European Dish Gardens, Dough Bowls, Decor ideas and baking brownies have been the favorite topics on the blog this year!
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Instead of a traditional top ten review, I thought I would figure out which topics you found the most intriguing this past year. Today’s post will focus on the topics of designing European Dish Gardens and decorating dough bowls. Thursday I will touch on the decor aspects of the blog. Friday will be “Foodie Friday”; we will look back at the favorite recipes and food related blog posts.
How to Design a European Dish Garden
The beauty of a European Dish Garden, besides being so easy to make, is that you can combine plants that have different watering requirements together in one container since you are keeping them in their own little pots. I generally use the concepts of the European Dish Garden when I am preparing a centerpiece for a specific event or when I need a unique hostess gift or present for a friend or family member.
Here are the two most popular European Dish Garden posts of the year:
Red & White European Dish Garden for Spring
This combination of red & white flowers can be used almost year-round.
How to Create A Christmas European Dish Garden with Gingerbread Accents
This dish garden combined a specialty poinsettia with Diamond Snow euphorbia. When I had the flower shop, we called this combination Diamond Point. Actually, Diamond Point is what the Proven Winners company called this combination and I just borrowed the name!
Almost everyone was curious about the terra cotta pot with the wrought iron candle holder. I purchased this years ago at a specialty store. Since I couldn’t fit anything like it on the market today, I came up with a dupe.
I used a 10-inch terra cotta bulb pan and a gazing globe stand. The candle holders are Amish made. I included the links at the bottom of the post.
Dough Bowls come in Many Shapes & Sizes
When I am not designing or creating a European Dish Garden, I love to design something for a dough bowl. Dough bowls get their name from their original purpose which was being used to hold the bread dough while it was rising. They come in different shapes and sizes. In my personal collection, I have a round one, an oval one, a square one, a rectangle one, a couple of heart shaped ones and even one shaped like a Christmas tree. I recently purchased an extra-large one that is over 3 feet long!
3 poinsettias in 6 1/2-inch growers pots fit perfectly in it!
How to Style A Round Dough Bowl For Summer
This simple arrangement of baseballs in a round dough bowl is perfect for Summer! It is a great centerpiece to celebrate Father’s Day. If you are a big baseball fan, you could leave it out until October in honor of the World Series! This post was my most read dough bowl post.
How to Decorate an Antique Dough Bowl
Shortly after Thanksgiving, I participated in a blogger challenge. We each decorated a dough bowl with a different theme each day for a week. I had a lot of fun! All of the ways I decorated a rectangle bowl for the challenge plus links to the other ladies’ posts and a few more of mine are in the post titled How to Decorate an Antique dough bowl!
I said I would do it and I did!
European Dish Garden Featuring Fall Plants including Chocolate Drop Coleus
Since dough bowls and European dish gardens are two of my favorite things, I decided to combine them into one attention grabbing centerpiece for an Early Autumn event!
I hope you have enjoyed this look back to my most popular European Dish Garden and dough bowl posts! Please come back tomorrow and see the decor posts and then again on Friday for the recipes!
Shopping Links:
10-inch terra cotta bulb pan
gazing globe stand for a dupe of the wrought iron stand
while I haven’t actually used these, I am intrigued by them. they are hand made in the USA
There are a number of sizes, shapes and colors of dough bowls available. Just be sure to check the dimensions, I recommend they be at least 20 inches long if oval or oblong. A minimum of 10 inches in diameter if they are round
These are all great posts!
Happy new year
Thank you, Cindy! Happy New Year to you, too!