Floral Media - How to Make a Scented Narcissi Centrepiece by Sarah Raven

Why not make a scented floral centrepiece for a large side table in the dining room or a big table in your hall. Here in this Youtube video Sarah Raven shows you how to make a stunning arrangement for the holiday.



This is what Sarah says herself about her 'Narcissi Centrepiece': "Perfect for Christmas or winter parties and weddings, this centrepiece is one of Sarah's family traditions passed down through the years. Made from twigs of silver birch and forced indoor narcissi, this centrepiece is stunning at the entrance or on a large table."

The video is just over 7 min long and in it Sarah takes you through each step and talks about the plants she is using.

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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, plants and cooking, 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.

I hope you'll enjoyed the short video with Sarah.

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Thank you for visiting 'Of Spring and Summer - I will be back on Wednesday with some more floral delights. Hope to see you then. 

Ingrid 

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FLOWERS by ingrid and titti - Happy Easter!

The theme for FLOWERS this week is 'Easter' and here in the UK its four days of holiday!

The flowers I have used are Narcissus 'Erlicheer' - its a highly scented cream double narcissi that has multiple florets on each flower stem. What a beauty!!

I bought he flowers at my local farmer's market where the lovely Cel Robertson and her partner Rob are back selling spring flowers from their weekly stall every Saturday morning. Cel grows all the flowers they sell on their organic farm Forever Green Flower Company in Norfolk and drives down to London every week. 

We often associate Easter with the colour yellow - well yellow is lovely, bright and cheerful - but I find that a lot of people say they don't like yellow.

So I decided to go for a white and cream Easter. I made a hand-tied bunch and put them in a white vintage jug - simple and easy. The flowers are so beautiful just on their own I felt they didn't really need anything else.

How do you like my mini chicken in her little basket? I bought it a few years ago from an antique shop out in the country - in a part of Sweden called Österlen - in the south of the country.

I made a birds-nest out of raffia, bakers twine and chicken feathers. Its very simply made by taking a small handful of natural coloured raffia and making a circle - cut three lengths of baker's twine and make three ties around the raffia to hold it in place - place as many feathers as you like - around the sides and the top of the little nest - by placing them into the raffia and under the tied twine. That is it - quick and simple.

These wooden eggs I'm told were used to encourage chickens to lay eggs. They still have some of the original paint. Also bought from the same antique store in Sweden as the chicken in the basket.

The small quail eggs are real - they are empty - the content is already eaten. I think they look sweet in the little nest.

Pompoms are always fun and these white fluffy ones are perfect for the white colour scheme. I'm not sure which ones I like the best the honeycomb kind or these ones. What do you think?

Titti Malmberg - my Swedish based collaborator - who I work alongside on FLOWERS - has also created an Easter post on her blog HWIT BLOGG - so please follow the link and go over and see what she has done. 

You can see all our FLOWERS posts Here. 

We also have a special board over on Pinterest with images from FLOWERS.

Have a Very Happy Easter!

See you later in the week.

~ xoxo ~ 

Ingrid

[Styling and photography © Ingrid Henningsson for FLOWERS and Of Spring and Summer.]
[Flowers from Forever Green Flower Company.]