TABLE GARLAND

One up from fresh flowers, this garland can be used to dress tables time and again. We used rose buds, mimosa, flax, matricaria, daisies, helichrysum, broom, delphiniums, poppy heads, phalaris, bunny tails, eucalyptus, gypsophila, oat stems and statice. Cut all the flowers to a length of 10cm and fix together groups of the same flower with florist wire. Take a length of garland and wire in some eucaplytus stems. Starting at one end, push a group of flowers into the garland and secure in place with florist wire. Gradually build up with flowers, mixing up for fullness. Finish with three groups of flowers pushed in the opposite way to hide the wiring. Grapevine garland, £7.20 for 9ft, The Essentials Company. Flowers and grasses from a selection at Atlas Flowers and Dowsing & Reynolds. Dessert plates, £9.50 each; dinner plates, £12 each; Grey dinner candle, from £8 for six; metal trays, £10.95 for set of two; candleholder, £12, all Nordic House. Napkins, £18 for two; tablecloth, £78, both Rowen & Wren