Spray Carnations

Spray carnation is a stem with several small flowers, not the single large head of a standard carnation. About thirty lines are on the list, and all of them are packed at 20 stems. Some are named by color, such as white, light pink, green, yellow, red, and fuchsia. Others are varieties: White Prince, Pink Prince, Cherry Prince, Danube River, Purple Butterfly, Rainbow, a two-tone purple, and more. Rainbow and the two-tone line are dyed or painted. They should not be ordered as a “natural mix” without that note.

Carnation travels firmer than ranunculus or peony and holds a commercial bouquet for several days. Flowers on the spray are not fully open when they ship. An open edge bruises the next bud. On arrival, recut and do not leave nodes under water.

Variety names differ in bud density and petal edge. White Prince and a plain white are not the same line. A chain bouquet with a fixed picture needs the name, not only the color. The green carnation in this category is a grown green line, not a separate dyed shelf.

Write the line name, the bunch count, and the date. Twenty stems a bunch is already how the list is built; the order does not need to be recounted as single heads. If the design needs one large flower on the stem, that is the standard carnation category.