It rained lightly but steadily on Saturday and, as the forecast called for even heavier rain on Sunday and Monday, I clipped flowers in the late afternoon to arrange on Sunday. As it turned out, Sunday was mostly sunny, which goes to show that even the shortest-term weather projections can be wildly inaccurate.
My Hemerocallis, including the one I brought inside last week, still aren't blooming so I made do with what I could find to fill two small vases.
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| I've had a few Anemone coronaria blooms, all blue thus far. The stems grow longer as the flowers age but these 2 were still relatively short. |
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| Back view: I also used some very short stems of blue Pericallis, which is largely hidden behind Acacia foliage in this view but somewhat clearer in the earlier front view |
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| Top view |
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| Clockwise from the upper left: Acacia cognata 'Cousin Itt', Antirrhinum majus, Delphinium grandiflorum 'Diamonds Blue', Anemone coronaria 'Lord Lieutenant', Pericallis x hybrida, Nemesia 'Plus White', and Prostanthera ovalifolia 'Variegata' |
Saturday's rain brought down over a dozen
Camellia blooms and, with heavier rain in the forecast, I felt compelled to cut a couple of stems for an arrangement to sit on our kitchen island, where we could enjoy them, if briefly.
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| The Camellia flowers are beautiful, no matter how long they last |
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| Back view |
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| Top view |
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| Clockwise from the upper left: Alstroemeria 'Inca Lucky', Boronia crenulata 'Shark Bay', Camellia williamsii 'Taylor's Perfection', and Pentas lanceolata |
I removed the spent
Grevilleas in last week's vase and gave it a simple refresh to fill the spot that was held by the two week old arrangement featuring
Aeonium 'Zwartkop' and
Leucadendron 'Wilson's Wonder'.
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| The tweaked vase is on the left and the original version is on the right |
Monday is still projected to be very wet - as I prepared this post Sunday afternoon, the local forecast gave us a one hundred percent chance of rain. We got nearly an inch of rain on Saturday and I'm hoping for at least another half inch on Monday. Since Sunday was dry, I took the time to move the rainwater I captured in plastic trugs to my largest collection tank, which means all three tanks are full once again. That's a good way to start off the week.
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