Build a Blooming Easter Basket
Build a Blooming Easter Basket for your Easter table or a kitchen island if you’re dining buffet-style! You can build a Blooming Easter Basket in less than an hour once you’ve gathered all your supplies.
I used pots of ivy, daffodils, ranunculus and fern for the basket to join a bunny nesting among the Easter eggs! I found my flowers in the garden center at Walmart but the grocery store is convenient and great source for flowers, especially around Easter, with pots of azaleas, hydrangeas, and bulbs that you can enjoy indoors and plant in your garden once they’re finished blooming.
I cut some wild plum blossoms for the handle of the basket. You could use forsythia, cherry, spirea or even fresh, spring green branches. Cut your stems or branches long enough to wind at least 2/3 the way of the length of the handle, winding the stems both directions from the ends of the basket. Younger green stems/branches are easier to wrap around your basket handle than older, woody ones.
I filled empty plastic bottles with water and tucked them inside the basket, inserting the ends of the branches in the bottle to help keep them fresh as long as possible.
I lined the bottom my basket with plastic and used some empty grocery bags filled with newspaper to elevate the pots in basket. The plastic bags I used were brown so they would blend with the basket and would be less obvious showing through the weave of the basket.
You can add single blooms or stems using floral water picks. You can find them on the floral aisle of the craft store in a package of 10 -12 for around $3.00. For a pop of pink, I added some purple leaf plum stems inserted in water picks to tuck in the basket.
Once you have everything arranged, add moss to your basket to camouflage your pots. I filled in the extra space in the moss with colored eggs, a bird nest and a bunny.
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Very nice!
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Mary is so talented and experienced. Many of her followers have been with her for years on Home Is Where The Boat Is.
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