Behind the Blooms
The Art of Using Fruit in Floral Design
This spring, floristry is ripening with new ideas. Designers are looking beyond the vase and into the fruit bowl, pairing blooms with citrus, berries, and branches for arrangements alive with texture, scent, and height.
We're loving how fruit brings energy and freshness to floral design. A pop of lemon beside pale tulips, or the waxy gloss of green apples nestled in foliage, it's a style that celebrates abundance and brings the joy of spring indoors.
Citrus as Your Canvas
One of our favourite techniques? Using citrus as both vessel and design element. Hollowed-out grapefruits and blood oranges become natural containers for bold blooms like dahlias and poppies, their vibrant orange-red petals echoing the fruit's warm tones.
The citrus acts as a striking focal point while adding natural fragrance to your arrangement.
Mechanics & Wired Accents
Take it further by wiring sliced lemons and limes directly into arrangements. Thread floral wire through citrus slices and secure them among delicate blooms like chamomile, forget-me-nots, and field daisies.
The translucent quality of backlit citrus adds an unexpected modern touch to cottage garden-style florals.
Secure heavier fruit using skewers, floral picks, or wire, anchoring pieces into your base or chicken wire. To protect blooms from ethylene gas, add a layer of foliage between fruit and florals. For hollow-fruit vessels, place a smaller vial inside to hold stems.
Design Tips
Firm-skinned fruit like apples and whole citrus can last up to five days, while cut citrus and berries are more suited to single day event pieces. Try fruiting branches (kumquat, lemon, olive) for height, or mini pineapples, they come with stems and can be added like blooms.
Pair fruit with textural elements like green trick dianthus and kale. Round blooms, dahlias, peonies, ranunculus, mirror fruit's natural curves, while trailing foliage keeps designs organic.
Spring is the season of renewal, and this trend captures that spirit perfectly. It’s fresh, full, and a little bit unexpected.