Conjure up a warm summer days with flowers.
These arrangements are perfect for the season—fresh, bright, and easy.
Welcome to MONDAY MORNING BLOOMS!
Our theme this Monday is a flower arrangement in a jar
or other container with paper labels.
My inspiration for these floral arrangements comes from the gardens of my childhood.
Picking flowers from the borders in my grandparent's European garden
is a memory still so clear in my mind, and one I cherish.
Until I was eight and moved to the U.S.,
my mom and I lived with my grandparents in their large home.
Although my grandfather had a daily gardener
he liked to walk through his garden after coming home from work each day.
His garden was his pride and joy - he loved each and every flower in his borders.
So much happened in that garden of my childhood.
It was where I learned the names of my flower friends.
It was where my aunt and I found and adopted the cutest little hedgehog.
It was where our family and friends gathered for tea parties on the lawn,
and enjoyed elegant candle lit evening dinners on the paved patios.
My arrangements are varied, as you will see,
each one features a favorite in my childhood garden.
For a casual summer dinner, I set the back garden table with our favorite
striped linen runners with the embroidered bees and matching napkins.
At each place setting I used these melamine plates with bees!
They look like paper plates, but are not.
I just had to add them to our FrenchGardenHouse Summer Gift Collection.
On top of each linen ruffled napkin, I placed an antique French laundry paddle {!!}
and a grape leaf, on which is a small round of brie, some crackers, and hazelnuts.
Shades of pink, blue, purple and yellow make up this fun color palette.
I chose peonies, hydrangeas, stock and little carnations to help fill out the arrangement.
Summer is the perfect time to mix bold, vibrant colors together in arrangements.
Because the table is pretty long, I also filled some small glass bottles
with a few small carnations or one stock stem.
In the smallest antique French jar,
the hydrangea and a purple stock flower that accidentally snapped short
are low on the rim to help hold up the taller yellow stock.
For this arrangement, I chose the beautiful green antique French jar with a Savon label.
{Of course, never mind that peonies look great in e v e r y t h i n g!}
A few purple stock and one gorgeous light blue hydrangea add a pop of color.
For the large arrangement, I chose this wonderful antique glass jar with the blue label.
It's tall enough to hold the long stock stems,
along with big, beautiful hydrangeas on longer stems.
FLOWER RECIPE:
Pink Peonies
Blue Hydrangeas
Yellow Stock
Purple Stock
Pink Miniature Carnations
French Apothecary Vase | Linen Bee Runner | Gilt Bee Place Cards |Linen Bee Napkins | French Green Jar
French Glass Jar | Bee Plates | French Laundry Paddle
I hope you have enjoyed this Monday Morning Blooms!
Please visit my dear friends, below, by clicking on their links.
SHIRLEY at Housepitality Designs
and me, LIDY at FrenchGardenHouse
à bientôt
29 comments
Aren’t our childhood memories so precious Jenna? Thank you for your visit this morning, it’s always a delight to have you visit. xo
Thank you Shirley, it’s such a joy to have our Monday Morning Blooms, isn’t it?! I’m so happy at least YOU can plant peonies…I’ll be looking forward to your flowers at the new house. (not a good match in California…boo) Wishing you a blessed week, sweet friend!!
Swoon Lidy! It is all so beautiful! I loved reading about your memories of your grandfather’s garden, what a magical childhood! The peonies steal the show for me, they are gorgeous! Your antique jars are so pretty, and those French laundry paddles are wonderful! Of course a garden setting should have bees buzzing around and your napkins and plates are perfect~ Oh how I love Monday Morning Blooms! Thank you for your “flower recipe” !!
Lidy, this is such an idyllic setting! Your jars are perfectly filled with gorgeous blooms…peonies, hydrangeas, carnations! I so enjoyed reading the memories you treasure in your heart of your grandfather’s garden in Europe. It would be so nice to have a gardener, I am sure My Renaissance Man would be most appreciative. The linens are so pretty as are the bee melamine plates, I just might need those for alfresco meals in the garden. It is always a pleasure to share MMB with my friends! xoxo
The French laundry paddles all by themselves are just perfect and then you added the grape leaf etc. “Bee” still my heart! Throughout the years I’ve looked for everything bees and much to my delight they are spread throughout my home. The melamine plates,the napkins, the “honey pot” can with bee are all favorites. This morning I’ved enjoyed all Monday Morning Blooms, they enrich my life.
Lidy, I enjoyed reading about your memories in your grandfather’s garden in Europe. I also have memories of my grandmother’s and aunt’s gardens as a child. Those memories are precious and I wish I had photographs. I hope you do!
Your table is set so elegantly french with lovely linens and antique jars with gorgeous flowers. I love your choice of flowers and your peaceful setting.
Lovely post. Have a beautiful week.
I enjoyed your Chenonceau post and went back and reread my two posts about it. I was totally blown away by the gorgeous floral arrangements in every room.
Your summer arrangements take my breath away Lidy! I love your combination of blooms in your beautiful jars…perfect for dining in your garden. Great minds shop alike~ I love all things bee and have the same melamine plates and Napoleon Bee flatware. I need your gorgeous bee linens! Thank you for the beautiful start to my day. I love starting my Monday morning with my floral friends. <3
Lovely post, Lidy. Your table and arrangement are beautiful as well as the containers. However, I most enjoyed reading about your childhood in Europe and the dinners on the paved patio. I can just picture it all.
Oh, I read something yesterday you will enjoy ~ “Life is good with peonies and Labrador retrievers.” Have a lovely week!
I always feel as though I am virtually sitting in a garden in France whenever you present a beautiful table in your backyard garden. You know how much I LOVE your French jars and they are so beautifully filled with the flowers of your childhood memories! I cannot imagine having a gardener working every day in your grandfather’s gardens…they certainly must have been spectacular as your memories of them are so vivid and filled with joy. Oh there are those napkins I adore! And let’s not forget the Peonies!…I think I missed my window of opportunity at Trader Joe’s for Peonies…however, I went to the local garden center and bought a Peony plant..(has not bloomed) and it will be the first thing I plant at the new house! Hedge Hog?! I love those cute critters and have one sitting on my porch (rather stone faced though)….:) Happy, happy to join you and our wonderful Bloom friends today!!…Have a most beautiful Day Lidy!!