Summer is a season lived outdoors: bare feet on warm floorboards, outdoor showers, late-night swims, and the clap of a screened door swinging shut. It's long, lingering days that stretch on forever, lazy naps on the porch, and wildflowers gathered from the roadside. Arranging those flowers is one of our favorite summer rituals, so we've put together a checklist for your next bouquet and afternoon in the garde

Part 3: The Garden

1. Arrange flowers in a ceramic swan.

2. Use a head of lettuce in a centerpiece.

3. Pick Queen Anne's lace and goldenrod on the roadside.

4. Arrange sweet peas in small vintage vases.

5. Fill a huge vase with bay leaves.

6. Stuff a colorful pitcher with Queen Anne's lace.

7. Make a tiny bouquet for a guest room.

8. Use herbs from the garden in arrangements.

9. Arrange flowers in unexpected vases.

10. Fill a soup tureen with hydrangeas.

11. Add nasturtiums everywhere but “not salads” (says Apple).

12. Place flowers in bathrooms as well as bedrooms.

13. Leave wildflowers and a note for arriving guests.

14. Set phlox in a pitcher on the porch at dusk.

15. Always include first-night flower arrangements beside guest beds.

16. Plant nicotiana, dahlias, sweet peas, cosmos, roses and zinnias.

17. Combine vegetable and cutting gardens.

18. Train sweet peas up a fence.

19. Let one corner of the garden go wild.

20. Use vegetable gone to seed flowers in arrangements.

21. Reseed throughout the summer.

22. Paint garden lattice Benjamin Moore Essex Green mixed with black.

23. Plant nasturtiums to spill over walls.

24. Grow abundant herbs in your vegtable and kitchen garden.

25. Plant butterfly-friendly flowers.

26. Build or find a wonderful garden gate.

27. Create a whimsical garden shed.

28. Let dill flower.

29. Plant peonies by the front door.

30. Grow sunflowers in the vegetable garden.

31. Plant pole beans on bamboo teepees.

32. Plant hollyhocks beside sheds.

33. Grow lettuce specifically for flower arranging.

34. Keep a cutting garden for the house.

35. Have a scary owl perched on your fence to scare away crows, like this one from Gemplers.