I had two flowers in mind when I stepped into the garden to fill this week's vase. As the two clearly wouldn't make suitable companions, this meant two vases. (I know you're not surprised.) However, the one thing the two vases had in common was scent.
The impetus for the first vase was a plant that's relatively new to my garden:
Gomphrena 'Pinball Snow-tip Lavender'.
Gomphrena takes the heat and isn't a water guzzler so, when I saw this one, I broke my rule against planting in summer (again).
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| Front view: The scent here was provided by a noID rose, which may or may not be'Angel Face', but smells very much as I remember that rose smelled |
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| Back view: You knew the pink Eustoma grandiflorum would turn up somewhere, didn't you? |
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| Top view, highlighting the hard-to-photograph Gomphrena |
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| Clockwise from the left, the vase contains: Gomphrena 'Pinball Snow-tip Lavender', Abelia x grandiflora, Eustoma grandiflorum, Origaninum 'Monterey Bay', Polygala myrtifolia 'Mariposa', the noID rose, and Stachys hybrid 'Lilac Falls' |
The second plant I fixated on was
Callistemon 'Cane's Hybrid', which recently produced a flush of new flowers. The flowers are a magnet for bees and I had to shake the stems before bringing them in to the house to prevent the bees from coming in with me.
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| Front view: An ensemble cast of flowers with no obvious lead player |
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| Back view: Lonicera japonica, inherited with the house, provides the scent here |
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| Top view |
The flowers of the
Callistemon are on the peachy side of pink, which made finding suitable companions more of a challenge. The yellow undertones of the
Callistemon made the pink
Eustoma look dingy so I chose other flowers in shades of coral and yellow.
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| Clockwise from the left, the vase contains: Callistemon 'Cane's Hybrid', Achillea millefolium 'Appleblossom', Grevillea 'Ned Kelly', Lantana camara 'Irene' with Zinnia 'Profusion', Leucanthemum x superbum, Lonicera japonica, and Plectranthus scutellariodes 'Mocha Mint' (commonly known as coleus and formerly classified as Solenostemon scutellariodes). There's a little Tanacetum parthenium in the mix too. |
The new arrangements displaced last week's creations.
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| The first arrangement sits in the front entry |
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| The second sits on the dining room table |
For more vases,
visit Cathy at Rambling in the Garden.
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