A red banksia head doing the headline work, with two more banksia species behind it in mustard and bronze. Around them: deep maroon leucadendron, cream verticordia clustered low, tea tree filling between. Red without the rose cliché. The loudest bunch in the native catalogue.
Each bunch is a hand-bound arrangement of Australian-grown, Australian-dried native stems. Native flowers grow on their own timeline, so the exact mix can shift through the year. The red palette and overall character stay the same. No two bunches are identical.
What They Open
Six Stems, Red-Palette
01
Banksia Formosa
Red Centre
The red flowerhead doing the visual work. Banksia formosa is naturally golden-mustard, the same species at the heart of our mustard bunch. The deep red you see here is dye applied in Australia, which is what gives this bunch its loudness. Anna's note: red is the trickiest pigment to keep true through years of display because the warm spectrum fades fastest. This stock is intended for indoor light, not direct window sun.
Worth mentioning when you send it: indirect light, not the kitchen window.
02
Banksia Prionotes
Mustard Counterweight
Acorn banksia. The tall mustard-cream flowerhead at the back of the bouquet. Prionotes is Greek for "sawtooth", a reference to the serrated leaves running along the stem. The mustard tone is natural, not dyed. The plant produces it under the WA sun and the tone holds untouched through the drying process.
The warm cream stem at the back. Natural shade, not treated.
03
Banksia Burdettii
Bronze Cone
Burdett's banksia, the brown-bronze cone visible in the middle of the bouquet. The smallest of the three banksia species in this arrangement. Anna's note: three banksia species in one bunch is unusual, and the size differences are doing the compositional work. Reading order is red, mustard, bronze, which is what stops the eye from settling. The bronze comes from natural ageing during drying, not pigment.
The smaller bronze cone in the middle. Sets the scale.
04
Leucadendron
Maroon Bracts
The deep maroon pointed bracts on the upper left. Leucadendron is South African by origin, often marketed as Australian native in dried bouquets but technically not. This stock was grown in Australia, which is what the Aussie Made certification recognises: cultivation, not species. The maroon is mostly natural, deepening slightly through drying. The sculptural shape is what the banksia heads cannot produce on their own.
The pointed dark red shapes anchoring the top of the wrap.
05
Verticordia Brownii
Cream Filler
Cauliflower verticordia, the cream-coloured pile of tiny flowers in the lower left. A WA native that, like the banksias, is fire-adapted. The plant flowers more profusely the year after a burn. The dense cluster shape is one of the most reliable structures in dried floristry because the tight flower buds do not shatter in transit. The cream provides the only light note in a red-heavy arrangement.
The cream pile at the bottom left. Keeps the bunch from going all-red.
06
Tea Tree Varieties
Foliage
Leptospermum, in a mix of cultivars. The fine olive foliage threading between the feature stems, plus some rusted-red leaves that pick up the dyed banksia tone. Anna's note: tea tree is what every Australian dried bouquet uses to bridge between the feature stems, because nothing else has the right leaf size for the gaps. Bunches sometimes carry pink-flowering or white-flowering tea tree cultivars too, depending on what the supplier has drying that month.
The fine olive and rust foliage threading through the gaps.
Who Orders This
Three Reasons This Bouquet Gets Sent
The Anti-Rose Valentine
For the recipient who would roll their eyes at a dozen roses but who is genuinely a fan of red. Red without the cliché. The bouquet sits on a kitchen bench in February and still sits there in February the year after. Romantic gesture that does not arrive with a vase to manage or petals to sweep up.
The Christmas Send
Red is the dominant Christmas palette and dried natives ship in late November without melting in the heat or wilting in transit. Arrives in time to go on the mantel before the family rolls in, stays there through Christmas, and is still part of the room when the decorations come down in January.
The Statement Decor Piece
The bouquet that arrives as part of redoing a room. Either for someone moving into a new place, or for the person who has just finished a renovation and wants the finishing piece. Goes on a console table in a wide-mouthed vase or vessel, earning its place against a neutral wall. The red is doing more visual work than a quiet print would.
Longevity
Years, Not Weeks
Red is the shade most likely to fade. The rest of this bouquet will hold for years. The red banksia head specifically needs the right room.
Like all dried natives, this arrangement outlasts the rest of the dried flower category by years rather than months. The banksia heads were built by the plant to survive bushfire, which is where their post-harvest durability comes from. Kept out of direct sunlight and away from damp, the bouquet looks the same in two years as it does on day one. The red banksia at the centre is the one variable. In a north-facing room with direct afternoon sun, expect it to soften within a year. In a south-facing room or anywhere it sits in indirect light, the colour holds with the rest of the bunch.
Size
45cm height
Lifespan
Two years plus
Wrap
Kraft, twine, Aussie Made stamp
Ready to Display
Place in a vase or stand as-is
Origin
Certified Australian Made
The green-and-gold kangaroo printed on the kraft wrap is the Australian Made Campaign mark, not a generic supplier graphic. Third-party certification, strict criteria. The stamp covers cultivation, drying, and any pigment application done to these stems. That last bit is the part that matters most on a red bouquet, because red is one of the easiest shades to fake through low-quality offshore work.
Western Australian banksia species grow in country found nowhere else on earth. Coastal sand, kwongan scrub, summers that crack rocks open, and a fire cycle some banksias literally need to release their seeds. The dried native category is one of the few floral exports where Australia genuinely leads. The red bunch benefits most from that, because red is where offshore work falls down hardest.
Not available for delivery to Tasmania.
Shipping information
- We cannot delivery to Tasmania, read why - Ships within 1-2 business days. - Ships in our fully recycled boxes adn wrapped in eco-tape - Delivery $15
