Bring the garden to the table and enjoy summer alfresco dining with watering cans as vases for garden blooms. A quilt provides a charming tablecloth for a garden-inspired table and casual dining with the birds, butterflies and bees.
Happy June!
It’s one of my favorite days of the month, when I join my blogging friends
for some flower therapy and Monday Morning Blooms!
We’re excited to have Bonnie at Living with Thanksgiving
join us as a guest ‘bloomer’ today!
You can find the links to my blogging friends’ floral
inspiration at the bottom of this post.
With gardening season underway, we’re thinking ‘outside the vase’,
and using watering cans for our flower arrangements
as our common theme for June’s edition of Monday Morning Blooms!
If you’re a regular reader, you may have noticed,
I have a ‘thing’ for watering cans. . .
And I *might* be in need of a 12-step program. ;)
I love and collect all kinds. . .galvanized, painted, chippy,
old, new, big and small!
I cut some garden flowers to bring the garden to the table
and fill a trio of watering cans for a centerpiece, for a
blooming alfresco table setting by the lake!
The last of the peonies. . .
The first of the hydrangeas . . .
The soft, silvery stalks of Lamb’s Ear with their pinkish-purple
colored flowers that’s often buzzing with bees. . .
A few spikes of purple Baptisia (False Indigo). . .
Another bee favorite!
Verbena Lollipop, a butterfly and bee magnet. . .
And Queen Anne’s Lace, free-for-the-picking,
that grows in the field next to The Potting Shed.
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We’re dining with the birds, bees and butterflies today,
have a seat at the table. . . .
A quilted coverlet provides a tablecloth for a garden-inspired table setting
and best of all. . . no need to iron! :)
The patchwork prints and sprays of embroidered flowers
provide additional blooms for a casual and colorful table.
While I wouldn’t use an heirloom quilt on a table for fear of spills or stains,
this one is machine made and washable, purchased at Bed, Bath and Beyond, several years ago.
Raise your hand if you’re sad to see BBB close their stores like Pier 1…*sniff*.
Bees are buzzing on Wallace Napoleon Bee flatware
for a nod to gardening season. . .
And on a watering can.
Butterflies joined the table. . .
Alighting on the rose of a favorite watering can . . .
As well as on glassware.
Reproduction majolica plates flew home from Pottery Barn several years ago. . .
The assorted salad plates have embossed bird designs with leaves,
flowers, and berry details, in the colorful style of vintage majolica dishware.
A note to the tablescaping police 😊:
I often use a large arrangement as a table centerpiece but move it before dining.
The larger watering cans can be moved to the ledge behind the table with
just the petite watering can remaining, so as not to interfere with conversation
or block anyone’s view.
If you’re looking for a watering can, my MacKenzie-Childs Lotus Watering Can
is another favorite with its flower “rose” and is 50% off through June 11th
during their summer sale. (no affiliation! :)
Table Details:
Quilted Coverlet / Bed, Bath & Beyond, several years ago
Majolica Bird Salad Plates / Pottery Barn, several years ago
Butterfly Glasses / La Rochere, HomeGoods, several years ago
Chargers / Pier 1, several years ago
Dinner Plates / Paula Deen Witaker
Napkins / HomeGoods
Napkin Rings / Consignment
Butterfly Watering Can, Lotus Watering Can & Bee Watering Can / MacKenzie-Childs
Bird Pillow Cover / Pottery Barn, several years ago
Visit my flowers friends to see their blooming inspiration this week:
Pam at Everyday Living
Lidy at FrenchGardenHouse
Bonnie at Living with Thanksgiving
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Between Naps on the Porch
Mary, I don’t know where to start, your arrangements, tablescape, and garden are all so beautiful! Your floral arrangements in your watering cans are amazing. How blessed you are to have an abundance of Queen Annes’s Lace free for the picking. The mixture of peony,lambs ear, hydrangea,and purple Baptisia is a feast for the eyes and for the butterflies and bees! Your watering can collection is amazing and fun to see how you style them. You have a green thumb around your garden with lush blossoms. I would love to see you fertilize. You must have good soil too!
I love the Pottery Barn majolica embossed bird plates. Each plate is charming and your quilt, chargers,floral napkins, bee glassware and cutlery fit your dining with the birds, bees, and flowers theme perfectly.
It was fun to join my flower loving friends today. You always inspire!
Mary, I have always admired your watering can collection! Peonies, hydrangeas, lamb’s ear, Baptisia, verbena lollipop, and Queen Anne’s lace are a perfect combo of beautiful blooms to fill whimsical watering cans. I would love a seat at your lovely table celebrating birds, bees, and butterflies. The quilted patchwork coverlet is a pretty foundation for the assorted and colorful majolica bird salad plates, Wallace bee Napoleon flatware, and butterfly glasses. I could spend a day admiring the splendid view of the lake while sitting in the shade at your stunning table and blooming watering cans. I should have notified the tablescaping police that I too remove a large flower arrangement before eating. 😉
It is always a pleasure to share blooms and a seat at one of your perfectly styled tables. Happy Monday 🩷
AMAZING table(s)! Does your fetish for watering cans match your dish fetish? LOL! Have you noticed that people with one collection aka fetish also have many? I have and I do! I love miniatures; dishes; and, Redmon/Redman picnic baskets! I kinda do less antique shopping because I have no more room! I’m 78 now and seriously need to downsize some! LOL!! ❤️🌺🌼🌸
Your blooming watering cans are gorgeous Mary! I love the ones you chose to use, I don’t remember seeing the small one before, so cute! The blooms are a lovely combination~ The quilt makes your table so welcoming and the majolica bird plates are so you :) The butterfly glasses and bee flatware are perfect for your outdoor table. Such a wonderful setting to sit and linger…
Everything is simply gorgeous. I’ll think you’ve published my favorite post and then another one comes out! I am beyond jealous of your flower garden. To think that you walk into your yard to pick so many beautiful blossoms is amazing. I’m especially envious of your hydrangeas. The unusual freeze we had in the Atlanta area this past winter eliminated any chance of picking blossoms from my 10 bushes. At least new growth has appeared so there is hope for next year! Thank you for sharing your many talents.
Mary ~ woke up this morning in kinda a grumpy mood, that is until I saw your gorgeous post. It is stunning. I can just imagine a lovely tea party at your table. Thanks for lifting my spirits today. Hugs, Dorinda
Mary, I love your watering can collection. The MC one is such a pretty color and design. The smaller can is adorable. Your quilt and pillow are both so pretty. The losses of BB&B and Tuesday Morning at the same time are a double whammy. I always enjoyed browsing the stores. Your plates are so pretty in the garden. We have bunches of finches feeding babies. Happy Monday! Clara❤️
I always enjoy your posts, but Oh my this one was the best! I love your flower arrangements! I can’t wait for my flower garden to mature so I can pick bouquets of flowers like this again! I have a newly built home and miss my perennials from my garden. It will take some time, but it will be worth the wait. In the meantime I can enjoy all of your flowers! Thanks for sharing.
Mary, you have so many pretty blooms. Combined they have made such gorgeous arrangements in your wonderful watering can collection. The majolica bird plates are precious! I can see why they flew home with you. I adore the bumble bee glassware. I have been eyeing them for quite some time. I am needing to replace my everyday glassware, and I think that is what I may purchase. It has been such a delight to visit your beautiful table. Happy Monday, sweet friend!
Good morning, Mary, your peonies, hydrangeas, lamb’s ear, Baptisia, verbena lollipop, and Queen Anne’s lace are such a glorious combination of color and shape. I would love meeting you at the lake’s edge to enjoy a glass of iced tea or anything, really, seated at your table celebrating birds, bees, and butterflies. Using the quilt is so pretty, the perfect back drop for all your plates and flowering watering cans. It’s always such a joy to get together for our Monday Morning Blooms! Wishing you a summery blessed week ahead. Xo Lidy
In love love with the MKC watering can and of course every detail of the table. The flowers in your garden are magnificent!!! Happy Monday!!
So love this, I too adore watering cans and all things garden! So enjoy ALWAYS smiling when I visit, Thank you 🙏
I was going to say what I liked best. But then I couldn’t decide – embroidered pillow, majolica plate, watering can, etc. all are my favorites
So hard to pick favorites. What can go wrong with blooms and watering cans ? I love the smaller ones. Maybe you should call it Cheer Up Mondays. What a lovely way to start the week.
Mary – Your tablescapes usually stop me in my tracks and this one is no exception. That quilt
covering is to “die for” and the flowers are so beautifully combined. The lake highlighting
the setting is the perfect completion of it all…..
Ahhhhhh I love the theme of birds, bees and butterflies with your collection of watering cans, Mary. That quilt is so, so pretty with all the detail. Your bouquet of flowers from your garden and field is so impressive. I’m not as sad to see BBB close as I am about Tuesday Morning and Pier 1. Enjoy your favorite month of June; I am, too, before the sweltering heat comes! ❤️
Mary, I’ve long admired your collection of watering cans. I have a collection of the MC ones, but I tend to like your vintage ones even more. Like you, I often use mine as vases, especially the MC pieces. They do make a beautiful statement! Peonies fading out as hydrangeas begin their season sounds like a beautiful transition. I recently returned from the Hamptons. The peonies were gorgeous! What a treat to step outside scissors in hand and cut beautiful bouquets to bring inside to enjoy. Here we have to purchase them at the market, $4-$6 a stem. Fortunately Trader Joe’s will sometimes sell bouquets for $10. The fragrance is as special as the beauty of the blooms. The ones in the Hamptons were the size of a saucer. Amazing! Thanks for sharing your beautiful flower filled table. I am smitten with the pillow and the table topper, and the majolica bird plates are lovely as well.
Absolutely gorgeous. Your garden flowers are things to behold, Mary! Just lovely!!
As I sit at your table and take in the summer breezes by the lake, I enjoy seeing such a lovely table set with such gorgeous blooms from your gardens. Such an abundance of floral happiness!
Your bouquets in the pretty watering cans are such a delight to my eyes! And the Majolica salad plates are exquisite!
Thanks for another extraordinary table set just for us!
Enjoy your week, my friend! 💐
Mary, the flowers are just gorgeous and those watering cans are so sweet! What a find those are! I am sure they fit right into your lovely potting shed when not gracing a table!
Really pretty Mary. And those peonies and hydrangeas – oh my! The colors you chose are so soft and soothing and the view of the lake in the background is so peaceful. I love your watering can collection and chuckled at your comment to the tablescaping police. Happy Thursday!
Just beautiful and love the water view. The little watering can is extra special with its curly -Q detailing! Flowers are lush! Thank you Mary.
Thank you Cyndi, Long time, no hear! :) I hope you are well and enjoying some beautiful weather in your neck of the woods. ♥