Spring is here! I love this time of year, when I can get in my garden and see my flowers budding. Tending to my garden is very rewarding as I plan for hosting outdoors throughout the warmer seasons. We love to have dinner parties and outdoor movies and game nights in the garden. A spring refresh is how I like to get ready for hosting friends and family.
When I am hosting a dinner party, one of my favorite things to do is look around my garden and see what I can use to create a fresh floral centerpiece for my tablescape. I love to find unique cut flowers at my local florist and then fill in my arrangement with fresh cuttings from the garden.
For my dinner party, I wanted an arrangement of red and white flowers to compliment my blue and white table settings. I like using a long linear container for a centerpiece. It lets me fill the table with flowers using one arrangement.
Thankfully, my sweet friend Tori Brinson is a very talented florist and she put together the most beautiful selection of fresh cut white roses, red ranunculus, a potted maidenhair fern, and fresh cuttings of greenery.
How beautiful! Tori was so kind to offer her tips for creating this arrangement so you can do it too! Tori shared, “To create this garden style look, I bought a maiden hair fern & red ranunculus from a local floral shop. I cut the white roses and variegated pittosporum from landscaping bushes in my yard. For the arrangement,
- Place the whole fern in the center of the container & place a 1/3 block of wet floral foam on each side.
- Space out the pittosporum around the rim of the container
- Place ranunculus in the wet foam on each side of the fern, allowing them to extend out above the greenery
- Fill in with the white roses & extra pittosporum.”
With tips like those, you can definitely recreate this arrangement! The table is all set now for an outdoor dinner party to enjoy! What are your favorite ideas for creating a fresh floral arrangement? Leave a comment below and let me know. I’m always looking for fun hints and tricks. Happy Spring friends!
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