Autumn Blooms…What’s in Season NOWYvette

Autumn is a lovely time for flowers.  The days are getting shorter, the mornings are getting cooler, and we are spoilt for choice with the wide variety of beautiful blooms available.

Here’s what is in season NOW:

• Dahlias

These beautiful and popular flowers are grown in the field in Australia in summer, in areas close to Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide. Available until the end of March, the petals come in many forms, from the closely packed ‘pompom’ types, to the more tubular type petals. They come in a fantastic range of colours: white, yellow, orange, pink, red, lavender and purple and mixtures of all of these.

• Roses

Ever popular roses are available all year.  They are usually closely associated with love and St Valentine’s Day, and are the number 1 selling cut flower worldwide (including here in Australia). Australian roses are grown mostly in Tasmania, Victoria and New South Wales.  They come in every colour except black and blue.

• Sedum

Available in Summer, Autumn and Spring, and grown either in the field or in polyhouses. In Australia we mainly get it from Victoria, Queensland and New South Wales. The heads of the flowers are made up of many small and papery, star-shaped flowers, and range from light to dark pink flowers..

• Hydrangea

Hydrangea have long been a popular flower for the garden, but are also popular as cut flowers due to their unusual colours. Colour can be a mixture of colours and varies from white, pink, red or purple to green or pale blue. They are grown in the field outdoors, and in Australia are grown mostly in the southern states and also Queensland.

To take advantage of (and learn more about) what’s in season now, we have a range of floristry classes available in Melbourne and Geelong – from our ‘Seasonal Flowers’ course, to our Bloom@BOOM workshop.  To find out more, and to book head here.