Quiet Halloween

While no trick-or-treater is expected this year, I still like to carve a pumpkin to make some arrangement along with jack-o’-lanterns.

Chrysanthemum can be often considered as a common flower choice at a grocery store, but this Spider Chrysanthemum is unique with beautiful long narrow petals.  While no significant fall flower is blooming in my garden with unseasonably hot weather for October in California, this bronze and yellow mum is a perfect ingredient for a Halloween arrangement.

Materials:  Spider Chrysanthemum, Cinderella Pumpkin, Japanese Anemone, Willow Seeded Eucalyptus, Sugar Maple, Cape Rush, dried Corn Cockle, Bloom Fern, Fringe Flower branches, seed pods of Lavender Trumpet Vine