A part of flower farming is to create beautiful arrangements for my own home. Market bouquets are easy to put together, but to unleash my creative side with flowers, I harvest flowers to build a higher level arrangement. While harvesting yellow flowers in the garden for one large bouquet, I harvested enough for two bouquets, separating the pale from the gold. The focal of this bouquet are golden yellow sunflowers. A sunflower bouquet is beautiful with additional golden flowers.
Sunflower Bouquet Focal Flower
Late August, who doesn’t love the abundance of sunflowers? I’m not a sunflower enthusiast where I need sunflowers in every place of my life. A peony enthusiast, yea, that sounds more like me. When sunflowers are in bloom though, I love holding an armload full of them. They are a crazy, beautiful flowers and do deserve all the rave during the summer months.
I love the unique sunflowers even more than the traditional sunflowers. Gold lite has golden yellow petals with a center that gradients from a lime green to a golden yellow. When growing sunflowers, for the smaller bouquet size blooms, plant these closer together like 4”-6”. The closer the sunflowers are planted to each other the smaller the head size will be.
The other sunflower in the bouquet are buttercream sunnies. They have a dark chocolate center with petals the hue of a sweet butter. These were grown on branching stems, so that can be a bit hard to work with since their stems curve. I never mind the curves and love using them. The buttercream shade adds a break to the mass of gold in the bouquet.
Zinnias in Sunflower Bouquet
Zinnias are just so fun as cut flowers. The single petal ones are okay, but when growing varieties with double blooms, they’re wonderful. As sunflowers open to reveal their centers, zinnias open to reveal more and more petals.
Benary’s Giant Golden Yellow Zinnias match in shade to the Gold Lite sunflowers absolutely perfectly. In this bouquet, the zinnias complement the focal flowers of sunflowers while also being a mix between a secondary focal and a primary disk, supporting flower.
Marigolds
Yellow marigolds are a favorite. If one replaced with an orange marigold, the color scheme would be a mix of golden with orange. The bright yellow marigolds bring out the color scheme, transitioning the eye from the golden hues to the bright yellow.
Giant Yellow marigold are a hybrid variety that offers the ruffled petals, layer after layer without opening up to a center.
Scabiosa
The yellow scabiosa is a saturated ivory and only encompasses a small portion of the bouquet. When I cut this, it was a shorter stem, so it was placed near the bottom of the arrangement.
Snapdragons with the Sunflower Bouquet
Snapdragons transitions the bouquet from the golden focals to the bright disks to the white snapdragons. The snapdragons have shorter stems, so they are functioning more as a filler than a spike. The overall shape of the bouquet is round, so using the snapdragons this way works out.
The snapdragons are a white Madame Butterfly variety, which is an azalea-type of snaps.
Celosia
This shade of Pampus Plume Celosia takes us back to the golden hues of the sunflowers and zinnias. It operates as a small spike flower that fills spaces around the focals and disks. Celosia is not my favorite, but the structure with its triangular spike shape mixed with its golden shade makes it beautiful for this arrangement. It matches the color scheme, while adding a new shaped the mostly round bouquet.
Statice
Statice comes in a range of colors, but ooh, this bright yellow one acts as a filler that also matches that of the yellow marigolds. It fills in the space, while complementing the whole bouquet with its papery florets.
Bupleurum
Adding shape to the mostly round bouquet is essential. Most of the flowers are operating as focals and disks with rounds shapes, such as the sunflowers, zinnias, and marigolds. Bupleurum adds a level of daintiness to the floral arrangement. Off to the sides, the bupleurum has small branches that add a whimsical texture. This doesn’t take away from the round structure, but enhances it.
Bupleurum is a greenery and filler, but the small florets are a shade of gold with the green, perfect for a golden sunflower bouquet.
Golden Sunnies
Sunflowers by themselves are beautifully stunning. I make myself a bouquet of them every year and do sell sunflower bunches. They’re a summertime treasure. Sunflowers, though, can also be a stunning focal piece to a mixed bouquet of 30-some stems. Mixing it together with other shades of yellow highlights the golden colors of gold lite sunflowers.
