While there are lots of plants in flower in my garden, there are precious few blooms suitable to show off in a vase, if that makes any sense. For most of the last week, the heat bore down and, with the heat, flowers shrivel quickly. With a few exceptions - the
Gaillardia, the
Coreopsis and the sunflowers - nothing much is blooming en masse either so this week I focused on small vases.
Using just a few stems of 3 different plants, I created a peaceful blue arrangement in a 4-inch tall cut-glass vase.
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| Front view |
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| Top view |
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| The vase includes (from left): Campanula primulifolia, a variegated no ID Caryopteris and a no ID Duranta (probably D. erecta 'Sapphire Showers') |
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| This vase landed on the mantle in the master bedroom |
A selection of pink flowers, starring the
Eustoma grandiflorum that began its second round of bloom as the heatwave kicked off, filled a stem-less wine glass.
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| This vase contains (clockwise from the left): Eustoma grandiflorum 'Echo Pink', Abelia x grandiflora, Grevillea 'Pink Midget' (a recent acquisition), Zinnias and Leucadendron 'Pisa' |
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| This vase is sitting in the front entryway |
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| The flowers too small for the wine glass were tucked into a tiny 3-inch vase |
As the red sunflowers in the vegetable garden are still coming on strong I cut some of those again for the dining room table.
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| This arrangement is virtually identical to the one I created last week except that I tucked in some orange Zinnias with the Abelia |
The marine layer returned this morning which should keep today's temperatures down. If we're lucky, the pattern will hold throughout the week, making everyone around here less cranky and giving my flower supply a chance to recover before I face the garden next week to identify what I have befitting a vase.
Visit Cathy at Rambling in the Garden to see what she and other gardeners have found in their summer gardens.
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