Early Spring Centerpiece

It’s been such a cold, cold winter, while we all wait impatiently for Mother Nature to wake up, jump start the season by welcoming spring into your interior décor. Take a trip to your local garden center and pick up some live plants to perk up your decor.

A centerpiece filled with vibrant Pansies and bright Pink Primroses is the perfect visual “Pick – me – up” for the winter doldrums. This also makes an easy, inexpensive seasonal centerpiece for Spring, Easter, or every day. {my personal favorite reason to have flowers!} A centerpiece for your table doesn’t have to cost much, nor be difficult to make, using flowering plants meant for the garden border cost so little compared to a huge statement making bouquet.

I used one of our Belgian Antique Zinc Bowls for this centerpiece. You can fill the bottom of the bowl with soil, plant the flowers, packing soil firmly around each little plant, and arrange moss on the top. This arrangement will last about 5 to 7 days, as there is no drainage hole in this bowl; then you will have to transfer the plants to the garden or into a terra cotta pot. Even easier: place two six packs of Pansies on the bottom of the bowl, nestle in small Pink Primroses around the side, and fill in the rest with moss to cover the pots. Easy. easy. It really doesn’t get any easier than this. In about 7 days plant the flowers in a pot with a drainage hole, or in the garden if you can. This is a sweet centerpiece and a reminder that Spring is surely just around the corner!

For a special touch, each Belgian Linen Bon Appetit Napkin is folded on the plate, with a linen string tied loosely around it, and a little pansy on top. Lovely.

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