By Gabrielle. Photography by N. Underwood.
Oh my goodness. It’s Thanksgiving week. It’s here! How are your plans coming along? Menu lined up? Linens decided? How about a centerpiece? If you’re looking for some inspiration, you’re in luck. The amazing Kiana Underwood, a talented florist here in the Bay Area, created a step-by-step tutorial for the gorgeous autumnal fruit-filled arrangement pictured above. And she is generously sharing it with us today.
From Kiana Underwood:
Centerpieces don’t always have to have flowers. A centerpiece with mainly fruits and some succulents makes for an unusual, but lovely centerpiece for a Thanksgiving or general autumn dinner table. I used a basket frog to secure the top-heavy fruit branches in this shallow fruit bowl, and it worked out perfectly.
Flowers and fruits used: persimmon, citrus, ornamental pepper, date, succulent.
Place the basket frog at the center of the bowl, then insert your citrus branches with equal weight distribution on each side. If you don’t distribute the weight evenly, the branches (and your frog) will topple over.
Add the persimmon branches.
I found these lovely ornamental peppers at the market. Their color compliments the rest of the arrangement beautifully, so I added some in between the citrus and persimmon.
Place the succulents on one side of the centerpiece for some lovely asymmetry.
Finally, add the dates for some additional texture and for a draping effect.
Not only is this fruit-centric centerpiece beautiful, but it will last quite a long time!
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Stunning, right? And so simple that it’s totally doable too. A huge thanks to Kiana for sharing! If you’d like to see more of Kiana’s work be sure to check out her charming blog, Tulipina.
P.S. — Like to make things? Find more excellent tutorials here.
I love persimmmon and have never thought to use them in a table decor…thanks for this idea!
Those succulents look AMAZING in there!
Oh my, that really is gorgeous. I’ll have to check out Kiana’s blog to see what she puts together for Christmas. :)
This combination of citrus and succulents is the best! I love how it looks special and festival while not being too formal. And I LOVE the California influence now popping up in your posts.
So incredibly beautiful!!!
pretty, pretty!
SO pretty. Timely for us this week. And I’m eying the succulent in our yard with new prospects.
Gorgeous! Thanks for sharing
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So beautiful and autumny! :)
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love this… will have to search high and low for the right elements
thank you for the inspiration