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Dress Your Table in Fresh Spring Flowers

Celebrate Special Occasions With Beautiful Blooms

by Coral Nafie
for About.com

Easter, Mother's Day, graduations, and bridal events seem to all come in the spring. Whether you'll be entertaining for a special event this season, having guests over for an intimate meal, or enjoying the warmer weather, you'll love the fresh and cheery look that wonderful spring flowers can bring to your home.

Use our fresh, springy ideas and inspiration to bring the fresh look of the new season to your table and home. Most of our ideas are very reasonably priced and quick and easy to do. You and your guest will enjoy the fresh look.

Fresh flowers are a must!

  • Get lots of ideas for spring tables in this placesetting slide show with floral centerpieces, china, napkins, and table decorations for Easter and spring.

  • The fresh colors and wonderful scents of tulips, hydrangea, daffodils and narcissus just invite spring into your home. What a relief after a long, chilly winter! Use your favorite colors for beautiful centerpieces. Put together combinations of yellow, blue, white, and pink. View an assortment of floral table decorations to welcome spring into your home.

  • Make or buy a pretty spring flower centerpiece for your table. Get out floral and pastel table linens or placemats. Purple mats with yellow napkins or pink placemats with white napkins and pastel china is a fresh elegant look for warmer weather.

  • Browse these easy spring centerpiece ideas for some quick centerpieces or table decorations you can make in less than 15 minutes.

  • A simple arrangement of flowers can be customized by adding bunnies for Easter or candy bowls.

  • If you love roses, this rose arrangement is an easy way to beautify your table. Get all the materials together in the colors of your choice. The arrangement wont' take long at all!

  • A wonderful centerpiece is easy to make with potted plants in a container. Find a container or pot that's tall enough to cover the plastic pot the plant comes in. Tuck moist Spanish moss or green moss around the sides of the plant, covering up the dirt. For Easter, tuck a few colored Easter eggs around the plant.

  • If you're not up to doing flowers yourself, florists like Calyx and Corolla, FTD, and others offer floral arrangements and centerpieces that can be delivered to your door.

  • Proflowers sends flowers fresh from the grower to your home. They come packed in sturdy boxes and are ready to arrange.

Flower arranging is both an art and a science. If you feel reluctant to try to create your own arrnagement, you'll find some good tips on the sites listed.

  • This site from U.S Retail Flowers offers ideas on decor and arranging flowers.

  • Better Homes and Gardens has several floral project ideas. Get festive seasonal ideas in their Holiday section.

  • Not everyone feels comfortable arranging flowers. If you're one of them, try piling up fruit in a decorative bowl. It will look and smell wonderful on your table.

Set a beautiful table with some of the suggestions here.

  • Casual eating is very popular these days. When you're ready to really celebrate with a beautifully set table, check out the pages on setting a table.

  • Make an Easter Egg Tree with instructions from MarthaStewart.com.

  • About's Guide to Entertaining, Donna Pilato, has some terrific ideas for an Easter Egg Hunt and Brunch, and includes recipes for such delectable treats as Strawberry Soup, Asparagus Quiche, and Italian Cheesecake.

  • Find more wonderful ideas for Spring entertaining and decorating.

No matter how you welcome Spring into your home or celebrate the holidays and special occasions that fall in this season, flowers will add a special fresh touch to your home and table.

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