Gardener’s Notebook: Wreaths can fit with Halloween

YORKTON - A gardener’s vision of fruit and bloom, can brighten any homey room; so create some magic yet unseen, with curious bouquets at Halloween…

Who can resist some floral hocus-pocus for a bewitching Halloween flower arrangement or centrepiece? Let’s do something magically different by using fruits, veg, and flowers!

First of all, let’s find a vase. Okay, before we start to panic, it doesn’t have to be a ‘vase’ in the traditional sense. Depending on our ingredient choices, we can use an ordinary tray or dinner plate. If we choose to use flowers, a large soup can or a good-sized jar painted black would work just fine, if we don’t have a ‘holiday’ vase. And wait, there may be other ideas appearing right before our eyes as we start our work!

So come on, let’s go shopping, and the first