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Fresh marigolds for an altar last a few days at best, and they have to be bought the same week. These are silk, with layered petals on a head roughly two inches wide, and thirty of them arrive in one pack. That makes them easy to glue, thread or scatter, and they go back in the box once the celebration is over.
What arrives is thirty blooms and no greenery, each around two inches across with layered petals and a rounded shape. Without stems they lie flat, which is what makes them easy to glue to a backdrop, press into foam or thread onto cord. Loose heads also scatter well along the length of an altar table, where a stemmed flower would roll off.
Thirty is enough to build a strand long enough to frame a doorway or run across the front of an ofrenda, with blooms left over for a wreath or a centerpiece. Threading them takes an evening and a reel of cord. Because the count is high, the finished piece can be dense rather than spaced out, which is how marigold strands are usually hung.
Marigolds stand for remembrance at a Day of the Dead altar, and the orange here is the saturated shade the tradition calls for rather than a muted apricot. Set among candles and photographs they carry the look without wilting over the days an altar stays up, and they do not drop petals onto the table or need water topping up each morning.
The same pack of heads serves beyond one holiday. Silk marigolds suit a Diwali display, a Mexican-themed birthday, a photo booth backdrop or an autumn wedding where fresh flowers would be another errand. Craft work takes them as well: wreath bases, centerpieces and table scatter all use heads rather than stems. Afterwards they store for the next event without care.
Turkeys, pumpkins and fall leaves on plastic wide enough for the dining table, with a second cover for wherever the children eat.
Printed covers at 52 by 87 inches, two in the pack, that fit a standard eight-foot table and later tape to the wall as a photo backdrop.
