Happy Tuesday, friends. I don’t know about you, but I am ready for spring! Meteorological Spring begins March 1, which is this coming Saturday and I am going with it. This winter seems to have been extremely cold, gray, and wet in our Appalachian Foothills! I thought flowers would cheer me up since I am battling a bad case of pneumonia. I hope the happy and colorful displays cheer you as much as they have me!
“For as the earth brings forth its sprouts, and as a garden causes what is sown in it to sprout up, so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to sprout up before all the nations.”
Isaiah 61:11 (ESV)
A floral watering can of purple stock, mini pink dianthus, yellow aster solidago, and burgundy dianthus joined foraged native oak leaf hydrangeas from the woodlands. This combination provided the English garden style I was hoping to accomplish. It was placed on the Sunshine Cottage porch next to the cottage garden!
An all-time favorite of garden flowers loosely arranged in a vintage galvanized watering can…tulips, coral bell azaleas, heirloom daffodils, Carolina jessamine, phlox, and hydrangeas. This colorful mix of flowers might be found growing in any Southern garden or yard.
I love using flowers from our garden or landscape. Snowball viburnum blooms are large and showy, often mistaken for hydrangeas. They bloom around the same time as the Kwanzan Cherry tree!
Who doesn’t love tulips in the springtime, especially in a majolica vase?
With a background of RM’s gloriously green rye grass, an arrangement of Bells of Ireland, spider mums, and white and green hydrangeas welcome St. Patrick’s Day!
Our Pride of Mobile azalea and snowball viburnum (in the background) are in full bloom during April. I love cutting both for arrangements. I added alliums from the cottage garden and yellow roses from my Renaissance Man for a sweet springtime bouquet!
After a trip to three grocery stores, I was able to find tulips, alstromeria, and a sweet smelling filler of large bullwort, also called lace flower and false Queen Anne’s lace. To those blooms, I added daffodils cut from my cottage garden and budding blooms from our Japanese Magnolia tree and arranged the flowers in an often-used vase!
I am thankful to have a flower farm about 25 miles away and I often make a trip for fresh cut flowers from the field…Dianthus, Foxgloves, Dara, and Statice. Are you familiar with “Dara Caucus”? It is a well-behaved cousin of Queen Anne’s Lace. It is actually an ornamental carrot with long, wiry stems. The lacy blooms in varied hues from pastel pink to deep cranberry are excellent and sought after cut flowers. Adding to the arrangement, RM cut privet from the woodlands which has a pretty bloom and a sweet fragrance, but is terribly invasive! The flowers complemented the watering can and April Cornell tablecloth!
Tulips, hydrangeas, Oriental lilies, eucalyptus, and a few daffodils from my garden were arranged in a very old and sentimental pitcher handed down from my paternal grandmother!
Another look at the vintage watering can filled with garden flowers sitting atop a favorite April Cornell tablecloth. I believe they were made for each other!
A blue and white pitcher accents the snowballs and cherry blossoms!
Green hydrangeas, Eskimo roses, thistle, stock, and seeded eucalyptus were part of five beautiful arrangements for our February 23rd, 2023, 50th wedding anniversary celebration. I repurposed them for a Monday Morning Blooms!
‘Charming’ an English-country style floral tablecloth by April Cornell lives up to its name as it highlights an arrangement of peonies…stunning Sarah Bernhardt, gorgeous Karl Rosenfield, and ever so fragrant Festiva Maxima!
Grocery store flowers of lavender mums, cherry alstroemeria, and fuchsia carnations were added to showy snowball blooms with a few sprigs from our Lady Banks roses and Bridal Wreath spirea!
I often use the picnic table for a photo of the flower arrangement after I have photographed the tablescape!
Lovely shades of ranunculus from the flower farm!
I love a carefree arrangement of wildflowers that are plentiful in spring…white daisy fleabane, pinkish-lavender fleabane, and butterweed. Our woodlands and pastures are filled with their beauty!
“Despite the forecast, live like it’s spring.”
~Lily Pulitzer
Thank you for your visit and gracious comments. I am so hopeful this array of flowers reminded you that spring will happen! It might be early or extremely late but it will arrive!
Linking with: Pieced Pastimes, Between Naps on the Porch, Katherines Corner, Follow The Yellow Brick Home,
Life and Linda
