In a Vase on Monday: Nothing new

I got my Christmas wish: it rained off and on from Thursday through Saturday night.  Out total rain for the current "water year" (which started October 1st and runs through September 30th, 2022) now stands at 3.91 inches.  With more rain expected later today and also Wednesday through Thursday, it looks fairly certain that the total as the calendar year comes to a close will already exceed the paltry 4.12 inches we received over the entire course of the last water year.  I'm happy, although as I've read that December may be Southern California's wettest month (instead of February which is normally the case), it's way too early to count our chickens.  At least there's been some improvement in Northern California's drought status.

The downside of the rain is that a lot of the blooms in my garden were looking bedraggled when I walked through it on Sunday morning.  With a few exceptions, there was little in the way of new blooms to cut.  

The first of the 'Moonglow' Aloe divisions fellow blogger Denise of A Growing Obsession passed along to me in July has bloomed but I couldn't bring myself to cut it

I couldn't cut the blooms on Aloe 'Safari Rose' either

Instead of Aloe blooms, I cut stems of one of my small-flowered Grevilleas and took my inspiration from those, resulting in a color mix that resembles the arrangement I created prior to Thanksgiving.

The tiny orange and yellow flowers of Grevillea alpina x rosmarinifolia got lost behind the larger blooms

You can see a bit more of the smaller Grevillea flowers in this back view but here the tubular flowers of Cuphea 'Vermillionaire' steal the show

Top view: I'd also hoped to feature the ripening berries of Auranticarpa rhombifolia in this arrangement but they too got buried within the arrangement.  Most of the orange berries have split open to show the sticky brown seeds within.

Clockwise from the upper left: Auranticarpa rhombifolia foliage and berries, flowers of Grevillea alpina x rosmarinifolia, Grevillea 'Superb', Gaillardia 'Arizona Sun', Cuphea 'Vermillionaire', and Tagetes lemmonii