Setting the Holiday Table

Juliska

 

This is quite fabulous - a large crystal bowl filled with different varieties of oranges, kumquats, greenery (rosemary or Christmas tree cuttings) and orange protea. This would make a wonderful centerpiece for the holidays. And if your china is blue and white that is great - I love orange with blue and white. If protea are hard to find, apricot colored roses would be pretty or other flowers in the orange family. You can use floral stem tubes with water hidden in the oranges so the cut flowers don't wilt.

Decorating with Fruit for the Holidays

And George

I love decorating with fresh fruit for the holidays. My favorites are pears, kumquats, and pomegranates. This is great inspiration from a favorite store And George in Charlottesville. Although Florida is the Kumquat Capitol of the United States, they are oddly hard to find here. The produce guy at Publix did not even seem to know what I was asking for.