HYACINTHS FOR THE SOUL

Sunday, May 10, 2020

Mother's Day 2020

Mother's Day

Mother's Day 2020

I set a table in tribute to my mother.

My sweet mom lived a long full life,

and as an avid gardener, most of her days

involved working in her garden.

She, herself, was raised by an avid gardener!

One of my fondest memories of my grandmother

is being hand-in-hand with her, among garden flowers,

snipping my favorite sweet peas to make a petite bouquet.

Are you familiar with these old fashioned blooms?

In Victorian Times, when flowers were used as a language

of sorts, the sweet pea bloom meant "lasting pleasure".

For me, gardens create lasting pleasure.

They provide a sense of being one with nature, time spent

digging in dirt, observing the miracle of things sprouting,

blooming, and then fading as the cycle is completed, while

something new opens to take its turn on the garden stage.

I don't have a good sunny spot for sweet peas, so you can imagine

my delight when our local Grassdale Flower Farm delivered

sweet pea bouquets for curbside pickup at a nearby flower market.

These hand painted floral plates were a street market find in Italy, and though the simple stylized blooms are not sweet peas, the colors are a perfect fit for the bouquet from Grassdale.

I carried home two salad plates and two dinner plates for a table of two with these rather flat plates and a gently scalloped border.

Not heavy like most ceramics, they made a perfect trip souvenir.

I paried them with Ambiance Vintage Garden

chargers and Hester and Cook's gorgeous Woodland Nest placemats, the whimsical art work of Vicki Sawyer.

A small Nature Table bee plate from Anthropologie was added
as a green accent between layers, along with a linen napkin, the handwork of my husband's grandmother in the early 1900s.

The Napoleon Bee flatware is by Wallace.