Feathering Your Nest with Flowers

This year I am program chairman for my garden circle. If you have ever had that position in your garden circle before you know that you schedule your programs a year in advance. Sometimes at the last minute they can cancel on you and then you are really in a pickle. That did happen to me once this year but not yesterday. I had scheduled a very dear friend of mine to speak to our circle. This is a lady that does flower arrangements extraordinaire for weddings and events in our area and she does very few lectures or demonstrations.

For our meeting yesterday I had called it "Feathering Your Nest with Flowers" and I wanted her to focus on cutting things from your own garden and simpler arrangements for entertaining in our home. I was not disappointed!!!

This was an arrangement done in clear glass cylinder's about six inches tall that she had purchased at The Dollar store for $1.00 each. They come with a candle in them but she takes the candles out and uses them most often to take flowers to our local Hospice when she has extra flowers from an event she has done. This particular idea was to put a few flowers in each container, in this instance placing six of them together, and tying them with a beautiful bow. This was an idea she gave for a luncheon and each guest can take one home. It was so easy and placed together made a beautiful and unusual table arrangement not to mention the inexpensiveness of it. She also added that if you have a larger group and a long table you could do them in groups of three and do several groups.

The opposite side of this arrangement.

Sitting on a silver tray makes it a little more elegant and the sheer green ribbon with brown satin edging was particularly complimentry to the arrangement.

Such a simple but yet elegant idea. An idea I plan to use very soon.

Many of us have something in our garden that is still green. Here in the South we have those beautiful magnolia leaves. They aren't blooming right now but the leaves are stunning in an arrangement. The beauty part of this arrangement is that it uses so very few flowers but the look with the underside of the magnolia leaves which is brown is just stunning. She also used a plastic Revere bowl that looked just like silver. You really had to look closely to tell that it wasn't silver. I am doing a garden party dinner for my garden circle and their husbands in May and I will definitely be ordering some of these bowls.

Using the leather leaf fern gave the arrangement a softened  look against the magnolia leafs.

She also added in some twigs with no foliage on them so this turned out to be the perfect winter arrangement. Again with so few flowers that were purchased.

The silver bowls are a "MUST" find.

This was another idea using a small round clear glass cylinder with two sided tape wrapped around it. The asparagus was cut to fit and then tied with raffia.

 Another idea using very few flowers but what a conversation piece.

I can visualize three or five down a dining room table with small clear glass votive's scattered throughout.

Our guest speaker gave us many interesting ideas for using flowers in our home and all of which I will use myself. I hope that by sharing these ideas with you, you will use some of them yourself. I love having fresh flowers in my home and I always use fresh flower on my table when entertaining.

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Carolyn