As I was preparing last week's Bloom Day post, I was surprised to discover that my New Zealand tea trees were sporting a heavy flush of pink blooms. They were a natural choice for this week's edition of "In a Vase on Monday" in which Cathy of
Rambling in the Garden challenges us to create arrangements from materials on hand. The question I faced was: what do I have to accent these flowers? I cut stems of
Coprosma and
Camellias but used only the latter. Much as I love
Camellias, in retrospect I think I probably should have let the
Leptospermum stand alone.
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| While both the Camellia and Leptospermum flowers are pretty, I'm not sure they do much for one another |
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| The back view is nearly identical |
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| The vase contains only the glossy-leaved stems of a noID Camellia sasanqua and the prickly stems Leptospermum scoparium 'Pink Pearl' |
As my bush violets are on the wane, I thought I'd also assemble another vase using them while I still could but the flowers were sparser than I'd realized so I ended up picking bits and pieces of a lot of other things to fill out the vase, creating a mish-mash. I was pleased to find a one blue Lisianthus in bloom, though.
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| While some ensemble casts may be considered greater than the sum of their parts, I don't think that can be said of this one |
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| The arrangement ended up lop-sided too |
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| Top view |
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The vase contains: Top row - Barleria obtusa and Duranta repens 'Sapphire Showers'
Middle row - Erigeron glacus 'Wayne Roderick', Eustoma grandiflorum, and Lavandula multifida
Bottom row - Leucadendron 'Pisa', seedheads of Catanache caerulea, and Osteospermum '4D Silver' |
Both vases this week might have been more effective had I kept their contents simpler I think. We'll see if I can manage to keep that lesson in mind next week.
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