It's getting harder to pull together arrangements using what's blooming in the garden but I managed to do so again this week. My first arrangement was created around the last of the Amarines to flower.
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| I think the pale pink Amarine was upstaged once again, this time by a coleus rather than a dahlia. Amarines are hybrids of Amaryllis belladonna and Nerines. |
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| Back view: I used a second stem of Plectranthus scutellarioides 'Florida Sun Rose' (aka coleus) to dress up the back. The coleus stem in the front view is the one I used 3 weeks ago. It's developed roots and I hope to overwinter the cutting in my shade house. |
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| Clockwise from the upper left: Correa 'Wyn's Wonder', Leptospermum 'Copper Glow', Prostanthera ovatifolia 'Variegata', Alstroemeria 'Inca Vienna', Amarine belladiva 'Emanuelle', Leptospermum scoparium 'Pink Pearl', and Plectranthus scutellarioides 'Florida Sun Rose' |
The second arrangement features some flowering plants emerging from their summer dormancy. Gomphrena 'Itsy Bitsy' has also returned with a mass of tiny blooms. I cut the shrub down to the ground months ago. The foliage bounced back quickly but the flowers took their time.
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| Stems of Polygala myrifolia (aka sweet pea bush) provided the base of this arrangement but it's really an ensemble cast |
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| Clockwise from the upper left: Antirrhinum majus, Pelargonium peltatum 'Lavender Blizzard', self-seeded Osteospemum, Digitalis purpurea, Gomphrena decumbens 'Isty Bitsy', Polygala myrtifolia, and Vitex trifolia |
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