Grevillea 'Peaches & Cream' has been covered with buds for a couple of weeks and I fixated on using it in a vase even though I usually loathe cutting the blooms. The problem is that the flowers appear in clusters, generally blooming one at a time but, once the stems are cut, the unopened buds never seem to bloom. Still, there are quite a few buds on the shrub in my front garden so I gathered my courage and cut the stem with the smallest number of unopened flowers.
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Front view |
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Back view (showing one of the unopened flowers) |
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Top view (showing another unopened flower) |
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Grevillea bloom complements the rest of the cast but doesn't overwhelm any of them. In fact, some of the other plant materials, like the
Nandina berries, had to be shifted about so they didn't steal the stage. Here's a closer look at what I included:
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Clockwise from top left: Grevillea 'Peaches & Cream', Coprosma repens 'Inferno', Leucadendron salignum 'Chief', Leucodendron 'Wilson's Wonder', berries of Nandina domestica, and noID Narcissus |
The vase assumed the position occupied by last week's arrangement in the front entry. As expected, the
Calliandra (pink powder puff) blooms in last week's vase survived only a few days but the rest of the plant material carried on for the balance of the week. I wonder if I can expect more of the
Grevillea?
Visit Cathy at Rambling in the Garden, the host of "In a Vase on Monday" to see what she and other gardeners have going on this week.
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