Tips For Creating Fall Arrangements with Rustic Elements
That fall feeling motivates us to bring a little more nature indoors and look towards Mother Nature for decor inspiration. From the golden atmosphere and changing leaves to the return of cozy textures and deeper, jewel tones, we’re embracing it all in autumn flower arrangements. Creating a rustic fall design is an easy and beautiful way to capture the best parts of the season and make your home or dining table ready for entertaining, hosting, and romanticizing autumn. With the right vase, flowers, greenery, and seasonal accents from Cascade Floral Wholesale, you’ll be able to harness the magic of the fall season with ease.
The Perfect Fall Vase
Every rustic fall arrangement needs the perfect seasonal vase to set the mood, even before any stems are placed. The key is to find something slightly unexpected with an organic look and warm, earthy finishes. This can be your new favorite vase that shows off some character, like terracotta, aged metal, stoneware, or textured ceramic. A larger urn with handles and a matte finish for a collected, vintage look, or something made from a natural material, like a woven basket or a wooden vase with a waterproof liner, are two other options we love.
Blooms with Unique Texture
An autumn arrangement means including the season’s most beautiful and iconic stems. Sunflowers are reminiscent of that late-summer glow, with their dark centers evoking the feeling of fall. Dahlias have showstopping textures, as their layers of tiny petals form intricate, mesmerizing patterns in each bloom. Depending on the variety, you can find them in everything from warm peach and buttery yellow to burgundy, rust, and deep red. The Queen of Fall Flowers, chrysanthemums, blossom in all sorts of shapes, sizes, and colors, so you can mix and match your favorite ones to create an amazing fall design.
Greenery with an Autumn Feel
Greenery connects and grounds the blooms in your arrangement and adds movement to the design. There are so many greens to choose from, but when it comes to capturing that rustic autumn look, eucalyptus is an excellent place to start. Seeded eucalyptus has a lush, flowing appearance that can make an arrangement appear relaxed and abundant. Spiral eucalyptus offers a fresh, classic look, while feather eucalyptus adds a wilder, more wispy shape. The muted green and silvery tones of eucalyptus also pair beautifully with autumn’s brilliant color palette. They can soften bold oranges and reds or complement more modern palettes featuring cream, blush, burgundy, and golden yellow.
Seasonal Accents
The final pieces to select for a fall design are perhaps the most important. Seasonal accents bring any arrangement to life, giving it personality, character, and charm. For fall, some of the best accent stems are spikey blue thistle, rich burgundy hypericum berries, trailing amaranthus, and yellow pops of craspedia billy balls. To turn up the dial on rustic details, lean towards dried stems like tall pampas grass, fun bunny tails, or airy Italian white ruscus. Choose just a few of your favorite autumn accents that complement your arrangement, and repeat them throughout the design for a finished, intentional look.
Whimsical Shapes and Design
Once all your stems are collected, it’s time to design! Giving your arrangement a whimsical shape will evoke feelings of strolling through the woods on a crisp fall day, hot apple cider in hand, cozy flannel keeping you warm, and leaves crunching under your favorite boots. Slightly untamed lines are part of what gives rustic designs their allure. Instead of aiming for perfect symmetry, embrace a looser shape, allowing a few stems to reach higher and more outward, letting greenery trail like a winding path, and creating small pockets of texture throughout the arrangement. A rustic design should be wild and free!
An autumn arrangement is all about paying homage to the season’s best colors, textures, and details and leaning into your own fall personality. Whether your rustic fall design is the centerpiece of a dinner, a welcoming display in your entryway, or simply something beautiful for you to admire in your living room while you cozy up with a hot beverage, soft blanket, and nostalgic movie or TV show, let it be a fresh dose of Mother Nature. So, grab your fall favorite stems from Cascade Floral Wholesale and have fun inviting a little piece of autumn inside.