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Other Flower Stems

The flowers that don’t fit neatly into rose, orchid or peony — the ones without a family big enough for a shelf of their own. Each sold as its own stem. Some come long enough to cut down if a design calls for something shorter, others are meant to stand alone in water. One to fill a gap, or enough to build the whole thing yourself.

Other Flower Stems

The flowers that don’t fit neatly into rose, orchid or peony — the ones without a family big enough for a shelf of their own. Each sold as its own stem. Some come long enough to cut down if a design calls for something shorter, others are meant to stand alone in water. One to fill a gap, or enough to build the whole thing yourself.

Other Flower Stems

The flowers that don’t fit neatly into rose, orchid or peony — the ones without a family big enough for a shelf of their own. Each sold as its own stem. Some come long enough to cut down if a design calls for something shorter, others are meant to stand alone in water. One to fill a gap, or enough to build the whole thing yourself.

Choosing well

What to look for in the less common stems

  • Buy these for contrast, not volume

    The flowers here do not belong to a family large enough for its own shelf, and that is the point. They are what you add when an arrangement of roses and peonies has come out looking predictable. One or two is usually the right number.

  • Judge each on its one characteristic part

    Every one of these flowers is recognised by a single feature, and that is where a poor version fails. An anthurium is the curl and sheen of the spathe; a clematis is the stripe running down the middle of each petal; a thistle is texture and nothing else. Whatever you are looking at, find its one part and zoom in on that, ignoring the rest of the photograph.

  • Odd shapes need room

    These stems tend to be spiky, trailing or top-heavy rather than round, which means they need space around them to read at all. Packed into the middle of a full bouquet they disappear. Put them at the edge, or use them in a narrow vase where the silhouette is the whole point.

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