The warm colours and fulsome shapes of autumn’s bounty combine to create vibrant outdoor arrangements to celebrate the season
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“Or shakes them ripe from the resigning husk, A glossy shower, and of an ardent brown”
James Thomson, ‘The Four Seasons: Autumn’
“O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stainèd With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit Beneath my shady roof; there thou may’st rest”
William Blake, ‘To Autumn’
Folds of spiked autumn leaves, in subtle shades of pink and apricot, are combined with pearly-white snowberry in a pot resting on bark.
A table centrepiece comprises a pillar candle in a storm lantern, encircled by pink-smudged rowan berries and eucalyptus leaves, on a rustic wreath of silvery twigs and lacy moss.
A wine-red candle in a simple jar is enhanced by a garland of mahogany conkers strung around its rim with burgundy leaves tucked in and around the base of the wax, like flickering flames.
Plump pumpkins in colours from greymauve to tomato red sit on and around an outdoor wicker chair to create an autumnal corner.
A grooved tangerineorange gourd nestles above clusters of pale gold berries in the centre of a tousled firethorn wreath hung from railings.
Cheery rowan beads threaded onto wire in a heart shape greet those passing through a garden gate.
A bounty of cushionshaped pumpkins, in variations from off-white to speckled and streaked green, rest next to frilly cabbage leaves, hydrangea pom-poms, barbed herb, Gaultheria mucronata, and erica.