Consider these 10 easy spring centerpieces, whether you want to impress guests or create an awe-inspiring space for yourself.
Whether you’re hosting a brunch, throwing a shower or simply decorating your house for the season, spring centerpieces can add the perfect touch to your table. With the abundance of flowers during spring, it’s easy to find blooms that will bring life to your home. In keeping with the season’s theme of newness, the time is ideal for trying out a fresh style in floral containers or even centerpieces sans flowers.
1. Keep it cool
Welcome spring with cool-toned flowers accentuated by a simple tin bowl or glass vase. Choose blossoms like purple or blue grape hyacinth, plum tulips, and grape fritillaria combined with ruffled columbine foliage for a dramatic, yet well-balanced effect. Arrange your flowers on their own or with black pussy willow crisscrossed to form a nest that they can nestle in.
2. Make a statement with daffodils
Gather daffodils from your garden or purchase them from the farmers market or a nursery. The cut blooms are alluring in cream, yellow and apricot. Pair them in a sleek and minimalist container with twigs of heritage pussy willow. Consider cutting daffodils before their buds open to enjoy a long-lasting bouquet that affords glimpses of the flower in its many forms.
3. Time for tea
Place vintage tea cups on your table as dainty containers for miniature flower arrangements. Fill the cups with floral foam soaked in water to hold your blooms in place. Choose any small blossoms from your yard or the flower shop. Think about how gorgeous lily of the valley or grape hyacinth can be.
4. Tulips in a cylinder
Take tulips out of their pot and wrap their bulbs in sheet moss. Hold the ball shape with twine or any finishing line, and then place the flowers on a bed of wheatgrass in a tall glass cylinder. Impress with Syberian squill as an alternative to tulips,
5. Wildflower arrangement
Go to your garden for wildflowers- the most colorful you can find. Tie them or leave them loose and then place them in your favorite type of vase, but for maximum impact, make sure they keep their natural look. Carefree clusters of wildflowers look breezy and beautiful, more so than placing a few of these blooms in a carefully planned arrangement.
6. Sweet peas and peonies
Sweet peas and pink peonies harmonize gloriously, so partner these spring flowers with green hosta leaves for the perfect seasonal centerpiece. Want to add a bit of intrigue to the mix? Integrate orange tulips.
7. White and wonderful
White goes with any season, but for spring it can sometimes be an unexpected pleasure. Invite guests (or yourself) to feel light and pure around a spring centerpiece featuring white daffodils, tulips, amaryllis or hyacinth. Choose clear glassware to display these flowers that offer the refreshing contrast of white petals on green stems.
8. Grape hyacinth and pink hydrangeas
Pull out your prettiest crystal compote or shop the vintage store for a decadent crystal dish, then float short-stemmed pink hydrangeas with grape hyacinth in it. For support, make a grid with transparent tape across your container’s opening. Insert your flowers in the grid’s holes, filling the bowl tightly with blossoms to avoid empty spaces.
9. Edible flowers
Make food your spring centerpiece! Bake a cake, pie or custard and top it with edible flowers like hibiscus, nasturtiums, pansies, roses or violets. An alternative is to prepare a salad with edible flowers garnishing the top. Remember to never eat flowers that have come from a garden shop, nursery or florist because they may have been sprayed with pesticides.
10. Parrot tulips
Parrot tulips continue to grow after cutting, so you can enjoy a long-lived spring centerpiece when using these flowers. They have a distinct personality and they even rearrange themselves in their containers. Cut parrot tulip stems short to arrange a mass of flowers or leave them long.
Enjoy decorating with flowers this spring and delight in soaking up all the amazing energy they provide.