A speedy pick and plonk from me for this week's 'In A Vase On Monday'. In my vase are :
- The soft lilac flowers of cardamine quinquefolia. This is a hardy perennial which starts working it's magic in January when the foliage starts to emerge before it flowers in February through to March. Almost as quickly as it appears the foliage fades and retreats under cover by early summer. My small pot of this plant has now produced a pool of colour which combines well with snowdrops and hellebores. Here is is last year growing in the garden along with galanthus 'Blonde Inge' :
- A couple of stems of of the dainty white flowers of oemleria cerasformis also known as the Indian plum or Oregon plum. This shrub is new to me, purchased last year and still I'm ashamed to confess in its pot awaiting a decision as to where it will be planted. I was tempted after hearing a description of it during a Zoom presentation by the Galanthus Group of the Hardy Plant Society. The speaker described it as being winter flowering and delightfully scented. I panicked somewhat after my purchase when I read another description of the scent being like cat wee but I'm pleased to report that the aroma is most pleasing to my nose.
Thanks as ever to Cathy over at 'Rambling In The Garden' for her steadfast hosting. Do visit her blog and see what other bloggers are sharing in their vases this Monday.
I've been absent for a few weeks but hope to be posting more regularly. The incessant grey and wet weather affected my gardening mojo but I'm glad to say that it's back. The weather has definitely been drier and warmer of late with a couple of positively balmy sunny days thrown in recently for good measure. The first seeds have been sown and there are more to follow this week. Spring is definitely knocking!
Blonde Inge is out late in the day - is she the last of yours to bloom? Mine very sudden;y seemed to be over, as were my commons, as if those warm sunny days were too much for them to cope with. She looks very much at home with the cardamine and equally pretty in the vase - if it was still light I would hotfoot it outside to see if my cardamine was flowering too. I don't know the oemleria at all and will check that out, as I like my winter performers, as you know
ReplyDeleteLovely, Anna. I mistook your cardamine quinquefolia for phlox, which I love. Glad the oemleria fragrance had been misrepresented.
ReplyDeleteThe Cardamine is so pretty - I think Chloris also posted some last weekend. I only know the C. pratensis that grows wild here and flowers somewhat later. Glad your garden mojo is back! Hopefully you'll get some nice weather to help too.
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