I met a friend for lunch on Saturday and afterwards we walked off our heavy meal strolling shops in a recently refurbished mall. We checked out a place specializing in luxury home furnishings and I ended up walking out with yet another new vase. It was offered at a good (reduced) price and unique, modeled on a bighorn sheep's horn. I couldn't bring myself to pass it up.
My first thought was that it would work well with an air plant (
Tillandsia) or succulent cuttings but I ended up using flowers instead.
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| Front view featuring lavender Freesia |
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| Back view featuring a white Freesia |
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| Top view |
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| Clockwise from the left, the vase contains: lavender Freesia, the papery flowers of Limonium perezii, Coriandrum sativum, and white Freesia |
I'd originally planned on a vase using orange and yellow flowers for the front entry so I went ahead and put that together too. The color scheme was based on the small flowers of
Grevillea rosmarinifolia x alpina, which I've been admiring for several weeks now.
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| Front view |
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| Back view |
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| Top view |
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| Clockwise from the left, the vase contains: Grevillea 'Peaches & Cream', Grevillea rosmarinifolia x alpina, Abelia x grandiflora 'Hopley's Variegated', yellow Freesia, noID Narcissus, Papaver nudicaule, and white (and yellow) Ranunculus |
Lest you think I neglected my dining table, I took care of that spot earlier in the week when I trimmed back the larger of my 2
Leucadendron 'Wilson's Wonder' shrubs.
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| The Leucadendron's "flowers" are past their prime but still attractive. Although this vase was packed with stems and I took more to a friend, many more still went into our green recycle bin. |
The new vase ended up on the coffee table in the living room, while the second vase took its intended place in the front entry.
Visit Cathy at Rambling in the Garden to see more "In a Vase on Monday" floral/foliage arrangements.
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