I'm still trying to make use of my remaining cool season blooms while they're presentable. Our morning marine layer has been present more often than not over the past two weeks, keeping our afternoon temperatures very pleasant. On Saturday, it was so thick our roof-top weather station recorded one one-hundredth of an inch of precipitation - during a severe drought even that is appreciated.
My foxgloves have produced another flush of bloom. Their stems, like those of the snapdragons, are shorter now but I made use of both to stuff my first vase this week.
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| I crammed more into this vase than I'd planned (as usual) |
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| Back view: My cool season daisies (Argyranthemum frutescens) are also showing signs of fading even though our temperatures haven't crept above the low 70sF for some time now |
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| Top view |
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| Clockwise from the upper left: Agonis flexuosa 'Nana', Antirrhinum majus 'Chantilly Peach' and 'Double Azalea Bronze', Argyranthemum frutescens 'White Butterfly', Digitalis purpurea 'Dalmatian Peach', and Grevillea 'Poorinda Leane' |
My second arrangement was inspired by the first bloom of self-seeded Daucus carota 'Dara' but the concept I had in mind didn't come together as planned.
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| 'Dara' was relegated to the back of the vase and what may be the last of the pink Alstroemeria took center stage, accompanied by stems of Hebe 'Wiri Blush' |
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| Back view |
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| Top view |
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| Clockwise from the upper left: Daucus carota 'Dara', Digitalis purpurea 'Dalmatian White', noID Alstroemeria, Gomphrena decumbens 'Itsy Bitsy' (she's back!), Hebe 'Wiri Blush', Leptospermum 'Copper Glow', and Orlaya grandiflora |
I cut a stem of a noID pink lily late last week for our kitchen island. Its scent was so strong I considered putting it outside at first but the scent, like its color, has faded somewhat so it remains. (However, I decided to pass on using a second stem in another arrangement.) I embellished the lilies with Lisianthus recycled from one of last week's arrangements, as well as flowers I cut but didn't use in the arrangements shown above.
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| Arrangements on the kitchen island don't really have a front and back. |
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| Clockwise from the upper left: Angelonia 'Archangel White', Eustoma grandiflorum (aka Lisianthus), noID Asiatic hybrid Lilium, and Nigella papillosa |
For more arrangements created from garden foliage and flowers, visit our IAVOM host, Cathy at Rambling in the Garden.
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