Full List of the Best Filler Flowers for Floral Arrangements (2024)

Looking for fresh floral design ideas? Discover some of the best filler flowers available for flower arranging. These blooms will lend themselves to creating lively, airy, and full floral arrangements for wedding and event designs, bouquets, or simply a hand-tied arrangement for your own enjoyment at your kitchen table.

This article is meant to be the biggest list of filler flower types that we could compile—just for you! So skip around to find exactly what you require for your floral design needs today.

• What is a filler flower?

• What are filler flowers used for in floral design?

• Resources demonstrating how to use filler flowers

• Lists of filler flower examples by color palette

• Best white filler flowers

• Cream and blush filler flowers

• Yellow filler flowers

• Most-loved filler greenery and green filler flowers

• Purple filler flowers

• Excellent filler flowers for a moody color palette

• Best filler flowers for a bright color palette

In addition, some of these flowers can easily serve multiple purposes—whether filler or focal—depending on your design.

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What is a filler flower?

A filler flower is a type or “style” of flower used in floral design with the purpose to act as a bulk fill-in for a floral arrangement or bouquet, cover gaps and blank space in the arrangement, and cover floral mechanics.

Filler flowers are not only used in floral design, but are also used in strategic garden and flower bed design. However, in this article we’ll be talking through flower arrangement fillers specifically with floristry work in mind.

What are filler flowers used for?

As mentioned above, filler flowers are used in floral design work or garden design. Often, when flowers are used as filler, they are not the “star of the show” (or what we call the focal flower) in the floral arrangement. Instead, they act as supporting characters for the overall design.

Nonetheless, traditional filler flowers for bouquets and arrangements can sometimes be the show-stopping star in their own right. It all depends on your particular goals and your client’s preferences.

Sometimes filler flowers can be just as breathtaking, delightful, and mood-setting as the most dramatic, largest peony. Your design style can really set the tone for what is considered a filler flower and what isn’t!

So wait, what flowers do you put in a bouquet?

1. Floral arrangement fillers serve as the “supporting cast” in the design story of a floral arrangement. (They’re described in depth above.)

2. Focal flowers are the larger, more “main character” blooms in a floral design, but they don’t always have to be a large flower.

   When someone is looking at and admiring an arrangement, focal flowers allow for visual rest in the design of the arrangement,—a moment for the “eye to pause,” so to speak.

3. Line flowers establish the shape of an arrangement, and branches and greenery often fall into this category.

   Line flowers do the hard work of stretching a floral design outside of its container or vessel and into the space it occupies. They can add bounce, movement, delicacy, and airy, breezy elements to a design.

   And if we’re still using the movie analogy here, they might serve as the “setting”—the place the design story of your arrangement takes place and the boundaries that hold its shape. (Maybe we’re stretching our line-flower analogies a bit here, but you get the gist!)

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Floral Design Videos: How to Use Filler Flowers

Need floral design tutorials or inspiration? For demonstrations on how to use flower arrangement fillers effectively in your designs (or if you need fresh design ideas), we’ve compiled a couple of our favorite resources to help.

But if you’re here looking for filler flower lists specifically, feel free to skip on ahead to get what you need!

Here are 3 step-by-step videos for filler flowers inspiration:

1. Make a Giftable Wrapped Flower Bouquet: In this fast flower video with instructor and designer Kelly Perry, you’ll see a very quick tutorial of a vibrant, happily wrapped gift bouquet that uses greenery, filler flowers, and a couple focal flowers—all tied up with a joyful ribbon. It makes a great arrangement for Valentine’s Day, a cheerful host gift, or a fun birthday bouquet!

2. A Lesson in Reflective Floral Design: Kelly leads us in a step-by-step tutorial video with Certified American Grown flowers—you’ll see beautiful use of focal, filler, and line flowers in a colorful centerpiece arrangement.

3. Creating a Blush Floral Centerpiece: This flower-heavy centerpiece is loaded with gorgeous blooms, many of which we mention in the filler flower lists below. A blush-colored floral design palette is wonderfully popular for weddings and special occasion events.

And if you’re more of a how-to article kind of learner, we’ve got a couple of those, too!

• Create a Happy Basket Flower Arrangement: In this article, you’ll see designer and Team Flower Member Jacelyn create a giant, colorful floral arrangement. She talks through the filler flowers and focal flowers.

• Design a Large-Scale Foam-Free Centerpiece: Here, Team Flower Member Maxine Owens gives you a step-by-step guide (with photos!) on creating a gorgeous, large arrangement. She even tells you when it’s time to place your filler flowers!

  See Also

  Define a flower.7 Different Types of Flower Arrangements for Various Occasions | Darcey FlowersAspects of Design: Closed Forms Versus Open FormsSpot the seven-pointed stars of starflower

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Ideas for Filler Flowers for Floral Arrangements, Bouquets, and More

Below you’ll find a huge list of filler flowers for floral arrangements, organized by color palette.

Some blooms may show up in multiple lists—that’s just so you have quick and easy access to multiple filler flower ideas in that particular category.

An important note about flower photos: Adding a photo of each filler flower for each list would have made for, well, a very long article that would be difficult for you to sift through (or one that would take too long to load).

So we’ve eliminated individual photos of each and every flower for this purpose.

However, if you need a reminder of what a flower looks like, simply do a quick Google Image search in a new tab, and then jump right back into this guide for more ideas.

Best White Filler Flowers

Below you’ll find a list of some of the most popular white filler flowers for bouquets and arrangements.

• Camomile (also known as Matricaria)

• Orlaya

• Ginestra

• Spirea

• White Dill

• Statice (purple, white)

• Dianthus

• Queen Anne’s Lace (also known as Ammi)

• Eupatorium

• Baby’s Breath (also known as gyp)

• Bouvardia

• White Sweet Pea

• Lilly of the Valley

• Snapdragons

• Hydrangea (while hydrangea can also easily be a focal flower, it’s large head of bountiful smaller blooms makes for excellent filler)

• Wax Flowers

• Jasmine

• White Cloud Spray Garden Rose

• White Majolica Spray Rose

• White Gomphrena (also known as globe amaranth)

• White Mini Carnations

• Stock

• Viburnum

• Wild Aster

• White Pompons (a type of mum)

• White Astilbe

• Diosma

• Nicotania

• Feverfew

• Forget Me Not

Creamy-Colored and Blush-Colored Flower Arrangement Fillers

• Angie Romantica Spray Garden Rose

• Peach Mini Carnations

• Chabaud La France Carnations

• Sedum

• Solidago

• Apricot Statice

• Snapdragons

• Phlox

• Zinnia Zinderella Lilac

• Bunny Tail Grass

• Daucus Seed

• Blush Astilbe

• Yarrow

• Calcynia

• Diosma

• Astrantia

• Little Quick Fire Panicle Hydrangea (dried or fresh)

Yellow Filler Flowers

• Lady's Mantle (also known as Alchemilla)

• Yellow Pompons (a type of mum)

• Zinnia Golden Hour

• Yellow Quatre Coeurs Garden Spray Roses

• Goal Mini Button Pom

• Golden Yellow Button Pom

• Sunday Gold Celosia

• Buplerum

• Yellow Dill

• Craspedia (also known as Billy Balls, can be used dried or fresh)

• Statice

• Rue

• Yarrow

• Narcissus

• Pomponette Double Tulip

Most-Loved Filler Greenery and Green Filler Flowers

• Eucalyptus

• Dusty Miller (also produces yellow flowers in warmer climates)

• Myrtle

• Viburnum Greenery

• Ivy

• Lemon Leaf

• Bells of Ireland

• Sage (Hint: let your herbs flower for additional interest! Same with the other herbs listed below.)

• Basil

• Mint

• Catmint

• Chocolate mint

Purple Filler Flowers

• Blue Glitter Sea Holly (also appears as a lavender color)

• Purple Statice

• Delphinium

• Purple Wax Flower

• Wild Purple Aster

• Purple Tamborine Garden Spray Rose

• Catmint (when flowered)

• Verbena

• Lilac

• Copper Plume Atriplex

• Heather

• Ageratum

• Stock

• Lavender

• Ageratum

Excellent Filler Flowers for a Moody Color Palette

• Thistle

• Burgundy Purple Micro Pom Cushion Flower

• Shock Novelty Pom Purple Flower

• Mini Tuxedo Santini

• Rusty Red Button Pom

• Sedum

• Bouvardia

• Daucus

• Heather

• Lilac

• Astilbe

• Diosma

• Astrantia

• Little Quick Fire Panicle Hydrangea (dried or fresh)

Best Filler Flowers for a Bright Color Palette

• Gomphrena (also known as globe amaranth)

• Poms

• Alstroemeria (also known as Lily of the Incas or Peruvian Lilly)

• Snapdragons

• Delphinium

• Phlox

• Zinnias

• Statice

• Stock

• Thistle

• Mums

• Pompon Mums (smaller, button-like flowers)

• Purple Tamborine Garden Spray Rose

• Lady Bombastic Garden Spray Rose

• Bashful Becky Button Pom

• Bouvardia

• Diosma

• Calcynia

• Heather

• Yarrow

• Craspedia (also known as billy balls, can be used dried or fresh)

Did We Forget Any Favorite Filler Flowers?

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Photography: All floral designs by Kelly Perry

(1 & 4) Almond Leaf Studios
(2) Marcie Meredith Photography
(3) Caroline Logan Photography
(6, 7, 8, 9) Heather Payne Photography