The moment my friend Olivia Rubin released her new homeware collection I found a date for a dinner party. The tablecloth, with its rainbow edge, was my starting point for the colour palette. I love how the centre is white - the blank canvas for your tablescape - then there's a whole party going on the skirt of the table.

For the flowers, my heroes were these huge pink jacorma peonies as well as lemon and fuchsia helichrysum (everlasting flowers). More pops of yellow from tanactum and then I used the best of a British summer meadow: matricaria, bupleurum, greenbell, ammi and some beautiful eryngium for texture (looks like a thistle).

I painted a rainbow border around our menus to match - highlight of the dinner being a chocolate meringue mousse cake which is like a chocolate nemesis but takes half the time!