Filler Flowers: The Secret Bouquet Ingredient (Part 2)

This is Part 2 of 3 of our Cut Flower Garden series, and this week we’re talking all about filler flowers.

These are the sidekicks to your focal flowers. They may get called “fillers,” but they bring a lot of character to the bouquet.

We all go straight for the big flowers. The dahlias, the zinnias because they are showy and grab your attention.

But they’re not the ones doing the hard work.

Filler flowers are what make a bouquet look full and put together instead of like you grabbed three stems and called it good. They’re essential to elevating your bouquet.

Here are my go-to fillers:

Statice
This one is a workhorse. She looks just as good dried as the day you picked her.

Snaps (Snapdragons)
My favorite! These cutie patooties just make everything better. They add height and make your bouquet look a little more designed.

Feverfew
If I could stick these little white flowers in every single bouquet, I would. They just make everything feel light and happy and pulled together.

Feverfew & Snaps

Celosia
These are the feathery ones that people always ask about. They add texture and something a little different so your bouquet doesn’t always look the same.

Cosmos
These are the floaty ones. They add movement to your bouquet and dance above the rest of your flowers.

Celosia and Gomphrena

If you’ve been wanting to grow flowers but don’t want it to feel like one more thing on your to-do list, fillers are a really good place to start. They grow like crazy and the more you cut them, the more you get.

We’ll have all of these at our plant sale at the 507 Outskirts on May 9th in New Ulm.

See how filler flowers complete you!