Potted herbs as centrepieces

I think this would be lovely. It would also smell beautiful if you chose the right herbs!

I would love to have a potted arrangement in our venue, but it just doesn't work with the surroundings - the ceilings are too high and the room is far too big so I think we have to 'fill' it by going up and out if you see what I mean!

Have you thought about pots of hydrangeas, too? Big and beautiful flower with a huge choice of colour (I LOVE that really pale, watery blue colour you can get them in). If you put them in terracotta pots (only about £1.50 from garden centres, but much chic-er than anything too fussy) it would look fab I think

This is exactly what we are planning!!! So I think it is a fabulous idea!!

Ours are going to be something like this ...

Wow Alocin, those look amazing! Currently I think you can buy potted herbs really cheaply from Aldi - although I can clearly just buy from seed and plant my own for greater choice. I love those metallic buckets - are you planning on going with those, or do you have other ideas in mind?

I think it would be lovely! I love gardening though. Are you going to have lavender as well? Don't think it is a herb but I always think of it as one due to its fragrance :-)

Thanks - we are planning on sticking with the silver buckets with a co-ordinating ribbon in our colour scheme. You can get large favour buckets from ebay which I think will be big enough for what we want. Herbs from supermarkets or garden centres are only a few pounds each, but I have also found this website http://www.nicholsonsherbfarm.co.uk/fresh-herb-plants, so may order from them.

I did think about growing from seed, but my fingers are no so much green as slightly black so decided it would be safer to buy them ready grown!!

Good Luck

They also do the metallic buckets in pastel shades of lemon, pink and green which are gorgeous for vintage type weddings.

Love those, think it is a great idea, like a couple of the others said I think you could do with a potted flower or lavender to bring a bit of colour too, I love lavender for the smell so would probs go with that if it was me

Our colours are green and ivory ... so it will match the colour scheme without the need for potted flowers!!

However a potted flower is a good idea if you want to bring in other colours, or just use coloured ribbons to coordinate - I guess it depends what else you have going on the table too!!

Those little galvanised buckets start at 80p at IKEA - plenty of others there too. You could have 'themed' groups of herbs - English garden, mediterranean cooking, a taste on the east etc and you don't have to restrict it to herbs either.

Great idea.