Day {2}: Grown with Love



{via Rosaliga}



In my opinion the most beautiful Christmas decorations are those that celebrate the gifts God has given us in nature. What could be more inspiring than pretty little flower bulbs, festively planted and surrounded by the light of a candle? The Christmas herbarium {above} is from Rosaliga, the most enchanting blog I have visited all year. Beautifully composed in a glass house with moss, pink hyacinths, candles and a few glittered branches.

The composition below is equally enchanting arranged on an old silver platter with pink hyacinths, moss and candles, little mercury glass mushrooms and a deer antler. When you think of flowering bulbs at Christmas, you think of paperwhites and amaryllis, why not think beyond the ordinary and try something new like pink hyacinths?

To give or to keep, forced winter bulbs add a personal, hand touch to Christmas. They are a great way to involve your children in your holiday decorating and gift giving. They make simple and charming hostess and teacher's gifts as well as elegant placecard holders at a Christmas dinner.

{via Brabourne Farm}

An easy way to add interest to an arrangement of forced bulbs is to incorporate old garden clouche into the vignette. French cloches were first introduced to gardeners in the mid 19th century to protect small spring seedlings from frost. The early 19th century clouches from France sometimes are missing their knobs as gardeners long ago purposefully knocked them off as the knobs acted as a magnifying glass in bright sun and burned the small seedlings.







{via Country Living}



{Bunny Williams table}

There is nothing more gratifying than to watch your bulbs grow and bloom as Christmas approaches. I plant them every year! Hurry, so they have time to bloom before Christmas!

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