I’m joining Cathy’s group at Rambling in the Garden‘s this week with my first windowsill vase of the year, featuring today the deep purple, blue and yellow of Hyacinth ‘Woodstock,’ Muscari latifolium and Narcissus ‘Jetfire.’ Perhaps it’s something to do with the mild winter we’ve just come through, but I’m noticing already more and larger […]
Tag: cut flowers
In a Vase, on Monday – Escape
You know I have cats, right? And cats like to do cat things, like hop on tables. Nibble plants. Play with things that make crinkly noises. Which is why the strawflowers I dried last fall, the ones that escaped my cat Valjean’s midnight marauding, are high up on top of the dining room buffet-thingy, instead of on the living […]
In a Vase, on Monday – A Seasonal Final Hurrah
This may be my favourite vase of the year, featuring a few stems from each of this year’s cutting garden stalwarts: Zinnia, Verbena bonariensis, Dahlia, strawflowers and the very last gladiola to bloom. I feel a bit guilty posting this today because the flowers were cut and pictures taken two weeks ago, but the British […]
In a Vase, on Monday – Golden Jugs
No, not those kind of jugs, the kind that can hold water, and can be used as a vessel for cut flowers, as in the garden meme hosted by Cathy at Rambling in the Garden every Monday. I spotted this particular jug back in August at my favourite local vintage store and was struck by […]
In a Vase, on Monday – Oktoberfest
It’s mid October and I can pillage and plunder the cutting garden with abandon. Cooler nights and shorter days mean the season is over, summer loving plants are winding down and before you know it we’ll have frost and snow. When I was asked to fill a few steins with autumnal blooms to decorate the […]
In a Vase, on Monday – Thanksgiving
It’s Thanksgiving Day here in Canada and where I live it’s a bit chilly right now (9 Celsius, 42 Fahrenheit), very grey, windy, and raining. A fairly typical October day although when I think back to just a week ago, when it was 24 and sunny, it seems the leap to autumn has been quite […]
In a Vase, on Monday – Ribbit!
A different kind of frog helping out today’s vase of cut flowers.
In a Vase, on Monday – Fireworks
Operators of a campground on the shores of Lake Ontario not far from here have apparently decided to shoot off fireworks every long weekend this year. Not a bad thing, unless your dog is one of those petrified by the loud bangs, and quite pretty from the back windows. I was reminded of the fireworks […]
In a Vase, On Monday – Glad for Gladioli
Joining my kitchen windowsill collection of flower-filled smallish vases this past week has been a jug of severely cut down gladioli. I love glads – their colour tones, structure, how they open from the bottom, allowing you to pull off fading blooms but still keep the flower stalk going as higher up blooms open. I […]
In a Vase, on Monday, Snaps and Dahlias
More Dahlias, this time with Snapdragons, for this week’s vase of cut flowers.