In a vase on Monday – Still they come!

I wasn’t sure I’d have time to post today, but just couldn’t resist sharing these Pink Flower Carpet roses which are still going strong now!

To these I’ve added the much used Cerinthe (which is currently popping up everywhere and looking surprisingly ‘springy’), a couple of stems of both Salvia and Erysimum and then a few stems of Leptospermum.  

Well, having a quick dash into the garden and plonking these in a vase has definitely cheered up my Monday.  Why don’t you pop over to Cathy’s blog to see what everyone else has been picking and plonking artfully arranging?

In a vase on Monday – Pro tem posy

Whilst the garden (and my job!) continue to go to hell in a hand basket, there are still pockets of beauty to be found – particularly on such a stunning October day.

I’m temporarily enjoying this little posy, picked to take to lunch at my neighbours, as it captures some of the remaining highlights:

Pink flower carpet roses and Prince Edward sweet peas

Zinnias (Queen Red Lime and Benary Giant Lime)

and Salvias (sorry not sure which one)

Why don’t you pop over to Cathy’s blog to see what others have been picking on this glorious day?

In a vase on Monday – Moody loos

So I popped into the garden at lunch time to pick some blooms and it really looked like the end of the world.  The light was a deep orangey/black, apparently caused by Saharan sand whipped up by Hurricane Ophelia.  Weird!

This equally moody amalgamation consists solely of blooms from the mid century bed – Dahlia ‘La Recoleta’

Rosa ‘Munstead Wood’ (just seen bottom left) and Salvia.  Not sure which this one is, but it has a delicious blackcurrant scent to the leaves.

And why the title?  I think you can guess..

With thanks to Cathy who hosts all our vases, wherever we put them!

Garden bloggers’ Bloom Day – December 2014

If you look hard enough there are still quite a number of blooms blooming in the garden. Some, including the geranium above, more unexpected than others.

I certainly wouldn’t have expected this number of roses in December, but they are the exceptions –

In other garden beds there are still Asters (A. frikartii Monch) Penstemon

Salvia

Erysimum ‘Bowles Mauve’

Verbena bonariensis

Bergenia 

Viburnum tinus

Rosmarinus prostratus

and Leptospermum, featured in last Monday’s vase.

And in pots, Echeveria,

Cyclamen

and Correa backhouseana.

And in the greenhouse, plants that really should know better by now, Geranium,

Plumbago

and beautiful Zaluzianskya ovata, Night Phlox.

Please join Carol at May Dream Gardens to see what others have blooming in their gardens at this time of year.