It seems like this week simply flew by! Our Easter Sunday was wonderful, filled with our kids, our little people, good family friends and their kids and little people too! {I admit, I am in my element when gathering all the people I love here at FrenchGardenHouse.}
Are you in need of some Flower Therapy? Then you've come to the right place, since I'm joining my talented blogging friends Shirley, Mary and Pam today for another beautiful Floral Friday! You'll find the four of us here every first and third Friday of the month, bringing you alluring floral beauty and inspiration. A special thanks to Shirley at Housepitality Designs for being the mastermind behind Floral Friday.
Now please join me outside in the back garden for some Spring!
We are trying to have spring here in California. Trying. really. My California garden is leafing out, but if it wasn't for the pansies that are putting on a dazzling show, and a few foxgloves that Mr. FrenchGardenHouse planted for Easter, the garden would still be bare.
Luckily I was able to find some beautiful blooming hydrangeas at our local nursery in my favorite heavenly blue color, and cerise pink, too! Planted in large clay pots and strategically placed on the patio, they went a long way to cheer up our outdoor "room" for the holiday.
Our theme for this Floral Friday was canning jars. I just love these old French jars, with the clamp down lids. Each one has an enchanting paper label, and they add such charm, don't they?
This arrangement echoes our favorite colors for the back garden, pink, blue, lavender and purple, mixed in with a dose of soft chartreuse green and white. Looking like I just picked them from the garden, the Bells of Ireland, Wax Flower, Queen Anne's Lace, Statice, Mums and Dianthus mix and mingle in this glorious country bouquet.
Although I have several different antique French jars with gorgeous fruit labels in our FrenchGardenHouse online shop right now, I chose this one with the Prunelles Label, the colors are perfect!
Prunelle's are blackthorn or "sloe" berries, they are kissing cousins of plums. When the sloe berries are ready to be picked in the fall, adding France's wonderful Citadel gin and a few spoons of sugar, sealing the jar and waiting for 2 or more months will result in a wonderful sloe gin concoction reminiscent of the southwest of France. The French drink it in tiny, tiny aperitif glasses, but it's also delicious spooned over ice cream.
You can make your own Spring Floral Arrangement in one of your canning jars. Here are the "ingredients" for you:
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Be sure to visit my friends to see what they can do with a canning jar. {Magicians, each one of them! They have so much talent to create beauty.}
Shirley from Housepitality Designs
Mary at Home is Where the Boat Is
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Beautiful, Lidy, and the best part is your use of vintage and antiques wares from your shop! I commented on Shirley’s post….wouldn’t it be wonderful if florists used vintage and antique vessels for all their delivered arrangements?!
Thank you for the glimpse of your CA garden and flower arrangements. Just remember, yours is far ahead of much of the country’s, including my region! Have a great weekend.
Lovely post and so much fun to learn from you! I love your photos today with your vignette on the vintage table on your porch. I’m loving the foxgloves and hydrangeas in pots in the photos. Your vintage canning jar has so much personality and the flowers you chose were perfect. I don’t think i’ve seen these jars in our antique shops in my neck of the woods but I will be on the lookout. I always enjoy all the knowledge you share about France and french customs.
Your napkins are gorgeous!
Have a wonderful weekend.
Ooooo-la-la, I LOVE that jar….the label…the everything!! I love that you educate us on everything vintage and show us how your lovelies can be beautifully incorporated into our exquisite collections…This is a perfect example of how you incorporate the “vintage casual” with the elegance of your elegant china! I like you am waiting for the blooms to arrive…My camellias did bloom a while ago, but the deer got to most of them…:(
So happy that you had a most wonderful Easter with family and friends. It truly is a joy being in your backyard and garden…Today I will be washing down the layers and layers of pollen from our porches! Have a fabulous weekend Lidy….great to be partying with you today…although I would rather to it in person vs. in cyber space!!
With your styling, you’d never know Spring wasn’t in full bloom! Just gorgeous,Lidy! Love those jars.
Oh Lidy…your garden is beautiful and there is so much to love here! I would love to pull up a chair at your table and enjoy the flowers while sipping on sloe gin aperitif. I have a serious case of French canning jar love between you and Shirley this morning and I love your recipe of ingredients and combination of flowers! Thank you for the dose of spring from your California garden, it’s always a pleasure to visit with you for Floral Friday.