Category: Spring Bulbs

Tulips, Daffodils, Freesias, Grape Hyacinths, Snowdrops, and more

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In a Vase on Monday- Spring Brutality

On By CathIn Flowers, Photography, Spring Bulbs, Weather and Seasons18 Comments

Now that the digger has dug a deep hole for the new building it was not the ideal time for 3 inches of rain and hail. Gale force winds made the hail on the unlined tin roof sound like a jack hammer, and thunder literally shook the hut. Amazingly, the blossom is still clinging to the trees, but I thought it was wise to pick the few tulips that escaped being dug up and eaten.
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Plodding along in the cold rain and hail, my gum boots weighed down by massive clay blobs, I consoled myself that this was nothing compared to the hurricanes which were hitting Cuba, Bahamas, and Florida.

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In a Vase on Monday – Freesia alba ‘Burtonii’

On By CathIn Flowers, Photography, Spring Bulbs, Weather and Seasons16 Comments

The diggers are here and I found a clump of Freesia ‘Burtonii’ flowering right where it will get in the way. I thought I had transplanted all of these, but this lot must have sneaked off and hidden under a rock. I will harvest the last of the flowers next week and then dig this last lot up.
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In a Vase on Monday – a Mixed Bag of Weather and Flowers

On By CathIn Country Garden, Flowers, Photography, Spring Bulbs, Weather and Seasons22 Comments

My first few tulips are up, and I’m cherishing them as many of them have been eaten by the mysterious rodent or muscalid.

It was a mixed bag of a weekend, with a perfect sunny day, a frosty night, and then a rainy day followed by a misty morning. The flowers were picked in the rain, and photographed as picked – a great opportunity for photographing water droplets but a very drooping arrangement. Back at home I found a better vase for them and they are now all dry and standing up nicely.

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In a Vase on Monday – Spring Bulbs

On By CathIn Flowers, Insects, Photography, Spring Bulbs, Weather and Seasons, Wildlife25 Comments

It was a brilliant sunny morning after a freezing night, and there were still spots of frost in the shadows. I filled a vase with water in the porch and headed out with some scissors to pick flowers. When I came back there was a small weta floating spreadeagled in the vase. I scooped him out and put him down in the sun, worried about his dip in the freezing water, but he quickly started looking for shelter and shade, first trying the vase, and then the scissors as a hiding place.

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In a Vase on Monday, Citrus Colours

On By CathIn Flowers, Food from the Garden, Fruit Trees, Preserving and Canning, Spring Bulbs, Weather and Seasons19 Comments

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.

daffodil and narcissus with oranges in trug

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In a Vase on Monday – Roses in Winter

On By CathIn Bees, Flowers, Photography, Spring Bulbs14 Comments

Wow, last year at this time I had tulips and hyacinths, no roses in sight. The tulips are still only small, and daily being eaten by a stoat, I think. So there may be none at all at this rate.

While much of the country has had record snow falls last week and some are still without power, we didn’t even have a frost, which was nice for the new twin lambs frisking around the next door paddock. There must have been strong winds though, and the olive branches in my vase are from the olive tree which was on the ground when we arrived.

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In a Vase on Monday – Perfume

On By CathIn Flowers, Photography, Spring Bulbs20 Comments

This week I have so many scented flowers you would think it would be overpowering, but they blend together to make a perfume. We seem to run out of scented flowers at the end of Summer, and it’s a nice change when the cooler weather brings the scented bulbs and shrubs.

roses against sunrise cut flowers

It was a dark morning; although it’s not technically the solstice for another 2 days, the day length in minutes is as short as it’s going to get, and it was cloudy.

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