Last week I featured dahlias but skipped the zinnias in my cutting garden. This week I have a bit of both. A couple of my traditional fall blooming plants also joined the party.
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| Dahlias 'Punkin Spice', 'Terracotta' and 'Loverboy' are still going strong but this week it was 'Strawberry Ice' that grabbed my attention. A couple stems of a Japanese anemone that came with the garden produced pale pink blooms for the perfect accent. |
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| I used a stem of Dahlia 'Otto's Thrill' to dress up the back of the vase along with cream and pale yellow zinnias |
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| Top view |
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| Clockwise from the upper left: Abelia grandiflora 'Hopley's Variegated', noID Anemone hupehensis (aka Japanese anemone), Dahlia 'Otto's Thrill', Plectranthus scutellarioides 'Electric Lime' (aka coleus), noID cream and yellow Zinnia elegans, and, in the middle, Dahlia 'Strawberry Ice' |
Blue and purple flowers have been in short supply in my garden for a few weeks now so I was happy to see that
Plectranthus ciliatus 'Zulu Wonder' has produced its first flowers right on schedule. This is one of my favorite plants and one of the few I brought with me as cuttings from my former garden when we moved 7+ years ago.
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| In addition to producing graceful lavender flowers, Plectranthus 'Zulu Wonder' has lovely quilted leaves with burgundy undersides, although as I didn't bait for snails and slugs when I should have, the foliage is a bit war-torn this season |
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| Back view: cooler temperatures have prompted some of the Osteospermums to bloom too |
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| Top view showing off the single stem of a white Japanese anemone I found blooming in the back garden and a stem of white lisianthus blooms touched with lavender |
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| Clockwise from the upper left: Anemone hupehensis (Japanese anemone), Aloysia citodora (aka lemon verbena), Eustoma grandiflorum (aka lisianthus), Plectranthus ciliatus 'Zulu Wonder', Osteospermum hybrids 'Violet Ice' and '4D Silver', and Symphyotrichum chilense 'Purple Haze' |
I wasn't planning 3 vases this week but
Zinnia 'Benary's Giant Wine', grown from seed, demanded attention so I cut several stems.
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| The zinnia's color doesn't show up on camera the same way as it does to my eye. It's a delicious merlot color. |
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| I recycled some of the Alternanthera I used last week for this vase |
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| The vase is the vintage piece I picked up at a second-hand store last year featuring a woman's clasped hands. The zinnias are almost a perfect match for her painted fingernails, which you can see best in this side view. |
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| Top view |
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| Clockwise from the left: thickly petaled Zinnia elegans 'Benary's Giant Wine', Abelia grandiflora 'Edward Goucher', Alternanthera dentata 'Little Ruby', and Plectranthus scutellarioides 'Chili Pepper' (aka coleus) |
For more "In a Vase on Monday" creations,
visit Cathy at Rambling in the Garden to see what she and other contributors have assembled this week.
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