A Garden-style Centerpiece

 

Hi all!  I hope you are enjoying your day!  Today I am sharing a makeshift, easy-to-create fresh flower centerpiece.  I went to my local Home Depot this week with my daughter Brittany.  They had the best deal on pansies.  The 4” pots were a $1.00 a piece.  How can you pass that up?!  Pansies are so happy and beautiful you can use them anywhere in your garden or planters this time of year.

During that Home Depot visit I also noticed they were selling potted mini daffodils, and it sparked some creativity in me.  I decided to buy the daffodils and make an impromptu garden-style centerpiece.  It was very easy and fun to do as you will see.

I bought a number of the potted pansies, but I chose these to use here because I thought the colors would be the brightest in the centerpiece and go well with daffodils.  As it turned out I could only fit 3 or 4 pots in the container and fit in the daffodils, as well. That number of plants turned out to be just the right amount to make a lovely arrangement.  

I was given this cement-looking saucer container years ago.  This type of container is often used for stunning centerpieces in weddings.  I am thrilled to own one myself.  I find many uses for it all year long.  For this purpose, I laid a piece of aluminum foil at the bottom of the saucer just in case the watering of the plants would leak through the bottom.  I was creating this centerpiece for merely demonstration purposes but if I were going to place it on a wooden table or something that needed protection, I would have lined the whole bottom of the container and up the sides just to be sure. Nothing is worse than having a centerpiece leak all over your table. Do whatever you can to prevent   that from happening.

Next, I started arranging the pots in the saucer and gently sandwiched the individual mini daffodils wherever they could fit within and around the pots of pansies.  Can you see where I placed the daffodils into plastic sandwich bags to keep the soil together?  This also will stop water from leaking into the saucer when watering the plants.

When I got all the plants in the container and in just the right spots, I filled in the empty spaces around the pots with Spanish moss.  Again, this is easy to do and really finishes off the arrangement.  It doesn’t disrupt watering the plants either because you can pull the moss to the side, water the plants and then put the moss back in place.

Here was the finished container.  As I said, I was doing this project for purely demonstration

reasons so I did not create a tablescape for it.  I wish I had because I think it would

have been lovely.

I will give you my vision for the centerpiece instead.

I envision a garden or book club group of ladies getting together on a beautiful midday in

May and having an outdoor luncheon set up with a buffet table filled with yummy afternoon foods 

and this centerpiece anchoring the whole buffet table.

Around the lawn would be groupings of chairs and all sorts of potted pansies

and mini daffodils around the yard. The color scheme of yellow, blue and

green would be just perfect.

That was what I was going for when creating this centerpiece.  And as I said,

it is quite easy to do.  All you need is a swallow container, some potted plants of

your choosing, some Spanish moss and aluminum foil.  That's it!

The centerpiece doesn't have to be for a garden party either.  Any occasion

would do.  You could even make it for simply your enjoyment.

I bet you would get all sorts of compliments on it, too!

HAPPY APRIL!!!

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