Dahlia time for cut flowers!
Category: In a Vase on Monday
In a Vase, on Monday – P and W
A fallen Cleome and too many coneflowers are a great excuse to make a vase of cut flowers.
In a Vase, on Monday – Prickly
Last year a beautiful white Cleome appeared on the side patio – a seed had germinated from flowers I had planted two years previously. It became a huge, multi-stemmed shrub last year, with a central stalk the diametre of a decent sized sunflower. As happens, I neglected to completely deadhead it and of course this […]
In a Vase, On Monday – Sultry
A jar of summer delight from the kitchen garden.
In a Vase, on Monday – ‘Bianco Sfumato’
This is my third year growing Italian Ranunculus; in my garden, they started to open a week or so ago. The first year I planted them right in the garden near the end of April (they like to get started when the temperatures are cool, and don’t mind a touch of frost), around the same […]
In a vase, on Monday – Red and White
Peony time in Prince Edward County.
In a Vase, on Monday – Deep Purple, Deep Blue
I took some photos last weekend of a vase filled with ‘Queen of the Night’ tulips and Narcissus ‘Thalia’ and Poeticus; unfortunately, I didn’t have a chance to download or share them but it’s just as well – I really like how the tulips, indoors in their vase for several days, gently bent down to […]
In a Vase, On Monday – Tulip Time
My first attempt at a vase of tulips looked a bit flat. The tulips were gorgeous, yes, but something felt missing, so I went back into the garden and snipped a few long pieces of garden chives (Allium schoenoprasum), a single leaf from a Lupine plus several tall Summer Snowflake (Leucojum aestivum). The graceful, delicate, […]
In a Vase, on Monday – Small Beauties
I’m joining Cathy today with a tiny vase (likely originally a condiment or oil jar of some sort) filled with tiny blooms produced by small sprung bulbs: Muscari (both the blue two-toned M. latifolium and a diminutive white variety), Narcissus ‘Quail’ and a summer snowflake – Leucojum aestivum. The vase was filled and photographed last […]
In a Vase, on Monday – D & T
Last week it was D & H (for Hyacinths) and this week it’s a handful of early tulips that I cut to mix with daffodils in today’s vase of cut flowers. Over in England, Cathy hosts this weekly gardener’s delight called In a Vase on Monday. I love how some flowers close tight at night, […]
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