WHO DOESN'T WANT TO GROW UP TO BE IRIS?

 

A New Look Without New Decor

 

I always come home to our Minneapolis home in the spring and immediately head for our "wardrobe" of white flowers.  They include Tulips, white Hydrangeas and white Bleeding Hearts.  This year I located some Lily of the Valley that we had, also white!

I try to arrange the decor differently without buying anything new.  Of course that never works completely.  I did order six small blue and white Chinoiserie ginger jars for next Christmas dinner and decided to use them on the mantel, after removing the packaging!  

I fell in love with the mini ginger jars when I saw that Haderways (in the Scottsdale Market Place) had them sitting on plates at each individual place setting.  It took me a while to find ones that were small enough.  I had gotten one at the French Bee in Scottsdale, and a friend gave me another one from there, but I need eight!  So, I found an importer and ordered six more.  I tried to vary the designs, which inadvertently resulted in me getting two that are slightly larger than the others.

They go beautifully with my other blue and white pieces.

I reused our tulips on our kitchen island.

                                   

More blue and white accessories around the living room and dining room.

Below are some Tulip photos from past years.  These are the same Tulips, used at Christmas time.  They are mixed with evergreen branches.

More Christmas Tulips but from a different year.  These have a green wreath at the top of the urn to corral the tulips.  

This is an even older photo from the 90's.  Yes, they are the same Tulips, year after year!

Springtime Tulips.

We have white and pink Tulips that I use in Arizona, too.

More photos of the Lily of the Valley.  

Here they are in the primary bedroom in  Arizona!  It is great to drive back and forth, so I can change things up in the houses!

We have a Christmas wardrobe of white Amaryllis (also in red) in Minnesota.

We also have "wardrobes" of Delphiniums, Hydrangeas and Bleeding Hearts in Minnesota that rotate every year!  But that is another story!