Happy New Year sweet friends! I hope you enjoyed a beautiful Christmas season and are ready to start a brand new year!
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.”
Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV
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January 1, it is the first Monday of a new year, and Monday Morning Blooms with my friends. Before we turn the page, and leave 2023 behind, let’s review A Year In Flowers!
You will find the links for Mary’s and Lidy’s year of beautiful flowers at the bottom of this post!
The Sunshine Cottage is warm and cozy…perfect for a romantic dinner with my Renaissance Man!
The Staffordshire ‘Charlotte’ English pitcher was filled with red roses, pink and white carnations, and rose-hued alstroemeria! I love the traditional colors of Valentine’s Day!
Green was our theme for March. Early March doesn’t normally provide much green in our Appalachian Foothills, but RM plants rye grass in the fall that provides a beautiful spring green background surrounding the picnic table!
Green hydrangeas, Eskimo roses, thistle, stock, and seeded eucalyptus were part of five beautiful arrangements for our February 23rd anniversary celebration. I refrigerated all of the flowers and they survived quite well for our March Monday Morning Blooms!
While waiting for my garden to fully awaken from winter sleep, I set An Easter Table By the Woodlands!
The flower arrangement is a spring mix of colors! From my cottage garden are King Alfred daffodils and yarrow. Snowball viburnums, from the side yard and near the woodlands, make a lovely showing in the arrangement and in the background of the previous photo. Tulips and hyacinths complete the Easter arrangement! Daffodils, tulips, and hyacinths just seem to say Easter!
My Mother’s Day edition perfectly coincided with the blooming of our garden peonies! Stunning Sarah Bernhardt, gorgeous Karl Rosenfeld and fragrant Festiva Maxima peonies are showstoppers and need no other flowers, they steal the show on their own!
Long-time readers know I often share memories of my beautiful Mother. She would have loved my garden, especially the peonies!
I have always loved a cottage-style English garden…wild and a little overgrown! RM has worked tirelessly to give our small cottage garden the English look that I love!
The floral “British Gardening Company” watering can was the perfect vessel for a mix of stock, dianthus, aster, and foraged native oak leaf hydrangea from the woodlands!
I love a tablesetting that honors the red, white, and blue!
Little Lamb hydrangeas, red Crocosmia, zinnias, and Black-Eyed Susan’s were all cut from my garden and placed in a favorite blue and white pitcher for a patriotic arrangement!
A sunflower symphony plays beautifully each summer when our rows of sunflowers come into bloom!
“Like a violin’s moving sweetness in a love song, sunflowers are nature’s strings in summer’s symphony of color.”
~Butch Richardson
With their happy faces, sunflowers are the perfect stand-alone flower, but work in harmony with almost any other flower. I did add the purple and white summer snapdragon! The watering can adds a big pop of red!
Apples, Dahlias, & A September Table was one of my favorite arrangements for the year!
Fourteen gorgeous dahlias from a local flower farm, plus zinnias, limelight hydrangeas, and Chaste tree blooms cut from my garden were placed in the smallest Italian canister from a set of three. Always think outside of the vase when considering a vessel for a flower arrangement. Also, consider adding fruit to an arrangement like apples, oranges, etc.!
Who doesn’t like a blooming pumpkin on a fall table? Dahlias from the farm, and autumn-fire sedum, Egyptian starcluster and blush nandina were all cut from my garden!
With pumpkins as our theme, stacks were added in the garden and on the Sunshine Cottage porch!
The week of Thanksgiving is a very busy time with grocery shopping, prepping, chopping, baking, and setting the dining room table! Thanksgiving Eve usually finds us eating a sandwich at the kitchen island. But why not set a pretty table in the Sunshine Cottage with the glow of the twinkling lights of the autumn tree for just the two of us?!
Trader Joe’s yielded an autumn mix of flowers…yellow, burgundy, and gold mums, wildflower hairy aster, and pearl millet! RM surprised me with the sweet pitcher that held the fall arrangement!
A cozy table and a flower arrangement were ideal in the Sunshine Cottage for our Christmas edition of Monday Morning Blooms!
A tartan throw, twinkling lights of the grandchildren’s tree, and a quick and easy arrangement of carnations, green pompom button mums, and fresh cut cedar…this simple arrangement in a lovely blue and white vase proves that all florals do not have to be over the top or extravagant!
You will not want to miss Mary’s and Lidy’s stunning year in flowers!
Mary ~ Home Is Where The Boat Is
Lidy ~ French Garden House
To you my dear readers, thank you for all your visits and gracious comments on 2023’s Monday Morning Blooms. It is my hope that every flower, in some way, brought enjoyment and inspiration into your home this past year!
WISHING YOU A JOY-FILLED 2024
Linking with: Pieced Pastimes, Between Naps on the Porch, Katherines Corner, Follow The Yellow Brick Home,
Life and Linda
A beautiful look back at your year in flowers Pam! I always love seeing your flower arrangements gracing your tablescapes, in your garden or your Sunshine Cottage. I have a hard time choosing a favorite and while I adore peonies, your bicolor sunflowers are stunning, especially in contrast to your red watering can. I look forward to another year sharing blooms and flower therapy with you and Lidy. Wishing you a Happy and Healthy New Year filled with beautiful blooms. Happy January. ♥
Thank you, Mary! It is always a pleasure to share blooms with you❤️
I love flowers Pam and you have started my day off right with all your beautiful arrangements. I have to agree with Mary…Peonies are always a favorite of mine and I am so sad that the only way I can enjoy them is through your beautiful photos. There are pros and cons living in a tropical climate. Thank you for sharing your bright and beautiful bouquets and your lovely gardens. Happy New Year!
You are so sweet, Kari! I am so glad that you enjoy the flowers. We loved our Christmas card that you sent, I have it saved ❤️
Happy New Year friends. Your Bible verse that started this beautiful flower filled post is my favorite.I repeat it often when life gives me lemons. My favorite flower arrangement is the English garden arrangement, my favorite gardens also. But the cutest is the Christmas one with such a simple gathering.
Alice, thank you as your comments warm my heart. God’s Word always speaks to my heart. Blessings on this first day of 2024 ❤️
It was a treat to visit all your Monday Morning Blooms 2023 tables again Pam, they are all so beautiful! Your arrangements are always so creative with the flowers you choose and the container they’re in. Of course your incredible garden setting always adds to the to the enjoyment! I hope 2024 is filled with more beautiful flowers!
Thank you, Jenna! I am planning and perusing seed catalogs today. I hope to try a few new flowers this year.
Roll Tide Roll 🅰️🐘🅰️
Seeing your beautiful blooms is always a joyful thing — but no more so than on a gloomy, gray, damp Michigan New Year’s Day! Here’s to more in 2024!
Thank you, dearest Jeanie. Our day started off cold and cloudy, but the sun is breaking through! Happy 2024!
HAPPY BLOOMING NEW YEAR!!!
Pam, happy 2024 to you and your family! The roundup was a feast for the eyes. It really highlights how many beautiful flowers you grow yourself or have available from flower farms near you. I would have to live at the farm gathering bouquets as my green thumb has taken a long break it seems! Butch does such a good job of preparing your flower beds so the seeds flourish. Of course , you do a great job selecting the seeds, and tending the beds throughout the year. It’s a wonderful and colorful outcome to a joint effort. We’re praying that your family has a healthy 2024 with good news from all providers of care! Clara❤️
Thank you, Clara for your sweet comments. As you know, gardening is not easy and there are critters that love to eat from the garden. I am perusing seed catalogs and making plans. We do appreciate all of your prayers, dear friend ❤️
Gosh, how I love seeing not only the floral arrangements in retrospect, but seeing the garden through the year is also exciting for me on this otherwise grey and cold start of the new year, Pam. Do you realize 8 of your 11 MMB posts were outside? Seeing the garden, and seeing what you clip from the garden really is fun to see as it unfolds. I really love the March rye grass against your florals and tablescape (incredibly, our grass is looking really good even now, which is mostly Kentucky tall fescue). I also love, love, love the patriotic arrangement with the crocosmia adding the look of fireworks! Each and every one inspires me, as well as the tablescapes, and it must be so fulfilling to be able to pull from your gardens in arranging such beauty. I’m so looking forward to your 2024 for floral arranging, gardening, tablescaping and more inspiration.
I love photographing outdoors and capturing natural light makes me happy. It gives me pleasure to be able to grow flowers and then use them in arrangements. I am perusing seed catalogs now. Thank you, Rita from one gardener to another!
Happy New Year, dearest Pam! What a beautiful look back at your wonderful creations. I know your mind is already busily working on ideas for 2024. We shall look forward to an another amazing year of Sunshine Cottage, flowers, your beautiful yard, and sweet Grands. You are truly an oasis of calm with your Scripture, quotations, and glorious photos.
Thanks so much, Roxanne. I am perusing seed catalogs and it reminds me of being a child with the Sears Christmas catalog. Wishing you a blessed week!
Happy New Year Pam and family!
Have you ever thought of creating cards (greeting) from your images of tablescapes? They are so beautiful and charming and would be lovely in a card form too!!!!
Thanks so much, Mary. I have given thought to cards, calendars, etc! Maybe I need to put my thoughts into action. Happy New Year and January!
Calendar?
Maybe??
Such a beautiful look back at our flower filled year, dear friend. I love being able to visit your Sunshine Cottage and your gorgeous gardens, each time it’s a new treat to savor. Thank you for all the beauty you bring, and for sharing God’s gifts as well as your many talents. xo Lidy
Thank you, Lidy and I so enjoy our Monday Morning Blooms❤️
Pam, looking back at your year in flowers is so lovely. Each one is a showpiece. Love seeing your pretty gardens and Sunshine Cottage. Happy New Year!
Thank you, Linda. I love gardening even though it has many challenges! Happy Tuesday!
Such happy photos! Wishing you and yours all the best for this new year, dear Pam, hope it’s a good one!
Amalia
xo
Happy New Year, Amalia and thank you!
How amazing!!! Your post made me swoon! Happy New Year my dear friend! Thank you for sharing such beauty and inspiration!
Thank you sweet friend! You are so encouraging!
So much beauty all in one post! As I looked at all your lovely arrangements, it hit me how talented you are, my friend. Each of your displays is a genuine work of art. Thank you for blessing all of us in so many ways through your blog, and I appreciate your comments and encouragement on my blog more than I could ever say. May God’s richest blessings be yours and Butch’s in this new year!
Cheryl, you are so sweet and a wonderful encourager. Wishing you and yours a blessed 2024!
Pam, my comment just vanished! I apologize if the other published, but going to leave another comment just in case it did not.
This post is a gift! I have looked back at each link taking it all in again. Could never single out a favorite.
You and Butch inspire me with your enthusiasm and dedication to caring for your amazingly beautiful property. I look forward to 2024 in anticipation of more beautiful blooming shares.
All the best to you and Butch in 2024.
Thank you, Sarah for your sweet comments. Wishing you a wonderful 2024, my friend!
May all the inspiration, encouragement and beauty you and Butch share return to
you ten-fold, Pam dear. What a burst of joy and color these photos are…. a whole
year of God’s, yours and the Monday Morning Blooms team’s creativity (and labor)
Thank you to all for such dedication and vision. Please keep reflecting His Love
during 2024 and it will prove to be another year of beauty and kinship. Bless us
each and everyone….
Thanks so much, Mary. Your comments always warm my heart!
Such beautiful flowers there.
Thank you, Patrick!
SO beautiful Pam! I love seeing a whole parade of seasons all in one place, and your gorgeous arrangements are always so inspiring! Thank you for this last year, and here’s to a great 2024!
Thank you, Barbara for your sweet comments! Wishing you a wonderful 2024!
wow there are some so beautiful flower, especially sun flower and rose its totally incredible.
Its work for any gift or proposal for people especial person
Thanks so much!
Pam, I loved your year in flowers!! The flowers you chose are gorgeous, and your arrangements are magnificent I love the way the flowers coordinated with your tablescapes, and your many unique vases! Every detail enhanced every other detail, if that makes sense. Your garden is amazing too! Patty
Patty, thanks so much for your sweet comments. Wishing you a lovely week, hopefully not too cold!
Reflecting on a year of flowers is such a wonderful idea! This journey through blooms is both inspiring and uplifting. Thanks for sharing your experience!