Nothing says spring like fresh lilacs and tulips. Here is an easy arrangement of purple lilacs and yellow tulips for your Easter table. I use my go-to stemless wine glasses for vases. Stemless wine glasses are perfect for creating low dining table arrangements that do not get in the way of conversation.

I use inexpensive wine glasses and keep them just for flower arranging. The reason is the water in the floral arrangements will etch the glass. You don't notice the etching in a floral arrangement, but you definitely will notice it in your wine glass.

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Lilacs

Lilacs are one of the first flowers to bloom in the spring. Like wisteria, lilacs only bloom for a couple weeks, and when they bloom is highly dependent on the weather. So the bottom line is we have lilacs when we have lilacs; there is no scheduling their bloom. If you miss lilac season, you can substitute 3-4 small hydrangeas in each vase for the lilacs.

Tulips

Tulips have a bit longer season than lilacs and are commercially available winter through spring.

What you will need

• 4 stemless wine glasses
• Clear floral marbles
• 20 yellow tulips
• 20 lilac blossoms (note some stems will yield more than one blossom)

Steps

• Fill your wine glasses halfway with floral marbles and fill 3/4 full with water.

• Trim your lilac stems, so each stem is about 8-9" long. Remove the most of the leaves from the stem, so that there will be no leaves submerged under the water line.
• Put 4-5 lilac stems in each vase, arranged loosely around the edge of the glass.
• Trim the tulips so they are various lengths, between 10-13" long.
• Arrange the 5 tulips in the middle of each vase so they peek up above the lilacs.