Spring bulbs and flowering plants - adding blooms to your home in January

After the Christmas festivities and all the decorations are taken down, my home feels a little bare and dull after all the sparkle of Christmas! A lack of seasonal flowers means that I often buy spring bulbs and flowering plants from my local garden centre to add colour, beauty and scent to my home during the cold and dark month of January.

Some ideas to brighten up your home this January……

Repurposing your Christmas Wreath:

I made the table wreath in the image above by using the moss base of a wreath that I had made for Christmas.

Take off all the foliage and decorative pieces until all that is left is the moss base. Soak the moss base in the sink for about an hour. Purchase violas in pots from a local garden centre. After removing the violas from their pots, remove some of the soil. Add the violas to the moss wreath base with twine. Finally, attach additional moss with mossing pins to cover the twine and fills in any gaps.

As this is sitting on a wooden table, I added a large plate so that the moss doesn’t damage the table. Misting with water every few days is all that is required. If you feel the moss base is becoming too dry, you can place the wreath in a sink of water.

Spring bulbs:

This idea could not be simpler. Purchase some spring bulbs such as Grape Hyacinth bulbs (see image below). You can normally get these for a few pounds from your local garden centre. Remove them from their pots and add them straight to Luminarc jars (no additional soil is required). You can dot them down a kitchen table, put them on your bedside table, or add them to your coffee table. Luminarc jars are ideal for planting spring bulbs as they tend to be the same size as the pots that the bulbs are sold in. I love seeing the roots through the jars! You can also tie a ribbon around the neck of the jar to create a thoughtful and inexpensive gift for a relative, friend or loved one.

Grape Hyacinth bulbs in Luminarc Jars

Flowering Plants:

Adding a flowering winter plant to a contemporary pot is another way of adding beautiful blooms to your home during the winter months. What could be simpler!

Cyclamen - pretty in pink - providing some beauty when nothing much else is flowering