Wow, sounds like they will be beautiful. Dont have many ideas for you, but how about astilbe for pink and feathery. I have a friend with them and they are beautiful, and last till fall. and maybe a fern for the middle.

Also, the glads should be flowering, if they start to soon, cut them before they open and they should keep for a couple weeks in water in the fridge.

Good luck, hopefully others will have more ideas.

carey

The wedding planner wanted you to GROW flowering plants in small 8 inch containers? Does anybody see a flaw in this besides me???? That is a very small container size.

I take it 8" is too small? That's what he mentioned, but I don't think he does a lot of container gardening! How big around do the pots need to be?

Oh my, I was thinking you were growing them to cut and arrrange in planters. I agree 8" is going to be way to small.

You may be able to plant from 6packs right before the wedding of smaller annuals but not "grow" arrangements in them. The glads alone would need a bigger pot.

Depending on what you decide to plant in them you would probly need pots that would be to big for table centerpieces.

What are the pots going to be used for? Are they centerpieces, buffet table decor, on the ground.

Maybe we can come up with some alternatives. I love wedding decorations. (as long is it isnt my wedding)

Carey

These are pots that are going to be used to demarcate the seating area during the ceremony. I thought the flower guy was talking about the standard size plastic pots you can get at a garden center. I measured one of mine - it's 12" across and 36" around.

I'm not going to try to get all the flowers I named into every pot - just a tall grass in the middle, a flowering one on two sizes and something dangly around the outside. I really need to know what will flower on September 2nd though...will dahlias be in bloom? Butterfly flowers? She wants something really bright. I can do a whole pot of gladiolas if they'd be in bloom.

Can you suggest any good combinations? She wants them to look romantic and feathery, but with the bright pink accent color.

Hi, where are you located? That might help people with suggestions. Silver falls dichondra sounds pretty easy to grow and not too fussy. I had verbena in containers and in a west-facing bed last year and it still looked okay in September. (Petunias, on the other hand, had pretty much had it from the heat and humidity.) Lemon grass is a tall grass that's also very pretty and likes the sun. Not sure what it looks like in September though. I wouldn't combine any of these with astilbe, as it likes shade. For best results, I would find a high quality nursery where you live and talk to a staffer who has worked there for a long time. I would plant more containers than you need to give yourself a bit of a safety net; I would also recruit a friend with experience with container gardening to provide some guidance with watering and fertilizing. My wedding was in late Sept 04 in TN and pretty much all we could find in bloom at the time were chrysanthemums. We ended up just using a great local florist who handled everything. However we were planning things long distance and early September should be easier. I hope it works out!

I would be sorely tempted to obtain the appropriate pots (or baskets), line them with plastic, stuff them with floral foam, and obtain a myriad of fresh cut flowers from your local florist. You could visit them several weeks in advance and special order whatever you like, including a mess 0 gladioli. That's what I would do!!

Oh, I didn't mean to do the floral arrangements several weeks in advance.....just to place your order! ;-)