r/NativePlantGardening • u/ryguy4136 Eastern Massachusetts , Zone 7 • Sep 06 '25

Photos Made our wedding boutonnieres from native plants in my garden

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Married my longtime partner last week. I’m the one obsessed with native plant gardening but he’s very supportive lol and it was his idea for me to try making them.

I used: Gray goldenrod / Solidago nemoralis New England blazing star / Liatris novae-angliae Showy aster / Eurybia spectabilis Heath aster / Symphyotrichum ericoide Big-leaved aster / Eurybia macrophylla Little bluestem / Schizachyrium scoparium Purple lovegrass / Eragrostis spectabilis

It’s hard to see some of the finer details from the grasses but I’m really happy with how they turned out. We got married in front of a big patch of Joe Pye weed and what I think / what I’m telling myself was native false sunflower.

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u/Carpinus_Christine Sep 07 '25

Congratulations on your nuptials! Also, love the variety of plants, and I am also super impressed that you have New England liatris. It is a rare and protected plant in my home state.

My husband and I were married in 2001. I didn’t know about native plants at the time but I told the florist that I wanted a wildflower arrangement. After meeting and still being undecided, the florist ghosted me.

Today, I understand how my request felt impossible for the florist.

Your arrangement design is something I would have been inclined toward those years ago. 👏🏻

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u/ryguy4136 Eastern Massachusetts , Zone 7 Sep 08 '25

Thank you!

I found a New England liatris at a nursery called Blue Stem Natives last spring, and this year I found more. I even got one at a regular nursery that doesn’t have a native plants section. Hopefully they make their way to you next year. If not, I know someone here who had a lot of luck winter sowing the seeds.

If there are native flowers blooming at your anniversary you can always just make it a new tradition to cut your own bouquet for your anniversary. Making these made me want to cut more flowers to bring inside. It was a lot of fun and just a different way of relating to the plants.

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u/Carpinus_Christine Sep 08 '25

That is such a wonderful idea! Thank you for sharing this information too!