Happy Monday sweet friends! I hope your weekend was a beautiful one. Ours started off with lots of rain, but yesterday was picture perfect!
βThe flowers appear on the earth, the time of singing has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.β
ββSong of Solomonβ¬ β2:12β¬ β
I am so excited to share with you a FABULOUS GIVEAWAY! Donβt we all love the opportunity to win something?!
The editors of Victoria just released this gorgeous book, The Art of Flowers! If you have a love of flowers, gardening, or floral arranging this book is a must add to your collection.
βThe pages of Victoria magazine brim with flowers. From blissful backyard beds to extravagant floral plots and from elaborate centerpieces for special occasions to petite posies to brighten a dreary day, we love them all in their glorious forms. That is why we are pleased to present this inspiring volume of floral photography.β
Victoria has generously provided each one of us with a book to give away to one reader. Please read to the bottom of the post for details on how to enter.
βI have been subscribing to Victoria Magazine for years and yes, I keep all of my old issues. I also have many of their book publications…I am definitely a fan! When my book arrived, I was so excited to open its pages and just take in all the romance and beauty…like this hanging wreath of cabbage tulips, bridal wreath spirea, and hoary stock slipped between the branches of a grape vine frame. Since my bridal wreath spirea is in full bloom, this page from the book seemed perfect among the cascading branches.
The book is divided into three enticing sections: Scents and Sensibility where sumptuous roses, graceful tulips, luscious peonies, beautiful and bold hydrangeas and more are highlighted with helpful guidelines to growing and displaying. A Gardenerβs Palette like a painterβs canvas comes to life with brushstrokes of color. You will visit the renowned gardener, Carolyn Aiken of Prince Edward Island and the leading U.S. farmer florist, Erin Benzakein of Floret Flower Farm. The last section is devoted to Bountiful Bouquets like the sprawling branches of the breathtaking cherry blossoms in the lobby of a grand hotel…
…to a glorious wreath to greet Easter!
As a gardener with still much to learn, I can get lost in the splendor of this image!
As most of you know, I love hydrangeas. Of course, I had to share a page that highlighted how a simple arrangement of βlacecapβ hydrangeas can be stunning. The tablecloth and cup and saucer (part of a tea set) were purchased through Victoria last year as a surprise by my sweet husband. The photo on my IPhone shows a Monday Morning Blooms post that features the tea set, tablecloth, and several varieties of gorgeous hydrangeas!
Airy sprigs of forsythia, bridal wreath, and βLady Banksβ roses adorn beautiful vases for a dreamy still life. I photographed the page in the branches of my Lady Banks.
Dahlias are a showstopper flower especially when so many varieties are placed in an arrangement. I have had some success and failures with dahlias. But, I will keep trying!
In celebration of spring flowers, Victoria/Hoffman Media has provided each of us with a book to give away to one reader.
To enter the giveaway and for a chance to win a copy of The Art of Flowers:
Leave a comment telling me your favorite flower(s).
Follow Victoria Magazine on Instagram or Facebook and leave a comment letting me know.
Follow me on Instagram or Pinterest and let me know by comment.
This giveaway is open to residents of the the continental U.S. through midnight April 26th.
For more chances to win a copy of The Art of Flowers visit my flower friends below to enter:
Mary ~ Home Is Where The Boat Is
Shirley ~ Housepitality Designs
Lidy ~ FrenchGardenHouse
Thank you for your visit and wishing you a delightful day!
Linking with:
Pieced Pastimes, Between Naps on the Porch, Katherines Corner, Follow The Yellow Brick Home,
Imparting Grace,Life and Linda
Good Morning Pam, I love how you showcased the cover of the book with your tablecloth and teacup from Victoria and with your iPhone photo of your table! I was smitten with the hanging wreath too and love the photo framed by your bridal wreath on your pretty chair. So much floral inspiration and so many beautiful photos in the book. Iβm happy to join you for some flower therapy today and share this book. Enjoy this beautiful weather. β₯
Mary, thank you. I donβt know why it posted early. It was set for the time we alway post. I guess better early than late. Enjoy your day.
Happy Monday Pam. Mondays of Monday Morning Blooms are always special. You have styled the pages so beautifully with the help of your gorgeous gardens. Doesn’t this book just make you so happy?!!…It does me. It is so filled with the happiness and beauty of flowers. Just read Mary’ s comment and I agree..I am in love with the image that includes your gorgeous iPhone image!….So happy to be participating with with of this glorious giveaway and a most exquisite book! Have a most beautiful day Pam!! I’m sure you will be spending it in part among your beautiful flowers!
I love beautiful flowers. my favorite are violets and roses.
This looks like a great book.
It is hard to chose a favorite flower but I would have to go with a simple white daisy. I have the same tea cup as you – a gift from my hubby too!!
Beautiful book! My favorite flower is a rose. Oh and bleeding hearts are so delicate and pretty!
Thank you, Pam and ladies for the opportunity. A flower lover here and a Victoria fan as well. I have every old magazine which I could easily get lost in. Favorites flowers are tough to choose. Hydrangeas and roses, of course, and peonies and freesia. I follow you already and will make sure I follow Victoria on Facebook-I already do on Instagram. As I said to Mary, you gals and Butch could be photographers for Victoria! xo
What a beautiful book!! I have loved lilacs since childhood.
What is my favorite flower, would be like me trying to pick my favorite child. For arrangements I enjoy color, form, and longevity and ease of arranging. For gardens, I’m a big proponent of gardening being fun so if a plant is tidy, well behaved and requires little care, it will always be on my favorite list. I reward myself with flowers after I have cleaned my home, I light candles and scatter flowers in rooms I visit often…it’s a thank you to myself, for a job well done. I do have one favorite, any flower that is in the pastel category, including white. White in a garden is serene…..never will an orange or red flower found anywhere near my home. I try and encourage people to shop their produce dept. for additions to their arrangements, or to walk among nature for branches and leaves to extend a bouquet. Flowers make me happy and calm.
This post is so inspiring! I love the book! I guess if I had to pick, the simple white daisy! But really all flowers make me happy!
What a gorgeous book, I have a collection of Victoria magazine books. I’d love to win this one! I love hyacinths and gardenias for their lovely sweet fragrance. Love hydrangeas too, for their big flower heads. Really, I love all flowers, each in their own time.
My favorite flowers are yellow roses. I followed you and Victoria Magazine on Instagram. Thanks for all the inspiration!π
Oh, you have piqued my interest in this book. You have beautifully showcased some of the pages in your post today. I love the pic with your cell phone picture of hydrangeas from a MMB post.
What a super giveaway from Victoria Magazine, however, since I won a MMB giveaway in November I feel as if I should not put my name in the hat this time.
This is such a beautiful book! I love hydrangeas. I have followed Victoria and you! Beautiful post.
What a gorgeous book Pam, I have been pouring over the photographs, so many beautiful arrangements and blooms! I want to paint every page! We have some dahlias planted in pots around the patio this year and are enjoying them so much! I am going to sign up to follow Victoria on Instagram, I love that magazine! What a fabulous giveaway, what a beautiful book!
Jenna
What a beautiful book.
Sometimes the language of flowers is all that is needed.
Pansies are my favorite flower. I love the character in their little faces.
Madonna
Oh that books is so very pretty and it has smiles all over it. What a wonderful giveaway. I love all of your pictures. Everything is always so very pretty, cherry, inviting and colorful. Hugs and blessings, Cindy
A lovely book, Pam. But if they hit publish without including at least one of your gorgeous garden or interior photos then they missed on something very big. Your photos and garden should be a book of its own!
Beautiful styling Pam. I love your precious tablecloth, teacup and saucer your hubby bought for you. The photo is so special. Flowers are so joyful and make everyone happy. Natureβs bounty provides us with a canvas of beautiful colors. I love so many flowers, it is difficult to select a favorite. Dahlia is so beautiful, I adore the large blooms. I keep trying as well. A lovely giveaway from Victoria Magazine, I appreciate a chance. I follow you on Facebook and Instagram as well as following Victoria.
Happy Monday.
The pictures of the Victorian book are mesmerizing! I can see why you keep old issues of the magazine! My fav flower right now is a mum …. mini spider mums, large mums. My hubby gave me a bouquet of mixed flowers with multi sizes, bright colors & different kinds of mums for our anniversary. It definitely said spring and makes me smile/
You have highlighted this book beautifully! I received my copy yesterday, and it is a feast for the eyes. Every page is absolutely gorgeous! I was so happy to see the page with the lace cap hydrangeas. We have 2 bushes that the previous owners planted. They are so pretty and delicate. I know that whoever wins this lovely book will definitely enjoy it. Happy Monday, sweet friend!
Happy Monday, dear friend! What a joy it is to see Victoriaβs gorgeous book styled by you. Itβs such a blessing to collaborate with Hoffman Media in their very generous Give-Away of this stunning book. Iβll be gleaning joy and floral inspiration from this book for years to come, you too? Always a treat to join with you on our beloved Monday Morning Blooms. xo Lidy
Pam, such a lovely giveaway. The book is a beautiful treasure. Whoever wins will not be able to put it down.
Happy day and week to you, dear friend.
Pam…thank you for the opportunity to win this beautiful book. My favorite flower is the Rose, however I have never met a flower that I didn’t love….I follow you and Victoria magazine already. Have a wonderful day…
My favorite flowers are roses and lavender. Both grow really well in my garden and seem to happily thrive in the dry, hot summers. Both flowers are perfect for drying and use in pot potpourri or sachets so make wonderful gifts for friends or party favors. The photos you shared in The Art of Flowers are simply wonderful….makes me want to jump into the pages and smell all the lovely floral fragrances. Victoria has surely produced a beautiful book, and I would love to have a copy as well.
Such pretty photos, so informative, & best of all such wonderful flower ideas!
My favorite flower is the larkspur (any color!).
I have followed Victoria Magazine on Instagram and left a comment.
I have continued to follow you, Pam, on Instagram too!
Wow, that tablecloth & the photo made my day. Love the book. Followed you & just now followed VM on instagram. Every single photo is swoon worthy. My favorite above all are roses. However, I have many close seconds. Thank you for sharing & I adore Monday Morning Blooms, a great idea
Hi Pam…love your posts.My fave would have to be Lilies of the Valley.They were my Grandma’s favorite, so they take me back to my childhood. What I wouldn’t do to share just one more bouquet with her !
Oh my goodness, Oh my goodness….what a feast for the eyes…Since I was gifted with a subscription to Victoria, I have been
enthralled and hooked. Anything they do is worthy of praise and collectible. Since already on the gift winning team, I step aside and leave my slot to another. Almost impossible to select one favorite flower, but peonies and lilacs rear their beautiful
blooms for attention. Your display of Victoria pages coupled with your own tableau of settings is a book unto itself. Are we not fortunate to live in an age of such photographic possibility? Your quartet of talented ladies have hit the mark with this one.
Thank you for an enchanted Monday.
Pam,
I love the pink fairy rose, it’s so dainty and pretty. I follow Victoria magazine on Instagram and Everyday Living on Pinterest.
Hi Pam,
My favorite flower is sweet pea. I too have been a follower of Victoria since their premier issue. I would love to win this glorious book. I also follow your blog and Carolyn Aikenβs blog and found out about Floret Farms from Kim at her blog Shiplap and Shells. Have a great week. Margie in CA
My favorite flower has to be hydrangeas!
The book looks gorgeous. Itβs hard to pick a favorite flower, but I have to say mine are pansies. I followed both you and Victoria Magazine on Instagram.
I also love “Victoria” magazine and have every issue since the first one so I would love to win their beautiful new book. My favorite flowers are foxglove and lily of the valley.
Hi, I followed you and Victoria magazine on Instagram. My favorite flowers are hydrangea, gardenia, wisteria, foxglove, and sweet peas.
Hi Pam. Wonderful opportunity from Victoria magazine! I love peonies! I love hydrangeas! I love lilacs! I love hollyhocks by an old barn! I love lavender! I love flowers!!
Beautiful book and photos! My favorite flowers are white roses.
Pam, I have followed your lovely Blog and Instagram account for years. It is delightful to receive your Monday Morning Blooms by email. Your arrangements are beautiful and inspire me to try new ways to arrange my garden flowers.Your presentation of Victoria Magazine’s new book is wonderful and includes my favorite flowers. I follow Victoria magazine’s Instagram and look forward to receiving my new magazine each month. Thank you for this amazing Giveaway.
Pam, you do Victoria’s “The Art of Flowers” such justice by how you’ve staged your photos – gorgeously! Btw, loved seeing your IG in Southern Lady’s most recent. I have followed you on Pinterest for a long time, am following VIctoria, and I do believe my favorite flowers are the purple bearded iris, lavender stems and pansies. There’s a theme there – I love purple, it reminds me of my Mom. Thanks for this great chance at what Victoria has offered you gals to share. You four really do inspire with your blooms.
This book is beautiful! And such a love gift! Zinnias are my favorite flower. Lots of memories of my grandmother linked with her raising them. A beautiful bouquet on her farm table every summer day!!
Asking for a favorite flower is akin to asking which child is my favorite! I do love peonies, honeysuckle, lily of the valley, clematis, hydrangeas, wild roses, dandelions, daisies… and so many more!
After going to floral school, I narrowed down my favorite flower to the stately iris. Not that I don’t love all the others. What a beautiful book by Victoria. It’s sacrilegious to toss these beautiful magazines. They never go out of style.
Hello. I love poppies and their whimsical dances in the wind.
Please enter me in this delightful giveaway! I follow you, Carolyn Aiken and Victoria on Instagram and the blogs, I love being able to see all the pictures of beauty this pastime provides not to mention the inspiration! My favorite flower is the rose it gets me every time no matter the color or variety.
Hi Pam. Would LIVE a copy of this gorgeous book! My favorite flower is so hard to say – I love them all!!! But I really do love roses that are super fragrant and with many, many petals!! πΉ Thanks for the chance to win! Have a great week!
I have so many favorite flowers, but I guess my favorite of all is hydrangeas. I already follow you on Pinterest, but I am not on Instagram or Facebook, so if you need to not enter me, I understand. π God bless you!
Pam, this is my kind of book!!! I can’t wait to see this one. I love hydrangeas too, but then, all flowers steal my heart. I follow you on all social media. I also follow Victoria Magazine and always have the latest issue. One of my all time favorite magazines.
Lovely post and beautiful book. You could publish a book Pam. Following your beautiful blog is an amazing gift to me. Have a good week dear friend.As you know I love all flowers and am constantly trying new things.
Pam Thank You for the chance to win this lovely book. I subscribe to Victoria and love the magazine.
Joan
My favorite flower is The Lily Of The Valley
Joan