6 Stylish Ideas for Green Plants as Wedding Centerpieces + The House Gardener Giveaway!

Green plants offer a stylish and refreshing alternative to florals for wedding centerpieces. Today, I’m delighted to share with you some inspiring and gorgeous images from Isabelle Palmer’s latest book, The House Gardener. Whether you have a green thumb, limited space, or little knowledge of growing plants, this informative book will give you all the tools you need to incorporate a variety of beautiful plants into your wedding celebrations, as well as your home. As part of the blog tour for this lovely book, I’m thrilled to offer one of our readers a chance to win a copy of this book for your own! Simply leave a comment on this post before midnight CST on Thursday, April 17th, 2014 to be entered into the giveaway. In the meantime, here are 6 stylish and inspiring ideas from The House Gardener for using green plants as wedding centerpieces:

For a bit of desert beauty, glossy green cacti in terra cotta pots look amazing in a variety of glass lanterns. Vintage medicine bottles add a splash of color and gravel provides a monochromatic base for the plants.

Tall wine glasses create elegant terrariums when filled with brown bark, mossy green plants, purple passionflowers, and yellow bachelor buttons for a spark of color. Rustic terra-cotta pots and bottles with clean, simple shapes, make this arrangement versatile enough for a variety of wedding styles from classic to modern.

I love the splash of neon orange paint around the brim of these zinc planters! The bright green succulents inside add a the perfect counterpoint and turn a simple arrangement into a fun and trendy centerpiece.

Old light bulbs repurposed as vases are perfect centerpieces for a modern wedding with retro or industrial flair! The light bulbs have a plumbing ring glued on the bottom for a base to make them more stable. Cuttings from the garden like these white lilac stems and white roses add some romance to the utilitarian feel of the bulbs.

Even humble air plants look beautiful when paired with a bright pink frame! Air plants require very little water or care, and would be an easy-to-tend addition to wedding decor.

Sprays of pastel wildflowers in vintage jars look so charming in a old wooden crate! The perfect centerpiece for a romantic summer wedding!

I hope you’ve enjoyed this glimpse into The House Gardener by Isabelle Palmer! These images are just a few of the stunning ideas showcased in the book. Don’t forget to leave your comment on this post for your chance to win a copy!

The House Gardener by Isabelle Palmer is published by CICO Books and is available from rylandpeters.com

Read These Next

My favorite thing about mid to late spring is local strawberries. Strawberries are fun as a graphic element, too, because they’re an interesting shape and cheerful color. Let’s stitch some strawberry cross stitch patterns.

Craft Club Co AU has this cute kind of retro strawberry pattern with a pink checkerboard background. The pattern pages doesn’t give a lot of details but it looks like is uses at least 7 colors and it says it will fit in an 8 by 10 frame when stitched on 14 count fabric.

For a classic farmhouse look, check out the strawberry pattern from Largodargento Shop. This one reminds me of little wild strawberries, and it has a bit of a mandala design with other geometric shapes.

Speaking of classics, you can also stitch a strawberry alphabet sampler from Curious Carrie Designs. It is 54 stitches square, which comes out to 3.86 inches or 9.8 cm square. It calls for 8 colors and was stitched on 32-count linen. Keep it flat or turn it into a biscornu stitched with flowers and bees.

This strawberry pincushion from The SubRosa Design is super sweet and of course could be framed instead of using it as a pincushion if you’d rather. This one is 93 stitches square, or about 5.3 inches/13.5 cm square stitched on 36 count linen as shown.

This graphic, slightly abstract strawberry design from Box and Fox is so much fun and would be great to have on your kitchen wall or in your breakfast area. It measures 98 by 141 stitches, which comes out to 7 by 10 inches or 17.78 by 25.58 cm on 14 count fabric. The design uses 6 colors.

Don’t let the mice get your strawberries! This oddly cute design from Tourmaline Pattern measures 95 by 94 stitches and uses 16 colors. I love the look of it on black fabric, because it really makes the mice and the flowers pop. On 14 count fabric this comes out to 6.7 inches or about 17 cm square.

Read These Next

Have you read?