In a Vase, On Monday…Tall Flowers

Chris Mousseau

Every Monday Cathy at Rambling In The Garden encourages us to share a vase highlighting what is growing in our gardens. For me, it’s Tall Flowers week, since both lupins and Iris are now fully engaged in making life beautifully colourful. I added a few other tall stems – Nepeta once again, since it’s so prolific, and the petite-flowered French Iris – a cousin I imagine to the more robust Siberian Iris also now in full bloom. Although they also have very tall stems, I cut them short to act as a fuller, hiding the legs of the Iris and Lupins. It’s a glorious time to be working in the garden, or even rambling about, as Cathy does! Have a great week everyone!

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  1. I do like a nice mixed bouquet. What caught my eye here was that pink and white lupine: so lovely. I took a minute to imagine another bouquet made up of those yellow iris and the purple flowers. Purple and gold or yellow is one of our most common ‘natural’ combinations, from spring all the way through autumn. It certainly works in summer, too!

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    1. I LOVE the pink and yellow lupin – and wish I had a better shot of it in this bouquet. I’ll be tagging the plant to collect seeds in a month or so…hopefully some offspring will be the same colour.

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  6. I love seeing the different things people have in their vases, so thanks for your Tall Flowers today, Chris. What is the clump of white flowers to the right of your vase?

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      1. As in the annual ‘clary sage’ (S viridis) as I have always called it? I grow this variety and mine never looks quite like this – yours is glorious! But perhaps it is actually something different?

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      2. It’s a perennial! Third summer in my garden, some of the leaves remained green all winter (!) and the clump is growing every year. I’ve started to trim back the spent flower stalks and the plant should send up additional, but smaller, stalks later this summer, if it rains enough.

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      3. I need to look it up then, Chris, as it is clearly not the same as the White Swan I grow – it makes a wonderful clump, and is clearly fully hardy if it survives your winters!

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