indoor bulb garden

It is still snowing in some parts of the country, and April showers are yet to come, thankfully, nurseries across the world have been keeping their greenhouses nice and warm for the bulbs we can now find in our garden stores.

These sprouted bulbs can be planted indoors, in a natural style so you can enjoy garden beauty and fragrance indoors for weeks. There are many flowers and colors to choose from. We chose a combination of blue, white and yellow flowers. To extend the life of the garden indoors, choose plants with flowers which haven’t opened yet.

In this piece we’ve created two gardens in under an hour. One garden is in a steel trough, the other in a silver punch bowl. We’ve lined the punch bowl in kitchen foil to protect it. We filled the bottom of both containers with styrofoam peanuts. The peanuts work well because they provide good drainage, and they can be “graded”, to get all of the plants on the same surface level.

Pack the bulbs in tightly to create a lush garden.

It’s okay to separate the bulbs in a pack to distribute the flowers throughout the arrangement, gently separate the roots and pull them apart.

For the “trough” we placed shorter flowers at the ends and the taller flowers towards the center.

Once the bulbs and soil are in place we covered the soil surface with moss. Moss can be purchased at gardening shops (try to buy fresh moss), or you may be able to harvest moss from a shady location in your lawn or on rocks or pavement. If you have to use dried moss soak it in water for awhile before using.

Once inside, corkscrew willow and pussy willow branches are stuck in the soil to give the arrangement height and a more natural feel.

We happened to have a birds nest painted silver to rest in the branches.

Glassybabies lend special glow in the evening.