Most of my flowers this week are plants which spread themselves around without too much help given a slightly welcoming environment. There are a lot of twisty extending stems, a few herbs which have run wild, and one or two which are weeds.
Tag: Cut flowers
In a Vase on Monday, Scilla natalensis
Scilla natalensis or Merwilla plumbea is flowering in my garden for the second year, so I feel that I’ve managed to give it the right conditions despite our high winter rainfall and clay soil. The flowers are a delicate blue with a tiny bit of pale yellow, flowering a bit at a time to give an effect which reminds me a little of a shorter blue Foxtail Lily.
In a Vase on Monday – Ixias and Iris
It was a busy weekend moving plants to make space for a bigger water tank. So initially I collected flowers from plants which needed to be pruned before moving.
More is more – in a Vase on Monday
This week I started out with purple Columbine and Wallflowers. At the last minute I decided to add some orange to spark up the colour a little.
In a Vase on Monday – More Spring Flowers
I made two vases this week, a tall angular one and a fluffy wide one.
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Everything good all together
C helped me collect flowers as we went for a walk yesterday evening, so we have ended up with a hotchpotch or ‘everything good all together’ as he called it. There is no theme or colour scheme, just everything that either of us thought was looking pretty at the time.
Old and new – rose hips, poppies, and freesias
This week I was attracted to bright red Rose hips next to new leaves glowing red as the sun shone through them, all against the shining dark green of older leaves.
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Rhubarb flower, in a Vase on Monday
The rhubarb flower had to be chopped off anyway, so it became the centre of my vase of flowers for ‘In a Vase on Monday’ at Cathy’s Rambling in the Garden.
In a Vase on Monday – saving blooms from the weather
I don’t feel bad taking flowers away from the garden this week, the wind and rain are going to trash the first Freesias, there are lots of daffodils, and the tulips will be over by next week. Bringing them back to the city means I can enjoy them for a bit more time.
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