The silvery foliage of my
Leucadendron 'Pisa' had grown well over 6 feet tall and was looking a bit unkempt so I gave it an impromptu trim on Sunday morning. That left me with good-sized stems of glistening silver foliage, which provided the framework for today's vases.
Silver looks good with almost everything but I really like it with blue.
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| Front view, featuring, you guessed it, Eustoma grandiflorum (aka Lisianthus) |
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| Back view showing off the stems of Leucadendron 'Pisa' |
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| Top view |
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| Clockwise from the left, the vase contains: purply blue Eustoma grandiflorum, Globularia x indubia (which I call hairy blue eyeballs), Leucadendron 'Pisa', a ruffled form of Leucanthemum x superbum, the papery flowers of Limonium perezii, Plectranthus ciliatus with dried bracts of Catananche caerulea, and Trichostema 'Midnight Magic' |
You may not believe it but I hadn't intended to create a second vase this week as the pink vase assembled last week was still in good shape, so my front entry already had a floral focal piece. But I had more
Leucadendron stems than I could use in the blue vase and I noticed that my tall
Senna bicapsularis was just starting to bloom so with a few more snips of my secateurs I was committed to a second vase. The
Senna, a host plant for the cloudless sulphur butterfly,
Phoebis sennae, blooms for a few weeks so you're likely to see it again.
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| Front view: most of the Senna flowers haven't opened yet so I threw in some pale yellow Eustoma grandiflorum as well |
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| Back view, showing off foliage and a stem of Eustoma left over from one of last week's vases |
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| Top view |
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| Clockwise from the upper left, the vase contains: Senna bicapsularis (syn. Cassia bicapsularis, aka Christmas bush and money bush), Abelia x grandiflora 'Hopleys', Acacia cognata 'Cousin Itt', Bulbine frutescens (aka snake flower and cat's tail), a pale yellow form of Eustoma grandiflorum, and Leucadendron 'Pisa' |
The blue bouquet bounced last week's pink arrangement from the front entry. (The pink one ended up in the master bedroom.)
The yellow arrangement sits on the dining room table.
Visit Cathy, our host for the "IaVoM" meme,
at Rambling in the Garden to see what she and other gardeners have in their vases this week.
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