| Create A Centerpiece With The Autumnal Colors Of The Harvest Season.
We give thanks in November for our abundance and good fortune, regardless of our present situation. Express the thanksgiving with the horn of plenty or cornucopia. Create your own with a basket you already have or other tall container by setting it on its side and using it as a floral container. Create a centerpiece with the autumnal colors of the harvest season. So many warm colors of chrysanthemums are available for you to select individually by the stem or in a pre-made bouquet. Mix golden orange with mum red and golden yellow for the harvest theme. Create a low to the table centerpiece by setting a basket on its side and filling a margerine tub (insert into the basket) with wetted floral foam and this floral-of-plenty recipe below:
Recipe ingredients:
- basket (to accomodate 4" pot and having a handle)
- clear plastic liner for basket
- floral foam soaked in warm water
- floral tape, if available
- 3 stems of baker fern or leather leaf fern (different common name)
- 3 yellow gerbera dasies or 3 yellow spider mums
- 2 stems orange cushion mums
- 2 stems bronze or scarlet button mums
- Accents: 3 cattails, 3 stems dried grass plumes, 3 colored gourds
Step 1: Remover clear plastic liner from basket. Cut liner to a height of 2", by removing approximately one-half of the length from the top with sharp scissors. Cut wet foam and insert into liner, allowing 1" of foam to stay above the top of the liner. Secure with floral tape, if available. Turn the basket onto its side (90 degree angle, so it rests like a cornucopia) and slide the foam in the liner.
Step 2: Green-in the basket with the leather leaf, using progressively larger triangles of the frond (leaflets, if you will) moving from top (smallest) to bottom (largest). Use one entire piece of baker fern inserted parallel to the table extending to the handle of the basket, only a 1/2 inch or 1/4 inch above the table (barely resting on the table).
Step 3: Take the three largest flowers (gerberas or spider mums) and insert into the floral foam about 1/2 inch, creating a long triangle. The longest point is low and barely above the long piece of baker extending nearly to the basket handle. The second point reaches 2/3 the length of the first, and is about 2" above it. The third point is short and points up at a 90 degree angle from the table and is about 1/3 the length of the longest stem. These are the focal points and the triangle they create is the heart of the cornucopia.
Step 4: Add orange cushion mums in 3's by inserting them into the floral foam, creating smaller asymetrical triangles with imaginary lines. Add the bronze or scarlet mums to the arrangement next, keeping blooms inside the original yet imaginary line created by the gerberas.
Step 5: Accent with cattails, dried grass plumes, colorful fall leaves, or bumpy gourds. Enjoy!!
- Bridget
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