I have loved ‘citrus colours’ – lime green, orange, and lemon yellow since I was young, and as a student once went a whole year wearing lime green overalls with orange, red and pink underneath. For my vase today the first yellow daffodils contributed the lemon colour to the oranges, mandarins, and limes blown onto the ground after the storm on Friday.
This didn’t feel like enough, so I added a yellow Dutch Iris bud, the first of the Avalanche Narcissus and the paler and taller Silver Chimes.
As the day went on I picked up more limes and finally a bunch of yellow wallflowers which had to be trimmed, now that I can widen the path where the olive tree fell down.
This made a nice full vase to take home and and a bud to watch as it opens.
I am definitely making Lime Ginger Marmalade this week, after weeks of having not enough time, giving away too many limes, or eating all the ginger. C has washed and sliced the limes using the mandolin, and they are soaking in a big bowl of water.
Cathy at Rambling in the Garden was also picking up after a storm to make her vase today and you will find flowers from around the world there.
Absent Gardener 
Lovely to see your daffodils. That is an admirable quantity of fruit. Lime Ginger Marmalade sounds quite delicious. We had quite severe storms last night too.
Oh, I hope your storms brought welcome rain. We are at the stage where everything is muddy… The marmalade is done and it’s delicious. I will see if I can take some pictures tomorrow. 🙂
Love the flowers…but love the thought that you have your own citrus fruit to make into marmalade. I have my other blog where I post recipes…a favourite of mine is lime and fig jam or marmelade…happy gardening and preserve making.
Oh, lime and fig jam sounds good. If we happen to save enough figs from the birds this year I will try it.
Oh Lime Ginger Marmalade sounds gorgeous – my mouth is watering! Many years ago when I was a student in halls of reidence I somehow developed a passion for Rose’s Lime Marmalade, not quite sure how as It was something I bought myself and defintely something I had never had at home… 😉 And I love the citrussy vase too – such a refreshing vase 🙂 Thanks so much for sharing Cath
We have been going through quite a lot of Rose’s marmalade, and this recipe is supposed to rival it. Of course I think it is much more delicious 🙂 Its very easy as it doesn’t involve all the messing around with peeling and removing the pith.
http://www.foodtolove.co.nz/recipes/lime-ginger-marmalade-32549
I don’t eat a lot of maramalade, much as I enjoy it, but am sorely tempted to give that recipe a try… thank you 🙂
Simple but so sophisticated. Beautiful.
Thank you 🙂 what a nice comment.
Love your daffodils especially the tiny ones – beautiful 🙂
Thank you, Annette, they have such a lovely scent. I really love the Avalanche which seem to be robust in wind and rain as well.
I love those colors, too. Looking forward to hearing about the Marmalade. I have been madly eating Mangoes. And cooking them.
Oh mangoes, you lucky. Nothing like mangos and papaya with lime juice squeezed over them for breakfast.
Exactly, the Papaya tree is coming along, but no fruit yet.
Mmm, my mouth is watering! The smell of the marmalade cooking must be wonderful. Love the height that slim bud adds to your cheery vase this week! 🙂
Mmm, it was a nice smell. The Iris bud has burst into full flower today while I was at work. It’s nice to see change during the week. 🙂
How gorgeous. I love the cheery colors. I love seeing daffodils now especially when it is summer here in New Jersey – hot and humid.
-Mar
So fresh and pretty, that is a beautiful wallflower. I tend to buy mixed seed so what comes up is unpredictable but some are especially lovely. I’m envious of the limes, how fantastic to be able to grow them.
Thank you. This wallflower is one of the shrubby ones which last for a number of years and get quite big. I grow them from cuttings – I gather that they rarely produce seed, but there is someone in U.K. breeding them back into seeding varieties, which would be very interesting. I’m going to keep and eye on them now and see if I can get some seeds. https://www.plant-world-seeds.com/store/flower_seed_categories/ERYSIMUM_SEEDS