So I ventured into the garden on a very cold New Year's morning (below 50F!) to look for flowers and foliage to fill a vase. And what did I find but 2 stems of pink
Eustoma grandiflorum (Lisianthus) in bloom! I thought I'd seen the last of these flowers for several months but perhaps the extraordinary amount of rain we received in December gave my plants an extra boost. As this was a chance to pair
Eustoma with
Leptospermum 'Pink Pearl', plants that generally don't bloom at the same time, I couldn't resist cutting them.
![]() |
| The Lisianthus flowers were smaller than those cut during their peak bloom period and a little bedraggled but still pretty |
![]() |
| Back view |
![]() |
| Top view |
![]() |
| Clockwise from the top left, the vase contains: Eustoma grandiflorum, Argyranthemum frutescens, Leptospermum scoparium 'Pink Pearl', Persicaria capitata, Pseuderanthemum 'Texas Tri-star', and Violas |
I also tweaked a vase I created just before guests arrived late Friday afternoon. I'd thrown it together and, sitting on our dining room table, it bugged me when I breakfasted with it. So Sunday afternoon, I removed some of the original stems and added others, creating an airier arrangement, which pleased me more.
![]() |
| Stems of Leucadendron salignum 'Chief' were removed and a couple more stems of Tagetes lemmonii were added |
![]() |
| The top photo is a close up of the Tagetes lemmonii (aka Copper Canyon Daisy). From the bottom, left to right, the other plants are: Agonis flexuosa 'Nana', Gaillardia 'Arizona Sun' and berries of Nandina domestica. |
The 2 vases clash horribly with one another but, fortunately, they're not placed close enough for this to be bothersome in situ.
![]() |
| The pink arrangement sits in the front entry, recently cleared of Christmas decorations |
![]() |
| The reconfigured vase was returned to the dining room table |
For more of this week's contributions to "In a Vase on Monday,"
visit Cathy at Rambling in the Garden. If you'd like to see a montage of my favorite 2016 creations for "IaVoM," check out the collages I included in my year-end retrospective, which you can find
here.
I hope you enjoyed a glorious New Year's holiday. It was wonderfully quiet here - almost too quiet. Perhaps our neighbors imbibed more than my husband and I did on New Year's Eve but I didn't even see children out and about. It felt a little like
an episode of Twilight Zone, where humans have disappeared while everything else seems to be in place. And then, there were the birds, which I found sitting silent and virtually motionless in the bare branches of the mimosa tree just outside my home office window.
![]() |
| Alfred Hitchcock never directed an episode of Twilight Zone, did he? |
The preceding afternoon, I had multiple visits by this guy too...
All material © 2012-2017 by Kris Peterson for Late to the Garden Party
