Michigan Eucalyptus

Eucalyptus is grown for its foliage rather than its flowers, and it is the greenery that quietly holds an arrangement together. The rounded or lance-shaped leaves come in cool silver, blue-green, and soft sage, and they release a clean, camphor-like scent the moment you brush against them. As a cut green it does two jobs at once, lending both color and a supple, draping structure that designers love to build a bouquet around.

Eucalyptus is not a Michigan native. The genus is native to Australia, where more than seven hundred species range from low shrubs to towering trees, and most of them are frost-tender, damaged by anything beyond a light freeze, as Wikipedia’s eucalyptus page documents. Because it cannot survive a Michigan winter outdoors, our member farmers treat it as a warm-season annual, starting seed early under glass in the greenhouse and setting plants out once the cold has passed, then cutting fresh stems from summer into the fall.

Grown and cut right here by our collective, this greenery reaches you supple and fragrant, a real contrast to the dyed or preserved eucalyptus that dominates the shipped market and often arrives brittle. That freshness is exactly why it anchors so much of our floral design work and our DIY buckets. Reserve a bucket of eucalyptus for your own garlands and bouquets, request it tucked in alongside your flowers, or ask our floral designers to weave it through a custom arrangement.