Flowers called Wedding Day is another blog inspired by my darling daughter’s wedding.
The previous one was about quince cheese, link below (and if you want to know why I chose quince cheese, you’ll need to read the blog!)
The flowers themselves bloom at different points from early spring through to mid-autumn in the UK and similar climates. Bear this in mind if you wanted to include these specific blooms in your wedding bouquet. However, these flowers called Wedding Day are, obviously plants, and would make a thoughtful wedding gift for gardening brides and grooms.
Flowers called Wedding Day
Rosa ‘Wedding Day’
A strong musk fragrance gives a definite wow impact to this rambling rose. Soft apricot buds open to creamy white flowers with bright yellow stamens. The single flowers are held in bunches on relatively thornless stems.
A vigorous rambling rose, possibly achieving 11 metres in height when mature. If you’re giving this rose as a wedding present, be sure the happy couple have a wall or fence large enough to grow it on!
As with the majority of ramblers, Rosa ‘Wedding Day’ usually blooms only once, you may be lucky and get a second flush. But as bees go positively crazy for the rich flowers it gets an extra wildlife and pollinator friendly tick. It will produce rose hips for interest during autumn, which will also provide food for garden birds.
Fuchsia Southern belle ‘Happy Wedding Day’
Although strictly speaking a bush fuchsia, ‘Happy Wedding Day’ does tend to have a slightly lax habit, with the heavy double flowers pulling the stems down. This can be viewed as a positive trait, as it means this fuchsia is good for hanging baskets as well as containers and the flower border.
The flowers are not scented, but the frothy double white corolla with rose-pink bases to the sepals are so dreamy one can forgive them. To me, Fuchsia ‘Happy Wedding Day’ is a reminder of bridal gowns. In bud, the sleek lines are the outline of my daughter’s wedding dress. In full bloom, I am reminded of the outline of my own wedding gown, with hooped petticoat and boned bodice.
Flowering from late April through to late October, this fuchsia would make a lovely addition to the wedding venue, set out in pots at ends of seat rows for example. I do include fuchsias in my garden designs as they are good ‘doers’ in so many ways.
Clematis ‘Wedding Day’
Clematis ‘Wedding Day’ produces creamy-white flowers in May and June and then a second flush of blooms in August and September.
The large flowers have deep pink anthers with a light green bar on the petals that fades as they mature. They’re not scented but would look impressive and romantic growing over an arch surrounding bride and groom for an August or September wedding.
Bought for a gardening happy couple as a wedding present, need to know details include the following. This is a Group 2 Clematis for pruning purposes and grows to 3m high. It isn’t suitable for pot growing except when young.
Penstemon pensham ‘Wedding Day’
Penstemons are often underrated in the garden and I do wonder why. Like most other penstemons, ‘Wedding Day’ will cheerfully flower for six months or so, through rain and sun, in containers and flower borders.
For those happy couples who may be facing a slug infested garden, Penstemon pensham ‘Wedding Day’ is one of the more resistant plants. Although not scented, the bell-shaped flowers are ivory white and have a definite chic look to them. Held on upright stems they add height to both cottage garden borders and more contemporary planting schemes.
Due to their long flowering period, they’d be an excellent addition to a bridal bouquet and to the wedding venue decoration.
Nemesia denticulata ‘Confetti’
What else do the Bride and Groom need on their Wedding Day other than each other and someone to carry out the ceremony?
Confetti!
We showered Hari and Chris with fresh white rose petals. But we could have aptly chosen scented flowers called Confetti.
One of my favourite herbaceous perennials for scent and reliability, Nemesia ‘Confetti’ has a mass of pretty, pale pink flowers from April to the first frosts. A low plant it can fade into the background – until you walk past and wonder where the sweet, heady fragrance is coming from! My blog on flowers called Wedding Day obviously had to include this Nemesia, but I include it in many planting designs too. Reliable in drought and heavy rain (so okay for a typical British summer) it is worthy of its AGM status.
Flowers called Wedding Day – almost…
That more or less wraps up this blog on flowers called Wedding Day in froths of coloured silk ribbons. Although having included confetti, and thinking of wedding gifts rather than just the wedding day itself, the happy couple might also enjoy: –
Malus brevipes ‘Wedding Bouquet’
This crab apple produces masses of ivory-white blossom in spring. These will develop into small dark red fruits, which persist (stay on the tree) after the leaves fall in autumn.
More usually grown as a pollinator for mid and late season edible apples and cider apples, the fruit is edible for humans. It’s just that the individual crab apples are rather small, and better used for making crab apple jelly. Or left for your garden birds to enjoy.
Malus ‘Wedding Bouquet’ grows up to about 4m, so is a decorative, useful tree for a smaller garden. it can also be grown in a large pot for some years. AGM
Exochorda x macrantha ‘The Bride’
Also known as the pearl bush, this is a medium sized deciduous shrub. Arching branches covered with white blossom in spring and early summer. It’s not noticeably scented but has a decorative habit which adds to the overall romanticism of your wedding inspired border planting. AGM
and finally,
One of the things I noticed with interest, was that fewer of the flowers called Wedding Day were scented than not scented. I would’ve expected more fragrant blooms, as scent plays such an important part of our memories, adding another layer of pleasure.
If you need more fragrance, why not include aromatic herbs to the floral display and wedding bouquet? Or add flowers which are scented and traditional for weddings, such as myrtle.
And for those of you who are curious, or have put two and two together (or should that be one and one?) Hari my daughter is indeed the same Hari who was my part time PA for a number if years and Chris worked for both Plews Garden Design and latterly Plews Garden Landscaping until earlier this year. So of course, a photo of the happy couple was needed to finish this blog on flowers called Wedding Day…
If you would like help with a temporary or permanent planting design to dress your garden for a wedding why not get in touch?
There are more wedding inspired ideas in the blog links below to get you thinking about plants and features for your own garden.
Or perhaps you would like help with learning more about your garden and gardening? Why not ask about our bespoke Gardening Lessons, where your classroom is actually your own garden. We can help you learn gardening basics, carry out worm and other experiments and also show you how to plan an ornamental border or kitchen garden. They make a good birthday present!
And for further gardening advice and inspiration, check out Plews Potting Shed blogs, including the selection below and our monthly Tipsheet – You could come and find us on Instagram Pinterest and Facebook too.
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