How to Make a Thanksgiving Centerpiece

Candles, fresh flowers, supplies, a step-by-step guide for creating a stunning holiday centerpiece for your Thanksgiving table.

Thanksgiving brings families, friends and neighbors together, reminds us to be grateful for all we have and to be generous toward others. One way to make guests feel special is to include a Thanksgiving centerpiece on the dinner table. Lori Treffens, floral designer at Pesche’s Flower Shop and Garden Center, 170 S. River Road in Des Plaines, has 30 years of design experience. Treffens showed Patch step-by-step how to create a beautiful Thanksgiving “long and low centerpiece” with candles, fresh flowers and other products that will add a festive decoration to your party, and give your guests one more thing for which to be thankful. The same concepts and techniques presented here about how to create a Thanksgiving centerpiece can be applied …

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A customer walks through the aisles of flowers in a greenhouse at Pesche’s Flower Shop and Garden Center, 170 S. River Road, on Friday afternoon. Pesche’s has a wide variety of plants for sale including flowers, vegetables, herbs, bushes, trees, grass and hanging plants. Earlier: Teens can read for Starbucks gift card. Pesche’s has been contributing garden tips on Des Plaines Patch. If you would like to contribute on Patch, click here. Related: Check out all the photos of the day. The last one was of the River Road bear. Stay connected: Stay connected: Receive an email from Des Plaines Patch with headlines in the morning for free. Adding Events and Announcements to Patch is a breeze. Simply click, type and click again. Join the …

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