It's a woman's prerogative to change her mind (In a Vase on Monday)

There are still flowers in my garden but nothing I haven't used in a vase at least once this year.  I cut some of just about everything I had in the warm color range and stuck it all in a vase.  It didn't look too bad but many of the flowers seemed to visually disappear, eclipsed by the dark red sunflowers from my vegetable garden.  I couldn't do that to my beautiful Grevillea so a second vase came out of the cabinet.

I kept the new vase fairly simple, allowing Grevillea 'Superb' to provide both the focal floral element and foliage.

Eustoma, added at the last minute to fill out the arrangement, tries to steal the show

In addition to Grevillea 'Superb' (top row), the vase includes (bottom row, left to right): Digiplexis 'Berry Canary', Eustoma (Lisianthus) 'Mariachi Pink' and assorted Zinnias

Everything else I cut stayed in the other vase, dominated by 3 of my deep red sunflowers.  Thus far, none of the Helianthus blooms have shown the wide color variation depicted on the seed packet.

Front view

Back view

I had breakfast with the sunflower vase sitting on the dining table.  It was okay but so similar to last week's vase that it bored me.  So, I went back into the garden and came back with some Abelia x grandiflora and began deconstructing my second vase.  I ended up with a very simple vase with just 2 elements.

Only the sunflowers and the Abelia x grandiflora went into the deconstructed arrangement

The leftover flowers remained in the yellow glass vase.

After everything shown in the first 2 vases was removed, the original vase was left with Achillea 'Summertime Pastels', Agonis flexuosa 'Nana', Coreopsis 'Redshift', Gaillardia 'Arizona Sun', Jacobaeus maritima and Tanacetum parthenium

The vase with the Grevillea sits on a side table in the living room

The simplified sunflower vase sits on the dining table

And the sunny flower vase sits on the table in the front entryway

Visit Cathy at Rambling in the Garden to see what she and other gardeners have put together this week.


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