I picked my flowers for 'In A Vase On Monday' yesterday in the sunshine as the forecast was for heavy rain today which has turned out to be spot on. It was good to enjoy a weekend of calm and sunshine and to blot out the outer world albeit for a short time. My vase contains some familiar friends in the shape of :
- The dear little narcissus 'Téte-à-Téte' which stand up well to all that the elements throw at them and just make me smile whenever they come into flower each year.
- Some lilac sprigs of the perennial cardamine quinqufolia. This plant will forever in my mind unfortunately be associated with the compost toilet at our allotment, which was officially opened by our then local M.P. in April 2012. I bought the plant at a plant sale run by the local Cheshire and Friends group of The Hardy Plant Society. I had a rushed round the stalls and grabbed this plant and a few others, before rushing back to the allotment where I was charged with the task of meeting the M.P. It was a small plant at the time with just a couple of fading flowers but it now has morphed into a substantial lilac carpet. It comes up early in the year and then completely vanishes underground in the summer. It has looked its very best this year. The attractive ferny foliage quite often gets nibbled by some unknown beastie but not a single bite has appeared this year. At least it's one plant that I will always remember where I got it from.
- A couple of iris reticulata 'Clairette' flowers.
- Some galanthus 'Blond Inge' flowers. This is small snowdrop which sometimes misbehaves waywardly as the yellow markings can sometimes appear as a murky shade of olive green as you can see in the photo below. It has the reputation of either being difficult to establish or clumps up well. I have found it to be the latter so it must be happy where it is planted. It is in danger though of being smothered by an arum mamoratum sub. italicum, so I must take some remedial action before that happens
Many thanks to our hostess Cathy who blogs at 'Rambling In The Garden' and kindly invites us to share our vases each Monday. I'm looking forward to seeing what it is in other participant's vases today. I doubt if the contents of my vase apart from the narcissus will last say length of time in the warm of the house hence the title of this post. Still I will get considerable pleasure from gazing upon them for a day or so.
Oh this is so pretty, Anna, the snowdrops are to die for (almost that is!) and the yellow markings go so well with the jug and the other flowers. A luxury container for cream by the way. Have a good week xx
ReplyDeleteThank you Annette. It would be rather nice to have cream arrive in such a container - beats a plastic container any day! I wonder though if these little jugs had stoppers to keep the cream in when it was in transit otherwise it would be rather messy.
DeleteThese are lovely and I especially adore the iris. The cream container is a nice choice. I agree with Annette--it matches the yellow of the snowdrops. Have a great week.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your visit and comment Suzie 😀
DeleteThanks for your visit and comment Suzie 😀
DeleteYOur lilac carpet must be very pretty, Anna �� Sadly, I have tried cardamine a few times without success �� The markings on Blond Inge are just SO yellow! Sadly, they didn't do well for me either, as you have twice supplied me with a bulb and neither hung around... Your crem pot always shows its contents off well, so thanks for sharing them
ReplyDeleteOh that's a shame Cathy - I wonder if you've tried in your woodland area? 'Blonde Inge' seems rather contrary. Maybe worth a third attempt?
DeleteAnna my heart and hands are warmed by y our sweet vase of spring beauties....here we had more snow and bitter cold so no flowers or spring yet!
ReplyDeleteA lovely comment Donna 😀 So glad to glad to warm your heart and hands. I hope that you will soon be enjoying your own flowers.
DeleteHow wonderful to have a lilac carpet! Your recollection of the events surrounding the plant's purchase was entertaining. I hope the compost toilet continues to give service.
ReplyDeleteIt's funny how you have some vivid memories of plant purchases Kris 😂 The cardamine is one I will never forget. As far as I know the toilet has continued to function well. I'm no longer a regular visitor.
DeleteBlond Inge looks special to me. At one time that was a good size jar of cream!
ReplyDeleteShe is rather lovely Brian and yes I suppose that cream jar was rather a generous size.
DeleteThe cream of the crop today Anna. Nice snowdrop and the description of your cardamine is somewhat enticing. I think this year Blonde Inge did not wash her paintbrush properly on the far right snowdrop, the others shows quite yellow this time. It is interesting to observe the intricacies and variations of different varieties in different years. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteNoelle your pun has made me chuckle so thank you 😂
DeleteThe display lifts the spirits and we certainly need them lifting don't we?
ReplyDeleteAs this time of year especially at the present time I think that all our spirits are in need of lifting Sue. I think that sharing flowers across our blogs helps to do that 😀
DeleteThis is a lovely early spring vase Anna! The yellow of the snowdrop is picked up well by the yellow Tête-à-Tête, and the iris is a pretty shade of blue. The story of your Cardamine is amusing! Hope you get some more sunshine this weekend.
ReplyDeleteWe certainly got some sunshine this weekend Cathy 😀 In fact it almost felt warm this afternoon ... well for a short time anyway!
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