Grass...lots of grass

In February I was asked to help with the decorations for the Mother/daughter tea at church. The theme of the tea was Faith, Fairy tales and Fables. I had to come up with a table centerpiece that incorporated books and spring colors. After hours of brainstorming, I (along with others input) came up with pots of grass with daisies and books tied up with ribbons.

So for the last 3 weeks I have been taking care of 60 some pots of grass and hoping that they would all grow and be beautiful for the tea. After a few stressful days of wondering if I should just ditch the idea and move on to something else I was patient and in the end it turned out pretty great.

Here is the story of my grass in pictures.....

My good friend Sabrina and her daughter Meghan came over to help plant all the pots. Ella and Meghan loved being apart of the planting process. Little did Ella know that she would be helping me water and tend these pots for the next three weeks! They became "her" pots as much as they were mine.

At first they lived in my garage. I couldn't keep them outside because the birds would eat my seeds. But this was annoying on so many levels. This meant that I had to carry ALL of the pots in and out of the garage if they were going to get any good sun and when they were outside I had to make sure I kept a good watch on them. After a few days of this I decided we needed another home. They would have to live on our front porch.

Wee little growth. At this point I started to get a bit worried because we were already a week into growing and I only had a week and a half left before the tea. We got smarter than the birds and my handy husband built a nice chicken wire fence to keep the rabbits and birds away.

After two weeks they started to look like this and I was THRILLED!

Ella was too!

This is when we started to give haircuts. About every three days we gave them all a little trim.

I never got a picture of any of the tables before the tea--bummer because it was so cute. But here are a couple taken after it was all over. You will have to ignore all the napkins and half filled tea cups but you get the idea. Some tables had one large pot in the middle with books tied up on either side while others had two little ones with a series of books in the middle.