I've been posting pictures of the flowers from my garden for quite some time now, but if we are speaking strictly of In a Vase on Monday, this is my 21st week....Cathy must have posted over 100! She is taking stock this week! I love the clever titles Cathy comes up with, her montages, her props, and of course the material she chooses from the garden.
For my tricks this week...I present you with a vase which looks like it could have been picked in May, but I promise you, I went out this morning, in heavy wind and poor light at 9:30 am to pick these. The Tiarella Spring Symphony caught my eye whilst I picked a couple of springs of Rosa Open Arms..then a snip here and a snip there, some Astrantia Major Sunningdale variegated, Lysimachia clethroides, and blue Centaurea Major, leaves from a cyclamen and a little posy was constructed from a fairly desolatory looking garden.
However this is a 'celebration' and two years deserves a more fitting arrangement...so up my ladder I went, and picked some of the blooms on the Etoile de Hollande Climbing rose, and just to prove this is not an 'archive' picture, paired it up with some variegated holly. This rose performs so admirably in this garden...I have even picked blooms for Christmas! However by Christmas all the red berries on the holy will have been eaten by the birds.
Well done Cathy, how many hits have you had as a result of this Meme, since it started? Whatever the number, just think of the number of people who have been delighted by it. Many thanks.
Always surprising how much we can pull together to create a bouquet even when the garden is fading!
ReplyDeleteMonday is always the most popular day on my blog, Noelle, with up to 300 or so visits compared to the more usual 50-100 - but it wouldn't have been the same without other people posting and it seems to have captured people's imagination and I am thrilled to have been able to empower people to create their own vases. The mildness is certainly producing some unseasonal blooms - what a lovely little collection you have found for your vase! And the shade of your Etoile de Hollande roses is SO lovely... Thanks for sharing
ReplyDeleteIt wonderful to have a 'nice' topic to keep our imaginations ticking over.
DeleteBoth vases are stunning, Noelle. The second one really does look like a Christmas arrangement. I love the first one even more, though. The Tiarella and the Astantia (plants I adore but which won't grow here) provide beautiful accents for the rose.
ReplyDeleteI admire your "May in November" vase. Beautiful roses.
ReplyDeleteYou are right - the first vase looks like early summer. How lovely for November! You must be getting mild weather like us too.
ReplyDeleteI think it is going to be the mildest November on record! However each year I have managed to pick roses well up to Christmas from Etoile de Hollande. I put it down to regular dead heading, pruning, and good feeding.
DeleteOh what a great haul for a gloomy November day Noelle when I didn't venture out at all. Your vase does indeed look as if it could have been picked in May with all the promise and warmth of summer to come. Your 'Etoile de Hollande' rose lives up to her name and well worth climbing up a ladder to pick.
ReplyDeleteIt was almost a question of getting out the ropes on Monday Anna, because of the winds...at least the rose and our garden is well sheltered.
DeleteI've noticed that having a small vase full of small flowers looks just as impressive in a photograph as a large vase with large flowers, Noelle. I like your blue, pink, and white arrangement, that seems to be a recurrent combination today, such cute roses and tiny flowers, and the fantastic variegation of the cyclamen leaf. The red roses are so romantically full. How wonderful that they bloom so long.
ReplyDeleteSo lovely - the pale pink roses and blue centaurea are truly eye-catching! The holly and roses give me the idea for a lovely and simple Christmas centerpiece. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteI look forward to seeing what you post for your Christmas arrangement Eliza.
DeleteMy word I can't believe you have spring flowers...and the second vase is a perfect holiday vase!
ReplyDeleteIts the strangest Autumn that I have come across here. We haven't yet had a frost, I could have picked Dahlias and nasturtiums too!
Deletesuch pretty vases - one with a summery feel and the other with a festive feel. Your roses are exquisite!
ReplyDeleteThank you Ann, Etoile de Hollande is the best red climber I have grown...and for a white one, which I do not have in the garden is climbing Iceberg..the only thing with Iceberg, is that it has so many flowers, dead heading takes time!
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