Winter centerpieces

The winter season is a good time to experiment with other textures in your centerpieces it doesn't have to just be our traditional holiday favorites like evergreens and holly. For your holiday table or your winter weddings...Fruit is FUN!!! look at this cut open papaya, the soft peachy color and black seedy center perfect eye candy. Other fruity favorites are, tangerines, grapes, apples, pears and limes...I also love to use walnuts, Cinnamon sticks or mossy branches....Winter may seem to be cold and barren in the garden, but our table scape's are far from it...make yours abundant, lush, use colored glass or your mothers silver serving bowl as a flower container...its all in the details, use ornaments for favors or napkin rings...express yourself and create memories!!!

Fall Centerpiece

This fall centerpiece I had the pleasure of doing in California, I picked 90% out of my mother in laws garden, yes in November...I found rosemary, Ivy, acorns, verbena, grasses, leaves, pods, and a few beautiful bloomers I was unfamiliar with...I added some roses from the local market and turned her once wood candle holder into a 4ft long rustic thanksgiving centerpiece..You can turn any candle holder into a centerpiece if you have the right mechanics... I filled the holes with a foil lining and added wet oasis, then created each little arrangement to flow into the next to make one cohesive arrangement..add some vines for movement and some sunflowers for show... Since I was unfamiliar with some of the flowers and foliage, and the mechanics were such that it could not hold extra water... I did not expect it to last more than a day, like most event flowers they need to be at full show for only a moment..but to my surprise it was still beautiful when we left for home 4 days later...