Preparing a beautiful table with flower arrangements when receiving guests for feasts like Christmas and New Year is quite a challenging exercise.
Follow recommendations by the renowned Flower Council of Holland to cast a loving spell on your guests.
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Preparing the Christmas spirit means ensuring a warm, emotion-rich atmosphere that sparks sharing. In the same manner, the table itself can show this joy spilling over: with a load of plant ornaments, it will symbolize all the hugging and love that your family lives for!
How to proceed
- On a single-colored tablecloth, either tan, gold-colored or clay-colored, place large aralia leaves.
- These will serve as the background decorum.
- Dabble bits of moss here and there (or small pots of helxine).
- Gather all sorts of natural items such as leafless branches, fir and pine tree twigs and needles, pine cones…
- Add bunches of orchid flowers or ferns and even, why not, succulents and hellebore.
This is a table that seems taken directly from a fairy tale banquet, especially if you add a couple candles and suspended kokedama on top!
- As for the plates and cutlery, play around with contrast and set blue and white vintage plates that will bring a touch of freshness to the setup.
A stylish designer bouquet
To decorate the center of the room or of the banquet table, this flower arrangement is meant as a “natural sculpture”.
How to proceed
- In a square vase of an average size, ideally made of smoked glass, gather branches of orchids in full bloom, lilies, arums, roses, freesias, nerines, viburnum and santinis, each with different hues.
- Add some foliage and a few Ilex branches (with its bright red berries if you can, great for the end-of-year theme).
- Last but not least, arch a large gold or copper-colored spray-painted branch.
The result: an astounding designer set in which the shapes and arrangements of each flower complement each other beautifully. This is a far cry from the traditional nordmann fir!
Flowered cutlery
Flower-based ornaments down to the tiniest detail! This idea pairs well with the flower arrangements you have set up as a centerpiece for the table.
This can even suffice on its own if you have many guests and wish the table to not seem too crowded.
How to proceed
- Wrap the cutlery in a cute paper napkin with colors that match your theme.
- Tie a knot around it with a bow.
- Simply slide in one or more of the following flowers: calla lily, Ilex, dog rose berries, Phalaenopsis (more commonly known as “orchid”) and spurge.
Variations are of course possible with other beloved flower types: chrysanthemum, hellebore, amaryllis, winter jasmine… and even sprigs of thyme, fir (watch out for sap though) or cinnamon sticks!
Claire Lelong-Lehoang (inspired by www.maplantemonbonheur.fr)
Image credits: the joy of plants
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