After a long, colorless winter season filled with ice, snow, grey skies and cold, most of us are more than ready to kick up our heels and bring in the May. Let alone celebrate the arrival of warm weather with as much color as possible. Going a’Maying in the CDHM Inside Out Galleries yields a great many floral finds, perfect for celebrating May.
Artist Martha McLean offers a wide assortment of incredibly realistic flower vases, each more beautiful than the last. Arranged in tiny blown glass vases from the Netherlands, blue iris, peaches and cream
roses, a dozen red tulips, an assortment of soft pink spring posies, spring lilacs from purple to blue to white all would be perfect for the May Day table – or as a gift for someone special.
A one inch tall arrangement of roses and ivy in a silver pedestal bowl would be an appropriately Victorian May Day gift. By Jeannette Buchholz, pink full blooming roses interspersed with white and red blooms bring to mind old-fashioned, lush Damascus blossoms.
Buchholz' mixed flower pot is a delightful combination of woodland and floral – a profusion of flowers is arranged in a braced log planter!
And her wild rose shrub would be the perfect May Day addition to a dollhouse exterior.
Other outdoor potentials would be the spring tree by Ceynix Miniature Trees; a rose trellis, pedestal urn set or statue holding flowers by Golden Unicorn Miniatures; or a stone wall with ivy, flowers and fountain or stone stairs flanked by flowers by Minis on the Edge.
Bringing the outdoors in is the ticket for May Day, though, and what could be sweeter than Ernesto Baldini’s potted daisies?
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