Happy August sweet friends! It is unbelievable that we are already into our eighth month. Last week triple digit heat indexes were the norm, but this weeks highs are predicted to be in the 80’s. That will be a nice change!
“Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.”
Psalm 90:14
It is Monday Morning Blooms with Shirley, Mary, and Lidy. Today I am celebrating white hydrangeas in the garden!
Our common theme for this edition of Monday Morning Blooms is white flowers! It makes me very happy to go out to the garden and cut flowers to make arrangements!
You will find the links for my friends’ beautiful flowers at the bottom of this post.
Our garden is full of white blooms…three different varieties of hydrangeas.
Vanilla-strawberry, limelight, and little lamb hydrangeas along with a few cuttings of white crape myrtle fill the MacKenzie Childs “flower market” canister. With large showy blooms, they practically arranged themselves.
One of three limelights that were planted in the back of the garden. Limelights are known as a garden rock star for their enormous football-shaped blooms. By the first of July, flowers develop showing off a unique celadon green, which slowly changes to bright white. As the flower ages it turns a soft shade of pink.
You catch a glimpse of the white crape myrtle in the background and two of the five vanilla-strawberry hydrangeas.
A favorite and often used tablecloth is from April Cornell. It is discontinued in this color, but “cottage rose” is available in other colors.
Vanilla-strawberry hydrangeas are beginning to turn!
This photo was taken a couple of weeks before I cut blooms for the arrangement. They had not reached their maximum large flower heads! For more info, check out gardening with limelight and vanilla strawberry hydrangeas.
Vintage Fostoria stemware that was given to me many years ago by a dear friend of my mother. You can see the vanilla strawberry hydrangeas are turning pink. In cooler climates the pink will change to a strawberry color!
The table was set simply to allow the hydrangeas to be the star!
Sur la Table “rose garden” salad plate by April Cornell rests on a majolica dinner plate with a napkin tucked between for another punch of color.
Notice the height of the vanilla strawberry in the background!
There is a lot going on in this image!! Bottom right foreground are little lamb hydrangeas that have begun to turn pink. Vanilla strawberry hydrangea takes up the middle and white crape myrtle stands tall in the background!
“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the blue sky, is by no means a waste of time.”
-John Lubbock
Vanilla strawberry!
Our table is nestled beside adagio maiden grasses which provide a natural border for the planned Sunshine Cottage garden.
Be sure to visit each of my talented friends for gorgeous floral inspiration!
Shirley – Housepitality Designs
Lidy – FrenchGardenHouse
Mary – Home Is Where The Boat Is
The flower arrangement moved under the pergola for a better view of the garden!
Thank you for your visit and gracious comments. Wishing you a joy-filled week!
Linking with:
Pieced Pastimes, Between Naps on the Porch, Katherines Corner, Follow The Yellow Brick Home,
Imparting Grace,Life and Linda
Swoon Pam! Your garden is beautiful and full of white blooms! I love white flowers for the illusion of ‘cool’ they provide when it’s hot and steamy outside and how they glow in the evening. Your rose garden salad plate is the perfect complement to your pretty April Cornell tablecloth, and your MacKenzie Childs flower market canister makes the perfect vessel for your table and hydrangea blooms! As always it’s a treat to join you for some flower therapy! Happy August.♥
Thank you Mary. Our humidity and temps were down today. It felt wonderful!
Happy Monday Pam!…Your gardens can be in the category of many famous botanical gardens. Stunning Pam.
Every summer, I look forward to your blooming hydrangeas of the many varieties. This most “happy” table of colorful blooms would be the highlight of any garden party. I miss our Sur la Table store that recently closed. Love how you used the MKC flower market canister to beautifully display your hydrangeas. As always your table is set impeccably and I am in love with those exquisite goblets gifted to you by your mother’s friend. They must bring you special memories. Again, a beautifully set table and flowers from your garden. Have a fabulous day Pam…happy to be sharing blooms with you today!
Thank you Shirley. Your sweet comments are so appreciated! The Sur la Table store that was in Birmingham closed. I enjoyed taking some cooking classes at there store!
Just stunning blooms, I adore white flowers.
Thanks Carole.
I can just imagine the joy you must be feeling at this point to walk out and cut your garden blooms, Pam. They are prolific! And to have three choices of whites in August – that’s an immediate cooling effect. Your combination of AC tablecloth and salads plates with M-C canister adds all the color needed to showcase those white blooms. I love the adagio maiden grasses right now, and they complement the placemats perfectly. Very pretty. Happy August!
Thanks Rita. It was cooler today which was a welcome change!
The white blooms are so beautiful! What a wonderful way to begin the month~such beauty. I love the stemware and beautiful table settings. Thank you always for blessing us~and sharing your friends! 💚
Karla, thank you for your encouraging comments! 💚
My pleasure, Pam! 💛💚
What a lovely, peaceful garden! I love your posts- such an encouraging way to start the day – Scripture and flowers!
How do you keep the deer away from the beautiful buffet?
Have a blessed day!
Yvonda
Thank you Yvonda. The deer have munched on a couple of hydrangeas in our front landscape area. We live next to 250 acres of woods and they are full of deer.
Good morning, Pam. Your garden is gorgeous and your table is stunning. And, your arrangement – no words. My mom would have given you her highest praises on your magnificent white arrangement. No higher praises of those from a National Flower Show Judge. She won many honors with white arrangements.
Have a beautiful day and week, dear friend.
Sandra, thank you for your sweet comments, especially the one about your mom!
Loving all the beautiful white blooms. Girl, it’s so hot here, humid, rain predicted a lot this week. I am about OVER the heat! LOL! I want to do a little tableacape outside by the pond but it’s been so hot these days that it about makes me sick thinking about it. Marty and I try to sit outside by the pond on Friday afternoons a bit and girl, I had run an extension cord to a fan recently just so it would blow on me! Honestly, not sure it helped but made me feel better. LOL! Hugs and blessings to you dear Pam. Cindy
Thanks Cindy! I feel your pain about the heat and humidity. We have lower temps and humidity this week and it feels wonderful!
What a beautiful arrangement. I love the vase they are in. Your table setting is so fresh and fun!
Thank you Penny!
Pam, Your various hydrangeas are absolutely amazing! They’re just gorgeous! Your tablescape is beautiful and your tablecloth is a favorite. The salad plates compliment your colorful tablecloth. Your garden is so well planned. The maiden grasses make a lovely back drop. Your white crape myrtle is the largest and fullest I think I’ve seen. Thanks for sharing such a cool, refreshing tablescape during the heat of summer. Your hard work is manifesting itself with magnificent huge blooms! Enjoy your week! Clara ❤️
Thank you sweet Clara. Your comments are always encouraging!♥️
You truly have gorgeous blooms everywhere you look! Your garden is full of glory and I think the Vanilla Strawberry hydrangeas are my favorite, I love the subtle soft pinks and those grasses are showstopping! I love the floral abundance on your table too, the salad plates are wonderful. Monday Morning is definitely in full bloom!!
Jenna
Thank you dear Jenna. I am enjoying it while it lasts. Fall will be here before I turn around!
Wow! Your table is so beautiful with the AC cloth and plates. Your arrangement and all the blooming hydrangeas in your garden is an awesome show. Your attention to detail is amazing Pam. Have a blessed week.
Thanks so much, Dianne. Wishing you a wonderful week!
Pam, exquisite! What is that yellow shrub behind photos 5, 7 and 8?
Thank you Kathy. Those are sunshine ligustrums.
I love hydrangeas and they just dazzle, they’re so lovely! Three varieties — and all smashing. Love the April Cornell, too. Her designs are wonderful.
Thank you Jeanie. AC linens are a favorite.
Pam, sigh…. your garden is so beautiful! You have created such a glorious paradise. Your hydrangeas are always a highlight for me, like Shirley I look forward to seeing them each summer. Such a delightful table set with bright flowers, and then the stars of the show, your hydrangeas. Wishing you a blessed August dear friend! Always a joy to share our blooms together. Xo Lidy
Lidy, thank you for your sweet comments. Wishing you a blessed week. xoxo
Magnificent post! How inspiring and beautiful!
How sweet, thank you Maristella!
So very lovely as white flowers, but even prettier as they change colors. Hydrangeas are amazing flowers
Thank you Gail. I do love when they turn!
How lovely my friend! I enjoyed the white flowers in your garden and your centerpiece! And with AC dishes and her cloth linens… are STUNNING!
Your garden gives me peace this morning…
Happy August!
Nancy, thank you for your always sweet comments.
What a beautiful garden!! I just love hydrangeas. Too bad they do not grow in my part of the country. You are so lucky to have them.
Thanks so much for your visit, Chaya.
Pam, your table is absolutely stunning sitting in front of Sunshine Cottage. Your hydrangeas are breathtaking, and the bouquet in the MC canister is so pretty with all beautiful April Cornell linens and dinnerware. The vintage Fostoria compliments the setting perfectly with its delicate pattern. It’s all such a feast for the eyes! Wishing you a beautiful week, dear friend!
Sweet friend, thank you so much. Happy Wednesday!
Pam, your garden is absolutely stunning this summer. Your arrangement with views of the garden behind…Southern Lady take notice please!
Thank you sweet friend!
It is all so magazine-worthy…the gardens by Butch and the tablescapes and flower arrangements you have set…. It is just
so joy filling to contemplate sitting in that environ and taking it all in…. which I do, thank you very much.
Pam, I cannot get enough of your gorgeous blooms. magazine worthy for sure. You have the perfect backdrop. Love the Limelights. I think with your rains, the flowers thrive.The rose garden plates by AC are lovely. How sweet to have the MC for your pretty blooms. Did you shop the Barn sale?
Linda, thank you for the sweet comments and encouragement. No shopping the barn sale. I am trying to stop buying 🥰
What beautiful flowers and garden! I have several pink hydrangeas in pots. They are still small, but I love them all the same. Thank you for sharing!
Thanks so much, Ann. Those small hydrangeas will be showstoppers before you know it!
Your white hydrangeas are beautiful! And I bet they smell amazing, too.
Thank you Michelle!
Pam, your gardens are beautiful and I love all the different hydrangeas! I wish they did well in Calgary but they don’t seem to survive our winters very well. Your table is lovely too and the salad plates are the perfect match for the AC tablecloth. Happy August!
Thank you Kim. Wishing you a wonderful week!
Per usual, your gardens are simply stunning! Given a choice of flower colors, I will always pick white. There’s something so elegant about the white petals mixed and green leaves! Loving all your varieties of hydrangeas’s. I can only imagine the hours you must spend in your yard to maintain such beauty! Wishing you much sunshine, Suzanne.
Suzanne, thank you for your sweet comments. The garden does demand time and attention, but its rewards are so worth the effort. Wishing you a wonderful week!
Oh, those hydrangeas!! They are just breathtaking!! Your wonderful blog posts just take me away and soothe the troubles on my mind. God bless you abundantly, sweet friend.
Thanks so much for your sweet encouragement!