I have two vases this week.
The first 'Vase' is a small vintage salt glazed ink bottle. Its just the right size for a little sample of my new Fuchsia Hawkshead which I bought on a little jaunt last week. The flowers are small and delicate with a green tip to the sepals and the palest of pink on the corolla. Jean helped to carry the plant round the nursery and I was beginning to wonder when it would be handed back to me. However I have already taken a few cuttings and Jean will be the first to get a rooted cutting. We shall then both have a nice souvenir of our day out.
For my second vase, I just went around the garden and have assembled material I have shown in previous weeks. I don't seem to be able to pose the vase with good enough light or contrast, but this week the posting of this vase is here, so that I have a record of what is still doing well in the garden. The only new item is a piece of the Ballota pseudotdiamnus which is now settled nicely into the garden. I love the structure of this plant, and the stems are just like soft woolly pipe cleaners.
Hawkshead look so pure and pretty in the little bottle Noelle - such a sweet vase. And your secons one is really balance in both shape and colour - the asters are particularly lovely against the dark green foliage. Thanks for sharing
ReplyDeleteI love your new Fuchsia, Noelle! The second vase is pretty too and I found your comments about the Ballota intriguing. A friend gave me a few Ballota seedlings, which promptly died, but now I may have to search it out and try again.
ReplyDeleteJean and I saw the plant too in the Italianate garden at Iford designed by Peto. Its a few years ago that I saw this plant for the first time. It needs good drainage and light. Beth Chatto said the drier the better. I saw it growing in the wild, on our recent holiday to Crete too. Might be worth trying growing from cuttings.
DeleteOh both such pretty vases Noelle. I like the aster and is that fabulous flash of pink an achillea? I think that I have 'Hawkshead' too although I never had a name for the plant as I took it as a cutting from a mature shrub growing in an open space. I will have to include it in a vase one of these days :)
ReplyDeleteThanks Anna, Taking cuttings and growing plants for the garden...a passion we share!! Yes it is an Achillea Millefolium 'Lilac Beauty' well spotted.
DeleteLove the Fuchsia and the mix in your second vase - the Achillea is very pretty.
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