Spring Decorating Ideas: How to Decorate with Plants and Flowers
Looking for spring decorating ideas? Discover how to transform your home with the beauty of fresh flowers and vibrant plants. There are numerous ways to incorporate these natural elements, bringing a touch of spring’s freshness indoors.
Flowers in vibrant hues and fresh, leafy greens can transform your home into a cheerful haven. Whether you’re a seasoned decorator or just starting out, this guide will inspire you with easy and creative ways to decorate with plants and flowers to create a fresh and inviting spring atmosphere. Get ready to breathe new life into your space!
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How to Decorate with Plants and Flowers
It is easy to decorate with plants and flowers. Bring the beauty of a spring garden indoors with cut flowers or plants. Try arranging them in vintage watering cans, mason jars, iron stone bowls, soup tureens or even teacups for a charming, rustic touch.
Cut Flowers
Spring offers a delightful array of cut flowers, from the classic elegance of tulips and daffodils to the delicate charm of hyacinth and ranunculus. Embrace the season’s vibrant palette with bouquets in pastel hues or bold, cheerful colors. Who doesn’t like fresh flowers in the home? Many of the grocery’s stores have beautiful bouquets of cut flowers. I enjoy grabbing a bouquet on sale.
This time of the years the tulips are being to bloom. Did you know that there are tulip farms where you can go and cut your own this time of the year? Fields and fields of gorgeous tulips in every color of the rainbow.
This week, I picked up this lovely bouquet at Harris Tweeters for $5. You can arrange cut flowers in beautiful crystal vases, Irone Stone Pitchers (one of my favorite ways) or in a vintage Mason Jar.
The cut flowers add a beautiful pop of color to the entry area. Neutral walls are the perfect backdrop for these lovely tulips.
Add Blooming Plants That Can Transfer Outdoors
Another fun and beautiful way to bring in some spring is with blooming plants. My favorites to use are Daffodils and Hyacinths. If you are looking to have them in your home for Easter, you will need to plant them where they have not yet bloom or about bloom the week before.
The Hyacinths I have out now will not last until April. However, you could add cut flowers to your table and enjoy these blooming flowers now like me.
Hyacinths offer an unparalleled spring fragrance, and they look stunning planted in my white ironstone soup tureen. These tureens, no longer used for food, serve as beautiful decorative accents throughout my home.
The vintage tureen looks beautiful with live spring flowers. I save the bulbs after blooming: place them in a paper bag with vermiculite, shake gently, and store at 65°F. In Zone 7, plant them in late summer for spring blooms.
Using Vintage Dishes & Containers
I often find vintage dishes at markets, thrift stores, and yard sales, where great deals abound. However, due to potential lead content, it’s best to use them for decorative purposes only. When decorate with plants and flowers, soup tureens, lidless sugar bowls, uncovered dishes, and chamber pots all make charming containers.
A white ironstone covered dish is being used with Daffodils. Lowes had these miniature Daffodils for $2.89. At the bottom of the dish, you can add is small pebbles. Next add Miracle Grow Potting Soil and begin to work in your Daffodils. You can let the bulbs show some. The finish touch is to add some moss over top of the soil.
It looks so beautiful on a table on your kitchen counter, buffet console table or the coffee table. The possibilities are endless as to where to place.
You would follow the same process as the Hyacinths to store the Daffodil bulbs after they have bloomed.
Here is another vintage soup tureen with Grape Hyacinths. Last week, it was on my dining table and the blooms were just poking out. Today, here is the plant in the living room with the blooms making its way out more.
My next week my home is going to smell amazing.
Other Types of Blooming Plants to Use
African violets, a plant my grandmother loved, have become a cherished addition to my home, flourishing for over a year. Their enduring appeal lies in their near year-round blooming potential, given the right conditions.
The root system on the African Violet cannot penetrate soggy, wet soil. You should let the roots dry out before the next time watering the plant. Do not let the leaves come in contact with the water. The recommended way to watering them is to place pots on a saucer that contains water to water from the bottom.
The temperature of the water matters too. Warm water is preferred. Do not use soft water as it will increase acidity. With proper care this African Violets can live indefinitely.
I am new to raising Kalanchoe Blossfeldiana “Flaming Katy”. This plant is considered to be a succulent and loves bright light (fun sun). It is important to place this plant in a sunny spot. This plant sits on my fireplace hearth, between two windows.
Apparently, this plant holds waters it in leaves. Therefore, you should keep the soil moist at all times and the soil around this this plant can be allowed to dry out completely between the watering. It should be in a well-drained pot. Therefore, I will be repotting this plant into a planter with a drain hole and saucer.
Adding Greenery
When styling your home, I believe that adding greenery to your space is the finishing touch. There is something about the pleasing aesthetics that pulls any room together. During the spring the pops of green from the plants brings the outside indoors.
Not only does it bring nature and color into the room, but it also has many health benefits too. Many houseplants absorb toxic substances such as formaldehyde, benzene and trichloroethylene, found in man-made materials that are known to “off-gas” pollutants into the air in your home. Who knew right?
We may be talking spring decorating ideas here but why not add something that gives us health benefits too. Right?
Indoor Plants increase oxygen levels in the air by absorbing carbon dioxide and releasing oxygen during photosynthesis. They also help to improve the overall air quality in your home.
Plants release water vapor into the air, which increases humidity, and this can help improve respiratory and skin health with an incredible benefit to individuals with respiratory issues, headaches, and allergies.
One of my favorite and easy indoor plant are Epipremnum Aureum “Golden Pothos”. They thrive in low light. If you forgot to water them one week, the leaves with drupe reminding you “please water me”!
Here is a sneak peak of the guest bedroom that I am working on. This Golden Pothos was propagated by me from that large plant in the kitchen. This plant can be easily propagated.
Golden Pothos would be a great plant to add to your home. These plants help to purify the air of formaldehyde, benzene and carbon monoxide while also helping eliminate odors. In addition, Pothos can help alleviate eye irritation after long days of staring at screens.
Adding Color to Your Room with Your Plant Containers
You can also add some pops of color decorate with plants and flowers with your containers.
These containers tie in some blue and white into my kitchen. If your kitchen is neutral like mine, you may want to add a little color. Read about Succulent Plants for Indoors.
Keeping It Neutral
If you love neutrals, then let the plant be the showstopper with its beautiful green leaves. You can use all white containers with various textures with your plants.
You can add annual herbs on your counter or windowsill. A canvas bag over a plain pot can add some texture. I found it at a vintage market.
All white containers keep it neutral, and the plant is center stage. By keeping it neutral, you can move the Plant from room to room.
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Decorating with plants and flowers is more than just an aesthetic choice; it’s a way to connect with nature and enhance your well-being. Whether you choose vibrant cut flowers, flourishing houseplants, or a mix of both, let the natural beauty of spring bloom within your home.
By incorporating these spring decorating ideas, you’ll create a refreshing and inviting atmosphere that lasts throughout the season and beyond. Be sure to share your comments. I would love to hear from you.
Make it an amazing day, sweet friend!
You’ve done a wonderful job with these plants! I love the way they look in the ironstone. I’ve been doing some indoor planting, too! Happy Monday, friend! 💛 🪴
Have a fun time with it Kim! It really is some relaxing to play in the dirt and make things pretty.
I often want to do this but feel guilty because they don’t last long.
Now I’m realizing I’m missing out on the beautiful smell.
Pinned!
Thank you my friend for pinning. Cindy, Save the bulbs to plant the outside to enjoy next year after it’s done blooming. It smells so incredible.
Hi Tammy!
I love all the ways that you used flowers and plants in your home, especially for Spring!! Your ideas for using vintage vessels are amazing…I never thought to use a soup tureen as a planter! I have a Boston Terrier too…her name is Tilly :) They are THE BEST!!!
Rachel, thank your for you sweet comment. I think Chamber Pots would be perfect for planters. Funny, I don’t own any because of what they use to be in the old days. But I may buy one now and use it for a planter. A fellow Boston Terrier Momma how awesome. They are a wonderful breed. I have had Bostons most of my adult life. Now we have one Boston Terrie and silly little Frenchie. Tilly is such a cute name.
You had me at ironstone, Tammy! These arrangements are all so stunning. I love all the blubs and plants you put in them. They would make such a pretty gift to leave at someone’s door this time of year too. As always loving and pinning your fabulous ideas, CoCo
Coco, that’s a great idea to leave as a gift. I am working in my home office and can smell those Hyacinths from in the other room. They have the best scent. Not over powering at all.
Tammy, you’ve done a wonderful job with all the spring bulbs and plants. The white vintage dishes planted with daffodils are the kind of classic look I love! Now I want to try and plant some of the Kalanchoe Blossfeldiana in pots for my patio this summer. They would be new to me, and I really like trying to grow new plants.
Thanks for sharing at the FWF link party!
Hugs,
Rachelle
Thank you so much, Rachelle. It always fun using vintage pieces in the home with a new purpose.
Tammy, I found your post from another friend’s blog hop and I’m so glad I did. Your blog is beautiful! I would love to feature one of your photos and a link to your post in my weekly round-up this Saturday.
I would love than Jen and be honored. Thank you so much for your kind words.
The potted hyacinth in the ironstone is breathtakingly pretty. I have done similar with terra cotta pots and moss, but the white ironstone is much more my style. I LOVE IT. I can’t wait to go thrifting to find something perfect, thank you for the inspiration.
Leanna, not only is it pretty the hyacinth as it blooms smells amazing. It’s like a double win!