October 30th Flowers

There’s a sharpness in the air, an unsympathetic bite that has cut through the last plants standing; brave dahlia here, a solitary straw flower there cling on against the darkening sky of winter. Now’s the time of candlelight and fire, a flickering respite against the cold.

Ingredients

Purple leaf cherry branches.
Apple tree branches.
Nicotiana ’Grandiflora’
Cobea Scandens ’Purple’.
Cornus berries.
Phlox ’Crème Brûlée’.
Strawflower ’Pink’.
Flowering mint.
Dahlia ‘Arabian Night’.