A tiny tiny vase this week to celebrate the ninth anniversary of the most special institution that is 'In A Vase On Monday'. Just the three occupants this week :
- A flower from 'Bathsheba' one of its last few roses and sadly slightly bedraggled. The only rose that is still showing roses in any significant number is the climber 'Blush Noisette', but they are all too high up to reach.
- A stem from the perennial achillea - 'Summer Berries' grown from seed in the autumn of 2020.
- Finally a stem from a small evergreen shrub which is planted in a container in the area in front of the house. It was a purchase from a local garden centre. True to form the label has gone absent without leave and I can't remember the name. I'm hoping that somebody might know.
The vase is an Etsy purchase and is an old ink bottle.
I'm using the same post title as I used to celebrate the third anniversary of IAVOM and indeed in you multiply 3 by 3 what do you get but 9!
I will have to go back into the archives to see when I first posted a vase but it was a good few years ago. Its very existence is a most comforting and reassuring start to the week and for a couple of years or kept my blog afloat. I always look forward to seeing what is everyone's vases and always have pen and paper to hands. None of this would be possible without the love and devotion shown by Cathy over at 'Rambling In The Garden' who who came up with the idea of IAVOM and who has nurtured it like she might well do one of her favourite roses or witch hazels. A huge thank you Cathy and sending you a virtual bouquet 💐 Thank also to all the participants over the years. It was magical to put faces to names yesterday afternoon when there was a virtual get together to celebrate this special ninth anniversary.
Could the mystery plant be a Nandina Domestica variety? (Common name Heavenly Bamboo).
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Ellie
Your tribute to the In a Vase on Monday weekly posts is so apt and touching. You have also chosen a lovely rose to mark the end of the rose season.
ReplyDeleteOh many thanks for your kind words Noelle. She is is lovely rose although not as lovely as I had hoped either in the perfume stakes or in disease resistance.
DeleteHow lovely to have a rose so late in the year. And yes, our virtual meeting was wonderful yesterday and it is now so nice to have a face and voice to accompany your vases!
ReplyDeleteThanks Cathy. She is not as pretty as she was last week - we've had so much rain! I'm sorry that Blogger is thwarting you. Yes our virtual meeting was most enjoyable and as you said we now have both faces and voices in our minds 😂
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ReplyDeleteIt was good to see your face and your smile "in person" on Sunday, Anna! Your rose is lovely and I'm impressed that you've had an extended period of rose blooms this year. My own roses have barely bloomed all year and I'm threatening many of them with eviction to make way for more climate-appropriate succulents. We'll have to see if the threat snaps them into line ;)
ReplyDeleteGood to see you too Kris after all these years 😂 Some roses seem to go very late on the year. 'Blush Noisette' still has clusters of unopened buds but I doubt if they will open as frost will get to them first. Hope that your dire threats work some magic on your roses 🪄
DeleteI have just looked back at my November IAVOM posts from 2013 and most of the handful commenting are no longer or rarely blogging - you were commenting on them, but suggested it would be the following year before you were able to include your own vase..Isn't it lovely to still have some roses, although a bedraggled rose is not always a pretty sight! I am not sure what sort of berries your achillea could be reminiscent of - whitecurrants, I suppose, which I found were spolit by the seeds inside. I think Ellie may be right about the foliage being nandina. Thanks for the virtual bouquet - but of course it wouldn't be a meme if others didn't join in too, so flowers all round, I say! 😁
ReplyDeleteYou're spot on Cathy - I've checked the archives and my first vase was in mid April 2014 😀 The few roses are looking even more bedraggled this week after all the rain we've had thrown at us. Other berries come to mind when you think of 'Summer Berries' 😂 It is a mix and that was the palest shade but still a bit of an enigma. I'm wondering if it is a stray from the 'Summer Pastels' mix 🤔 Thanks for the nandina suggestion - more to be revealed soon.
DeleteGorgeous rose - such a subtle colour and beautiful form
ReplyDeleteOh many thanks for your visit and lovely words Horticat 😀
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