Fresh flowers are a prerequisite on Easter Sunday, aren't they? I've always felt so but I was having a hard time getting into the groove early Sunday morning. Perhaps it was the weather. We've been socked in by fog and low clouds every morning for days now but then, by comparison with gardeners facing a snowy Easter, I know I've really got nothing to complain about. Still, it did put a damper on things (pun intended). I set out with my clippers with no idea whatsoever what to cut. Then, as I passed
Grevillea 'Peaches & Cream', I decided it would be nice to pair it with the peach foxgloves currently blooming in increasing numbers in my cutting garden. From there, I was off and running.
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| The arrangement turned out a bit lopsided and no amount of futzing seemed to help, although I suspect that, if I crammed less into the vase, it would've been easier to put things in balance |
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| The calla lilies are finally coming into bloom, two full months later than last year. While I was down on the back slope cutting the lilies, I realized that the bay laurel hedge running along our side of a neighbor's chain-link fence would provide a nice foliage accent so I cut a couple of stems. |
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| Top view |
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| Clockwise from the upper left, the vase contains: Grevillea 'Peaches & Cream', Alstroemeria 'Inca Husky', Calendula 'Bronzed Beauty', Digitalis purpurea 'Illumination Peach', yellow Freesia, Laurus nobilis, and Zantedeschia aethiopica |
With my springtime groove back in gear, the pink
Alstroemeria blooming in the backyard border and pink and white
Ranunculus in the cutting garden provided inspiration for a second vase.
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| Feeling lazy, I used the same ornamental teapot I selected last week for my second vase |
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| Back view |
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| Top view |
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| Clockwise from the upper left, the vase contains: noID pink Alstroemeria, Abelia x grandiflora 'Confetti', Antirrhinum majus, Coleonema album, Coprosma repens 'Fire Burst', white Freesia, and pink and white Ranunculus |
I briefly considered adding the first
'California Dreamin' rose blooming in the front garden to this vase but then thought better of it.
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| The color was right but the bloom was already past its prime and so large that I thought it'd eclipse everything else in the vase |
The Monday after Easter isn't a holiday in the US. Pipig and I have an early morning visit to the vet in store for us, the fact of which she is still blissfully unaware.
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| It's always a toss-up who will be more traumatized by a visit to the vet: Pipig or me |
If your holiday weekend includes Monday, enjoy the day!
Visit Cathy at Rambling in the Garden to find more Monday vases.
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