EASTER AFTERGLOW AND SPRING BLOOMS

 

It has been a busy month here. With Easter coming early this year along with an early spring, our little garden was in need of attention! My tablescape for Easter was inspiration from our garden. As some of you know, daffodils are my favorites. Daffs have long bloomed out here but when I found these beauties at Trader Joe's I knew they would be the perfect blooms for a spring and Easter centerpiece.  

Petal Linen Placemats and napkins in Limoncello

from Arte Italica

Anthropologie Grace

Faye decorative dessert plates

I used a maidenhair fern in my center pot

As lovely as the weather has been with our early spring, it was suddenly hot! With temperatures in the eighties it was summer, or so I thought. Now we are back in the sixties, perfect weather for tending our garden.

Peggy Martin Climbing Rose

Our garden is beginning to fill in and grow and is such a joy to watch. With each passing summer we've been here our trees are taller, plants and flowers are spreading to cover the beds and our landscaping is finally complete.  

I hope you are enjoying a beautiful spring. Thanks so much for your visit.....

TALES OF THE TRAVELING TOTES TABLESCAPE

A Summer Garden Tablescape

We love spending time on our veranda but not so much during the summer with the ever present humidity and heat. At the most time spent here is early morning breakfast and coffee. So, with no dining and certainly no gardening outside until fall I enjoy adding flowers and plants to the rectangular and square dining tables. When the challenge came from the Traveling Tote friends to do a tablescape using our MacKenzie~Childs totes as a centerpiece, I decided to do a summer garden scape and brought a few pieces of Courtly Check outside to use with the totes. The heavy urn I was using as my table centerpiece was already in place and I didn't want to move it so I am using a Little Lime Hydrangea that I will plant in the garden in the fall. I tucked it into Miss Courtney and sat it on one end of the table and added flowering plants to Miss Blossom for the opposite end of the table for a Traveling Tote Tablescape! 

  Looking from the pergola toward the Veranda

I like how CC works with terra-cotta

Using Purslane, Blue Daze Evolvulus, asparagus fern, ivy topiaries, succulents, Mexican heather are among plants I enjoy  

Mushrooms are popping up everywhere

Love these little CC lidded chowder bowls with succulents tucked inside

Mr. Rabbit gets a haircut every spring and late fall. He was an Easter gift from my sister years ago

 Fairy garden with a pumpkin patch and black and white!

I hope you enjoyed a little tablescaping fun while I dressed up the veranda with Mackenzie~Childs totes. Thanks so much for stopping by, I hope you know how much I love your visits. Please leave a comment, it's the only way I know you came by.

I hope you will visit my Traveling Tote friends for more tablescape ideas and be sure to come back September 1, 2017 for a giveaway and see where our travels take us next.

Debbie with Miss Aurora @ Mountain Breaths

Emily with Miss Courtney Childs@ The French Hutch

Jenna with Miss Coquille @The Painted Apron

Linda with Miss Rosie @ More Fun Less Laundry

Linda with Miss Lola @ Life and Linda

Patti with Miss Kenzie and Miss Taylor @ "Pandora's Box"

Rita with Miss Luna C @ Panoply

Sarah with Miss Merri Mac @ Hyacinths for the Soul

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