Easter Pastels with Plaisir Du Jardin

2025 is well under way and the easter Bunny is about to do the rounds once again, bringing joy, easter egg hunts and great family gatherings. Easter is synonymous with rebirth and lightness, and Easter is an artist that uses pastel colours to paint a picture of sunlight and joy. Be inspired with Plaisir du Jardin.

Gather the family around the table, choose your edible paints using Easter inspired colours like Ice Mint, Frosted Lemon, Soft Pink, and Marshmallow to create, and elevate a boiled egg to luxury status. There are no wrong or right ways to do this, just a desire to create a meeting place for family and friends engulfed in the softest Easter Colours.

To help with this palette, Fermob® France, has burgeoned their colour palette with the introduction of their Pastel Collection, a range of fresh, happy colours to help you tap into a softer aesthetic. Frosted Lemon, Ice Mint and Marshmallow Lilac have a candy-like appeal and evoke happy memories of childhood and fun times.

To us, as children, the greatest event over Easter, besides eating chocolate, was the annual Easter Egg hunt. Every year the hunt would take on a different format to make it exciting to both adults and children alike. Our favourite was the Sherlock Holms hunt, which found us solving clues to move onto the next stage of the hunt, or the Rainbow Hunt, which assigned each child a colour and a quest to find easter eggs in that hue.

Once the hunt was over family and friends would gather round the table and discuss the treasures they had found whilst they stuff another sweet treat in their mouths. To make this post-hunt chat part of the celebrations we would always have a beautifully set out table, which rotated its purpose during the day. After the Easter Egg hunt the table was set for tea, coffee, and other thirst-quenching drinks, with the table laden with hot cross buns, fresh butter, boiled painted eggs and the freshest, simplest flowers creating a vista that spoke of rebirth and light.

The table display was a family affair with everyone contributing as the day progressed from tea to lunch to afternoon sundowners and the day wound to a satisfying end. Whether you like your table simple or extravagant, modern, or Victorian, here are a few basic pointers to help achieve your personalised Easter Event.

Simple?

If you like it simple; Use a pastel tablecloth but try to keep the crockery simple and white. Use freshly picked flowers from your garden. Add baskets as a centre piece and fill them with painted eggs and chocolate eggs adorned with readymade icing decoration and sprinkles. Purchase moss-covered Bunnies and prepare a gift basket so your guests can store their hunt stash and take it home with them.

Or Extravagant?

If you prefer it more extravagant: Use layers of Pastels, coloured crockery, formal floral arrangement, and cutlery in gold, or mixed metals. Bejewel your painted eggs and add gold trim and ribbons to a large chocolate Easter Bunnies and place around the table. Combine blush roses, baby’s breath, peonies, and lavender to create a classic floral centre piece.

The staff and mamagement of Plaisir du Jardin wish you and your families a wonderful Easter season and we are standing by if you have any questions regarding our wonderful Stripe Chairs from Fermob® in Frosted Lemon and Iced Mint.