Easter flowers – make Easter beautiful with colorful flowers

There are so many lovely flowers to decorate with for Easter. We never tire of the classic yellow ones, but it's also entirely possible to get a real spring-like and nice Easter feeling by mixing several colors.

You can have Easter flowers both outdoors and indoors. Outside, you can decorate in bushes and by the entrance, or create beautiful flower arrangements. Many people bring in Easter twigs ("påskeris") and decorate them with feathers, pretty eggs, chicken figures, and other things that belong to Easter. For a true Easter feeling, however, the Easter flowers are essential.

The daffodil is a classic around Easter time, but many other bulb plants also come into their own early in the spring. Daffodils can be planted outdoors as soon as there are no longer any frost or sub-zero temperatures. You can plant them in a pot or directly in the flower bed. Although the daffodil is perhaps the flower most people associate with Easter, the tulip is a close second. Tulips come in all sorts of colors, and even though it's Easter, it's nice to mix up the yellows with other fresh spring colors.

Pearl flowers, pentecoastal lilies, violas, and primroses are other suitable flowers for the season. Plant them in pots and place them by the entrance to create a lovely Easter atmosphere.

For Easter twigs, many people choose to bring in branches of willow or birch. You can easily recognize the willow by its characteristic furry buds and they are just as nice alone in a vase with decorations as in a larger Easter bouquet with fresh cut flowers. But be careful if you have anyone who is allergic to pollen in the house or on the guest list, as branches of both willow and birch can pose challenges for allergy sufferers. In that case, dry branches of corkscrew hazel can be a better choice, and you can also reuse these year after year.

Miniature daffodils and other bulb flowers are wonderful to decorate with in pots. They can be planted together indoors as early as the beginning of spring. Leading up to Easter, you can replace and add more yellow, Easter twigs, and perhaps some small chicks and painted eggs.

There is also a wide range of flower bulbs that may not be directly associated with Easter in the same way, but which can also be great additions for the occasion – for example, winter aconite, crocus, fritillary, glory-of-the-snow, and Siberian squill.

Bulb flowers are grateful to have indoors, and they don't need much water. They bloom longer if you place them in a cool place overnight. When they have finished blooming, you can plant the flower bulbs in the garden, and they will bloom again next year.

Primroses, ranunculus, and bellflowers are colorful spring flowers that bring a spring atmosphere and joy to your home, and the effect is enhanced when combined with colorful pots.

You can never go wrong with cut flowers. A bouquet of tulips looks great on any Easter table, especially when combined with willow branches or birch twigs and cut daffodils and hyacinths. If you want a stronger color explosion, mix white and pink tulips into the bouquet – or choose the colors you like best yourself. Change the water regularly.

In 2025, Easter falls in week 16, from Maundy Thursday, April 17th, to Easter Monday, April 21st.

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