my windowsill

 

We really went to town when planting daffodil bulbs last autumn. It's so long ago now that I have no recollection of what went in where and this haphazard approach is paying dividends andwe are enjoying all kinds of floral suprises on a daily basis. This is what I picked this morning - a very spring-like medley of white and yellow and cream and orange daffodils and tulips (with a pot of sweet-smelling lily-of-the-valley and a late amaryllis).

I love my long kitchen windowsill and change the arrangements on it all the time. But today's variation-on-a-theme made me think of this lovely picture by Carl Larsson. And one day I plan to have a whole windowsill full of red geraniums like the ones in paintings by James Collinson, but that's for another day and another season.

Comments

[The Antidote]

I do exactly the same on my kitchen windowsill, then I like to admire my plants while hanging my washing out!

[Rebecca]

I wish I had a kitchen windowsill. I'd cover it with plants and herbs to bathe in the afternoon sunshine. Alas our kitchen is in the middle of the house, so no windowsills for me. I'll just have to live through yours, which is no bad thing given it's beauty. Thank you for sharing.

[Sasha]

Read this just before heading out the door for groceries. It will now be all I can do not to buy myself some flowers while I'm out. :-)

[Rebecca]

I found myself trying to inhale as I gazed at this image!

[irene]

beautiful! i too, dream of a windowsill full of red geraniums in terra cotta pots. xo

[Marie]

My windowsill can't rival this! Beautiful picture, beautiful flowers, you've cheered up a grey, wet day for me..

[kitschen pink]

Yummy! Those tulips are like egg yolks on sticks! t.x

[vancouverite]

Every September when I was in high school my French teacher would bring lovely red geraniums in terra cotta pots from her apartment and place them on the windowsills in her classroom for the winter. I loved looking at their brightness on the deep sills of those beautiful old-fashioned windows. Thank you for bringing that memory back.

[Kristina]

I love your windows, and I love that painting, especially since it has knitting in it!

Now I have to go do something about my windowsill.... (Contents: one sprouting garlic head, one dusty wooden bowl, and one pot holding a twig.)

[Kelly]

This is so lovely. The kitchen window above my sink is home to cobalt blue vases and bottles which pop on a sunny day. My darling John makes sure I almost always have fresh flowers in the house and this is a wonderful place to share the spring love. ~Kelly

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[Fran H-B]

When driving through France or indeed any of our European neighbours I love to see the lush window boxes of geraniums. So simple, usually just one colour, but oh so effective.

[Kris in Ontario]

You are so lucky! Our spring flowers are covered by 10cm of snow! It was total winter here this morning. We don't have the daffs out yet anyway, just the crocuses, but still...

[Cat]

Wonderful!

[Lauren]

So lovely and happy. Makes me take a deep breath.

[teryll]

What a lover-ly picture! Wish I had a green thumb. :)

[Samgoose]

Ohh I love those Carl Larsson paintings. I bought a set of five postcard prints of them in Ikea recently and they're hard to part with to send to people, though I have! I expect they're still there and they're lovely to look at. A not too bad compromise when the real thing is unattainable :)

[Jan Scott]

What beautiful flowers...here in Ontario we've had snow for the past few days so we're a few weeks away from seeing the lovely colour that you have...I can't wait.

[janna]

So lovely and springlike! Our spring here in the midwestern US is very slow in coming this year....

[Karoline]

Gorgeous, the perfect antidote to a soggy morning

[Susan D]

Nice.

Need to get to the local flower shop and get another pot or two of crocuses or daffs, since the recent snow in Ontario has given the garden crocuses second thoughts. Snow's gone again from my garden but the crocuses still look hesitant, and the hyacinths are barely tips of green shoots.

[Wendi]

Lovely!
I'd like to live in a Carl Larsson painting.

[Judy]

I love the way you use such a rich selection of vases and flowers!! Makes me think that the flowers are just overflowing the garden, and you have to put them into everything that comes to hand!!

[Ellen]

Is there anything better than a bunch of spring flowers?