Turquoise Flowers - any suggestions?

[callmeovercautious]

Sorry for the mad wedding thread in Gardening but you are all so lovely when it comes to veg and flowers I thought you might help me out

I need to match some flowers or greenery to DDs Flowergirl dress. I bought it on a whim as it looks lovely with her red hair. It is turquoise and sea green colours. I need flowers though now!

There is a pretty pale blue scabies flower
www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/plants/plant_finder/plant_pages/838.shtml

and Eucalyptus has blue/grey foliage
www.crocus.co.uk/plants/_/trees/other-trees/bigger-trees/best-in-very-large-gardens-parks/eucalyptus -gunnii/classid.3804/

Cant think of any turquoise flowers though!

Wild shot but try watering a cut white carnation or similar with turquoise food colouring.

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I don't think you need to match the flowers to the dress, won't they just blend in so that you can't see them properly. White or cream flowers with grey-green or silver foliage would look lovely.

Lovely ideas thanks I was considering lots of foliage with Cream roses. Eucalyptus I have loads of and would look nice.

I just read a thread on another board about a woman who had to get her flowers dyed. A bit extreme for me, but the food colouring may work, will try it this week and see.

Just put your flower in a jam jar with a teaspoonful of colouring and a little water and it changes colour really quickly.
You can try it out with daisies from the garden first in an egg cup with a couple of drops of colouring.

The only other turquoise-ish flower I can think of is Himalayan poppy (meconopsis something-I-can't-remember-as-it's-late), but poppies do very badly as cut flowers. Cineraria (widely available bedding plant) has silver leaves and might look good with eucalyptus.

My friend had a pale sea green wedding dress - sort of eau de nil - and made a very pretty bouquet of hedgerow flowers, mainly white and blue.

what about delphiniums? Or are they too blue?

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Didn't know that so checked: Delphiniums are poisonous; young leaf shoots and the seeds contain most toxin. The flower can be used in small quantities as a herbal medicine but can be fatal to grazing cattle.
I guess it depends how old the OP's DD is and whether or not she is likely to eat her bouquet...

Ooh the dress sounds lovely!

Blues could clash - mauve flowers and silvery leaves may go - white/cream flowers and silver foliage definitely. (False) sea lavender may work, scabious, and Rosemary for foliage(rosemary was traditionally put in brides' bouquets for faithfulness)

Good grief - she will definately try to munch it No Delphiniums for us - although I just put some in the Garden

I have a huge Rosemary bush and it would look lovely I think - DD could munch that no probs

I am thinking Cream flowers with lots of nice foliage. Am off to see the florist tomorrow so we will see what she suggests.

Thanks Ladies

cineraria for silver foliage - but haven't checked on toxicity of cineraria, probably better had...

cornflowers come in different shades?
maybe be able to get turquoise ones

Some varieties of hydrangea come in shades of green/blue. Senecio has silver/grey foliage often used by florists, but is currently in flower (yellow!) or eucalyptus. Do consider using a mixture of pale blues, mauves, creams and green, which will look great against a turquoise dress.
You could add turquoise into the mix by adding ribbon loops among the flowers if getting turquoise flowers is difficult. If the flowers are to be one colour, all white roses for example, you can incorporate ribbons and beads in turquoise into the design to match the outfits. ( I have C&G Floristry) Happy to answer any questions you may have. Are you doing the flowers yourself, Callmeovercautious?

If there is any risk of DD trying to eat the posy, I would think about silk flowers, unless someone is going to watch her constantly. I wouldn't advise real flowers for under three's. There is a serious risk of poisoning. Or a bored child picking all the petals off. You want it to last for the photos! Silk are a bit more resilient when dropped, bashed about etc. Or look at alternative things for her to hold; a dolly bag, a teddy or bunny dressed as a bridesmaid, a tiny basket with silk flowers in, or a fairy wand. (This is basically a stem made of a bit of dowelling with a few flower heads and sparkly beads at the top like a tiny posy; the stem bit is bound with ribbon. You can have some dangly bits of ribbon from the posy bit. It may sound a bit tacky, but it can look far better than you think!)

Wow those are some lovely ideas. I quite like the idea of a wand

When dd was a flower girl (aged 3) she struggled a bit to carry her basket of flowers upright and tended to drag it behind her, one-handed. A wand would have been perfect! I want one now!

I have it solved now thanks everyone. I am having 3 Canna Lillies tied with matching ribbon and DD is having one shorter one as a wand

So glad I talked to you all!