There are many interesting ways to use houseplants as a centerpiece. The centerpiece will last much longer than cut flowers and can provide an interesting conversation piece at the dinner table. What is a living centerpiece? It is a centerpiece for your table that uses living plants displayed in an interesting way, instead of just having cut flowers on the table.
How to Grow a Living Centerpiece
Growing a centerpiece is not all that difficult. It just
requires a little time and creativity. There are many living centerpiece plants
that you can use as well. Your imagination is the limit! Here are a couple
ideas to get you started.
Living Centerpieces with Potted Plants
One way to create a beautiful living centerpiece is by
embellishing terra cotta pots and slipping your houseplants inside or planting
directly in the pot. Simply brush a white water-based (latex) paint all over
the exterior of the pot, and also brush the inside of the rim.
While the paint is still wet, roll the pot in a container
that has decorative sand. Use just plain natural sand or colored sand – whatever
suits your taste. The exterior of your pot will then have a nice texture. Place
any houseplant that you like and group 3 plants together in the center of your
table as the centerpiece. If desired, place candles between the pots for
additional interest.
Plants like maidenhair
ferns would contrast nicely with the rough texture of the pots with the
sand exterior. But you can use any houseplant that suits your occasion or theme
at any time of the year. You can create these centerpieces ahead of time and
keep them growing in your windows, and then move them to the table when it is
time to entertain.
Living Centerpieces with Wood
You can also create a beautiful living centerpiece using a
piece of driftwood or partially hollowed log. Line the bottom of the hollowed
log, or the nooks in the driftwood, with moistened sphagnum
moss. Then add a layer of soil.
Next, choose whatever living centerpiece plants you’d like
to use. Use your imagination, but plants like rhipsalis,
various succulents
(including trailing sedums), and air
plants would make beautiful choices. Take the plants out of their pots,
loosen the soil up, and place them onto the layer of soil that you placed on
the wood.
Add more moistened sphagnum moss to cover the surface of the
soil. You can also take short pieces of bamboo skewers to display Tillandsias
(air plants). Wrap a flexible wire around the base of each Tillandsia and also
around the bamboo skewer. Then insert the skewer wherever you desire into the
moss on your living centerpiece.
Designing and growing a living centerpiece is a fun and
creative way to display your plants, and much more interesting than just
placing cut flowers on your dinner table.
There are many interesting ways to use houseplants as a centerpiece. The centerpiece will last much longer than cut flowers and can provide an interesting conversation piece at the dinner table. What is a living centerpiece? It is a centerpiece for your table that uses living plants displayed in an interesting way, instead of just having cut flowers on the table.
How to Grow a Living Centerpiece
Growing a centerpiece is not all that difficult. It just
requires a little time and creativity. There are many living centerpiece plants
that you can use as well. Your imagination is the limit! Here are a couple
ideas to get you started.
Living Centerpieces with Potted Plants
One way to create a beautiful living centerpiece is by
embellishing terra cotta pots and slipping your houseplants inside or planting
directly in the pot. Simply brush a white water-based (latex) paint all over
the exterior of the pot, and also brush the inside of the rim.
While the paint is still wet, roll the pot in a container
that has decorative sand. Use just plain natural sand or colored sand – whatever
suits your taste. The exterior of your pot will then have a nice texture. Place
any houseplant that you like and group 3 plants together in the center of your
table as the centerpiece. If desired, place candles between the pots for
additional interest.
Plants like maidenhair
ferns would contrast nicely with the rough texture of the pots with the
sand exterior. But you can use any houseplant that suits your occasion or theme
at any time of the year. You can create these centerpieces ahead of time and
keep them growing in your windows, and then move them to the table when it is
time to entertain.
Living Centerpieces with Wood
You can also create a beautiful living centerpiece using a
piece of driftwood or partially hollowed log. Line the bottom of the hollowed
log, or the nooks in the driftwood, with moistened sphagnum
moss. Then add a layer of soil.
Next, choose whatever living centerpiece plants you’d like
to use. Use your imagination, but plants like rhipsalis,
various succulents
(including trailing sedums), and air
plants would make beautiful choices. Take the plants out of their pots,
loosen the soil up, and place them onto the layer of soil that you placed on
the wood.
Add more moistened sphagnum moss to cover the surface of the
soil. You can also take short pieces of bamboo skewers to display Tillandsias
(air plants). Wrap a flexible wire around the base of each Tillandsia and also
around the bamboo skewer. Then insert the skewer wherever you desire into the
moss on your living centerpiece.
Designing and growing a living centerpiece is a fun and
creative way to display your plants, and much more interesting than just
placing cut flowers on your dinner table.