In November 2021, I attended Des Plaines Garden Club’s Annual Holiday Luncheon where they also were celebrating their 90th anniversary. Since we garden club members always like to share ideas, the centerpiece committee outdid themselves. They had purchased some beautiful, silvery pink roses as the focal point of the floral designs for each table. Then, they looked around their November gardens and clipped whatever was still lovely to add to the bouquet centerpieces including lavender, statice, parsley, oats and other grasses, holly and what I thought was Japanese maple.
I was fortunate to be given one of the centerpieces and enjoyed it for weeks— discarding the participants of the lovely floral design as they faded. When it came time to bid adieu to the last of them, I was surprised to see that the “Japanese maples” had rooted, so I put them in pots and they are thriving.
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