Floral Decorating: Choosing Flowers to Match the Season

Using floral arrangements throughout your apartment and matching them with the seasons can help you appreciate the beauty that floral decorating can bestow on your apartment home. Each season offers flowers that make you appreciate nature and the inspiration and harmony it inspires throughout the year.

Thinking in Terms of Color

When it comes to floral decorating and your choice of flowers, you no doubt will see the significance of color in the seasonal flowers and foliage you choose. While spring flowers are defined by bright blues, yellows and pinks, summer flowers offer seasonal shades and tints of red, yellow, aubergine, dusty lavender and celery. Autumn brings deeper hues and vibrant colors such as gold, amber, burgundy and deep blue while winter colors are characterized by shades such as deep red, hunter green, white, mint and baby blue.

Spring Blossoms

Spring offers several flowers that can stand alone as far as using them in an arrangement in your home. As tulips seem to be the proverbial spring bloom, what could be nicer than including a simple arrangement of varied colored tulips in your floral decor? Daffodils also can stand on their own with their bright and inviting yellow color. You can force the bulbs of this flower so you can enjoy a little bit of spring at the close of the winter season too. Place a single calla lily in a neutral colored vase to add understated elegance in a contemporary decor or arrange some white anemones with purple irises for a country French or traditional theme.

Summer Flower Selections

Plants offered in the summertime can dazzle an apartment home. Choose from gerbera daisies in various blues, pinks and yellows or snapdragons in red combined with yellow dahlias. Display peach colored zinnias in a whitewashed clay container or yellow buttercups with fragrant white Freesia flowers in a terra cotta pot. Add a vintage touch with old garden roses in yellow or red or make a summer statement with heather pink blooms arranged in a sunny corner with potted geraniums. Peonies are nice summer flowers too. Arrange a peony bouquet in white and red and place it on a white wicker table next to a window or balcony.

Autumn Beauty

Autumn flowers certainly impact the beauty of the fall season with their representation of blooms from such plants as sunflowers, chrysanthemums, roses and hydrangeas. A nice autumn combination might include yellow hydrangeas and anemones in the same shade in an amber porcelain vase. Or, include some chrysanthemums in your decor with burgundy, white and golden blooms. A display of sunflowers too can signal the end of summer and the advent of fall when placed in a sunlit area in your apartment home.

Winter Blooms

Of course, you can’t think of winter without the traditional poinsettia making its appearance at Christmas time. Other flowers that are lovely in winter are the rose and and amaryllis. The amaryllis, also known as the belladonna lily, is a popular plant during the gift-giving season as the flower freely blooms inside and offers a spring-like presence in colors such as white, pink and shades of red. Roses also offer a nice touch in the winter and a winter bouquet of roses in red and white can make you feel warm and happy during the cold months.

The seasons are even more special with indoor blooms. Use their fragrance and beauty to give meaning to the seasons throughout the year.