Monday 15 June 2020

In a Vase on Monday - Dark

Cathy this week has sweetpeas arranged beautifully a little posy.  Light and airy, and I look forward to seeing other arrangements from others joining in with Cathy's weekly In a Vase on Monday gathering.

Just how dark red can a rose get?  







What a wonderful perfume from just a single stem but with multiple roses.  Rose Munstead Wood is here paired with some stems from Phlomis  pupurea Matagallo. Its pink flowers are now largely over, but I love the woolly stems and the seed pods along the stem.  I chose stems that were growing from low down and had taken on a more twisty form.  The flowers have been a favourite of  bumblebees.  




The Vase is one which belonged to my parents.  It was brought back by my father from Japan, when I was very young, as a present for my mother, and it is one of my very favourite vases.  Each time I use it it brings back happy memories.


8 comments:

  1. The second picture is a very painterly photograph and in the first the shapes show so well against the plain wall. Just right. Lovely.

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  2. I do love Munstead Wood! You have a rich and perfumed vase there! Beautiful. I had a Munstead Wood rose in my tiny border in the garden but it was just getting too big for the space, and the intense dark colour of the flower was a little too dark for that flowerbed (if you see what I mean!) so I moved it to the area we have outside the garden. It is blooming but not nearly as profusely as it did in the garden. Probably needs feeding! Lovely vase! A https://therunningwave.blogspot.com/2020/06/clocking-time-in-vase-on-monday.html

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  3. We share similar flower color and vase shapes this week! Yours has the perfect scale and balance. The rose is beautiful.

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  4. Munstead Wood is one of my very favourite roses so it is a delight to see it in your vase, and I have been hankering after a pink or purple phlomis for some time, so that makes your vase doubly attractive - and then there is the actual vase itself, which looks so tactile and shapely. It's win win win today, Noelle - thank you!

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  5. That's a most striking vase Noelle. I have 'Munstead Wood'. Not only are the flowers so delicious they smell as a rose should.

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  6. What a gorgeous rose! I wish I could smell it. I recently planted Phlomis purpurea in my own garden, having previously killed it. Of course, only a week after it was planted, we had our first heatwave but I managed to get it through that with just a couple of singed leaves. As summer is definitely here, I've been keeping my eye on it and my fingers crossed.

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  7. The rose lloks as if it is made out of velvet. What a pleasing combination with a Japanese feel to it.

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    1. Thanks Sandra, the vase is just perfect for simple arrangements.

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