Each season offers its own welcoming sounds, flavours, sights and scents. Fall flowers are one of the ways to celebrate the arrival of this particular season in addition to other fall favourites like desserts and beverages featuring caramel and cinnamon. Colourful and festive fall flower arrangements make perfect Thanksgiving gifts or presents for any other holiday gathering, important occasion or just because. For a special delivery to a beloved individual or to add autumn flowers to your own table, Edible Arrangements® offers a number of stunning bouquets and flower gift sets, some of which are included below. Additionally, discover an assortment of popular fall flowers and fall flower arrangement design ideas to create both indoor and outdoor autumn flower displays to enjoy throughout the season.
Festive Fall Flower Arrangements with Indoor and Outdoor Design Ideas
From spooky creations and activities for kids to landscaping options and decorative features, create festive flower arrangements this fall. Some design ideas are inspired by the symbolic meanings of assorted fall flowers, while others focus on creative touches by occasion or location around the home. Enjoy celebrating the fall season with flowers and seasonally-inspired designs!
Fall Blooms and Edible® Bakeshop Bundle
Fall flower arrangement idea: Add a festive ribbon to the included vase, perhaps one with pumpkins or leaves on it, to add additional seasonal appeal. Create individual party favours from this set by customizing smaller bouquets from the main arrangement and presenting each bouquet with its own delicious cheesecake accompaniment.
This fall flower bouquet and dessert pairing includes colourful seasonal blooms in an array of colours, as well as the seasonal flavours of decadent cinnamon almond cheesecakes. This duo is the perfect gift for an October birthday or as a festive contribution to a holiday gathering of family and friends. Choose from double and single bouquet options as well as your choice or vase or carefully wrapped bouquet.
Caramel & Chocolate Turkey Thanksgiving Bouquet
Fall flower arrangement idea: This idea can provide fun decoration and help keep kids entertained at family gatherings. Not only is this fruit bouquet filled with sweet and refreshing fruit treats, but it can also serve as inspiration for creating fall flower arrangements. Provide the participants with some kind of vase or container and materials for their bouquets. Then, let them design their own seasonal spectacles. Want to encourage them to expend even more energy? Skip the curated material collection and send them on a scavenger hunt around your yard for twigs, leaves, fruit, flowers and more to use in their creations.
In this delicious fruit bouquet, foliage has been crafted from honeydew and cantaloupe slices, as well as apple wedges dipped in caramel and semisweet chocolate and topped with sea salt. Ripe strawberry blooms surround the central chocolate dipped pineapple turkey. Keep some traditions while breaking others with this fruit-focused take on the classic fall flower bouquet.
Chrysanthemum
Fall flower arrangement idea: Pots of mums are often available in many different sizes. Play with your size options and assorted hues to create a colourful, multi-layered display. Alternately, design a monochromatic arrangement to celebrate your favourite fall colour or one that most complements your home’s exterior or other landscaping selections.
The arrival of mums to local stores is one of the first welcoming signs of fall. This much beloved and cold-tolerant flower is available in a spectrum of colours from bright white to rich purple, which makes it a perfect choice for indoor and outdoor decorating! Its association with optimism and joy are also most appreciated as the days become cooler and the sun less present and for use as a gift at a variety of fall occasions.
Aster
Fall flower arrangement idea: Serving as symbols of love, patience and elegance, these flowers may be ideal selections for fall weddings. Choose pots in a single colour or across the spectrum of their colors to create an aisle for an outdoor ceremony. These containers can then be repurposed to distinguish the dance floor, the table of the wedding party and eventually as favours for guests.
Celebrate the relief from the heat with asters which come in a variety of cooler colors like light purples, blues and whites. If you are considering planting these flowers in an outdoor design for fall, they do well in areas of full sun or even light shade.
Marigold
Fall flower arrangement idea: For a festive Halloween design that utilizes new or existing outdoor marigold pots and plants, find a ceramic or blow up dragon and use the marigolds to reflect its fiery destruction on the ground. Children of all ages may enjoy participating in this fall fun and repurposing some of their old toys, like lego castles or block buildings, to create a scary scene!
Like mums, these beauties are available in the quintessential fall colours of yellow, orange and red. These cheerful additions to outdoor designs help protect gardens from pests while also celebrating the arrival of fall.
Sunflower
Fall flower arrangement idea: Dried corn stalks are often used to decorate porch columns, lamp posts and other outside areas in celebration of fall. Add a colourful array of sunflowers for extra fall fair to brighten up this decor.
Flowers generally bring happiness to those who enjoy them, but the sunflower itself often seems to be basking in the joy of each day. Although they are most known for a yellow hue, some varieties do offer shades of red and orange, as is fitting for fall decor. These flowers can also provide a delicious fall treat – roasted sunflower seeds!
Dahlia
Fall flower arrangement idea: Their elegance and size makes them ideal for simple, yet stunning, fall flower arrangement designs. Even just one flower in a beautiful bud vase adds seasonal colour to a bathroom. For holiday events and special occasions, create a floating flower display for a table centrepiece by adding a single dahlia to a small glass bowl filled with water. Smaller tables may require 3-5 of these bowls to complete the design while longer tables may require several more. Add even more splendour to your design by interspersing your dahlia displays with tea lights or seasonal items like acorns.
From rich purple and pink shades to the autumnal shades of yellow, orange and red, the intricacy of the dahlia blossom makes these fall flowers incredible additions to bouquets or seasonal designs. While pots and plantings of dahlias are unlikely to survive a frost, these stunning flowers offer a beautiful spectrum of color into the fall months.
Zinnia
Fall flower arrangement idea: Zinnias often symbolize friendship, especially those that have endured for a number of years. Choose their favourite colour or highlight those of the season in a personalized bouquet or in a fresh fall wreath using grapevines or a foam base. If you want a fun and festive design for their Thanksgiving table, these flowers can serve as the feathers sticking up out of a ceramic turkey vase or the colourful tree tops in a wooden or tree bark-covered vase.
Zinnias, like dahlias, are available in a variety of rich jewel tones and other subtler shades. These fall flowers retain their cheerful presence into this cooler season and benefit from a planting location in full sun. They also do quite well in pots and planters, so they work for both container gifts and in autumn flower designs.
Sedum
Fall flower arrangement idea: With associations of protection and tranquility, these plants make stunning borders for garden beds, as hedges or along porches or decks. Pair their purple, pink and red hues with the yellow and orange pops of assorted pumpkins or gourds. Sedum stems also stay well as a cut flower, so you might even turn a pumpkin into a vase and put those flowers into it!
Often flowering later in the season, the purple, red or pink flowers of sedum are also relatively low maintenance. If you are looking to enhance your outdoor decor but aren’t always great about fetching the watering can with regularity, sedum may be a flower that works for you!
Coral Bells
Fall flower arrangement idea: While they are often used as filler in fall flower arrangements, combine them with some of your dried summer flowers to let them be the star of the show in a stunning bouquet. Alternately, use just the leaves to create leaf garlands or even leafy chandeliers to decorate your home – both of which are appropriate choices given this plant’s association with protection and positive energy.
Heuchera, perhaps more well-known as coral bells, is most celebrated for its vivid foliage in colours of green, purple, copper, gray/silver and more. While these plants don’t have the biggest blooms, the particular vibrance of their foliage in addition to their small, bell-shaped flowers, offers a lot of design potential.
Calendula
Fall flower arrangement idea: In addition to stunning gardens and beautiful bouquets, calendula is often transformed into teas and salves. Take these healing applications as inspiration for a fall flower arrangement! If you are planning to host an autumn luncheon or an Alice in Wonderland-themed halloween party, repurpose those mismatched tea cups or inherited teapot to showcase these fairly sturdy flowers. Such designs would also add fall flair to a tea station at a corporate event or wedding!
The bright yellow or orange flowers of calendula are perhaps equally known for their floral beauty as they are for their healing properties. These joyful looking blooms are sure to bring warmth into rainy autumn days and smiles with their sunshiney appearance.
Balloon flowers
Fall flower arrangement idea: Open or closed, balloon flower blooms are a unique addition to fall flower designs. The unopened flowers could be used to create a miniature hot air balloon scene for a celebratory send-off to a departing co-worker. Create a sweet starry night scene for an evening on the patio by surrounding small containers of these perennials with twinkle lights! Inspired by the season more than their symbolic meaning, these flowers could also serve as the balloons in the hand of creepy clown figures that you use as part of your Halloween-themed decor.
In shades of blue, pink and white, balloon flowers are whimsical blooms that appear through the onset of fall. Their star-like flowers appear atop delicate stems for a sweet and colourful touch to indoor decor and outdoor landscapes. Associated with love and happy wishes for the future, this flower is a thoughtful gift for a variety of occasions.
Cosmos
Fall flower arrangement idea: Cinnamon is one scent and flavour that is often associated with fall. In its stick form, it can be used to create a scented fall flower arrangement. With their thin and lengthy stems, cosmos are the perfect choice to add to your cinnamon stick flower designs. Consider filling a short jam jar with several sticks and filling each with cosmos to bring fall scent and colour to a side table or mantlepiece. For a larger centrepiece, put three taller pillar candles in a short rectangular glass container, fill the remaining space with cinnamon sticks and put flowers throughout or just along the border of the container.
Grown in outdoor garden beds and decorative pots, this flower is prolific, especially in the fall. It is also relatively easy to grow, even from seed, may attract beneficial pollinators to your vegetable garden and has fairly low maintenance needs. Available in many colours, these flowers sit atop long, slender stems.
Cone flowers
Fall flower arrangement idea: The versatility of cone flowers makes them extremely adaptable to different designs. For a simple table design, fill short bud vases with these flowers in assorted colours and weave other autumnal favourites like apples, pinecones or mini pumpkins around these vases.
Echinacea is a perennial flower that provides incredible colour to outdoor landscapes and works well in cut flower applications. In short, growing these cone flowers offers opportunities for outdoor and indoor beautification, especially since they continue to bloom throughout the fall. As this flower is often associated with health and vitality, they are ideal for growing, decorating and gifting.
Salvia
Fall flower arrangement idea: Instead of a bow, you might adorn a fall baby shower gift with sprigs of salvia. Once cut, these flowers also seem to retain their colour fairly well, even as they dry. In their dried format, consider hanging bunches of salvia tied with a burlap ribbon for some additional texture and a fall feel to your display on entry doors or indoor wall space in need of some decor.
In addition to being hardy, deer-resistant and low maintenance plants, the slender, flowering stems of a salvia plant appear in deep purple, red and blue and nicely complement other fall hues. Symbolic of good health and healing, salvia may make a thoughtful inclusion in get-well-soon gifts or to celebrate babies on the way, as well as hosting gifts!
Gobble Gobble Dessert Board & Fall Flowers Bundle
Fall flower arrangement idea: This pairing can be used to clearly mark a designated dessert table, or the flower bouquet can decorate the dining table while the dessert platter passes from one friend to another. If you have multiple tables at a holiday gathering, the main fall flower bouquet can be further divided into individual centrepieces.
Available in two different sizes, this fall flower arrangement and dessert collection includes, apple wedges dipped in caramel and semisweet chocolate, cheesecakes with assorted toppings, a chocolate dipped pineapple turkey and other sweet delights. For a party, this duo invites you to decorate with the beautiful autumn flowers and offers delicious desserts to your guests.
Fall flower arrangement idea: Add some spooky appeal to this fall-themed fruit arrangement by transforming the orange container into a jack-o-lantern! Cut your pumpkin’s facial features from black construction paper or use a black marker for a last-minute design update!
Crafted from fresh fruit including yellow leaf-shaped pineapple, orange slices, red strawberries, the addition of apple wedges dipped in caramel and semisweet chocolate makes this seasonally-inspired fresh fruit arrangement a playful approach to a fall flower arrangement. It also makes a great appetizer for guests to graze on as they arrive for your fall gathering.
Whether you customize your own flower arrangement or choose one of our curated designs, a flower delivery is always a welcome gift. Express your gratitude, celebrate an important occasion or simply lift your spirits or someone else’s with a stunning fall flower arrangement today!
