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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Lidy, I visited you early this morning, made a comment and poof it went! I was out the door to walk the dogs and run some errands so I’m back to visit and drool over your flowers and try to comment again. Those roses knock my sock off…so many ruffles and petals and such a glorious color too! The whole arrangement in the tureen is stunning as is your Limoges Lady’s Luncheon Set! Your wonderful French basket with assortment of vintage garden tools speak to my gardener’s heart! I would so love to join at your table by the star jasmine…I know the fragrance is wonderful! As always, it’s a treat to join you for some flower therapy, Happy June!🌸💗
Lidy, I think using silver and fine china in the garden is the perfect touch. Elegant and very special! Your flowers are gorgeous, and like you, Trader Joe’s is my go to source. The peonies have arrived this week. I’ve bought bouquets twice so I could deliver to friends. I love popping by a friend’s with a bouquet of fresh peonies. Of course the French basket filled with antique tools makes me smile. I keep my few in a wood garden box. Some of mine have seen way too many house of hard work in a garden, but I like to think of the hands that once used these tools. My own mother is one! Thanks for all this beauty to start my day. Happy first Monday in June!
Oh my, Lidy, this is so elegantly set, yet so comfortably approachable in your garden! I wish for a scratch and sniff for this post so I can smell the jasmine and roses! Those roses! Their color is my absolute favorite, breathtaking is exactly the right word them. And, like you, I find those ruffles irresistible.
Always setting a gorgeously French tablescape, I love coming to your blog for that authentic inspiration. The beautiful dishes used as every day being special, the flatware as it’s set, the simplicity of the menu, and even the garden basket of tools – all so French. So beautiful.
It was a pleasure to be invited to share Monday Morning Blooms among you ladies today. Thank you!
Good morning Lidy~ Your flowers are gorgeous, love love the mix and the pink and white. Your garden is perfect for a lovely summer luncheon and your menu sounds perfect. The vintage china is elegant and really elevates this lunch to a special occasion. Love the basket with the antique gardening tools and the pretty floral napkins. This has been such a lovely way to start my day, and yes I want to run to Trader Joe’s and buy flowers!
Your flower arrangement is just breath-taking. The ruffled roses are gorgeous.
You had me at that absolutely gorgeous white vessel filled with roses and flowers in pink and peachy tones!!! Swoon!!! I also love the French wicker basket filled with gardening tools! Your table and talents are just beautiful!
Wow! I’m a crazy person when it comes to roses and your arrangement is tops in my opinion. The ruffles, the colors, the container, the garden basket, the silver and the jasmine. All brought together for our enjoyment. Now if I had smell-a-vision.
I would be delighted too, dear Kathleen! It’s such a beautiful month to spend outdoors, isn’t it? xo
Oh my gosh your table in the garden is just stunning. What a pretty place to have lunch. Your tureen with the flowers is so beautiful. Always love seeing Monday Morning Blooms. Have a great week. Hugs. Kris
Thank you so much Linda! I hope you are having a beautiful and very blessed June!