Chocolate Brown & Apple Green Flowers?

[andy's di]

Hi Ladies,

I've had some trouble finding inspiration for flowers to show my florist. It seems all the posts I've been able to find all involve PINK :eek: flowers!

If anyone has pics of brown and green flower/twig/leaf combos it'd be much apreciated!

Or even some links to sites where I can see the varieties of flowers by colour?

Thanks so much!

Di

[mollyeilis]

Despite it's focused sounding name, http://www.freshroses.com is good to see various flowers.

I have no pictures, but off the top of my head I think of chocolate cosmos (not just a drink LOL), green hydrangea, definitely Bells of Ireland (they are SO cool). Amaranthus (comes in green and magenta-ish)....

Going beyond just bouquets and into centerpieces, you can throw some limes (cut or not) into a vase, and perhaps put flowers on top of that.

I'm really drawing a blank with the brown though...woody stems...cherry blossoms, dogwood branches? willow branches?

Hope that's a *little* help, though I'm a bit spotty on the brown part. But I LOVE the idea. I really wanted brown, green, and pink, but just could NOT get Baskin Robbins out of my head, thinking of the brown and pink...I didn't include brown but still wish I had. :D

[tlew12778]

I was looking for the same type of website and I cannot find one. I have some green flowers if you want:
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c142/tlew12778/Cakes%20and%20Flowers/greenbouquet2.jpg
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c142/tlew12778/Cakes%20and%20Flowers/greenbouquet.jpg
Instead of the purple roses you could try some really dark red flowers like in this bouquet:
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c142/tlew12778/Cakes%20and%20Flowers/redbouquetmixed.jpg
There are some more green flowers in the bouquet thread. I also looked under the WC flowers board for green flowers and there are a couple threads on there.

Here's an article that lists some brown flowers (http://www.loudzen.com/garden/greenhands/2003/brownflowers.html).
Here's an article on green and brown flowers (http://www.ct-botanical-society.org/galleries/gallerygb.html) (with pics, not bouquets though).

Oh look I did find something with flowers by color (http://www.burlapcreations.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Category_Code=SSF) (not in bouquets though). Try here (http://www.delawarewildflowers.org/green.html)as well.

[MandyMaloo]

http://www.limetreegroup.com/coventrycrossing/WFC47-11.jpg

http://www.limetreegroup.com/coventrycrossing/WFC46-11.jpg

http://www.limetreegroup.com/coventrycrossing/WFC48-21.jpg

http://www.limetreegroup.com/coventrycrossing/WFC44-21.jpg

http://www.limetreegroup.com/coventrycrossing/WFC44-11.jpg

[Sol]

http://www.newspress.com/weddings/articles/Orchids_Bouquet.jpg

http://www.cebollafineflowers.com/i/snapshots/0/210/210.jpg

[sublime311]

How about green florals and a brown ribbon? You could also add chocolate cosmos to it, I think..

http://bride.baltimoremagazine.net/current_images/blooms/Greens.jpg

Does this one inspire at all?

http://img.fioribelli.com/is/image/FioriBelli/1178-01?$detail280$

Maybe you could find artifical flowers to create a small bouquet of the look you want without spending too much money. It would give your florist something to work with if you don't find inspiration here.

[kemaji]

Some good ones to use are: green cymbidiums, greenish hydrangea, tuber rose has a greenish tinge, eucalyptus, succulents.

I don't have any pictures with brown in them, but here are some photos I used as inspiration (my colors were light green and burgandy):

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v455/kemaji/wedding%20planning/tabledecoration.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v455/kemaji/wedding%20planning/tabledecoration2.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v455/kemaji/wedding%20planning/redandgreen.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v455/kemaji/wedding%20planning/weddingbouquet.jpg

Here is what my bouquet looked like. We used green cymbidiums, white dendrobiums, tuber rose, red dahlias:

http://www.mpix.com/GetImage.aspx?a=12997222&b=wliyr0nmtz1i9h8axvat&c=b&d=0

[kemaji]

Also, cymbidiums can come in a brownish color. A couple websites that might help:

http://www.kiwiorchids.co.nz/varieties.htm
http://www.sborchid.com/listdisplay.php?listname=Popular%20Cymbidium%20Var ieties&display=GRID
There is a variety called chocolate cymbidium:
http://www.beautifulorchids.com/orchids/orchids_bouquet/cymbidium/cymbidium_chocolate.html

From Bella Signature Floral Design (http://www.bellasignature.com/default.htm), some photos with chocolate cymbidiums in them:
http://www.bellasignature.com/images/DeborahBouquetwmsm.jpg

http://www.bellasignature.com/images/Choccymsm.jpg

Callas come in lots of colors, I'm not sure if they come in brown shades, though.