Fab Fillers & more
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You can never have enough interesting fabulous fillers adding fragrance, interest, volume and movement for cut flowers!
Amaranth ‘Autumn Touch’
Amaranth cruentus - Annual
Beautiful plumes of apple green flowers tinted with coppery bronze . The stunning, large textural stems make wonderful addition to large arrangements and the side shoots are smaller, great for bouquets. Excellent for fresh or dried use. A productive summer/early autumn filler & stunning in the cutting garden and border.
Amaranth ‘Dreadlocks’
Amaranthus caudatus gibbosus
Claret red heirloom with Mexican roots. Wooly-textured knotted ropes drape dramatically to the ground. Dreadlocks debuted in 1881 seed catalogs.
The stunning, large textural stems make wonderful addition to large arrangements and the side shoots are smaller, great for bouquets. Excellent for fresh or dried use.
Amaranth leaves and seeds are edible!
Amaranth ‘Emerald Tassels’
(Amaranthus caudatus) Long ropes of lime-green, trailing tassels add texture and combine beautifully with both bright and pastel colour palettes. Amaranth is easy to grow and is a great choice for beginning gardeners.
Fantastic colour and texture for fresh bouquets or large containers, gorgeous in wedding bouquets! When dried, the blooms turn from green to a light tan colour that works well in fall arrangements. Common names include amaranth and tassel flower. Fresh or dried cut flower, back of bed, accent in borders, and containers.
Amaranth ‘Hot Biscuits’
Amaranthus cruentus Bronze to chestnut-coloured plumes are ideal for autumn bouquets and bunches.
One of the most productive and easy to grow summer fillers, ‘Hot Biscuits’ produces abundant golden brown stems that add a unique textural quality to arrangements.
Prolific and easy-to-grow filler.
Amaranth ‘Mira’
This unique amaranth has multi-hued rose & pale green long, pendulous tassels - dramatic ropes of cut flowers for large bouquets!
Adds a stunning texture to bouquets, cutting gardens and borders. A statement! (and edible too!)
Listed on US Floret site
Amaranth ‘Velvet Curtains’
Amaranthus cruentus
Looking for something that can take the heat, Amaranth is the plant!
Upright amaranth with crimson-purple plumes and deep purple-red foliage & stems. A beautiful, textural bouquet filler. Excellent for fresh or dried use.
When plants are young and leaves are tender, the foliage makes a nice edible green.
Easy to grow and a great choice for beginners.
Amaranth ‘Coral Fountain’
Amaranth ‘Coral Fountain’ Amaranthus caudatus
I love these gorgeous pendulous, tassel-like blooms! Exquisite shade of dusty pink just like sun-faded velvet. ‘Coral Fountain’ is perfect for dramatic, large-scale arrangements and side shoots are perfect for bouquets.
annual, 36 to 60", full sun, Days to maturity: 75 to 90 days, Plant spacing: 12 in, Pinch when 12" tall
Start seed indoors 4 - 6 weeks before last frost; transplant out after all danger of frost has passed. Amaranth can also be direct-seeded into the garden once all danger of frost has passed.
(self seeds here Zone 5)
Beautiful partner for Emerald Tassels Amaranth
Artemisia annua – ‘Sweet Annie’
(Sweet annie; Qing-guo) Sweetly aromatic herb with fragrant green fern-like leaves on tall, graceful plants. In fall they shine as masses of flowers like little beads bloom at the tips of the branches. A crafters dream; its highly aromatic branches are used in dried floral arrangements and to make scented wreaths and is fabulous filler for mixed bouquets. I love its fresh, clean, herby scent!
A modern medical star, this Chinese antimalarial herb is our last line of defense in parts of the world where the malaria parasite has become resistant to all other drugs. Has been cultivated in China for at least 2000 years.Its isolated constituents show promise as an anticancer agent as well.
BUPLEURUM ‘Green Gold’ Seed
A classic filler for bouquets. Such a unique plant! Great in the garden or a stunning 'filler' in beautiful bouquets!
Erect plants produce 2 1/2" yellow-lime green flowers atop long, wiry stems with foliage reminiscent of Eucalyptus with intriguing stems that appear to grow through the leaf. Excellent for mixed bouquets and makes a unique dried flower. Versatile and easy to grow. Try combining the airy stems with brilliant jewel tones or simple clean whites and greens.
Though not well known outside of Dutch flower auctions where it commands a price similar to roses, this unique plant with yellowish flowers and round leaves is treasured by dried-flower growers.
Bupleurum routundifolium (80-90 days) Ht. 24–40" Spacing 6-9"
approx 100 seeds
Chives – Garlic Chives
Also known as Chinese chives, garlic chives (Allium tuberosum), can be used the way you use regular chives. They are distinguishable from chives by their flat, broader leaves and fragrant white edible flowers in midsummer, in the second year of growth. Flowers make a great addition to bouquets. The budded flower stalks known as "gow choy" can be found in Chinese grocery stores. Pull the florets apart and sprinkle on salads, dips, sauces, soups, stir-fries, and pizza & potato salad.
Flavour is a delicate garlic, midway between garlic & onion - used extensively in oriental dishes. Good choice for those who shy away from full-flavoured garlic.
Dianthus – ‘Sweet William Mix’
(Dianthus Barbatus) So beautiful! The array of colours, including white, pink and bi-colour varieties are so charming! An irresistible, colourful, biennial, or short-lived perennial, flower with single or double blooms , blooming most profusely in the spring and summer. The plants require minimal care & give lovely, low-maintenance colour to borders, beds and containers. The flowers are edible and may have medicinal properties. Attracts bees, birds, and butterflies.
