While there are a few places in the County that have had a frost or two already, there are many other places, including around my little village, that have not. Nonetheless, nights are getting longer and nighttime temperatures are cooler and most annuals and perennials have long stopped sending out new flowers. I spent last week snipping off final blooms from zinnias, dahlias, strawflowers, Pelagorium and a few other things, filling more than one small vase, that I’ll show you in the weeks to come. Today, in keeping with Cathy’s In a Vase on Monday theme, here is the lovely straw flower ‘Silvery Rose’ that I’ve been cutting since August, plus a few Zinnias. I’ve collected seeds from both and look forward to starting the cycle again next March. Have a great week everyone!
This is a lovely composition and the photographs enhance the beauty of the flowers. No frost yet here either, which I’m enjoying immensely, but the flowers do look exhausted in my garden.
Exhausted is a great word for how it all looks!!😆
Oh, that strawflower again. Gee, I have never grown those in my own garden, although I picked many from neighboring fields in Montara. They were the last cut flower crop that I remember there.
Different colours next year, I promise!!😁
Such a lovely little ikebana arrangement, Chris. I picked some perfect buds from my remaining helichrysum today, to keep for winter use, but had forgotten up till then. I have discovered that Plants of Distinction do a range of single colours so I shall be growing a wider range next year
I’m buying a pack of mixed colours – looking forward to whatever emerges!
👍 – whereas I prefer single colours of most things, with just a few exceptions
We have had a few light frosts since early October, but many flowers kept going until recently. I really love the ikebana vase this week Chris. 😃
I have ONE Zinnia left in the garden…
That’s a lovely strawflower. I wish I’d grown more of them this year.
It’s my first time growing them – so happy I saw them on IOVOM!
Love the movement in the placement of flowers in the arrangement…beautiful.
Success! Thanks so much!
So lovely! The darker backgrounds in the first two images brought to mind Dutch still life painters, who were often quite good at making fading flowers seem more attractive that ‘perfect’ new ones.
Thank you! I was also taken with the lighting in those two!
Always bittersweet bidding the garden adieu, isn’t it?
It is…and this morning we woke to our first frost of the year…
Winter is on its way!