Stepping into the garden to cut flowers and foliage for "In a Vase on Monday," hosted each week by Cathy of
Rambling in the Garden, I'd no big ideas about what to use. First up, I checked the
Helianthus 'Sunfinity Yellow' I'd picked up a few weeks ago to fill an empty pot, but last week's heatwave and some kind of critter left me nothing suitable for cutting. The few dahlias left in the cutting garden also let me down (even
'Loverboy'). However, some of the
Zinnia flowers still looked good, even if the plants themselves don't, so I focused on those.
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| I picked just about all of the coral, peach and yellow zinnias I had left in the cutting garden |
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| Rear view: Not an exciting arrangement perhaps but cheerful |
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| Top view |
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| Clockwise from the upper right: Zinnia elegans (probably from the Cactus and California Giant seed mixes), the ripening berries of a noID Cotoneaster that planted itself at the base of one of my Arbutus trees, and Agonis flexuosa 'Nana' |
Despite last week's blast of heat,
Plectranthus ciliatus 'Zulu Wonder' continued to produce a steady stream of new blooms and as I still had a few
Eustoma grandiflorum (Lisianthus) blooming in the garden, I cut more of both. As most of last week's
Eustoma were still looking good, I also repurposed those for this week's second vase. It's not an exact match of last week's vase, though, as I altered the supporting cast.
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| Pretty Erigeron glaucus and Leucanthemum blooms added a fresh touch to this week's arrangement |
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| Last week's "black"Eustoma blooms bring up the rear, accompanied by stems of the weedy Artemisia that planted itself in my garden and the always available Gomphrena 'Itsy Bitsy' |
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| The top view highlights the lavender blush form of Eustoma, looking just as fresh as it did in last week's vase |
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The vase contains, top row: Artemisia ludoviciana, Erigeron glaucus 'Wayne Roderick', and Pseuderanthemum 'Texas Tri-star'
Middle row: Various forms of Eustoma grandiflorum, including 'Rosanne Black Pearl' (left)
Bottom row: Gomphrena decumbens 'Itsy Bitsy', Leucanthemum x superbum, and Plectranthus ciliatus 'Zulu Wonder' |
I hadn't planned to duplicate the color schemes I used last week but that's what happened.
Visit Cathy to discover what she and other gardeners used to fill their vases this week.
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