Flowers that can be submerged in water

idoinkauai

I have this set of three very tall vases, and would love to submerge some flowers for my daughters reception. What flowers would be good to submerge for the night ? I would like to keep this as simple as possible, as we are down to the wire on time. Would I have to anchor them somehow, or could I simply submerge them ? I am thinking alstomeria would look nice, what do you think ?

Tonysgurl020406

I had submerged flowers at my wedding also... We had 4 vases on each table, but had a total of 8 flowers (so each table was not the same). My florist & I came up with the following flowers: Gerber daisy, Calla lily, Iris, Gladiolas, Capanlian (stock as a back up), peruvian lilly, lisanthisus, and roses. I can tell you, on the mock up, we did freesia,and that did not hold up at all. It basically rotted underwater, changed the water to purple, and stunk in about 6 hours - but thats what trials are for As for weighing them down, my florist took floral wire and just wraped it around the bottem of the stem (the last inch or so) and it seemed to work well. I used a submerged LED light covered with acrylic ice, and had a floating candle on top all sitting on a mirror surrounded by voltives. If youd like to see pictures, feel free to email me tonysgurl020406 at yahoo dot com

Catwoman708

The only time I've done submerged was with roses. I would think you could use gerbers, callas, carnations, etc... The alstromerias would be nice and full, and tall if you want to do varying heights. They are also easy and cheap to find in various colors. But I've never tried them submerged. Do you have time to do a practice run, and see how they last overnight? If you have a Sam's membership, I get flowers there all the time pretty cheap. They almost always have alstromerias (usually about 4.88 for 10 stems). The hard part about doing submerged flowers is keeping them from floating. If you don't anchor them or weight them down they don't stay put. The floral "frogs" work pretty well but they can get expensive. Or you could maybe get them to stick with some floral clay and cover the bottom of the vases with glass stones/marbles.

crazyDCbride

Alstromeria are the same as peruvian lilies... so, the previous poster probably has some pictures of what they'd look like! You could also do dendrobium orchids... but, the alstromeria would probably be a lot cheaper!