July Recipe

Ceremony fireplace backdrop for a summer wedding. Full ingredients list with growing, cutting & conditioning method.

A July Wedding Ceremony Fireplace Backdrop.

Abundant frothy fireplace completely foam free arrangement in blues, whites and greens for a July celebration on a big scale. Imagine the Bride and Grooms’ heads will only just be at the level of the mantle piece. The fireplace is about 4m wide. All ingredients, materials used and how, together with growing requirements, cutting and conditioning techniques below in this July Floral Recipe.

Skill - Advanced

Grow to Arrange Time - A year +

Vase Life - Prepared for the event day

Ingredients

• Lillium Regale

• Agapanthus (Midnight Dream or Blue Star are good options)

• Ammi majus & A. visnaga

• Nigella ‘African Queen’

• Moluccella laevis (Bells of Ireland)

• White Phlox ‘David’

• Aconitum carmichaelii ‘Barkers Variety’

• Delphinium ‘Blue Spire’ or D. Hybrid ‘Blue Bird’ (Could also replace the aconitum) or 'D. ‘Blue Butterfly’ (dark)

• Scabious atropurpurea ‘Snowmaiden’

• Feverfew

• Lysimachia eupherum

• Jasmine tendrils

• Passion Flower Vine

Materials