Despite our current unseasonable heat (or maybe because of it), there's a lot in bloom in my garden at the moment. But heat makes me cranky and, this week, I didn't want to spend a lot of time futzing with my creation for "In a Vase on Monday," the meme hosted by Cathy at
Rambling in the Garden. On the theory that the beautiful blooms of
'Grevillea 'Peaches and Cream' wouldn't last long with dry Santa Ana winds blowing and temperatures above 90F (32C), I cut one of those blooms for my vase, the first time I've ever done so. As there were a lot of blooms on G. 'Superb', I cut one of those too. Then I grabbed stems of a few other plants and, plopping them in a vase, called it done.
I could have added
Narcissus perhaps, or yellow
Freesia or orange
Bulbine or peach
Gaillardia but I stood pat with the following plants, collected during a 5-minute spin outside (in the miserable heat):
- Anagallis 'Wildcat Mandarin'
- Gaillardia x grandiflora 'Goblin' (or maybe 'Arizona Sun' - they look the same to me)
- Grevillea 'Peaches & Cream'
- Grevillea 'Superb'
- Phlomis fruticosa
- Prostanthera ovalifolia 'Variegata'
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| Anagallis 'Wildcat Mandarin', planted last spring is perennial here |
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| Gaillardia 'Goblin' is a trifle bedraggled but the stem has a few buds I hope will open to follow this one |
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| The mature bloom of Grevillea 'Peaches & Cream' is on the left and the less mature bloom of G. 'Superb' is on the right |
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| Phlomis fruticosa, a very Seussian flower, is just coming into bloom throughout the garden |
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| Prostanthera ovalifolia was the first foliage plant to catch my eye |
I didn't spend time fussing with the arrangement and I didn't create any secondary arrangements with cast-off stems because there weren't any. A sunny creation, sent by my subconscious to put me in a less cranky mood perhaps, it sits on the dining room table as my breakfast companion.
Please
visit Cathy at Rambling in the Garden to see what she's put together this week. Link up and share your vase if you've put together something with makings from your own garden.
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