flowers & plants

Flowers, like fruit and vegetables, are seasonal, which will always help with keeping your table updated. Soft, pastel, dusty, full-headed blooms in summer are a good contrast to hearty foliage and climbing branches in winter.

We tend to steer away from displaying flowers in standard vases, preferring jars, glass tumblers, ceramic pots or bottles. And it’s really easy to add a flourish to the table by using smaller herbs and flowers, fresh, dried or pressed. Taping fresh flowers to napkins using neon tape looks great, too. A tie of seasonal herbs on each napkin looks lovely – even a little sprig of rosemary would be enough to lift a really simple place setting.