Gardening with Lora: Decorations for your Thanksgiving Table

 

In addition to using your nicest plates, glasses and silverware, you can create a festive Thanksgiving table with items from your garden.

Plants and Flowers: There are many ways to incorporate flowers into your table decor. You can cut fresh flowers, if you have brought your plants inside for the winter. You can dry flowers in the summer and keep them for the fall. You can even place potted plants on the table and decorate around them.

Gourds: Pumpkins, squash and other gourds of various sizes can be used to make your table Thanksgiving themed. You can even repurpose some of your Halloween pumpkin decor (just turn them around if they have a jack o' lantern face). 

Fall Leaves: The leaves are still changing before they fall off for the winter. You can save them and dry them in various color stages and use them as table decorations. Reds, oranges and yellows make for perfect Thanksgiving colors.

Horn of Plenty: Any of the above items can come together in a Cornucopia or Horn of Plenty as an impressive centerpiece. You can also include dried corn and any vegetable left over from your garden, like zucchini, tomatoes and root vegetables like potatoes. Dried grasses, like wheat, can be added to complete the look.