Whether they are casual or elegant, garden gatherings in the warm summer months are a wonderful way to celebrate the season. A summer garden luncheon with a few friends to discuss the latest roses, for instance, is as good an excuse to enjoy time together as any!
As soon as the first warm days of late spring, early summer arrive, I'm planning leisurely luncheons and dinners in the garden. Setting a lovely and thoughtfully decorated table is what encourages lingering at the table longer with friends and family to share laughter, food and make for a memorable time together.
Welcome to Monday Morning Blooms!
Today Pam, Mary and I are welcoming our friend Rita of Panoply to our floral therapy day! I will share everyone's link at the bottom of this post so you can visit all of them and see what magical flower inspiration they've designed for our enjoyment today.
Summer is such a fun time to gather friends for a luncheon! I set our little garden table in the front garden today, because the star jasmine is blooming and it smells heavenly!
This is the best time to find gorgeous flowers at the grocery market, Trader Joe's or anywhere else you buy flowers! I prepared the Limoges tureen by taping a grid on the top to help the flowers stay where they need to stay.
These garden roses had me at ruffled big petals, and their smaller cousins spray roses just hopped into my basket along with peach and white alstroemerias, and a wild filler called lepidium whose bright chartreuse color I just couldn't resist!
Since we just unboxed a beautiful antique French Limoges luncheon set from the late 1800's, I used it for these photos.
Outdoors is a wonderful place to use your silver, and porcelain dishes. It adds an unexpected flair to entertaining al fresco.
Arranged in a French Limoges tureen with a gold trim, these colors are breathtaking!
The menu is super simple. An arugula salad, mixed with olive oil and parmesan cheese, with halved little tomatoes, blackberries, and candied pecans is refreshing and easy to make. Little egg salad sandwiches, tea, water with lemon, and macarons.
I generally have a box of macarons and other little desserts in the freezer.
So that I can serve a treat at any moment, and frozen so I am not tempted to randomly eat them myself!
The Antique French Limoges Lady’s Luncheon Set is so pretty. Each piece has little pink florals and a laurel wreaths with blue bows. It was made by Charles Field Haviland | CDM in 1891.
These gorgeous napkins are cotton, and have soft colored flowers on a light buttercream yellow background.
The silver is a special luncheon sized set from France made by Ercuis, France, world-renowned for it's classic luxurious silver. Because the French 'set' the silver upside down, French silver patterns are always as beautiful on the back as the front.
No garden luncheon could be complete without a cute basket filled with antique gardening tools, could it?
This one is one of a few French baskets that arrived in the latest shipments of our purchases from the markets. I love it's shape!
Thank you so very much for your visit.
I love our special Mondays together, sharing the beauty and our love of flowers!
Be Sure to visit all my Flower Friends by clicking over to their blogs. You will be inspired!
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Oh Lidy, what an exquisite arrangement of roses, plus. The china, silverware and
linens complete the setting to perfection. That is some wonderful basket find. Such
elegance is conducive to feeling pampered, even outdoors….
Thank you Mary, it’s such a treat to join you for our flower therapy! Today your roses knocked my socks off! : ). I would love to join you at your lakeside potting bench in revel in the roses with your bunnies. Happy June!!
Dear Sarah, it’s always a delight to have you visit, friend! Oh, the peonies….for half a second I almost passed up these roses but the peonies will be here for a few months, and the roses maybe not! I love how sweet you are to share your love of peonies with friends, you are a dear one. Wishing you a happy June! xo
Rita, thank you so much for joining us today! To see I am slightly envious of the gorgeous fluffy peonies you can grow in your garden is an understatement. The flower arrangement you made today for Monday Morning Blooms is so beautiful! Wishing you a very happy June, friend! xo
Happy June, Jenna! Thank you for your sweet visit today, wishing you could visit in real life, not just virtually. But it’s a pleasure just the same. xo
Alice, I know, I wish I could scent the screens with the smell of that little jasmine. My office is just next to it, and with the windows open it smells heavenly inside! Thank you for your visit, dear, wishing you a happy June! xo
Kris, thanks so much for your sweet comment. I would love for all of us to be able to join around this little table! Happy June! xo Lidy
That would be amazing, wouldn’t it?! Thank you so much for your virtual visit, you, dear friend, will always have a seat at my table. It’s a blessing to join you for Monday Morning Blooms. Happy June!
Thanks so much for your visit and sweet comment, Ruthie! The flowers really deserve all the credit, don’t they? They are so lovely!
Thank you so much Lauren! Wishing you a beautiful week ahead, and thank you so much for joining us for our Monday floral therapy!xo