Christmas decorations - glowing centrepiece
If you really want to push the boat out for Christmas, rather than buying an arranged flower centrepiece, you can make a superb display for the same money, by purchasing tropical flowers in a bunch and adding your own garden and grocery accessories to make a really stunning display. Mixing expensive flowers, and interesting shapes and colours from supermarket buys, gives an impression of abundance and scale that gives this kind of display a bravura air.
You need
- A large, fairly shallow container - a big copper bowl, a big tub, a punch bowl etc
- A bin liner - green for preference
- 2 cyclamen plants (if you don't have them in the greenhouse, garden centres are selling them quite cheaply at this time of year)
- Florist's foam
- Gold or silver candles, both tall ones and short
- Stems of holly, ivy, evergreens etc anything that's in the garden and green!
- One bunch of really impressive flowers like strelitzia, lilies or gerbera
- Five gourds from the supermarket or from your summer harvest, if you can't get gourds, use bright coloured peppers
Line your container with the bin liner and position the cyclamen plants, raising them on blocks of foam if necessary. Fill the container with the rest of the foam, well soaked, and put the tall candles in place. Now fill in around the tall candles so that the flowers and leaves conceal the foam, resting one or two of the vegetables on the edge of the container and piling the others on the table, with the small candles, at one side of the display.
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