Colour for flowers

Flower arranging depends so much on colour. Different colours can be used to define different occasions. Often anniversaries are connected to particular colour schemes.

40 years - Ruby wedding is usually a red display of flowers.

25 years - Silver wedding is usually either white and silver, or pink, blue and white.

50 years - Golden wedding is usually yellow and gold colours.

New babies, obviously pink flowers for baby girls and often blues, yellow and white for baby boys.

Christmas designs are often including reds and seasonal flowers or glittered items.

Spring flowers and colours are often used after Christmas and are about the only time of year where a mix of flowers is often used in the same design, creating a polychromatic colour scheme.

When choosing flowers for other occasions it is often usual to chose either the persons favourite colours or colours to match the room in which you feel the gift maybe placed.

Warm colours, such as reds, oranges and yellows can make really bright arrangements. Often used for get well designs and even sympathy to create a bright and cheerful effect.

Cool colours are blues, purples and lilacs and create tranquil and restful designs, although there are not too many flowers in these colours, so they are often mixed with other colours for contrast, such as oranges.

Large arrangements in dark churches are best in warm colours rather than cool colours, as cool colours tend to be receding and quite difficult to see from a distance, where as warmer colours are easily seen.

Often flower displays are made in monochromatic colour schemes, which are tints, tones and shades of any one colour. So reds, crimson and pinks would be this colour scheme.

Last Update: 14th March 2008