In honor of Earth Day, I’m sharing this easy tutorial for creating your own chic, eco-friendly bouquet. Sola wood flowers, sometimes also called tapioca wood flowers, are an entirely natural product derived from the tapioca plant. They can be purchased here.
For this bouquet, I used a mixture of sola daisies with thistle centers, shell flowers and tallow berries.
Because the flowers are soft, they are quite easy to pierce with floral wire and arrange into bundles.
Once you’ve created several bundles, use floral table to bind them together. Arrange your bundles into a bouquet and wrap the stems in a ribbon of your choice.
Sit back and marvel at your creation! I had a few stems leftover and they were just enough to create a matching boutonniere. And the best part – your bouquet will live on indefinitely. I love the idea of tucking it into a bookshelf as a sweet memento of your wedding day.
Hello – where did you purchase the flowers and could/would you list what each one in your boquet is called. Thanks!! I am really inspired by it!
I was wondering if you could give me the exact amount of each thing you used for this bouquet.. I am getting married in a few weeks and am wanting to make this bouquet. This is by far the most beautiful balsa wood bouquet I have found online yet.
Hi Pia! I purchased all the flowers used in this bouquet at Save on Crafts. Their inventory changes often because it seems the daisy flowers I used in my bouquet are no longer available. Here’s what I used that still is available though:
Sola Gardenia: http://www.save-on-crafts.com/solagardenia.html
Texas Tallow Berries: http://www.save-on-crafts.com/tallowberries.html
Daisy Zinnia Sola: currently unavailable on save on crafts
Hi Christy! For the bouquet I created I used:
18 Sola Shell Flowers
5 Gardenia Sola Flowers
6 Bundles of Tallow Berries
7 Daisy Zinnia Flowers
I hope that helps!
Thank you so much for the info!! My flowers should be here this week. and I found someone who had the daisies and the thistles on another website so those are coming too!!!
I think our brains are wired! Every one of your posts about sola wood and baby’s breath speak to my heart! I am a wedding/portrait/senior photographer in Georgia (Savannah area) and I want the best for my wedding and these posts just helped me be even more excited about doing it all on my own! Here is a link to my engagement photos at the location where we are having my wedding in January. If you have any other decor tips just let me know. I am a strong supporter of simple and beautiful! Also, do you have a square button version of your logo. I like to add blogs that I love to the ad section of our website and I would love to add you!
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Thank you, thank you, thank you! I ordered the flowers from Save-on, but had no idea how to put them together. Thank you so much for posting this, the bouquet is beautiful!!!
LOVE. THANK YOU.
What size flowers did you order? I got the ~2 inch flowers and they seem too small. Maybe the 4 inch would be better.
The ones I used were the 4″ size. Hope that helps!