How to Choose the Right Flowers for Every Occasion

There is a particular type of flower ideal for every occasion whether it is a wedding, an anniversary, a hospital visit, a birthday or a funeral. Below we have listed the perfect flower for each occasion.

It is good to colour coordinate your flowers to your wedding theme or dress, and because a wedding is one of the most important days of your life, having the right bouquet is vital. If you’re wearing a white wedding dress then a bouquet of white roses, freesia, spray roses and hydrangea are perfect.

For those of you going for red, red roses with carnations and hypericum berries are ideal.

If your colour theme is pastels then why not opt for peach and pink roses with pink ranunculus bulbs?

Keeping a surprise is key for an anniversary, but opting for seasonal flowers is usually appreciated. You can’t go wrong with roses and a mix of germinis, white spray chrysanthemums and pink spray carnations. You can even add a personalised note to show your other half just how much you care!

Get well soon flowers can really uplift a person’s mood. A combination of purple roses with white germinis, lilac lisianthus, white spray chrysanthemums, purple statice and purple freesias with pittosporum and salal can be arranged here at Johnsons The Florist.

Birthdays only come once a year! So ensuring you have the perfect range of flowers is important. Vibrant and out there flowers are excellent for birthdays, orange roses, green spray chrysanthemum, purple lisianthus with steel grass and yellow Asiatic lilys are the ones to go for.

Funeral’s can be a truly difficult time, but you can chose your flowers depending on the personality of the loved one that has passed. For the emotional and outgoing type of person, red roses would be ideal, whereas for more of a reserved person, a posy arrangement would be good, including white roses, carnations and fragrant freesias.

To show someone you truly appreciate them, you can’t go wrong with beautiful stand out red roses.

A new baby is one of the greatest gifts, so congratulating mum, dad and baby is vital. A classic white rose bouquet and blue agapanthus can be gifted to welcome any bundle of joy.

They’re are a range of options to choose from, but if you’re still unsure about the type of flowers you should purchase for your occasion then you can speak to one of the friendly team here at Johnsons The Florist who will be happy to help.