The season's most coveted table accessory is, once again, fresh-cut flowers. And can you blame us for loving it? Blooms make for stunning decor on both indoor and outdoor dining tables, bringing a burst of color, fragrance, and texture to gathering spaces. Martha Stewart is giving us some inspiration with a recent Instagram post featuring pretty pink peonies in a glass vase accompanying a delicious-looking breakfast.
'I hosted a lovely late spring business breakfast and garden tour at my farm – homegrown strawberries just picked from the patch, freshly cut , and a stroll through my productive half-acre vegetable garden,' Stewart states in the caption. The set-up is an early summer postcard – complete with everything we could ever want from an al-fresco farmhouse breakfast. However, we admit that her peonies take center stage.
A photo posted by on While Stewart's trimmed peonies are certainly showstoppers, they also require thoughtful maintenance to remain that way. Luckily, we got some tips from an expert on how to achieve lasting blooms. First up: consider these flowers as perishable as fresh food, and store accordingly.
'Peony season is short and sweet, but you can preserve your unbloomed peonies by wrapping them in plastic wrap and placing them in the fridge,' says 's bouquet design manager, Vicky Wilson. 'They can stay there for up to 1 month to bloom at a later date when you're ready to put them on show!' Once ready to display, Wilson suggests putting the peonies in .
