Easy Easter Decor

Holidays are always a good time to get a little creative and decorate the house differently.

Easter is no exception.

One quick way to add a little spring and celebrate Easter in your home would be to add a beautiful spring silk floral arrangement.

Another way to bring Easter to your home would be to place a few brightly colored plastic or ceramic Easter eggs in a beautiful basket. A large egg-filled basket makes a wonderful centerpiece for the dining table. Smaller baskets filled with eggs make beautiful decorations through out the home. The best part is they are quick and easy to put together!

One more way to decorate for Easter that is easy and beautiful is to add a nice spring or Easter themed table cloth to the dining table, and add a few Easter decorative items to the rest of the home. These decorative items can be anything from a small floral arrangement, to an Easter figurine, or even a few Easter wall hangings.

As one can see, it is easy to add some Easter decor to your home without breaking the budget or spending a lot of time on it.

Chase Away the Winter Blues with Spring Flowers and Colors

C S Flowers brings you a few easy steps to help chase away winter blues and bring a little spring inside.

• Bring forsythia that has yet to bloom, but has already budded inside. Be sure to cut a small amount of bark off the bottom of the branch, and place in a vase or container with water. Keep the branches out of direct sunlight until they bloom. One should see blooms in a few weeks!
• Purchase already potted spring bulbs. Most green houses and box stores carry spring bulb flowers, like tulips, daffodils, and hyacinths. Best of all, you can plant these again to enjoy next spring either indoors or outside where ever you plan to plant them. If you decide to keep the bulbs to plant indoors, take them out of the pot after they are done blooming and they start to yellow. Place the bulbs in a cool, dry place without sunlight. Plant again in January or February depending on the grow time for the plant. If you plan to plant the bulbs outside, wait until after the first frost, sometime in the fall, to plant.
  
• Purchase a beautiful spring silk floral arrangement.

Aside from using spring flowers, adding a little spring to your home is as easy as updating a few accent pieces with some spring color. One can easily accomplish this by changing the throw pillows or blankets in the living room/family room to a lively spring color that matches the rest of the room, add a spring table linen or runner to the dining table, place a spring dish towel on the towel rack in the kitchen, hang some spring color or themed bath towels in the bathroom, and add a spring blanket to the bedroom. It is easy to change the look and feel of a home with a little change to the accent pieces in the home. Plus, you can always store these new spring items to use next year when the winter blues and the spring fever set in!

The Facts About Daffodils

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Daffodils which symbolize friendship are a popular spring flower. There are over 50 species of daffodil. They are a constantly recurring perennial flower that often bloom in clusters. Daffodils have been known to grow wild along abandoned homesteads throughout the world.

Daffodils make beautiful arrangements for early spring weddings and other spring events.

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Daffodils come in a variety of sizes, from five inch blooms on two foot stems to half inch blooms on a two inch stem, with some of the smaller daffodils categorized as miniatures.

In addition to the variety of sizes, daffodils come in a variety of colors, too. The most known colors are the all yellow varieties. Other, less popular, colors are white with pink centers, white with orange centers, white with yellow centers, all white, and yellow with orange centers.

The daffodil originated in Spain, Portugal and Turkey around the Mediterranean Sea. The daffodil has been mentioned in writings as early as two or three hundred years BC.

Daffodils were a popular garden flower in America during the expansion of the west.

Daffodils have been around for a long time, and they have been known to be popular for most of that time. Daffodils are a wonderful addition to your spring garden. They also make a beautiful cut flower for early spring floral arrangements.

Fun Facts About Tulips

Did you know that tulips are one of the most popular spring flower, and the third most popular flower world wide. The rose and chrysanthemum are ahead of the tulip in overall popularity.

Tulips come in over 3,000 registered cultivated varieties, and there are around 100 species of tulip.

Tulips are a symbol of dreaminess, a declaration of love, the perfect lover, and imagination.

The majority of tulips are grown and cultivated in Holland.

There are three different classifications of tulip; early flowering, mid season flowering, and late flowering.

Early flowering tulips bloom in March and early April. Some early flowering tulip species are Kaufmanniana (eg., Waterlily), Fosteriana (eg.,Red Emperor), Single Early(eg., Apricot Beauty ), Double Early, and Greigii Tulips.

Mid season flowering tulips bloom in April and early May. Some examples of mid season flowering tulips are Triumph, Swan Wings Tulip, Darwin Hybrids, and Parrot Tulips.

Late flowering tulips bloom in May. Examples of late flowering tulips are Single Late, Double Late, Viridiflora Tulips, Lily-Flowered, Fringed Tulips, Rembrandt Tulips, Multi Flowering Tulips.

If you have a tulip garden, it is possible to have blooms throughout spring by incorporating early, mid season, and late blooming tulips in your garden.