Fun with flowers

Tomorrow I am providing the flower arrangements for a benefit dinner we're organizing (as well as cooking a good part of the food, but I won't get into that) and one of my fellow board members read somewhere about using gerberas in little shot glasses of varying heights, I guess about five to a table. The lowness of it sounds right. And I love gerberas at this time of year; their warmth is very welcome, and there's no scent to interfere with the food.

I'll report back on how it turns out. Boy, those suckers are kinda expensive, even with a discount, but I refuse to work with mums or carnations. Though—I've heard from a event designer friend that amazing things are being done with carnations these days. Towering constructions of carnations and baby's breath are apparently all the rage.