gardenias to stand out in a funeral spray

[marie g bushnell]

My customer originally wanted this to be All Gardenias to go in a spray for the top of the closed casket. Due to cost, we are now having a dozen gardenias, (trying to keep these to stand out) with white gerbs, white roses , white dendrobiums and white wax. My customer wanted All White. Didn't want to do lilies (too big and I don't want to outshine the gardenias)

I know I have to stem these gardenias, My only thought for these to really stand out is to have them all at the center of the spray.

Any suggestions for making the Gardenias stand out?

 

[concord]

I think I would make them in a scarf -like drape down the front of the spray with the other flowers around them. I can picture it but it's hard to explain. I'm sure whatever you do will be beautiful. Be sure to post pictures!

 

[Rhonda]

grouped, grouped with the gardenias center stage.

 

[RWK]

You could use flowers with different patterns than the gardenias. Gardenias are a round pattern flower, using linear pattern flowers like dendros, snapdragon, colvilli mini-glads, using filler pattern flowers like waxflower, white statice, gypsophilia, etc.

If I had to use other round flower patterns then I would select flowers with a different texture than the gardenias.......or smaller size flowers like pixie-carnation, spray roses, that type of thing.