Lavatera Marguerite and Campion in a weck jar – 20 July 2015
The garden is looking lush this week, especially my pots and hanging baskets, but I’m a bit perplexed about how to pick the flowers for vases. So this week there are only three flowers in my Vase on a Monday’. They are:
- Lavatera × clementii ‘Rosea’ – which was another gift from my mum. It was the first thing I planted in my garden and reminds me of my mum’s house where I grew up. They’re a magnet for bees too.
- Campion – it’s a really vivid pink – the photos don’t do it justice. The plant came in a pot from my mum’s garden a couple of years ago in a bit of a sorry state. It took a while to get going but it just keeps flowering for most of the summer.
- A white Margarite (Argyranthemum frutescens) – it grows about four foot high, flowers for most of the summer. Sadly I don’t know the name. We bought it at Tatton Park Flower Show a couple of years ago. I really love Daisy-style flowers and have quite a few different plants around the garden. Always room for a few more 🙂
Marguerites, campion and dragonflies – 20th July 2015
The ‘vase’ originally had risotto rice and dried herbs in it (which made a lovely dinner) and I bought it in Lidl last year and saved it for my chutney. It’s a Weck Jar who are the German equivalent of Kilner, founded in Oflingen Germany in 1895. The logo is a cute strawberry. It’s about 6 inches high and it amused me that, according to their website, it’s actually a juice jar.
weck juice jar – with strawberry logo – 20 July 2015
Do have a look at all the lovely vases hosted by Cathy over on Rambling in the Garden.
This week she has beautiful, restful and serene white flowers including a lovely dahlia. Anyone can join in – I enjoy looking at everyone’s vases very much and it gives me such a lot of ideas for my garden.
There are some lovely dahlias in many of the vases – Particularly, I like the landaff style ones (they’re daisy style too) and I’ve got a beauty in my garden at the moment – it might appear in the vase next week.
summer border – hanging baskets, dragonflies and allium 20 July 2015
This week I am very excited because it’s Royal Horticultural Society Tatton Park Flower Show from Thursday to Sunday and the weather is looking good. We are going on Thursday, and I expect some more plants will be arriving in our garden 🙂
Are you going to Tatton? Do you go to other flower shows?
Carpe Diem
love
Bec xx
Bec what a lovely vase in the jar…such bright pink set off by the lovely white daisy!
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thank you donna 🙂 I was really surprised how big the margarite was when it came back after the winter. I have to put a stick when it dies back to remind me not to plant bulbs too close 🙂
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Charming arrangement and I LOVE your dragonflies. 🙂
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Thank you Judy – The dragonflies were made by a retired chap who sells them at a local market – I saw them on twitter – I’ve got a few garden ornaments as it can look very bleak out there in middle of winter 😦
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They are just beautiful. Talented craftsman.
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I am so envious of your garden. Mine is just green, although the buddleia looks like it’s about to bloom 🙂 Tempted to nab a cutting of our neighbours hyacinths though, they’ve gone mad this year!
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The white daisy sings, and the other blooms sing along. Enjoy Tatton Park….
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I would snap up those dragonflies if I saw them too – or perhaps I will study them closely and have a go myself…. The uprights look as if they are hazel so perhaps the bodies are too (unless they are willow), so I have the raw materials… I am intrigued by your campion which i assume is cultivated rather than wild and a perennial rather than an annual – must look it up. Isn’t it lovely to have plants from family member’s gardens with all their associatons? And what an interesting jar you have used for your lovely vase – our Aldi and Lidl are very close to each other but always use Aldi in preference unless I just need milk in which case I go to Lidl as it is usually empty!! Thanks for sharing these snippets today Bec
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they were really cheap Cathy (£20) the body is plated willow (and long bits of willow are bent round) and a hole left so it can be stuck on a stick – I watched the chap make one and it too about 20mins. yes when I think about my garden and plants I love alot of it comes from my mum (my dad mostly pruned and cut the grass).
The original campion my mum cut a chuck off for me has been in her garden for a very long time so I think it is a cultivated one – it’s a really electric pink.
I think lidl is a good bet for interesting jars like this at Christmas – though Aldi has much better plant supplies – though you do need to be fast 🙂 have a good week Cathy 🙂
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Yes, I sometimes even brave Aldi on a Thursday if there is a plant I really want!
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What beautiful flowers. I really love the daisy type ones.
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thank you 🙂
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Lovely daisies and dragonflies. The white flowers seems to float.
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Thank you – there a really great plant and brighten up my shady border and flower for a couple of months too 🙂 still not quite sure about the proper name even after a visit to the nurseries at Tatton Park Flower show,,,,
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