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Wedding bouquets have to look good for a long while and depending on weather conditions on a wedding day, dried or preserved flowers may offer a more robust alternative to their fresh counterparts. The flowers are tiny, depending on the variety between 3 – 10mm in diameter, and there are 1000’s on each branched stem. This will give you a clean stem to work with and prevent unsightly, wilting foliage from turning your lovely bouquet into a mess. Obviously, that depends on what size you want it, but an average-sized bouquet will only require around 3 – 5 bushy stems, as you will trim these into more pieces as you create the bouquet bunch.
There’s also the option of bleaching, which will render the product creamy to pure white (below left and second left).Then place stems into sterilized containers with 3 to 4 inches of lukewarm (100 F to 110 F) properly proportioned flower-food solution. Fresh gypsophila is lovely, and does have a wonderful scent, however, fresh may not be available to you, so what can you do? We think a dried Gypsophila bouquet would look amazing, and it will last for ages, meaning the items can be kept as souvenirs from the big day. This isn’t keen on going long periods without water, however, so we recommend preserved gypsophila to mimic the look and feel of fresh as best as possible if the bouquet has to be out of water for a long while. If you have big bushy stems, cut these into smaller pieces more suitable for your bouquet – they go a long way!
This allows for colouring the product with pale, pastel dyes that a non-bleached product wouldn’t be able to display (below right and second right). These products are not to everyone’s taste, as the colour can be flat and uniform, and the flowers are much smaller. Founded by a Dutch florist, the immense attention to detail sets these products well ahead of most available brands. Gypsophila is important in the flower industry and is commonly used as a filler, creating a softening effect as well. The same method can be used with dried or preserved flowers to create the perfect gypsophila wedding bouquet or gypsophila bridesmaid bouquet.
Bacterial contamination of the vase solution, which plugs stem ends and causes the flower-food solution to become smelly, occurs rapidly with these flowers, so change the flower-food solution, wash the containers, and recut the stems every other day.
As you can see from the collection of images below, there is a range of styles, from perfectly spherical, to a little more rustic, some with only gypsophila, and others with added roses – who wouldn’t want a rose and gypsophila bouquet? Gyp its not only ethylene sensitive , it’s a ethylene producer so be careful when you’re storing Gyp and other Ethylene sensitive flowers in the same cooler. To help slow this contamination, place Gypsophila stems into a bleach solution (about 20 drops, or 1/4 teaspoon, per quart of water) for several minutes between the hydration solution treatment and the fresh-flower food solution.
Remove stem bindings and any leaves on the lower portions of the stems, then rinse the lower stems under tepid running water.
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