Load up your porch with potted tulips for quick spring color
Looking for ideas to embrace spring? Here are a plethora of ideas on bringing in the color, perking up your home with clever ideas (some Easter related) and looking at your landscape now and for the coming months.
Better Homes and Gardens “Inspired Spring Decor” is just that. Lots of great ideas, like using egg cups as desk organizers, filling vases with ferns and framing decorative paper liven things up without spending a lot of time or cash.
House Beautiful also has “Spring-inspired Spaces” with more than 60 pretty photos of interiors in shades straight out of an Easter egg kit.
Edible landscaping is still hot in gardens. Rosalind Creasy’s “Edible Landscaping” book has ideas that are gorgeous and mouth-watering at the same time.
Tulip blooms are synonymous with spring and “the beautiful bulb has a history of intrigue, thievery and heartbreak, plus a Tulipomania economic bubble and bust 1636-’37, according to bulb history experts,” Kathy Van Mullekom wrote in a story about the spring flower for Daily Press. Didn’t plant any in the fall? Load up on potted ones and cluster them where you can enjoy the color. The story includes tips on care and replanting.
Many of Houzz’s holiday inspired wreaths
(including an Easter one with felted bunny) bring green to the
forefront, like the one made of succulents or the live eucalyptus and
berries. The mirror made of bits of driftwood has me thinking of a door
wreath in a similar vein.
— Peggy McMullen
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