Last week, I featured a
Leucadendron as my favorite plant of the week so that plant's flowers came to mind when the time came to prepare this week's vase for the meme sponsored by Cathy at
Rambling in the Garden. The
Leucadendron's flowers, made up of colored bracts surrounding a central cone, are pink and yellow. I wanted some pink to play up the color of the bracts but the color I was looking for needed a coral cast. I remembered seeing some pink blooms on an unidentified
Heuchera at the bottom of the slope and, on my trip down there, decided to include several stems of one of the
Ribes currently in full bloom there as well. To balance the small flowers of the
Leucadendron and the tiny flowers of both the
Ribes and the
Heuchera, I cut 2 rose stems from a climber I've yet to prune to add a focal point. I ended up with another sunshine-inspired bouquet.
Included in the vase are:
- Argyranthemum frutescens 'Butterfly'
- Heuchera (no ID, possibly one of the Canyon series)
- Leucadendron salignum ' Chief'
- Ribes viburnifolium, aka Catalina Perfume, an evergreen form
- Rosa 'Joseph's Coat'
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| The unidentified Heuchera inherited with the house |
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| A fuzzy photo of the Leucadendron blooms (you can see better ones here) |
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| The tiny flowers of Ribes viburnifolium are hard to photograph and close-ups like this one make it appear they have some kind of white fuzz but these flecks are part of the stem's structure |
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| The 'Joseph's Coat' rose, accompanied here by the yellow Argyranthemum, is a deep coral pink at its peak |
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| Earlier stages of bloom - these 2 flowers are on the same stem |
I tried the vase in a couple of settings.
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| Too busy |
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| Much better |
Visit Cathy at Rambling in the Garden to discover what she's arranged or, as she prefers to put it, "plonked" in a vase this Monday. If you've assembled a vase from materials in your garden, link up!
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