I haven't featured the flowers of
Dahlia 'Otto's Thrill' in over a month now. That's not because the dahlia hasn't flowered but rather because I haven't been inspired by any possible combinations to show it off. However, this week I took my inspiration from one of the colorful
Caladiums in my lath (shade) house.
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| The pink and white colors of Caladium 'Candyland' set things in motion |
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| I also cut the foliage of a coleus growing in the lath house |
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| and filled in with Sweet Autumn Clematis and stems of Abelia 'Edward Goucher' |
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| Clockwise from the upper left, the vase contains: Dahlia 'Otto's Thrill', Abelia x grandiflora 'Edward Goucher', Caladium 'Candyland', Clematis terniflora (aka C. paniculata), and Plectranthus scutellarioides 'Special Effects' (coleus) |
It was a busy weekend and, between joining two blogger friends on a tour of gardens in Orange County on Saturday and popping in at a local orchid show on Sunday, I didn't have time to prepare more than one new vase.
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| The new arrangement landed on the dining room table |
Luckily, two of
last week's vases were still in half-good shape so, with a little bit of clean-up and the addition of a few new blooms, I spiffed them up to serve another week in other spots.
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| The vase on the left, now in the front entry, lost the dahlia and the clematis and got fresh stems of zinnias and abelia. The vase on the right, now in the master bedroom, is a simplified version of last week's arrangement without either the dahlias or the zinnias. |
Visit Cathy at Rambling in the Garden to see what she and other participating bloggers have put together this week using what they have at hand.
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