Spring Garden Party Invitations

A garden party is a wonderful way to welcome spring. If your garden is impressive, why not show it off with a lovely luncheon outdoors just as soon as the weather is warm enough and the flowers are in bloom?

The mood is everything in a garden party and the setting creates nearly all the decoration you’ll need. Choose accessories in white or green, so that the flowers in your garden take center stage. If you have an abundance of flowers, cut some for centerpieces.

A garden party makes a lovely impression when you set several small tables throughout your garden. Tables that seat four, complete with simple cotton tablecloths, are perfect alongside a long table to serve as a buffet and a smaller table for beverages (your potting bench will work great for a beverage station!).

Menu ideas

Lunch can be light. Finger sandwiches are perfect, made with ingredients such as cream cheese with cucumbers, pimento cheese, or chicken salad. Salads will go nicely with the sandwiches, so think about serving Caesar salad and fruit salad for a lovely combination of sweet and savory. If you have an herb garden, this is a great time to put those herbs to use. Rosemary chicken salad sandwiches are a crowd pleaser and a mint sauce is great on fruit salad.

You have lots of options for dessert. Light desserts like cold banana pudding or a fruit and chocolate truffle will look beautiful and taste divine. Or for a clever twist, bake individual cakes in food quality clay pots, just like the clay pots you use for flowers.

Beverages should be light and refreshing, so consider lemonade and mint flavored iced tea. If you want to serve alcohol, keep it light, too. Mimosa, champagne punch, and white wine spritzers are crowd pleasers, while mojitos will give your party a punch of the exotic without being too heavy.

You don’t need any special activities for a garden luncheon because the focus is on mingling and enjoying the warm weather, food and flowers. However, when I give a garden party I like to have a special twist. I invite about eight of my girlfriends, but I ask each of them to bring a friend that I haven’t met. This is one of my favorite ways to meet new people. I widen my circle of friends and my friends widen theirs as well.

I like to offer favors from my garden party. Since I live in a fairly warm climate I have my party early in the year when there’s still time for planting, so I buy packets of flower seeds and wrap them up in pretty cloth bags to give away. I buy seeds of flowers that are represented in my garden so that my friends can take home a little bit of my garden for their own.

Another idea for a garden party is to make the party a perennial swap. Perennial bulbs and rhizomes should be divided periodically anyway to keep them healthy and provide additional plants, so put those extras to good use. Your guests can bring cuttings from their divided perennials that they’ve labeled with plant type, color and growing needs, and then swap bulbs to increase the plants in their gardens. The only tricky thing about this party is that all of your guests have to dig up their perennials and divide the bulbs just a day or two before the party to ensure healthy bulbs.

As you can see, the garden party is a great way to celebrate spring with your girlfriends and welcome the growing season that’s just beginning. If you’re ready to give a garden party this year visit my favorite place for garden party invitations. Their “Garden Floral Die cut” is my favorite garden party invitation ever.

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