Los Angeles Flower District California Flower Mall Blog - December 2009

Christmas Flowers Design Tips for a Festive Holiday Table

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Christmas flowers can be used to express your creativity whether you fashion a festive centerpiece for yourself or create a thoughtful gift for those hosting holiday dinner.
  
Decorating your home for Christmas is one more way to share your holiday spirit and with a huge variety of gorgeous affordable wholesale bulk fresh flowers readily available here at the California Flower Mall in the Downtown Los Angeles Flower District - you have are hundreds of types of flowers to choose from to create stunning holiday table centerpieces.

While poinsettias are a lovely traditional Christmas flower, there are many more lush, fragrant, pretty red and white flowers that you can use to create long lasting Christmas flower arrangements in elaborate, exotic or elegantly simple arrangements.

There are many types of greenery too. Holly, mistletoe and fragrant evergreen boughs, spiky pine cones and ivy almost any greenery that fills your arrangements will bring life and lushness to Christmas flowers.
Carnations make lovely holiday bouquets and centerpieces.

Besides being readily available, carnations are inexpensive, as well. With big ruffled, frilly blooms, a centerpiece of red and white carnations with greenery accents is a charming addition to your Christmas dinner table.

Add a childlike flair with “candy cane” carnation varieties that are striped red and white—so festive for the holidays.

Dramatic red roses with greenery in a simple round glass vase combine for an elegant, yet cheerful, centerpiece for your table.

Exotic Christmas flowers are fresh and unusual. Try a simple bouquet of Anthuriums Hawaii’s heart shaped tropical flowers to create a stylish expression of Christmas love and joyous celebration.
 
A particularly showy Christmas table floral can be created using fresh potted poinsettias and shiny Christmas ornaments inside a large basket decorated with a Christmas ribbon bow on the handle.
 
Check with California Flower Mall vendor Choi Orchids for a tasteful selection of decorative baskets and vases as well as live potted green and tropical plants.

The possibilities for Christmas flowers to be used in table centerpieces are endless at the California Flower Mall where Los Angeles area amateur and professional florists are supplied with creative inspiration and the fresh flowers and live plants they need to bring their floral visions to life.

Stroll along the California Flower Mall arcade to tickle your imagination and let your creative juices flow with ideas for your holiday centerpieces and floral displays. As always, parking is free, there is no admission fee and our vendors welcome crafty DIY amateur floral arrangers 7 days a week.

Many hostesses like to arrange Christmas flowers and fresh evergreens with candles for a bit of holiday ambience. Floating candles along with floating poinsettias or other fresh Christmas flowers makes a stunning and extremely stylish floral centerpiece for a holiday table.

Simple step by step instructions on how to make a Candles and Roses Christmas Flower Centerpiece can be found at http://www.ehow.com/how_4530382_make-candle-roses-christmas-centerpiece.html 
You might also arrange shiny, brightly colored ornaments in a big, clear vase holding a tall Amaryllis or orchid!

Paper white Narcissus make gorgeous Christmas flowers, especially when combined with red flowers such as tulips, carnations or cyclamen.

Regardless of which Christmas flowers you decide to use for your holiday table centerpiece, you can affordably use live fresh flowers from the California Flower Mall to add a big helping of charm and holiday cheer to your Christmas dinner. 

Anthuriums Hawaii’s heart shaped tropical flowers create a striking expression of the joy of Christmas.

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