There seems to be a little more color in my garden with each passing week, a sure sign that spring is in the wings. The blue Anemones in my cutting garden are producing more flowers every day so they were the most obvious candidates for "In a Vase on Monday" this week.
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| Unfortunately, I wasn't able to find many white flowers to accent the blue ones. Mysteriously, my white Anemones are flowering on stems shorter than one-inch so they weren't candidates. |
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| Back view: I tucked in a few stems of Argyranthemum to brighten things up |
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| Top view |
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| Clockwise from the upper left: Anemone coronaria 'Lord Lieutenant', Argyranthemum frutescens (returning for a second year), noID Ceanothus, Osteospermum 'Violet Ice', and Prostanthera ovalifolia 'Variegata' (aka mint bush) |
Initially, I wasn't sure I had enough of anything for a second vase but then I spotted new blooms on one of my potted Alstroemerias, which gave me a springboard for a second arrangement in shades of pink. The vase I chose gave it the extra pizazz it needed.
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| The pinks play off the painted fingernails of the hands clasped to form the vase |
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| Back view: The bloom of the noID snapdragon is almost an exact match for those colorful fingernails |
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| Top view |
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| Clockwise from the upper left: Alstroemeria 'Inca Vienna', noID Antirrhinum majus, Coleonema pulchellum 'Sunset Gold', Jasminum polyanthum (spilling over the fence from my neighbor's garden), and Leptospermum scoparium 'Pink Pearl'. (More Prostanthera was included in this arrangement but it isn't shown in closeup here.) |
Last week's arrangement featuring Hippeastrum 'Lemon-Lime' still looks presentable, even though the Grevilleas had fallen apart. I pared down that arrangement and relocated it the bedroom mantle.
The new arrangements got the usual spots in the front entry and the dining room table.
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