Hydrangeas and Roses-Perfect Weather for Wedding

Published June 17, 2009 |

Hi There,

Last Saturday, 6/13/09 I had a wedding and the bride wanted aged green hydrangea, white hydrangea and assorted pink roses. She’ll never know the trouble I went through to get the aged green hydreangea at this time of year! I placed my flower order 3 weeks in advance. Two weeks in advance I checked to make sure that the wholesaler did not anticipate any problems with the order. Then the order arrived, 3 days before the wedding. What I received and what I ordered were two very different things. I am still fighting with the wholesaler for a refund for the wrong product sent to me. Aged green hydrangea are not available locally at this time of year. That’s because they age on the plant at the end of their life cycle. Hydrangeas are just beginning to bloom around here. So, these aged green hydrangea needed to be ordered in from somewhere like New Zealand where they are aging on the plant at this time of year. I could not find aged green hydrangea in the 3 days I had left, so I bought some Design Master Just For Flowers spray paint in fresh green and proceeded to tint my pink hydrangea to look aged. To my amazement, they came out pretty well.

: Sometimes you have to help nature.

Tuck this idea in the back of your head in case you ever need to do this yourself. I don’t particularly like to tint my flowers, I would prefer to use them in their natural state. However, sometimes you just have to do it. Not all flowers tint well, but hydrangea and calla lilies tint very well. What do you think…I’ll bet that if I didn’t tell you I tinted these hydrangea you’d never know the difference!

Hydrangea are very intolerant of HEAT, so using them during the summer months around here is always a little scary because we get many days over 100 degrees. But, the weather has been unusually cool so far this year and Saturday was a perfect 75 degrees! The hydrangea, bride, groom and wedding party were all very happy!