My vase today is a hotch potch of late blooming flowers namely :
- A trio of very pink and frilly cosmos flowers - these emerged from a packet of the annual cosmos bipannatus 'Double Click Cranberries' which they are most definitely not. At least this colourway was only to be found on one plant - the others being true to their name but to my surprise I've become quite fond of this errant imposter.
- A single flower of the lovely perennial that is aster frikartii 'Mönch' - with larger flowers than aster 'Little Carlow' but a very similar colour.
- A couple of geranium 'Azure Rush' flowers. I've bought a couple of plants to replace two hardy geranium 'Rozanne' plants which have been occupying space in a border for about five years or so. I love 'Rozanne' but she sprawls and rudely elbows her neighbours out of the way. 'Azure Rush' is very similar in colour, flowers just as late on into autumn but fingers crossed has a more compact habit. I plan to pass a 'Rozanne' on to a friend if she's amenable to providing her with a good home and use the other in a pot.
Thanks Cathy for your excellent hosting skills. 'In A Vase On Monday' can be found weekly over at Cathy's blog 'Rambling in The Garden' when bloggers from all over share their weekly pickings.
It's been a dry and settled week with pleasant temperatures ideal for getting on with gardening jobs including bulb planting and the serious leg of seemingly never ending task of leaf sweeping and bagging up. Fortunately for me himself does more than his fair share of this as there are a number of large trees in the vicinity. Serious rain stopped play yesterday though and it looks as if we're in for a mainly wet week ahead so I'll be retreating to the greenhouse to do some more bulb planting in pots. I've also got one or two September sown hardy annuals that I'm going to risk pricking out into small pots before it gets much colder. I wonder what everybody else is up to in their gardens this coming week 🤔
Your pretty cosmos looks as if it is Double Click Rose BonBon - I do like these frilly ones which are all I grow now, although mine finished a few week back. I have Azure Rush too, in one of the beds under the clematis colonnade and have just had to replace a couple of them which struggled in the dry summer as they were still establishing. I love little teeny posies like yours today, Anna - such pleasure from such a small package! Good luck with your undercover jobs jobs - progress on my list has ground to a halt!
ReplyDeleteThose flowers look happy to be together, Anna! I wish Geranium 'Rozanne' even just survived in my garden. I grew it successfully in my former garden just 15 miles away but it sure didn't appreciate this one. The only true geraniums I've had luck with here are 'Tiny Monster' (which despite its name is well-behaved) and Geranium incanum, which is literally a weed. The latter came with the garden and I can't rid myself of it no matter how I try.
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ReplyDeleteVery pretty Anna! I agree with Cathy, that Cosmos could be the Double click Rose Bonbon which I grew a couple of years ago. Azure Rush is certainly as lovely as Rozanne - the latter really can be a thug, can't she! I moved one last year and will probably have to remove it altogether this autumn as she is smothering her neighbours! Enjoy pottering and bulb planting this week Anna.
ReplyDeleteVery pretty arrangement, Anna, the pinks and blues are positively glowing. It's been raining a lot this week and the branches and leaves are coming down in heaps in today's storm, so here too leaf collecting season has arrived and will continue well into the new year. To be honest living in the woods means that we have to clean up around the house all year. Must get my bulbs into the pots too, thanks for reminding me. Happy autumn days to you both
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