Today is likely one of those last warm ones of the season. Flowers in our yard are memories, but grasses like Miscanthus have quietly taken the stage with their muted color and seed heads that dance with the browns of Autumn.
It’s nearly time to decorate for Thanksgiving. Rather than displaying decorations from a store, I used fond season remains from the yard for a couple of holiday decorations. Because we all have differing plants remaining from the season, whatever makes up the entrance arrangement is a one-of-a-kind for one’s own yard.
Cedar boughs and Miscanthus give height to the container for this front entrance decoration. Dried hydrangea, straw flowers, and false indigo add color and shape interest.
The plants are held in place in a container with potting mix from the season. In this region, picking warm days to find and arrange dried plant stems only works when the potting mix or soil is still pliable.
Indoors, dried ornamental oats from the yard celebrate abundant harvest on the hearth. Repeating fine detail and green leaf blades that air-dry intact and green add shape and motion.
The January 2024 Northern Gardener magazine features winter containers for the outdoors. The magazine is available for browsing at the Yankton Community Library.
We invite you to share something you are trying with the remaining plants of the season.
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