What you’ll discover below:
Get ready to discover the Top 5 Cut Flowers for March.
As we give expert insights into what’s back, best, and beautiful this month!
#1 Fritillaria
Fritillaria Melegris
Fritillaria Imperialis
Fritillaria Persica
Is it any wonder that Frillaria are so loved? There 27 different cut flower Fritillaria listed, including: the dainty Fritillarias including the popular snake’s head Fritillaria meleagris, the attention grabbing Frillaria imperialis also known as ‘Crown Imperial’, and the elegant Frillaria persica varieties.
Whilst these three main groups are very different they all share the characteristic bells flowers and their availability heralding spring!
#2 Poppies | Papaver
Poppies! Or as you’ll find them listed Papaver – the Latin name.
Once the petals burst out of their textured protective sepals, they unfurl to make to an incredible eye catching impact. The most popular way to buy them is the mixed bunch, which includes the range of available colours: cream, dark and light orange, pink (peachy tone), white, and yellow. Single colours are also available of during the year.
The poppies are known by a few names including:
- Papaver nudicaule
- Poppy Bussana
- Icelandic Poppies
- Artic Poppies
#3 Spring Bell Bulbs
Here we’ve grouped together three different types of spring bulb flowers to bring you a selection that are nothing short of stunning.
Muscari
Muscari are available in 25 – 30cm stem lengths. Their flower heads generally look very similar, but can differ in colour, they are available in:
- Blue – with varieties including Carola, Emmie, Alida
- White – with varieties including White pearl and Casablanca
- Off white – very pale blue variety Manion
Leucojum aestivum
Within the cut flower industry we generally refer to Leucojum aestivum as Snowdrops. However, in the gardening realm their common name is spring snowflake, or snowflakes.
To the untrained eye they may seem to be the same flower – which can have considerable benefits and allows Leucojum aestivum to be used and interchanged for snowdrops (Galanthus) – however, Leucojum aestivum are generally considerably taller 40 – 45cm, with multiple flowers per stem.
Scilla
The commercial Scilla can be divided into two main groups:
- Scilla Peruviana – a larger flower with heads between 5 – 10cm in height and diameter, with stem length generally between 40 – 50cm
- Scilla Blue Bells – what we might consider Spanish Blue bells (Scilla hispanica although now generally reclassified as Hyacinthoides hispanica). These available in blue, white, and pink. The cut flower stem lengths are generally 35 – 40cm
#3 Spanish Antirrhinum
Snapdragons from Spain!
In March we source most of our Antirrhinum from Spain – as these are the best quality at this point in the year.
Scroll through the images and you’ll see the wide selection of colours available, whilst not necessarily considered a spring flower, they lend them selves so well to be included in seasonal designs.
#5 Genista
Fragrant, elegant, colourful and giving natural movement to designs – Genista has it all.
Hover over or tap on the images to see the names of the coloured Genista illustrated.
Genista is one of the original flowers to drink up dye (now so popular with many other flowers). It’s this technique that allows the range of colours available.
Bonus Flower - FRENCH Tulips!
So what's the difference?
We could not resist drawing your attention to French Tulips. Whilst tulips gained a top spot in our ‘5 Top Cut Flowers for January’ list, French Tulips stand head and shoulders over standard tulips – quite literally!
Some main differences include:
- 60, 65 & 70cm French Tulips are the norm, making them an easy addition to a whole load more designs than their standard counterparts might not be.
- You can buy French Tulips in their wraps of 10 from Westflor Flowers London. If you’re buying directly from our Flowers Holland list you may need to buy 30 stems (3 wraps of 10).
- To be clear it’s not just the stem length that is taller when it comes to French Tulips; the overall flower is proportionally larger too, meaning their head size is as equally impressive as their stem length. Don’t be fooled by how they may appear in webshop images, or even on the shop floor, they will open and knock your socks off!
Just a Few French Tulips Varieties
French Tulip Emblazon images L – R: a bunch with the likely flower ripeness stage you’d receive, a close up head in bud, the webshop photo example – illustrating the bunches of 10 and how they’re wrapped, a close up image of the head when slightly more open – as it starts to indicate the potential flower size!
L – R: Avignon Orange – Apricot French Parrot Tulip, White Mountain French Double Tulip, Don Quichotte French Parrot Tulip, Renowned Unique Double French Tulip, Gudoshnik Double French Tulip, Avignon Salmon – Orange French Parrot Tulip, Menton French Tulip, Kingsblood French Tulip, Flaming Parrot French Parrot Tulip, Drumline French Double Tulip, Maureen French Tulip, Emblazon French Double Tulip.
