I wanted to share an arrangement with an ingredient I’ve been anticipating all year long: Turk’s cap lilies!

Have you seen them before? I heard about them last year, but naturally, right after they were finished blooming. I’ve been waiting for July ever since!

I’ve paired the lilies with lots of other beautiful ingredients so you can keep your flower variety knowledge growing. I also went with a crazy bright color palette and tall shape—doing something different is refreshing and fun!

I hope this unique, bright summertime arrangement inspires you to get outside and put together something that is different than anything else you’ve ever made.

Flowers for Summer Weddings

1. Turk’s cap lily—unique shape; highly anticipated summer seasonality; fun orange color

2. Umbrella fern—wide-spreading leaf; can be clipped into smaller sections; cost effective

3. Geranium foliage—soft texture; often fragrant; varying leaf size; great as framing agents

4. Pokeweed—compound flower head with a long, branching reach and tiny cute flowers

5. Flowering basil—dense, delicate pinkish-purple flower heads on fragrant herbal foliage

6. Lisianthus—frilly, larger filler flower that comes in many colors; sweet yellow center

7. Orange spray roses—a festive pop of color

8. Crocosmia—gracefully curving stem of small, sequentially opening trumpet-shaped blooms

9. Sphinx gold spray roses—another saturated color pop

10. Liatris—tall, fuzzy-looking compound flower poker of either purple or white blooms

11. Ninebark—tall sprigs of dark reddish-black or reddish-purple five-pointed leaves

12. Foxglove—tall, dramatically speckled trumpets on a stalk; comes in white, pink, and peach

13. Hydrangea foliage—large leaf in variegated color for framing the base of an arrangement

14. Hellebore foliage—deep saturated green foliage great as a base filler

15. Ivy—classic, trailing foliage option

16. Milkweed—small clusters of bright orange or yellow-red flowers; great filler

17. Gomphrena—small globe-shaped flower heads in bright colors; fun textural piece

18. Ranunculus—brightly colored, lush focal flowers