Create a candle and crocus Christmas centrepiece

Country Living online 23.07.2009

Make a sparkling table-top arrangement of candles and crocuses

Christmas floral centrepice willow basketMake a sparkling table-top arrangement using flickering candlelight and reflective glassware or silver to brighten a dull winter's day.

 

Line a rustic basket with a waterproof layer and plant it up with early spring bulbs, such as crocuses. Loosely weave seasonal foliage or winter stems around the basket and finish with candles, moss and frosted larch cones.

 

Vintage linen grain sack (as tablecloth), similar from Beyond France. Woven willow basket with pussy willow, from £150, Lizzie Farey. Beeswax church candles, Price's. Larch cones, spring bulbs and moss from florist's. Bird notebook, votives: all Cape Henley. Vintage glass with metal handle, antiques shop find

 

Styling: Ben Kendrick with Caroline Reeves and Laura Vine. Photos: Claire Richardson

 



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