In a Vase on Monday - Snowflakes and Victorian Lace

 It was great to meet some of the In a Vase on Monday crew yesterday.  Cathy who set up this weekly get together, is now bringing us together from time to time via a zoom meeting.  I had not read the full email sending us the links, and therefore I was not prepared properly.  We were to have prepared each of us, to talk about about favourite garden book.  I scribbled widely as people talked about their suggestions.  In the second half Annette talked us through how she best deals with the drought and high temperatures during the summer time, as experienced in Central France and in a rain shadow area high up in Switzerland which although a little cooler also lacks previous rainfall amounts.

Here in the UK in the South West it has been a cooler and wetter April than the previous few years, but it is still best to be prepared for the summer months, so many tips from Annette's talk are now on my action list.

If I were to skim read through the list of flowers then maybe Snowflakes and Victoria Lace would jump out, and that is how I arrived at the title for today's vase.  And you thought I ought to be showing Victorian Lace covered with snowflakes, well in terms of flowers and plants from the garden I hope these will please you just as much.

The squirrels, yes we  have several have been nibbling at the acer, and only one branch low down escaped the grazing.  It looked quite strange only a couple of feet or so from the ground, so these few leaves from my prunning off of this, is joining in as the soft green element. The Victorian lace element is in the little Primula Victoria Gold Lace, and the snowflakes are from Iberis sempervirens 'Snowflake'.  The yellow flowers at the back are those of Epimedium versicolor sulphureum, and joining the vase for the first time is Persicaria runcinata Purple Fantasy.

I'm looking forward to seeing what Cathy and others vases are like this week.