4 Ways to Make Flower Arrangements Even Prettier with Fruits & Herbs

Especially if you live in a place—ahem, the West Coast—where fruit trees flourish in back

yards and side yards and even indoors, clipping a few branches to use in arrangements is a no-brainer: The fruit is almost like ornaments, giving dimension to otherwise leafy arrangements.

Choosing small fruits, like the kumquats pictured above, ensures they won't be too heavy to coax into a flower arrangement—but branches of soft Meyer lemons, finger limes, or clementines should also stand up (you might employ the use of a flower frog, if they don't). Pair with differing leaf shapes: honeysuckle for wildness, anemones for some shape, small berries for scale.

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