Festive Florals For Your Thanksgiving Table

You’ve been planning this all year. Last year, friends and relatives preferred to celebrate alone.

But this year, you started your guest list early and your table is almost set for the Thanksgiving

feast and soon your table will be filled with delicious mouthwatering food. Let’s not forget the table centerpiece!

Members of the Calusa Garden Club of Marco Island have been perfecting their floral designs 

for their own Thanksgiving table and also to sell for their November Plant Sale. Here are samples of some easy floral centerpieces – just add your own personal festive touches of floral arrangements of whites, golds, seasonal greeneries and berries from your own yard.

We try to overthink this part – should you go with traditional fall colors and would it be too much if we added a few little pumpkins? Is it better to have one large centerpiece or a couple of smaller ones? But my table is rectangular?

Guess what – when it comes to Thanksgiving centerpieces there are no hard and fast rules.

Flowers are timeless and though you have access to “faux foliage” for tabletop centerpieces, a small arrangement of fresh flowers adds a perfect classic touch.

You can mix light and dark florals, tall wispy grasses, cascading berries and sprigs of herbs such as rosemary create true magic! 

And don’t forget the cornucopia centerpieces. This horn shaped symbol of nature’s bounty is a seasonal staple. You can fill it with flowers and go for bold and radiant blooms such as violets and magenta. Or mix and match the flowers and get a vignette that is just right for your table. If you want the easy way, make sure you snag one of their floral centerpieces at the November 23, 2021 Plant Sale. They will have garden and house plants for sale, a variety of orchids and fresh flower arrangements for Thanksgiving.

Please Save the Date: November 23, 2021 from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM, rain or shine, at the Marco Lutheran Church Parking Lot, 527 North Collier Boulevard, Marco Island.