“For nothing will be impossible with God.”
Luke 1:37
Welcome sweet friends to the third Friday of the month! That makes this a special day because I am joining my blogging friends to bring you an edition of Floral Friday. I hope you will pull up a chair, pour a cup of coffee or tea, and get ready for some flower therapy and inspiration.
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Today is all about a dish garden. If you read my post on Tuesday, you might remember I said I was doing something I had never done before. That “something” was designing a dish garden!
It is always fun to share the 1st and 3rd Fridays of each month with Lidy, Mary, and Shirley. You will find their links at the bottom of this post.
My first decision was to choose a dish. I had several options, but decided on a large blue and white bowl.
Blue and white always works and remains a personal favorite.
What to place in the dish was the next decision. I visited some local grocery stores to see what potted plants were available…not much I soon discovered. I live in a small town where there is no Trader Joe’s. I then went to Lowe’s to look around. Again, not a large selection but a few things I thought I could work with.
I knew I needed to protect my bowl so I placed a plastic liner inside. I then added a Phalaenopsis orchid, a Dracaena marginata, and a fern that the tag identified as houseplant (I would have never guessed, haha!). I added moss and called it finished.
My next decision was where to place the dish garden for photos. I decided my dining table with a white backdrop would show the colors and textures.
This is commonly called marginata bi-color and you can see why in this close-up.
Exotic Angel Plants identified this as houseplant!
Rather than remaining in the dining room, the dish garden landed in the garden.
During the summer months my happy place is the garden, and I find myself spending a lot of time there with my camera!
With limelights as a backdrop, I loved the way the dish garden looked sitting on the white table…
…and on a garden stool!
After designing my first dish garden, it definitely won’t be my last. This was an easy project that required a small amount of time.
You will want to click on the links below to see what my talented friends have created.
Mary @ Home Is Where The Boat Is
Shirley @ Housepitality Designs
Thank you for your visits and comments, they always brighten my day… wishing you all a joy-filled weekend!
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Pam, I can see why the garden is your happy place, it always makes me happy to your beautiful flowers, colors and textures…especially with the hydrangeas in bloom! Your blue and white bowl is a perfect vessel for your dish garden and I love the addition of the orchid, such a striking pop of color paired with greens of the fern, marginata and moss. Your garden stool is stunning too! It’s always a pleasure to join you for for Floral Friday, Happy Weekend. ♥
Thank you Mary. Floral Fridays are fun to share with you!
That looks very nice. I’m wondering how the excess water drains out, you’d have to be scientific with how much you put in there, I’m guessing?
Enjoying living vicariously through your Summer garden pictures, as it’s cold, wet and windy here, and I have a cold!
Cath, I hope you are feeling better now.
Pam, your dish garden is lovely and it is so beautifully arranged. Your choice of container and plants for it are perfect. I love it on your dining table, but also think is is so pretty in your gorgeous garden. The arrangement is so versatile that it would be lovely anywhere you decided for it to have a home.
Have a wonderful weekend, my friend!
Thank you Sandra. Wishing you a beautiful weekend sweet friend❤️
Love at first sight with the blue and white and the orchid..one of my favorite combinations!…the dish garden is so beautiful in every setting/backdrop…Your dish garden is just another beautiful garden among a most vast and gorgeous garden that surrounds your home. Did I tell you how much I enjoy being a part of Floral Friday with you and the other most talented and most beautiful hearted ladies? Have a most wonderful weekend Pam!!!
Thank you dearest Shirley. Try to rest this weekend.❤️
Lovely, Pam. I’ve actually used those angel ferns in my porch urn (protected) when I couldn’t find the right size pot of Boston. Your combination is lovely.
Thank you Rita, have a great weekend!
This is so pretty Pam! I love the contrasting textures you used, just beautiful!
Jenna
Thank you Jenna!
Beautifully done- love the blue and white bowl choice. I have that dracaena marginata growing in one of my flower pots- it’s a favorite! I’m going to have to try making one of these- love the instant floral/garden gratification!
Thank you Liz. It was actually fun to make. Have a wonderful week!
So beautiful Pam especially with the background of your beautiful gardens. The garden stool also made for a very lovely spot for this arrangement. Connie and I had lunch yesterday and we wondered what it is you had never done! Now we know you do this to perfection also!
Thank you Dianne. I guess we are never too old to try something new. Have a wonderful week!
Love the magenta pops of color from your orchid and dracaena marginata in your lovely scalloped blue and white bowl. The shades of green in your other plants and the contrast of the lime green moss really catches your eye. How clever to add additional texture and interest with the moss balls.
I love your dish garden on the garden stool as well as on your white table. Have you been to Boxwoods in Atlanta? It is s lovely shop and they do gorgeous dish gardens. Yours look just as good.
Have a very nice weekend.
Thanks so much Bonnie. This was something new for me to try!
Love dish gardens, especially since I will not have a yard in the near future!
I love succulent dish gardens best since they are almost maintenance-free! Maybe you can do one in the future!!
I like the blue & white bowl too! ?
Thank you my friend. I started to do a succulent dish garden because they are easy to find even here. Happy weekend!
Oh this is just so beautiful! The colors and textures are stunning. The bowl was perfect for this garden. The gardening stool was a treat as well.
I so enjoy Floral Friday… well, shoot… I love every post!
Thank you my friend, happy weekend!
What a beautiful dish garden! It looks so lovely in your gorgeous garden. I can see how it is your happy place. I am swooning over that blue and white bowl and garden stool. Happy Friday! Enjoy your weekend, sweet friend!!!
Happy weekend sweet Shannon!
I’ve never done that either! I looks beautiful and I especially love the container you chose. Four star. Have a great weekend.
Thank you my friend!
Hi! If you’re curious, by the way, it’s a dragon-tail fern (Asplenium × ebenoides). Great arrangement!! —Justin, @Costa Farms Horticulturist
Thank you Justin, we tried to identify from your web site. Much thanks for visiting and once again thank you!
Just gorgeous!I LOOOOVE it! How inspiring!Hugs,dear Pam!
Thank you Maristella!
So pretty Pam! You picked the perfect color and textures for your bowl. I love it! I am partial to orchids as we grow a lot of them here in SW Florida and yours is stunning.
Thank you sweet Kari. I love to keep an orchid growing. Have a wonderful week!
Hello Pam, today you have given me my sensitive point because this of mounting a small garden in a container, a deep dish or any other container of ceramic or glass is one of my favorite things. I love these small gardens that are highly decorative and are also like the smallest children that should be cared for with more dedication. In fact, I have a crystal in my round table that I love and relax …
The one you have made is very beautiful, the plants are very well chosen in balance in a very beautiful bowl, the blue color that I love.
I congratulate you, a big hug
Dolores
Dolores, gracias amigo mío. Los jardines de platos se pueden disfrutar durante mucho tiempo y es realmente como llevar el jardín al interior. Ten una semana encantadora. Abrazos ~
Your garden within a garden is a delight to say nothing about it being a very clever presentation.
Thank you Linda!
I love the blue and white bowl, especially with the greens and lovely magenta orchid, but the stool made my jar drop. Wow.
Thank you Myrna for visiting! Have a great week!
bellissimo!!!?
Thank you!❤️
You did a great job! I used to make these as gifts years ago and had kind of forgotten about them, this is wonderful and I am so inspired to make a dish garden myself!
It was fun to make, Chloe!
Love your blue and white dish garden. So many wonderful containers to pick from … sometimes I need a reminder! !!
Pam this is just darling! We certainly missed you on the vintage gardens hop, you have the most beautiful gardens!
Thanks for sharing at TFT Today!
Thank you Amber for hosting!
Beautiful arrangement you truly have a green thumb. So glad I found your lovely post on the link party! Happy Summer, Kippi
Thank you Kippi!
Pam, you did an amazing job. It really is beautiful! One of my friends gifted me with a floral arranging book after my last surgery. I’m anxious to play with it a little. 🙂 Thanks for sharing with SYC.
hugs,
Jann
Thank you Jann, it always a pleasure!
Thank you Jann!
Your dish garden is beautiful, Pam. This little Friday group is filled with talent!
It is a fun group and it certainly challenges me?
You created a wonderful container garden to add to your yard. Your tall spike plant made me think of one I have on my post, but ten years ago. You should come on over to see how big it is now. Mine is a variety of dracaena. – Margy
Thank you for visiting Margy. Have a wonderful week!
I love the bright green against the pretty blue and white and then that pop of gorgeous pink! Perfect!
Thank you Ann Marie!