Colour Inspiration for a summer tablescape

Let’s start the week with a little inspiration. June has been my busiest flower growing month so far with many different things going on. It’s often when I’m at my busiest I find myself side tracking and making project piles as I deliver the main event! Not 100% helpful but it’s how things go. Today’s post is one such pile…

I was creating funeral flowers last Monday and the off cuts and tiny stems looked so pretty on the table with a few table setting bits I’ve been gathering lately. I love the earthy-ness of the muted napkins, dyed silk and hessian with the freshness of the roses and freshly opened Ammi majus. I wanted to set the table ‘properly’ using all these items but time wasn’t on my side and thought I’d photograph everything as a working mood-board so you can take forward in your own way.

Now that I’ve begun working outside of my home for events I’m getting a sense of scale and volume that event spaces need to feel full. In my experimenting, I was looking at layering patterns and to give the base of the table plenty of interest before the gentlest of floral finishes can be added. This idea could easily be replicated on long trestle tables for a relaxed country wedding , keeping mixed vases full of low flowers that trail and wind amongst the guests. Gingham napkins become placemats with the actual napkins decorating the plates with everything sitting on a perfectly faded tablecloths. My tip for getting the right level of faded, is to either use a tablecloth on the reverse if its new or genuinely leaving outside for the summer, like I did with this one!

I hope it gives you a few ideas to make your everyday beautiful, I have included a list of everything I used at the end of the post. Enjoy my friends.

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Ingredients…
Roses – Wedding Day and Wollerton Old Hall.
Ammi Majus – Sow the seeds in the Autumn and plant out in early spring for a summer solstice flowering
Tablecloth – Flying Tiger (last year and left outside for the summer)
Gingham Napkins – Dille & Kamille
Nude Napkin – Matalan (found in the discount section in store)
Vase – Petersham Nurseries (a Christmas present from years ago)
Plate – Vintage

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