Flower Recipes - Autumnal Table Centre - Portavadie Marina

Lovely sail to Portavadie last weekend ...

Loved the patterns on the water

People gathering for the Open Day ... and the sun shone !

Autumnal flower recipe:

 First of all enjoy a relaxing stroll, gathering hedgerow finds as you go.
Take one cylinder vase or vase of your choice and fill with berries and sliced apple gathered from your foraging.
Fill with water.
Take your flowers (30 stems approximately), and create into a simple hand-tie.
Tie Gladioli or other tall stems and create into a coronet to give the illusion of height and a quirky take!
 Cut short and place on top of fruit.
Very simple and not too expensive.

To complete the setting, I placed votives using felt which I made and used around tumblers from Ikea ... pennies to make, and felting is so therapeutic.

A variety of kilner jars of varying heights would work well too. Fill with different fruits and nuts, some with candles, to add a little sparkle and movement. Flowers with different colours and textures, garden finds using the last of the summer's blooms.

I have lots of beautifully coloured marigolds in my garden and some hot pink Cosmos, which is blowing gently in the wind as I type. Add interesting greenery and twigs, gathered from a walk. Make a beautiful runner and group randomly.

Now what to cook for this Autumn feast? Hmm! Ideas please. I will send a little hand knitted winter cosy (a surprise!) to the best suggested food styling for an Autumn table. Reply by end of October. Thank you in anticipation.

Relax and enjoy a cosy evening.

Best wishes , Gill x 

View from the boardwalk and marquee. Yachts and pontoons always lift my spirits and make me feel adventurous !

And it was :)

All photographs copyright Gill and George Stewart 2012