Potpourri Fillers

These are the ingredients that go into making potpourri. These include flowers, plants, herbs spices, cones, grasses and other botanicals.

According to Dawn Frankfort, author of Calming Crafts, recommends the following for fillers:

Allspice: dark brown, fragrant berries

Angel wings: wispy white flowers often bleached or dyed pink

Apple Slices

Bael Nut Slices: dark orange interiors and wood-like exteriors

Balsam Fir Needles: resemble grass, but smells like Christmas

Cedar Tips: green

Cockscomb flowers: red with velvet-like clusters

Cornflowers

Curly Pods

Eucalyptus Leaves: blue green

Gold Amaranth: White, round flowers

Juniper Berries: red

Larkspur petals: blue

Lemon Verbena Leaves: green curled leaves with potent lemon scent

Malva Flowers: piercing purple-blue

Milo Berries: pretty cranberry

Orange Peel Slices

Pearly Everlasting: white sprigs

Pine Cones, Hemlock: small cones in gray-brown

Pine Cones, Ponderosa: nicely scented in brown

Pine Cones, White Spruce: brown and round

Pomegranates: red-magenta

Repends Flowers: red with long blades

Rhododendron: green and excellent for color

Rosebuds: small tight buds in red, pink and yellow

Rosehips: whole pea in deep, pretty magenta

Senna Pods: nice brown leaves

Statice Flowers: pretty in yellow, purple and white

Strawflowers: yellow, dainty flowers

Tilia Flowers: dark orange hue

Velvet Flowers: red or orange