Summer Garden Party

The garden is nearing its best, spring flowers are slowly fading back and summer plants are freshly budding and bursting out; pots and baskets are all refilled and planted now. The garden is in full blazing colour at the moment: poppies, foxgloves, roses, daisies, wallflowers... We seem to have big jumbles of plants in every border at the moment, bursting out everywhere and taking over the garden! 

The days are a little mixed weather wise, but when we've had a day of sunshine it is glorious and warm and just perfect for a summer party outdoors. We had a fabulous party to celebrate the day after our daughter's wedding - the sun was shining, the parasols and bunting were out and even the flowers joined in the fun.

It's a sheer pleasure to spend as much time as we can outdoors and making the most of the warmer days and lighter nights now - eating al fresco, reading in a shady corner, barbeques, entertaining friends....

Perfect Flowers for a Summer Wedding...

We have just celebrated our daughter's wedding and of course flowers play a huge part in adding to the sparkle, ambience, scent and beauty of a perfect wedding day.

We chose pale pastel colours as a theme with an eclectic mix of lilac, pink and cream roses, peonies, gypsophilas, carnations, stephanotis, freesias, lisianthus, and wild clover amongst the arrangements.

The bride's bouquet, bridesmaids' and flowergirl's bouquets were made of fresh roses, lisianthus and gypsophila  and the corsages and buttonholes were similar and mixed with rosemary and stephanotis. 

The table displays were a mix of vintage jars full of delphiniums, peonies and gypsophilas and wood slices with displays of gypsophilas, roses, daisies and wild clover. 

The church flowers and pews were lined with pink roses, white daisies and pale pink and white peonies. We were able to use several of these after to add to the floral displays at the reception. 

We had a beautiful oasis of mixed roses, pink clover, peonies and gypsophylia on the main wedding table. Lilac, pink and white roses were used to decorate the cake and matched the bridal party's bouquets.

The flowers made stunning displays to decorate our home the day after the wedding in readiness for more family celebrations of the marriage. 

The bride and groom gave me a gorgeous bouquet, which matched the other wedding flowers beautifully! We've shared many of the wedding flowers out amongst family and friends - it is lovely to share flowers that hold such happy memories! I've kept a few too, so I'm still enjoying them and enjoying recollecting all my thoughts about the day!