Spring and summer are the gardening seasons so what better way to get in the spirit of the garden season then by watching a few garden movies. A garden party is also a nice way to re-introduce people to fresh flowers and spring and summer time aromas as well. Use garden colored party supplies such as lavender colors like pink, light green, purple, and blue.

The Secret Garden (1993) is a garden related movie is the adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic from director Agnieszka Holland (Europa, Europa) about an orphan girl who leaves India to live with her uncle in a dreary manor in England. Her uncle is very distant due to the loss of his wife ten years previously. Feeling neglected once again, she begins exploring the estate and discovers a garden that has been locked and neglected as well. Aided by one of the servants' boys, she begins restoring the garden. There she befriends her invalid cousin and discovers a garden with fantastic healing powers. Starring Kate Maberly, Heydon Prowse, and Maggie Smith.

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997), while not a garden movie, is about New York magazine writer John Cusack who is sent to Savannah, Georgia, to cover a lavish party hosted by local antiques merchant Kevin Spacey. Spacey is charged with shooting his male lover and the subsequent trial exposes the private lives of many of the town's citizens. Director Clint Eastwood's adaptation of the John Berendt best-seller. Starring Kevin Spacey, John Cusack, Jack Thompson, and Jude Law.

Grey Gardens (2009) was first told in Told first in the acclaimed 1975 documentary movie by Albert and David Maysles, then recounted in the Tony Award-winning 2006 Broadway musical-the strange, tells the story of Jackie Kennedy relatives Big Edie and Little Edie Bouvier Beale (Jessica Lange, Drew Barrymore). The film follows the eccentric mother and daughter from New York's high society to isolation in a East Hampton mansion, Grey Gardens.