Autumn Table Wreath by Sarah Raven

Today on Floral Media I'm wanted to show you this real showstopper autumn table wreath by Sarah Raven. She has used many of my favourite colours that are around at this time of year.

I featured this video back in 2014 - but I like it so much I thought it deserves a second viewing - same video but I've written all new text this time. Enjoy!



Sarah's choice of plants are an unusual mix of scented pelargonium foliage, hydrangea flowers and seed heads, hawthorn berries and Chinese lanterns. There are also some unusual little surprises such as ornamental cucumbers and strawberry popcorn. 

In the middle are five flame coloured candles picking up all the colours in the wreath. Sarah has used an oasis base so both spent flowers and candles can be replaced which means that the whole centerpiece will last well into the holiday season. 

Floral Media - Sarah Raven's - How to Make an Autumn Wreath

Sarah Raven shows you how to make an Autumn Wreath, from start to finish. A lovely way to decorate your home in the glorious season.

Here is another brilliant video by Sarah Raven where she makes an autumn wreath that she then uses as a centerpiece with candles in the middle. She starts with a pre-made round shape that she adds autumn flowers, seed pods and foliage.

It will work for a big dining table, coffee table or hall table. She gives very good instruction on how to do it in the video - so I feel there is no need for me to repeat it in writing. 

I love sharing these videos in case you have not seen them before - so watch the video and try to make your own! 

Here is a little bit about Sarah in case you have missed my previous posts with her videos:

Sarah Raven is well known in the UK for presenting gardening programs on television, writing lots of books about gardening and plants, teaching floral workshops and flower arranging courses, giving talks and demonstrations and also for being an enormously successful business women running a plant, seed and gardening internet business.

Have a Great Floral Day and enjoy your flower arranging!

I will be back later in the week with more floral delights from Of Spring and Summer.

Ingrid

~ xoxo ~

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Sarah Raven - How to Make a Stunning Autumn Table Wreath

Sarah Raven is one of my favourite gardeners. To begin with Sarah trained as a doctor, then as a florist before becoming a gardener, a BBC Gardner's World presenter, a teacher, the writer of many both gardening and cookbooks and she runs her own business. I have done some of her workshops and I can tell you she's also a lovely lady and lots of fun.

In this brand new video Sarah is showing you how to make a wreath for the table - and she is using some new and exciting ingredients. The wreath has both a lot of colour and will work for the whole festive season - so start making plans!





I love the combination of plants and foliage in this wreath and I hope you like it too!

Have a Lovely Floral Friday and a Great Weekend!

~ xoxo ~

Ingrid

PS. I'll be back with 'A Bunch for the Weekend' next week - I'm just having a little mini break.

FLOWERS by ingrid and titti - Autumn Wreath

For this week on FLOWERS - Titti and I are doing Autumn Wreath.

Here in my part of the world - the Hydrangeas are still in full bloom and it's such a beautiful late summer early autumn flower to make wreaths and arrangements with. 

I found some hydrangea in a gorgeous deep pink colour - and some ornamental cabbage that had a centre with the same colour. 

In addition I got a few branches of snowberries with clusters of lovely big round white berries.

As always - I conditioned everything and left the flowers and branches to recover in containers with deep water outside my kitchen door.

I didn't want to use wire, moss or evergreen foliage as a base - but went instead for a ready-made grapevine wreaths for making my autumn wreath. 

I wanted to make a wreath just using hydrangea flowers - so I started by cutting the big flower heads into smaller sections. I then used thin florists spool or reel wire and wired each individual head by winding the wire around each little stem. I then pushed the wire through the grapevine wreath and secured it at the back.

It's a wreath where you can replace the flower heads or you can leave it to dry. Hydrangeas continue to look good and the fuller you make it the better it will look when dried.

  

Ornamental cabbages are great to use in flower arrangements at this time of year. I found some with very long stems which meant that I could use them in a tall terracotta container. I did cut one down and used just the pink centre in a little green cup. 

Ornamental cabbage has beautifully multi-coloured leaves - the end of the stalks and the veins are deep pink against a lovely green background.  

Snowberries or Symphoricarpos - as they are called in Latin - is a shrub in the honeysuckle family - and they keep their unusual white berries long after the leaves are gone. 

I used them in two ways - leaving the stems long in a tall container and cut down very short in an old jam jar. I then put the jar in the middle of another small wreath. Just showing another way to use a ready-made wreath.  

Titti over on HWIT BLOGG is also posting her Autumn Wreath post today - so please - go over and see her take on the theme. 
You can look at our previous FLOWERS posts here and you can also see them on Pinterest.

Have a Wonderful Floral Day!

~ xoxo ~

Ingrid 

[Styling and photography © Ingrid Henningsson for FLOWERS by ingrid and titti and Of Spring and Summer.]