Let's take a look at how a basic gypsophila bouquet is made and see how this can be used as a basis for a dried or preserved arrangement. When you have all your stems in place, wrap the twine, ribbon or wire around the stems so you have a good solid handle. SILK-KA are industry leading in their production of ultra-high quality, realistic faux flowers, foliage, and plants. This allows for colouring the product with pale, pastel dyes that a non-bleached product wouldn’t be able to display (below right and second right). Babys breath is extremely sensitive to ethylene and will display symptoms of wilt when exposed to the gas.

With meanings of innocence and everlasting love, there’s no surprise that gypsophila has come to be a popular choice for wedding bouquets. For maximum vase life, purchase Gypsophila when about one-third to one-half of the florets are open. Once the pieces from the one stem of baby’s breath is bunched together, you can see that a little goes a long way.

Rather than limiting a design to traditional white, these delicate, candy-coloured flowers look great as part of alternative styles of wedding bouquet or posy. To accelerate the opening of the tiny blooms, rapidly – shake – the freshly cut stems of the bunches up and down in a container of warm flower-food solution. Fresh gypsophila is lovely, and does have a wonderful scent, however, fresh may not be available to you, so what can you do?

Once harvested, Gypsophila can be dried or preserved, each method leaves the product with a different look and texture.As you can see from the collection of images below, there is a range of styles, from perfectly spherical, to a little more rustic, some with only gypsophila, and others with added roses – who wouldn’t want a rose and gypsophila bouquet? Bacterial contamination of the vase solution, which plugs stem ends and causes the flower-food solution to become smelly, occurs rapidly with these flowers, so change the flower-food solution, wash the containers, and recut the stems every other day. Have you created a beautiful gypsophila bouquet from our dried, faux, or preserved products for a client’s wedding?