Slow Flowers December 2019 Design Inspiration: Holiday Florals w/ Poinsettias
A holiday centerpiece designed by Slow Flowers founder/creative director, Debra Prinzing. She writes: "I found three pots with this beautiful type of poinsettia, $6.98 each. Two of the three had broken stems, with unusable blooms, so Lowe’s sold them to me for $2 each. In all, that netted me 7 huge flowers for $11, which seems like a great price."
Debra continues: "I placed a dome-shaped vintage metal flower frog in the base and added a second “level” of structure with chicken wire, domed at the top of the 9-inch container."
INGREDIENTS:
Foliage and branches: Dark purple Agonis flexuosa, California grown, valued for its sultry color and feathery texture; A silvery-green fir known in the landscape trade as Korean fir (Abies koreana ‘Horstmann’s Silberlocke’), from Leo’s Trees, a Southwest Washington vendor who sells at the Seattle Wholesale Growers Market; Rex begonia foliage, clipped from my houseplant. I love how the raspberry-wine foliage plays off of the Agonis foliage and the scale of each leaf holds its own against the poinsettia blooms.