In a Vase on Monday. Hello Possums!

This week I am transmit Dame Edna with a vase of gladdies . I have only grown the dainty dwarf ones before because the big ones are too buckram and gawky for the flowerbed and rent ’s be honest they are really a bit naff , peculiarly the gargantuan ones . But I bought a few really cheap packet of corms at the supermarket for the newspaper clipping bed . And I really wish them in a vase . This one is calledGladiolus ‘ Fiorentina ’ . I picked all these flowers and there are passel of buds to add up .

The roses are not from the garden , they were a gift from my endearing supporter , Kitty . I seldom buy flowers so it is a treat to receive a endowment like this . These roses have been in a vase for over a week and they are still new and beautiful . I pulled off the shrivel leave and novel leaves are growing . shop class - corrupt roses usually remind me of furled up umbrella but these are really pretty . No scent but still adorable . I am go to try and come to a cutting from one of them .

On the table I have my flower brick with mostly white and blue flowers . The white bloom areAchillea ptarmica . I am not a great sports fan of achilleas but this one is very utile for blossom arranging . It flops around in the garden but I leave behind it in a niche of the garden for picking . It is a fleck like genus Gypsophila but with heavy flowers .

The foliage is fromPittospermum tenufolium”Elizabeth ’ . I used two downcast flowers , the pale wild blue yonder is the’Ugly - noseSalvia ulignosa and the fluffy one is the perennial tall growingAgeratum corymbosum . really it is not perennial in the garden because it ca n’t take frost but it is easy from cuttings . There is a scrap of purpleAgastache‘Black Adder ’ and pink spikes ofPersicaria amplexicaulis . The fluffy heads are fromPennisetum villosum .

give thanks you Cathy atRambling in the Gardenfor boost bloggers to put blossom in a Vase on Monday . Do go and see how originative so many bloggers are with arrangements of flowers from their garden .

37 Responses toIn a Vase on Monday. Hello Possums!

I ’ve never been a sports fan of gladiolas either ( they make me cerebrate of funerals ) but I ’ve begun to warm up to them as I imagine their usefulness in vessel . Yours are beautiful . And , I noted a relatively rare concurrence in the fact that we ’re both growing the same Achillea . This is the first time of year for mine but so far it ’s deal our ( admittedly meek ) summer well .

I ’m never certain about gladiolus either . Yours are very pretty though . Having said that , last year I had some which I ’d grown from a cheap packet of bulbs as a trial . This spring I dug them up ( Brobdingnagian bulbs ) to move them and pile them into a large pot and I ’ve never ascertain them since . No - one take on to move them . It ’s a closed book . I do need more August colour so perhaps gladiolus would fit the card . Beautiful fluffy green goddess which look very haptic .

In a Vase on Monday. Hello Possums!