Your CartThis Autumn Flowers and Pumpkins centerpiece is simply lovely. Fall jewel-toned blooms and pumpkin accents make it a stylish option for your fall or even Thanksgiving table.
Welcome to Monday Morning Blooms!
Today I’m joining with my dear friends Shirley, Mary and Pam to share with you how we’re decorating with flowers and pumpkins this fall. Be sure to visit my friends at the end of this post.
Autumn flowers and pumpkins are a combination made in fall heaven. They both evoke all the feelings of warmth, coziness, and home, don’t they? They make such a beautiful statement, especially together! I’m adding tones of burgundy wine, caramel butterscotch, green, brown and gold for a lively colorful fall arrangement. I’ll show you how easy it is to create a fabulous floral centerpiece for fall.
I added an antique dough bowl to the center of the table filled with real and velvet pumpkins. The center of the bowl is lined with a colorful leaf garland, which surrounds the beautiful green pumpkin on one side. A few velvet pumpkins from Plush Pumpkin, and some mini pumpkins and pomegranates from the farm stand nearby make for a lush arrangement.
For this very fall table, I left our wooden “farm” table uncovered, and didn’t even use placemats or anything! I love the wood, especially at this time of year. The deeper autumn hues in the flowers really seem to look even better agains the brown wood too.
I got the cute small cutting boards from one of my girls for Christmas {she knows me, I love entertaining!} and put one at each place setting with a vintage French olive bowl. These small bowls are perfect for serving a muffin, chips, a small serving of slaw, or even toppings for the main entree.
My antique plates are called Quail, they were made by Furnivals in the early 1900’s. I don’t have a whole set, just 6 dinner plates, 8 bowls, and 8 dessert plates. I love these, and use them as often as possible for the autumn season.
The linen napkins with wheat embroidery are always my favorite. I also have them in white, both are beautiful and perfect for fall and Thanksgiving. The vintage French Ercuis silver is a stylish match for this setting, the fork is placed face down like all my French friends do it. It’s why French flatware always has some kind of design on the back of the fork, and almost always the hallmarks are on the front of the fork.
Each guest will receive one of our very favorite Cheeseball Entertaining Sets, which is 3 mixes, and antique silver spreader packaged up for us with ribbon and a faux fall leaf.
Now for the floral arrangement!
I selected one of my favorite antique French confit jars from the Savoie region of France. The way this particular pot was glazed gives it so much personality! It is completely glazed on the inside, so can hold water perfectly for large arrangements. {Because most of us won’t be making a ton of duck confit to fit this pot anytime soon!}
Taping off the top of the jar with a grid of our clear florist tape to give the flowers and the filler greens some help standing up is always so helpful. Cut your flowers at an angle, after removing each and every single leaf from the mums and pompom daisies. I know. But for some reason when you do this, they last and last and last. long.
The flowers in this arrangement:
- Chrysanthemums in burgundy wine
- Daisy Pompoms in butterscotch
- Leucadendron {green & wine colored filler}
- Seeded Eucalyptus
- Panicum Grass
- A sage green filler that try as I might I can’t find the name of
If you taped off a grid, it is easy to begin inserting some of the eucalyptus and the other filler greens first, reserving a few for the center of your arrangement. Turn your container around once in awhile and fill in the empty spots. Then add the mums and the pompom daisies. They grow in clusters, so they give you a whole lot of bang for your buck {s.} Keep turning the container around, and fill in empty spots with the remaining filler.
Instead of inserting wood skewers into white ghost pumpkins, you can gently nestle some faux pumpkins into the flowers. They weigh nothing, and will just lay in their floral nest for as long as you want them to.
That’s it! So simple & easy & you have the prettiest autumn flowers and pumpkins arrangement. This would look wonderful on your dining room table, kitchen island, your entryway table, coffee table, & so much more. You can customize this to your own decorating taste and style with different colors.
I hope you enjoyed this Autumn Flowers and Pumpkins centerpiece. Be sure to visit my friends below to see how they’ve styled their flowers with pumpkins.
What colors autumn flowers and pumpkins do you like to decorate your table with for fall?
Be sure to visit each one of my inspiring friends to see what they are decorating with for the season! See you there!
Shirley at Housepitaltity Designs
and me, Lidy at FrenchGardenHouse
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Stunning Lidy, it oozes Fall.
Always love your flower arranging ideas.
You have each outdone yourselves, these are beautiful table settings. Thank you for sharing your talents.
Lidy, I love how you mixed the real and velvet pumpkins in your antique dough bowl. The confit jar does add personality as does all your antique plates, cutting boards, and lovely embroidered napkins. Texture and fall colors that you selected made a lovely fall arrangement.
I enjoy learning the names of fillers and flowers. If only I could remember the names!!! I am starting a list to refer to. I especially like the filler draping down your confit jar.
Gorgeous Lidy! I love the way you combined real and faux pumpkins in the dough bowl and they look so pretty with the pomegranates~ the confit pot is wonderful and the fall arrangement you filled it with is fall fabulous! So interesting about the forks… I have some mini bread boards too, they are such fun to use. Happy October!
Happy Bloom Day Lidy! Always a treat to join my Bloom friends and see their most gorgeous flower creations in a beautiful setting such as yours on your fabulous farm table…I love how you kept the wood exposed. A most wonderful arrangement in that oh so amazing antique confit pot. You have such a beautiful antique collection to draw from and inspire us. Love the cutting/bread boards at each setting!! I wish you a most beautiful week filled with pretty blooms!!
oh, how I love how you incorporated the wee white ones! Lovely in the centerpieces and at the places. And your antique crock for the tall centerpiece is perfect. I’m so glad you didn’t cover that gorgeous wooden table with something for this beautiful setting, Lidy. It’s splendid.
The cutting boards on a wood table with the jewel tones of the Fall flowers is my idea of country living. It doesn’t get any better. It speaks of the simplicity of family gathering together to enjoy the gift of a wonderful harvest provided by God. Have a blessed week Lidy.
Lidy, I do love seeing the warmth of your beautiful farm table. The arrangement in the confit pot is perfectly autumn in color and texture. Any guest would be happy with the the cheese ball entertaining set, so lovely to offer a takeaway gift.
It is always a treat to share Monday Morning Blooms and flower therapy with you. Wishing you a joy-filled day!
Beautiful! I wonder if the soft silvery green filler might be artemisia ludoviciana, also know as silver wormwood, western mugwort, Louisiana wormwood, white sagebrush, and gray sagewort.
Lidy, Your table and flower arrangement ushers in the month and fall season so beautifully! I love the warmth of the wood table, wonderful boards and harvest of pumpkins and pomegranates in your dough bowl. What a wonderful hostess gift or takeaway your fall cheese mixes are! I have a special place in my heart for Furnivals Quail as it is my mother’s pattern, only in blue. As always it’s a treat to join you for some flower therapy. Happy October <3
Oh my Lidy, I’m loving your beautiful arrangements on your fabulous table. You have such a fantastic style. I’m coveting those mini cutting boards. Your family does know you well!
Thank you for visiting my blog and leaving such a kind comment.
Beautiful share, Lidy! I love the rustic elements with the flower container and the dough bowl Your style is always spot on. Love the way you mixed in velvet pumpkins with the real. The dough bowl arrangement looks fabulous. Happy October!
The WOW!!!! arrangements could only have been done because of the arrangers’ God-given talents and creativity. They are so gorgeous, that I can hardly look at each one only so long at one viewing. They bring tears to my eyes. What an amazing, beautiful blessing. Thank you so much!
That is so sweet of you to say, Emily!