Easter Garden Ideas

Bulb Flowers

• Plan your Easter garden early--in fall, that is. Spring bulbs such as lilies and daffodils emerge as soon as the soil is above 50 degrees Fahrenheit. Flowers such as the Easter lily also can make bouquets for Easter morning. To add a nice touch to your garden, plant some red tulip bulbs. When the flowers emerge, you can use the two colors to explain the importance of Easter to others, red being for Jesus' blood and white for his resurrection.

Egg Garden

• There's no rule that says a garden must be outdoors, or even made up of living flowers. If your family is snowed in this Easter, you can still make a cheerful garden right at home with egg flowers. Form flower petals with craft foam and use toilet paper rolls wrapped in foam for stems. Cut a hole in the center of the flowers and set a decorated Easter egg on top for a cheery display.

Symbolic Easter Garden

• If you need a creative way to teach your children the Easter story, look no further. Mold a hill out of compost in a shallow tray. Decorate the hill with moss and cut grass and place three crosses made of twigs on top of the hill. Push a small pot into the side of the hill to represent the tomb and cover the pot with a large flat stone. Decorate around the tomb with egg cups filled with water and fresh cut flowers. Finally, form a gravel path leading from the mountain and talk about what the disciples found.