10 June Wedding Flowers from Your Garden

Okay, so it may actually be a bit late to be thinking about flowers for your June wedding this year, but it’s a good time to be planning for next year. So this blog is about suggesting ideas for garden plants that will be in season – June wedding flowers, in fact!

The idea is to think about which of the flowers in your garden, your parents’ gardens and friends’ gardens that are blooming in June you would like to have as part of your wedding decorations.

Floral wedding decorations are about more than just the bride’s bouquet, although that is obviously a very important part! There’s the bridesmaids’ bouquets, buttonholes for the groom, groomsmen; decorations for the church or wedding venue and for the reception.

You may not want to grow your own statement flowers for your bride’s bouquet, but growing and using flowers from your garden for the filler flowers – the table decorations, the swags at the end of the pews and frothy foliage for the bouquet and large vases could save you a considerable sum as well as being fun.

Of course, even if you intend to buy all your June wedding flowers you’ll have the opportunity of purchasing local and British blooms. If you’re not a gardener you may not be aware of which flowers are likely to be in season and therefore less expensive. Hopefully this blog will give you some ideas

And if you fancy a vintage style wedding, seasonal wedding flowers are a must – very few people could afford hot house blooms in previous generations.

10 June Wedding Flowers from your Garden

Some of these flowers are annuals, so could be grown from seed. If you want to have a go at this, have a look at our ‘How to’ seed sowing blog and seed sowing video.

Some of the flowers are herbaceous perennials. These plants could be bought, grown on in your garden, divided in the autumn to create more plants and therefore more flowers for your wedding.

Bulbs, corms and tubers are another type of perennial plant, many of which could provide delicious wedding flowers for both vintage and contemporary themes.

The last category of flowers is from shrubs. Generally speaking, flowering shrubs should be pruned after flowering to produce lots of blooms the following year.

Sweet peas

Sweet peas, Lathyrus oderata, are an easy choice for even a novice gardener. Sow the seeds the autumn before the wedding. Or if you’re short on space, buy plug plants in the spring. A dozen sweet pea plants will give you plenty of flowers, around the hundred mark if the plants are well fed and watered.

You could choose from rich purples or soft pinks, so plenty of choice to match in with your wedding colour scheme.

Full of fragrance, sweet peas make an excellent filler for most floral wedding schemes and are de rigeur in a vintage bouquet.

Annual cornflowers

Like sweet peas, annual cornflowers, Centaurea cyanus, also commonly known as bachelor’s button can be sown the previous autumn; a second batch in the early spring sown under cover can be encouraged to bloom in June.

Although you may think of cornflowers as being blue, there are pink, red and even black varieties.

Cerinthe major purpurescens

With an interesting flower shape; purple, greeny-grey and blue tones, cerinthe can add a touch of elegance to your floral arrangements.

Cosmos

The feathery foliage of annual Cosmos is an added bonus to the daisy like flowers when it comes to frothy table arrangements and trailing bouquets.

White and shades of pink are the usual flower colours.

Daisy – Leucanthemum

The tall Leucanthemum, an herbaceous perennial, is a must if you’re growing your own wedding flowers. Or if you want in season flowers for a June wedding, it gets a tick.

And if you want blue flowers, pink flowers, orange or even black flowers for a monochrome wedding scheme this herbaceous daisy still ticks the box.
How come? Have a look at our blog ‘So What Might a Plews Gardening Lesson Be Like?’ to see how easy it can be to change the flower colour to suit your wedding!

Nemesia

I have a particular variety in mind, the soft pink, scented Nemesia ‘confetti’ – how could we resist this one! Another herbaceous perennial.

Dianthus

A small evergreen perennial with highly fragrant flowers. The carnation used in button holes is the taller, florists’ carnation which is another garden flower.

The smaller cottage garden pinks have short stems but would add perfume to any venue or bouquet.

Iris

Iris flowers add a touch of class and their tall stalks make them ideal for larger floral displays whether or not they’re surrounded by frothy white Gypsophila paniculata, aka ‘babys’ breath’

Some of the flower colour combinations found in iris are just that little bit different; bronze and red-brown, for example.

Philadelphus

Philadelphus, also known as mock orange for the scent of its white flowers.

A deciduous shrub, some cultivars hold their blooms on longer stems so could be used in vases.

Rose

Well, how could I not include the rose?!

With a range of fragrances and colours to choose from, roses have come a long way since the Medieval musk rose.

From a light fruity scent through to a heavy myrrh fragrance, the rose can complement or take centre stage. White roses, pink roses, red roses, deep reds and purples; pinky brown shades and lilac blue roses.

Your only problem could be ensuring your rose provides enough blooms for your June wedding flowers as some earlier flowering cultivars are a bit reluctant to open their buds if we have a cold spring. a bit of tlc may be needed.

For more inspiration wedding flowers throughout the year, and for different colour schemes, do look at our suggested blogs below. These are only a selection, so do search Plews Potting Shed too.
And for my friends who are getting married in June in York and were the inspiration for this blog – I hope we all have a lovely day!