mantle and Coral Bells, along with fern fronds for added interest.
These are flowers available most of June:
Deep colored Bridal bouquet
Tussie-Mussie for Mom - early June
Grape Vine and Viburnum opulus arbor - early June
- Yarrow, yellow, salmon, red, white, Terra Cotta, purple, apple blossom and pink
- Japanese Iris
- Larkspur -blues
- Blue Baptisia
- Mock Orange- white
- White Peonies by special request
- Coreopsis -orange /yellow daisy
- Dahlia many colors (just starting)
- Shasta Daisy (just starting)
- Burgundy foliage: Diablo and Weigelia
- Perennial Sunflower Helianthus -Yellow
- Sundrops-yellow
- Coryadalis- delicate hearts of pink and yellow
- Red and purple Penstemon
- Blue Salvia
- Magenta double Lychnis
- Lavender
- Artemesia- silver
- Sea Holly- steel blue
- White Viburnum
- Wheat Grass
- Linaria 'Cannon Went' - pink
- Lady's Mantle
- Pink Filenpendula
- Green Currant berries
- Calendula- yellows and orange
- Astrantia- red
- Alostromeria- yellow or pink
- Feverfew- single or double while daisy
- Queen Anne's Lace
- White Astilbe
- Oriental Lilies- white or pink
- Red Honeysuckle
- White Annabelle Hydrangea
- White Butterflyweed
- Gold Nugget Ninebark - golden foliage
- Mountain Mint- silver
- Salvia s. turkenstanstia-pink/white/blue
