What we can do for Wedding Clients:

(Also see our cut flower page http://www.shady-grove-gardens.com/fresh_flowers_for_any_occasion)

Early Summer Display

• Provide beautiful wildflower style bouquets & arrangements during our growing season May-October
• Provide healthy fresh cutflowers. We use our Locally Grown flowers. Looking for Organic or Sustainable flowers? Ask us about our farming practices.
• Suggest gorgeous color and flower combinations for your special day - see our weekly suggestions below.
• Pickup or Delivery
• Provide wedding floral designs using our flowers, we grow over 300 varieties.
• Provide you with a list of what we expect to be in bloom during any week of the growing season.
• Work with your color palette.
• Provide bucketfuls of mixed flowers or standard floral bunches of one type of flower. Minimum purchase at the nursery is $50. Please plan and order ahead.
• Provide customized flower garlands for doorways, arbors, arches or mantles. We can also make you garland with just greenery.
• While we don't grow many of the more common florist flowers we think you will be extremely happy with our unique wedding flowers, color selection and flower quality.

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.

Our Favorite Color Combinations for each week of the Season

Crocosmia, Hydrangea

& Mountain Mint

• May - week 1 Purples using Lilac and Allium with Green Snowball Viburnum
• May - week 2 Dark Blue, Purple and White, with Iris, Allium, Snowball Viburnum
• May - week 3 Dark Blue Iris, White Snowball Viburnum
• May - week 4 Darker Purple Lilac 'Royalty' with White Snowball Viburnum or Blues and Whites with red roses. Indigo Blue, Amsonia, Iris, White Bleeding Heart and Shasta Daisy.
• May - week 5 Purple 'Royalty' Lilac, 'Ruffled Velvet' Iris, Shasta Daisy and Fringetree



Deep colored Bridal bouquet

• June - week 1 Bright Yellow, White and Deep Blue; using Yarrow, Allium, Peonies, Dianthus, Mock Orange, Baptisia.
• June - week 2 Whites and Green, using Mock Orange, Peonies, Viburnums, greenery
• June - week 3 Blue, Yellow, Whites with a touch of Pink; using Japanese Iris, Larkspur, Yellow Yarrow, White Feverfew, and Peonies, soft Pink Filenpendula and Linaria
• June - week 4 Bright Jewel Tone week. Larkspur blue with Pomegranate Red along with bright mixed Alostromeria and yellow/gold Summer Sun Daisies.



Tussie-Mussie for Mom - early June

• July - week 1 Yellow-Gold and White combinations; using Sunflowers and Perennial Sunflowers, yellow daisies and Alostromeria with White Hydrangea, Milkweed, Feverfew, 'The Pearl', and Queen Anne's Lace. A Purple-Blue combo would include Veronicas, Larkspur, Sea Holly, Lavender and Salvia.
• July - week 2 Summer Red and Yellow with Red Penstemon, Astilbe, Dahlia, Currant berries, Croscosmia, and Yellow Yarrow, Centaura, Dahlia, Yellow Daisies and Gold perennial Sunflowers, along with standard Sunflowers and Black-Eyed-Susans.
• July - week 3 Fragrant Wildflowers: Soft Pastels of Pink Phlox, Queen-Anne's-Lace, 'The Pearl', and Butterfly Bush. Or for Bold Colors use Gold and Burgundy Sunflowers, Black-Eyed-Susan, Gold Alostromeria, Gold Daisies, Red Astilbe, Burgundy Dahlia and deep Maroon Allium.
• July - week 4 Cool Summer Pinks: Clethra 'Ruby Spice', Phlox, Dahlia, Echinacea, Monarda, Zinnia. Or add touches of Blue with Butterfly Bush and White with Dahlia, Feverfew, Hydrangea, Phlox, Gladiola and Shasta Daisy.
• July - week 5 Blue and White with Gold Accent: Hydrangea, Dahlia, Butterfly Bush, Blue Statice, Echinops= Globe Thistle with a small Gold perennial Sunflower 'Deca'.



Grapevine and Viburnum opulus arbor-early June

• August - week 1 Blue and Pink Asters with Green and White; Hydrangea, Shasta Daises, Feverfew, Clematis, Queen-Anne's-Lace, Blue Statice, Caryopteris. Or Hot Summer Red and White: using Zinnias, Dahlias and Amaranth.
• August - week 2 Pink, White, Green week: Pink Turtlehead, Green or White Hydrangea, Green Love-Lies-Bleeding, Grasses, Asters, Zinnias, Green Snowberries and Sedum. Or try a bolder theme of Blues and Gold; using 'Deca' Sunflower, Black-Eyed-Susan, Alostromeria, Calendula, Sunflower, Blue or Purple Statice, Caryopteris, Purple Dahlias and Zinnias.
• August - week 3 Pink and White with a bit of Purple; using Asters, Pink Dahlias, gladiolas, Hydrangea, Turtlehead, Cosmos, Zinnia, Snowberries, Green grass, sedum, Amaranth and Love-Lies-Bleeding, along with purple Statice and Butterfly Bush. Late Summer Oranges and Reds: Dahlia, Sunflower, Helenium, Zinnia, Globe Amaranth, Lemon Queen and grass.
• August - week 4 Sweet Blue, White Pink: Using Zinnia, Ageratum, Cosmos, Snowberry, Hydrangea, Shasta Daisy, Obedient Plant and Statice. Sunflower Wedding with Burgundy Amaranth or Blues of Ageratum and Statice along with grasses and grains. WildFlower Fusion: Red Zinnia, Globe Amaranth, Statice mix, Shasta Daisy, Hot Pink Dahlia.
• September - week 1 Orange Dahlia Blend: with Globe Amaranth, Burgundy and Gold Amaranth, Helenium, grasses, Zinnia, Nasturtium, Black-Eyed-Susan and Gold berries.
• September - week 2 Pink and Green using Snowberries, Obedient Plant, Hydrangea, Pink Alostromeria, Dahlia and Silver Mountain Mint.
• September - week 3 Fall Colors Orange and Red Globe Amaranth, Calendula, Helenium, Zinnia, Black-Eyed-Susan, ornamental grass.
• September - week 4 Gold and Purples: Sunflowers, Zinnia, Dahlia, Statice, Purple Emperor Sedum, Fuchsia Celosia.
• October - week 1 Scabiosa Blues and Whites with Pink Cosmos, Statice, White and Pink Dahlia, grasses and Snowberries.
• October - week 2 Perfect Fall Week: using Oranges and Reds of Globe Amaranth and Dahlia, Yellow Zinnia and fall grasses
• October - week 3 & 4 Preserved Green Hydrangea with Orange/Gold Winterberry Holly
• October - week 5 Preserved Green Hydrangea with Red Winterberry Holly

What we cannot do for Wedding Clients:

• Offer a very specific color or variety, before the end of June. Near the end of June we can provide a wide range of colors to suit most any Bride.
• Guarantee a specific flower, due to Mother Nature. We rarely substitute.
• Offer free consulting. Our season is very short. But please feel free to call us with what you are looking for.
• Offer roses, or gerber daisies. While we do buy flowers from other growers to get you that 'special' flower; roses and gerbers are too pesticide intensive for us to handle. We will not buy 'out of season' flowers from South or Central America.
• Tours of our fields. Due to Liability and time constraints. You can however, view our current flowers at the nursery on Friday afternoon or at the Farmers Market Saturday, Wednesday or Thursday.

Before you Contact us or any other Florist:



Lavender and feverfew- late June

• Have your date, time and place lined up.
• Think about Flower Delivery; delivery or pickup? How far ahead would you like the personal flowers, photos before the wedding? Church or place you are staying?
• Have a contact # for the week of the wedding and for the wedding site.
• Have the contact # of wedding planner, designer or point person.
• 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 your flower requirements (you don't need a designer or wedding planner to work with us!)
• Or choose a point person to contact us or any florist.
• Please if you just want a few flowers or you don't know what you want, make it simple for me and use the phone. Please consolidate those e-mails. I can't answer 10 for the purchase of 2 bunches of flowers. Thanks.
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