Here in Italy Easter Monday, known as Pasquetta (or little Easter), is the day when everyone goes out into the country traditionally for the first picnic of the year. However for as long as we’ve been in Italy the day has always been cold and sometimes wet too! We have friends coming to lunch (indoors) so some special flowers to celebrate the season were needed.
Cathy I know has done something special with eggs; I just picked something of everything that is flowering and filled my huge rectangular vase and 5 smaller vases to fill the dining room with colour and scent. As I’m still cooking I’ll just add the images and if you need to know what any of the flowers are I can answer you tomorrow in comments.
In a vase on Monday – Pasquetta
In a vase on Monday – Pasquetta
In a vase on Monday – Pasquetta
In a vase on Monday – Pasquetta
With thanks to Cathy for thinking up this amazing meme and inspiring us all to use our own flowers. Do visit to see the fun everyone has had with their flowers today.
Creating my own garden of the Hesperides 
Oh my goodness, what an abundance of flowers Christina. Simply stunning. Have a lovely day with your friends.
Thanks Liz,it was a lovely day.
Wow, beautiful! I hope your lunch was fantastic, it would be hard to outdo the flowers. What are the red leaves? I’m guessing the white pom-poms are a Viburnam?
Yes the white pom-poms are Viburnum burkwoodii; the red foliage is new growth on the Photinia.
So beautiful. Happy celebration.
Thank you Susie, I hope your Easter was happy too.
Fantastic flowers and we are still only in March. Wishing you a very Happy Easter inspite of the weather which incidentally is atrocious here in the south of the UK..
Here the sun peeped through at about 6 pm; we were still eating pudding!
Oh Christina – extravaganza indeed! What an absolutely stunning assortment of blooms and so artfully put together. The yellow of the bloom in the foreground (is it a ranunculus, or a frilly tulip?) beautifully picks up the yellow in the iris. Your guests will love your vases – have a lovely day.
There is a bright lemon Ranunculus (first bloom from the pot in the greenhouse) and a yellow peony tulip. It was such fun having so many blooms to play with.
And so lovely too – I must remember to plant ranunculus in pots this autumn rather than in the ground. There are a few of last autumn’s planting emerging but not many…
I was very surprised that last years pots planted out have survived and have buds, it was touch and go which would flower first.
I love these flowers. I tear up when I think of beautiful Italy.
Thank you.
Don’t be sad; when you have flowers in summer it will all be burnt brown here.
Oh Christina, you are so lucky to be able to create such a cornucopia of colour and texture so early on in the year. I love living in Scotland, really I do, but when I see photos like this, flowers that are months ahead of mine, I can’t help a little spark of envy creeping in! I think I can spot ammi, tulips, irises narcissi, and some lovely whispy red things that remind me of gauria…
Yes to most of your thoughts but no, no Ami, that’s still tiny seedlings and the wispy red is new red foliage of Photinia.
Beautiful display, the garden must be stunning.
The garden has lots of colour from the tulips and perfume from the Viburnum.
Happy Easter. What an amazing collection of flowers for March. Lovely.
Almost everything except the Ranunculus was from the garden, so yes it was amazing even to me!
What a plethora of spring blooms, Christina! A happy Pasquetta to you. I hope you fully enjoy the day!
Thank you Kris the perfect day with friends, it was fun.
I love the idea of Easter Monday or little Easter. Too bad here we do not have this holiday or tradition. It is cold and wet here too. But what a special celebration you are having, and how lucky those coming to your house are….to celebrate with you and all those amazing flowers! Enjoy!!
I didn’t realise that Easter Monday wasn’t a holiday for you, what about Good Friday?
Una composizione sontuosa… ed il pranzo e l’ospitalità altrettanto fantiastici! come sempre!!! grazie! ❤
è tutto dovuto a voi! Grazie per la compania.
What a wealth of flowers you have to celebrate the occasion with Christina. Wishing you a belated Buona Pasqua.
Thank you Anna; I notice you sometimes use Italian, are you Italian by birth or perhaps married to an Italian?
What a lovely selection of flowers you have found Christina! I hope you had a lovely lunch and am sending easter good wishes to you both. xx
Thank you Julie; I am thrilled with all my tulips this year, as I mentioned these are all pre-chilled inthe fridge but all are in the garden not the greenhouse.
These flowers are so beautiful! I love the colors and textures. On a day when we got six inches of snow on our lovely blossoming fruit trees and no Pasquetta, Italy looks especially wonderful.
Hi Donica, weather wise Pasquetta lived up to expectations and was the worst day all week but it didn’t snow; I’m sorry for your fruit trees. 6 inches of snow is a huge amount; is it staying on the ground?
Impressive, I can only imagine how your garden looks like these days!
Thank you Anca, I’ll post some pictures this week, so you can see the tulips in the garden.
That is glorious. Well done. Hope your cooking was successful too!
Thank you Allison, having so many flowers was really fun to work with and by taking only one of each type of tulip the planting in the garden didn’t look depleted.
Oh, how lovely Christina! A real bonanza of flowers! Definitely a good idea to just fill the vases with everything that is flowering and bring all those blooms in to enjoy to the full!
Glorious flowers Christina, hope you had a lovely day.
We did have a lovely day but no thanks to the weather, it was the worst in the last week!
So many beautiful flowers, Christina! I love all the fancy tulips, and the Viburnum really fill in well, as well as the red Photina. I hope the weather warms up for you soon, we are supposed to hit 70ºF here this week.
What a pretty Pasquetta you had 🙂
The photinia adds such an interesting color to the arrangement, and the brown tulips really pick it up. It’s almost an antique look or something from a painting, I do like it!
I chalk it up to good planning that you could pick everything and have it look marvelous together.
You could think that………….
Glorious bursts of colour, hope your lunch was as joyous as your vases!
Thank you yes, the lunch was a great success, as proved by the fact that no one left until gone 7!
Feliz día de Pasquetta Christina y buena comida. Espero que haya sido buena pero no tanto como sus maravillosos jarrones con flores silvestres como la millenrama en el jarrón grande. Que gusto tiene para preparar jarrones de flores. Saludos de Margarita. margarita141.