Printemps

Held in Los Angeles in November, the J. Paul Getty Trust’s medal presentation at the Getty Center featured illuminated tabletops inset with distinctly springlike butterflies.

In Orlando, the Epcot Flower and Garden Festival features topiary shaped like familiar characters. In one such arrangement, a leafy Miss Piggy sits atop a suitcase, waving at passersby. The show runs through May 17.

The theme for this year's Macy's Spring Flower Show is "Art in Bloom." In the New York store, a color-blocked arrangement that recalls the art of Piet Mondrian is placed over trellises. Shoppers walk beneath the colorful arrangement. The show, which is at three Macy's stores, runs through April 24.

The show features floral installations in escalator banks.

The show features "bouquet of the day" arrangements from designers such as Martha Stewart (pictured.)

Also part of the abstract garden, a guitar-shaped planter holds cacti and other desert-inspired plants.

In the Impressionist garden in Minneapolis, a set inspired by Van Gogh's "Starry Night" backs a garden filled with purple, blue, and yellow blooms.

A pink statue is central to the Expressionist garden, which is filled with bromeliad, air plants, staghorn fern, croton petra, Cordyline fruticosa Picasso’s Red, and other plants and flowers.

In each city of the Macy's flower show, a white statue of David prop has pixel-map projections flickering across its surface. The installation is meant to represent a juxtaposition between modern and Renaissance art.

The Impressionist garden is filled with pastel hues and a set featuring an idyllic house.

In the Pop Art garden, moss and plants spell out the words "bloom" and "flower" in comics-like signage.

To underscore the theme, a giant paint can serves as a planter at the Chicago show.

Debi Lilly of A Perfect Event also designed a tabletop for the show. Lilly's inspiration was "the new, green Garden of Eden." Her installation used vintage cutlery and glassware and lush, springy floral arrangements. There were also individual flower-topped cakes on each place setting.

Citygirl event production created a tabletop inspired by "the viewpoint of a sophisticated city lifestyle with an emphasis on sustainable elements."

Boston's flower show took place at the Seaport World Trade Center March 11 to 15. One exhibit, designed by the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, was dubbed "An Enchanted New England Woodland Walk." The setting incorporated a miniature waterfall and a woodsy table set for two.

In November, when it was springlike in Los Angeles, baby brand Munchkin hosted a luncheon for bloggers, event planners, and influential mothers at the James Cagney estate. Jeannie Savage of Details Details designed the event with vibrant colors as well as Munchkin products and toys throughout the space.

Made by Meg catered the luncheon at a tabletop decorated with boldly colored ribbons and Munchkin products.

For Ruinart Champagne's afternoon tea and auction at the London in Los Angeles in October 2011, event planner Jes Gordon modernized high tea with white linens topped with khaki runners trimmed in bright, neon borders. Ping-pong paddles served as auction paddles.