Flower Arranging in Autumn

When the spring and summer seasons are over, autumn seems quite bare and boring, with no fresh and gorgeous flowers to brighten it up. This is an illusion, however. Once you get used to the bareness of autumn, your eyes will start suddenly seeing hidden treasures that can well be used in flower arranging. Nature has treasures all year throughout, you just need to look, to really look and you will see.

In the fields you will find brown spires of dock, crimson velvet of sumac, wild carrot and many other quiet beauties. People have learned from long ago to gather these and decorate their homes in place of the vanished flowers.

This was just an easy step away from learning to dry the summer flowers, and then combine them with the autumn treasures that were widely available. There are some truly unique flower arrangements that can be made using this mixture of dried flowers and natural autumn plants.

For example, what about flower arranging an autumn harvest, comprised of indian corn, wheat, pumpkins, frost touched grape leaves sprinkled with dried rose petals giving them an extra deep color.

Or what about a simple yet elegant arrangement of Peegee Hydrangea combined with silvery honesty, accented by irish seed pots and dark brown Ostrich fern. As a container, a neo-classical urn would go perfectly with this style.

Flower arranging in autumn doesn’t need to be a non-existent art, there is an endless variety of possibilities out there, all you need is just a bit of imagination (which we all have!), an eye for what’s all out there (and you can use pretty much everything that grows) and a bit of hand co-ordination to put all these together in gorgeous and unique flower arrangements. Because every time you find something else, something new on the side of the road, in the fields or forests, then you pick it up and bring it home, you will be able to use your creativity in a different way to make that new flower arrangement.

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