Christmas Season Centerpiece

Christmas is a great time for centerpieces. Centerpieces can be as simple or as elaborate as you would like. Depending on the flowers and foliage you use, they can also last a long time. The evergreen in your centerpiece will last all month, and you can easily replace the flowers. Remember, you must water your floral foam for your centerpiece to last. This arrangement will look beautiful and smell lovely.

Here are the supplies you will need to make a basic Christmas Holiday centerpiece.

• Shallow container
• Floral Foam
• Floral Tape
• Evergreens
• juniper (has small bluish berries)
• princess pine
• incense cedar
• douglas fir
• ming fern
• eucalyptus
• pittosporum
• Pine cones
• Holly leaves (Ilex) and berries
• Hypericum berry, pepper berry
  

Flowers

• Red and white carnations and/or roses
• Spray roses and/or pixie carnations
• White chrysanthemums, cushion mums (pom pom mums)
• Starbursts (chrysanthemums)
  
  Instructions:
  1. First you will want to saturate your floral foam in warm water.
  2. Tape the floral foam into your container using floral tape
  3. Cover the floral foam completely with the greenery
  4. Add your filler flowers, if any
  5. Attach pine cones to the little wooden pegs with wire and insert those into the design
  6. Add focal flowers, like roses or carnations
  
  Additional ideas for your centerpiece:
  
• Use some festive ribbon and make a bow to insert into your design
• It is also fun to put a candle in your centerpiece
• Use less expensive flowers during the month and replace these with more expensive flowers for your holiday dinner
  
  
  For tips on using floral foam, go to 1-800-FLORALSunder their care of flowers section.
  
  The following is a list of additional suggestions for Christmas season flowers.
  
  Christmas Season Flowers and Foliage
  
  Flowers
• white pixie/mini carns
• red pixie/mini carns
• red, burgundy and white roses
• red, burgundy and white spray roses
• white chrysanthemums: button, cushion (star-burst), daisy
• button mums: green and white
• red and white gerbera daisies/ mini gerbera
• tulips: red and white
• cymbidium orchid
• Lily: white Asiatic lilies
• Alstroemeria: white and red
• star of Bethlehem
• mini calla lily (wedding bouquet)
• white stalk
  
  Foliage/accessories
• Holly, variegated holly
• cedar
• flat cedar
• juniper
• Douglas fir
• pine (princess, white)
• oregonia
• pittosporum (variegated)
• myrtle
• boxwood
• hypericum berries
• pine cones
• candles
• ornaments
• gold spray to spray foliage
  
  Filler Flowers
• baby's breath
• queen Anne's lace