“A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.”
Proverbs 17:22
Hello sweet friends. I love the above scripture…a joyful or cheerful heart is like a good medicine. A cheerful or joyful heart doesn’t mean that everything is perfect in our lives. In fact, we can often find ourselves in very difficult circumstances. Like medication is helpful for the body when we are sick, a grateful heart filled with the spirit is medicine for the soul.
It is the third Monday of the month which means Lidy, Mary, Shirley, and I are bringing you floral inspiration and Monday Morning Blooms! Our theme of late and today is “anything goes” since flowers can be hard to find during our current situation.
A small tea table was set in the garden…
…but it is really about these gorgeous blooms!
You will find the links for my flower loving friends at the bottom of this post.
The beautiful and romantic “artist garden tablecloth” by April Cornell is the perfect foundation for an informal tea for me, myself, and I.
One of my very best friends gifted me this beautiful “Berkeley” tea set by Royal Albert. It includes what you see and a sugar, creamer, a second dessert plate and cup/saucer. It is certainly a gift that I treasure and hold dear.
I am a fan of macarons…
…and Earl Grey tea! Don’t you just love the sweet floral design on the tea set? My friend was displaying the set on a table in her living room and she saw that I was admiring it. A few days later, she called and said she wanted to drop by to bring a little something to me. Her words were, “Since you love it, I want you to have it.” She is a forever friend, and those are hard to find.
My Renaissance Man and I traveled the 25 miles to the flower farms last week… always a nice drive with my honey. I definitely hit the jackpot! I am so thankful to have these farms close enough that I can get my hands on blooms that would be impossible to find at a local grocery store.
Endless hydrangeas, burgundy and white snapdragons, and buplureum came from Deep Roots Flower Farm. The gorgeous peony, Nikko blue hydrangeas, winter honeysuckle, and Scotch broom were living at the Hydrangea Farm.
As I was moving about the garden, the sweet fragrance wafting in the breeze from the peony and apricot drift roses was heavenly!
Since “anything goes” the floral arrangement moved around and the table setting changed for different looks.
“Flowers are the music of the ground. From earth’s lips spoken without sound.
-Edwin Curran
It appears that the apricot roses are a part of the floral arrangement!
My lovely blogging friend Sandra from Maison de Jardin used this quote and I want to share it with you.
“This is my wish for you: Comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes, rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunsets to warm your heart, hugs when spirits sag, beauty for your eyes to see, friendships to brighten your being, faith so that you can believe, confidence for
when you doubt, courage to know yourself, patience to accept the truth, Love to complete your life.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
You will not want to miss the beautiful floral inspiration from my creative friends.
Mary – Home Is Where The Boat Is
Shirley – Housepitality Designs
Lidy – FrenchGardenHouse
My wish is that you leave here today with a lighter heart and hope for brighter days. Thank you for your lovely visits and gracious comments. Wishing you a delightful day!
Linking with:
Pieced Pastimes, Between Naps on the Porch, Katherines Corner, Follow The Yellow Brick Home,
Pam, What gorgeous flowers, set off perfectly by your AC artist garden tablecloth! A trip to the flower farm would be heavenly and you picked some beauties. What a sweet friend to gift you her tea set. Tea in the garden for me, myself, and I with macarons would be a treat. 🙂 I’m all aflutter over your butterfly chair that your arrangement is sitting so pretty in too! Thank you for the beauty and flower therapy this morning. Happy Monday🌸🦋💐🫖💕
Thank you Mary. Wishing you a lovely week!
Pam, a joyful heart is good medicine. Thank you for the scripture and for sharing how it is good for the soul. In times like these we need to cling to these truths. Your beautiful post displays your heart and love for pretty color and freshness from God’s flowers.
I love the AC tablecloth so fresh with lovely flowers. Your tea set is gorgeous as is your arrangement. What a sweet friend. I love the setting also showing your lovely roses.
I agree with Mary about your lovely butterfly chair. Tea in your garden would be a treat.
I am wishing there was a flower farm nearby for us. I would be a faithful customer.
Thank you my friend. Bonnie, these two farms are so great to visit and I would not have been able to get flowers anywhere else. Wishing you a lovely week!
A peaceful and beautiful table. Loving the china. Beauty encourages us especially in these times.
Thanks so much Linda!
Oh Pam, life is so wonderful when you have friends who truly care about you and want to “make your heart happy”… I see how special that tea set is to you and how very special it does look in your garden “tea for me” setting. How great that you and your “RM” were able to travel to the flower farms and purchase those fabulous flowers…I so miss my flowers from the previous house. I am in love with your chair! I gasped when I saw the image of it with the flowers. Truly extraordinary and enchanting! I so enjoyed the quote from Emerson. My son is such a fan of Emerson and if they were having a “boy” they were going to name him Emerson…however, I am so happy they were blessed with our Sweetie! Have a beautiful day Pam. Continue to enjoy your garden this week and we thank you for sharing it with us…and I am grateful to be sharing MMB with you!
Thank you dear Shirley. Being able to garden and just be outdoors truly refreshes me. Emerson is a great name for a boy, but I am so glad you were were blessed with your Sweetie!
What a beautiful way to start a Monday! And you are so right… a joyful heart is what keeps us going! I have nothing but gratitude even during these strange times. God’s truth keeps our blessings flowing!
I enjoyed your tea table set out in your garden! And what a lovely friend to have given you that tea set. It is stunning… and now you think of her each time you use it!
Your flowers from the flower farm are spectacular… how fun that you can go there and choose such beauty! And your arrangement is just that… spectacular! I thought of you as we drove by the Rose Fields here in Arizona. They were wonderful to see!
I can’t leave without saying something about that lovely butterfly chair! Oh! My! Goodness! How lovely it is!
Happy Monday dear friend! Enjoy your week!
Nancy, you are such a sweetheart. The flower farms are a treat during these times, just to get out and go for a drive refreshes me. I hope you get to PA to enjoy your beautiful garden!
I hope so too. 🙏
Pam you are so blessed to have the flower farm so close. Choosing might be a problem for me. Today your tea table makes me long to sit there with you and enjoy all the beauty around and the macarons and Earl Grey tea. Lidy sent a package of Cherries Jubilee tea with a gift I ordered and it is now my favorite and having it served out of the tea pot your friend gave you would make it even more special. You might need to keep and eye though on the April Cornell tablecloth as I love that too. Have a blessed day.
Thank you dear Alice. I wish I could gather all of my friends that I have made through blogging and have a tea party in the garden! Have a wonderful week!
Sometimes I open your post and all I can say is WOW! Pam has done it again…a magazine will find its way to you for this one…probably Victoria. What an awesome arrangement and the lone pink peony is the crowning touch. The AC cloth is the perfect foundation and yes the background of roses is perfect. What a special friend to gift you this beautiful tea set. I have a friend like that. They are pure gold. Your words of JOY in all circumstances is a message for all times…hence the name for my blog. The JOY of the Lord should dwell deep in our hearts so we can face such a time as this. You are a beloved friend though we have never met. Thank you for a most beautiful Monday morning of blooms.
Dianne, thank you for your sweet and encouraging words. They do mean so much to me. We choose joy and it does not depend on our circumstances, it comes from a relationship with our Lord. You are an inspiration and a blessing dear one!
Good morning Pam! Your MMB’s are outstanding! The vase is full of happiness! I love your tea set. It’s so feminine and I love the colors. Your AC tablecloth is the perfect base for the tea set and colorful blooms. Love the setting too & I know the fragrance is so pleasing. Have a wonderful day! Clara♥️
Thank you dear Clara. Wishing you a joy-filled week ♥️
What a lovely setting and gorgeous bouquet!
When I first looked at this post, I turned green with envy thinking all those beautiful blooms were from your garden! I love seeing them arranged in the sprinkler can, one of my favorite containers. As always, you nail the challenge of the Monday blooms.
Thank you Linda. The flower farms are wonderful places to visit
Oh Pam, this is absolutely gorgeous! Your posts and photographs are far better than looking at any magazine. What a beautiful setting! I can see why you admired the teaset so much. It is quite lovely. I love the quote by Emerson that you shared from Sandra’s post. Her posts always seem to lift one’s spirits. Take care, sweet friend, and have a blessed and happy Monday!
Thanks so much my friend.wishing you a blessed and happy week!
That verse is such a great reminder! Being stuck at home has made me way less cheerful, but there’s no reason to not have a cheerful heart. Beautiful blooms!! I hope you have a wonderful Monday!
Thank you Michelle. Enjoy your week!
Pam, I always love reading your scriptures and now, more than ever, we all need these truths to rely upon. I feel the whole world is receiving one big wake-up call, and so hope the message is heeded. Your romantic table setting is BEAUTIFUL! You’re fortunate to find such lovely flowers to brighten your day. Glad you and yours are doing well. Hugs!
Bobbi, what a special treat to read your comment this morning. Yes, it is a wake-up call. Thanks so much and sending hugs!
This beautiful post brought such a smile to me this morning as I look out my window and the skies look so gloomy. I was reminded once again that a joyful heart indeed is such good medicine for our souls. Love your beautiful tea table and the flowers are so beautiful. Oh I just love it all. Hugs to you dear Pam.
Cindy
Thank you Cindy. A joyful heart will change our perspective for sure. Happy week my friend!
Pam, your tea table is beautiful. How lovely it would be to enjoy tea with you in your gorgeous garden. Your arrangement is pure perfection. And what a treasured gift from your dear friend. Such friends are a gift from above.
Thank you, Pam for mentioning me regarding the quote. I am always drawn to Emerson’s words. Wishing you a lovely week ~ blue skies and joy along your path, dear friend.❤
Thank you dear Sandra. Oh, how I wish we could share tea in my or your garden! ♥️
Your spring blooms look like our July blooms! And I love every single one you shared here, as always, Pam. (I love that blue chair, too!)
Thank you so much Jeanie.
Swoon Pam!! Oh you’re so lucky to have a flower farm to visit and get supplies, the blooms are gorgeous!! The tea table for 1 against the backdrop of apricot roses is magazine worthy! What a lovely spot with your beautiful AC cloth and the incredible china…and the macarons are perfect! I love the flowers on the blue chair too~ what a beautiful vignette!
Jenna
Thanks so much Jenna. I am loving our “anything goes” theme! Be safe as you travel back to the city!
Your beautiful flowers and arrangements bring joy to my soul! Thank you for sharing. Your blog is always an inspiration. Take care sweet friend! 💖
Thanks so much sweet friend.
What a delightful awakening to the Blossoming Ladies and their arrangements this morning. Your lovely setting, Pam dear, is a garden visitation for the soul. I am not envious by nature, but Oh, would I love to also have your Hydrangea Farm so close at hand… Your arrangement on that beautiful cloth backdrop is perfection and reflects the message of joy in the Proverbs 17 line. Thank you for blessing this day.
Mary, your sweet words are always a bright spot as are your visits. Wishing you a joy-filled week!
Pam, this does my very soul good. To see your lovely flowers, so lovingly arranged by you on your tea table for one. Oh! How I wish to join you there to use that second cup. Not just for the sweetness of our conversation, but also because Earl Grey tea and macarons are my very very favorites! You are so blessed with the flower farm, I haven’t “seen” any flowers for two months. Hoping to remedy that next time. Love to you, dear friend.
Thank you dear Lidy. Oh, how I would enjoy tea and conversation with you my dear friend!
Stunning flowers arrangement,stunning tablecloth,stunning teaset,stunning garden…Such beauty,my dear Pam! You have a joyful heart and it is contagious!Thank you!
Thank you dear Maristella, you are a sweetheart!
Pam your flowers are beautiful. The tablecloth is breath taking. Thank You for sharing
Marilyn
Many thanks Marilyn!
The tea set is lovely. Pam you always have everything set so inviting. Have a wonderful week.
Marion
Thank you so much Marion!
One word….BEAUTIFUL! That’s a true friend to give you her beautiful tea set!! My Drift Roses are loaded with blooms right now, I hope they will be in Summer.
Thank you Nancy. Enjoy the drift roses!
Everything about your post made my heart happy today! Beautiful scripture, lovely flowers, the tea set so generously given to you in love, the butterfly chair! There is so much for which we can be grateful, isn’t there?
That make me so happy Roxanne! Yes we have much to be grateful for.
I tell you, it is hard to imagine anything more beautiful than your post today. Those flowers! I am so thankful you live near those farms, too, so you can share this special loveliness here! Thank you for taking the time to do all you do and to share such cheer here, my friend. Many blessings to you!
Thank you Cheryl. Many blessings to you!
Pam, your post just made my day. I have been unable to do much of anything in my own garden, I need knee replacement surgery. My own garden is not been tended to much and is looking rather bad but I am so inspired by this post. Your tea table is stunning and I so enjoyed your beautiful pics. Hope you are doing well.
Carolyn/A Southerner’s Notebook
Carolyn, it is so good to hear from you. I have missed you on Instagram. I am so sorry about your knee, will you be having it replaced. Thank you for your sweet visit. Take care of yourself.
Thank you Pam, yes I need knee replacement surgery but it is not considered essential during this time of quarantine. The Dr’s. offices in FL are just beginning to reopen and they have a back log of patients. I’m not wanting to speed it along especially since I am very high risk for covid. Frankly I think here in FL everything is opening too qucikly. About the Instagram, I had to get a new phone and lost my IG account, had to open a new one under carolynghaley. I have tried to put your IG back on my new phone but can’t seem to do it. Technology????
Thank you for your sweet comment on my blog.
Carolyn
Carolyn, I hope you are able to get the knee replaced soon. I will look you up on IG and maybe you can follow me.
This is lovely! Your flowers bring me joy! Thank you
Thank you so much. Have a wonderful weekend!
All the florals are gorgeous, so fresh and pretty. We are in between daffys and anything else…lol. Maybe I will have Viburnum this week! Lovely shares, Ladies!
This is lovely Pam! So wonderful that you got to go to the flower farms – that would be truly excellent right about now! 😉 Thanks for the beautiful inspiration – you got your wish, as I am definitely uplifted by your gorgeous flowers! 💗 Take care my friend!
Thank you so much Barbara. The flower farms are a bright spot right now for sure.
Pam my favorite past time, Earl Grey tea & treat! 😉
I love your setting & the floral arrangement is just perfect!
Delightful post sweet friend! ♥
Bless you,
Jennifer
Thank you Jennifer ♥️
WOW – that is absolutely stunning.
Thank you Michele!
Lovely, lovely! Fresh flowers make me smile, hope they do the same for others.
Thank you Dee.