What Type Of Berries Can I Use For My Flower Arrangement?

Berries make wonderful fillers and there are many type of berries available. Their round shape and small size make them perfect to fill up the in-between space in arrangements.

They are also great in bridal bouquets to compliment with other flowers.

Here are the variaties of berries you can use.

St John's Wort

These are the matured berries of St Jogns Wort plant. Also known as hypericum berries.

This is probably the most used type of berries as a cut flower. Available in red, pink, green, burgundy and light yellow.

China Berry

The chinaberry is a flowering tree bearing fruit. The fruit or berries are light yellow. They are not clustered together and grown on a single branch for each berry.

Beautyberry

There are various types of beautyberry like the American beautyberry, Chinese beautyberry and the Japanese beautyberry.

Also known as callicarpa, these berries are grouped together. The purple beautyberry is named as Early Amethyst.

Seeded Eucalyptus

Seeded eucalyptus are the immature flower pods that appear among the leaves of the eucalyptus.

Common colors are green, white and light yellow.

Snowberry

Snowberries are grown in clusters of 5 to 10 in a group. Its color ranges from white, pink to red.

They are very decorative in arrangements as well as bouquets. Species include Mexican Snowberry, Creeping Snowberry, Mountain Snowberry and Roundleaf Snowberry.

Winterberry

American winterberry or Ilex, are very popular in winter, especially the christmas season. These are the Holly berries. Its bright red color is its main attraction.

Varieties include Oosterwijk, Cacapon, Red Sprite, Sparkle Berry, Berry Heavy, Winter Gold and Winter Red.

Juniper Berries

Juniper berries are dark purple colored berries, that come from the juniper shrub. The young ones are green in color.

Waxberry

These berries are commonly used to make candles, because of its waxy surface. That is also why it is sometimes called Candleberry.

They are often red, purple and burgundy in color.

Brunia

Brunia is one of Australia's native flower. It is grown on a single branch for each berry, and they are grouped together from a tall straight stem.

The size of the berry is quite big, but nonetheless can be used in any type of arrangement.

Rose Hips

Rose hips, also known as rose haw, are the fruit of the rose plant. Commonly, they are red or orange in colour, but they also come in dark purple or black.

Although, it has been known that these berries have great health advantages, it is great as a cut flower, too.

Privet Berry

The most common privet berries used are the black or dark purple type. But they are also available in green and white.

Pepperberry

These are berries from the Schinus tree. It has a slight peppery fragrance and that's why it is called as that.

Available in 2 forms... the hanging type and the upright type.