This delightful vase with its stylish array of stems and grasses is fairly typical of the kind of jar of specimens which often lurks on the kitchen windowsill. Do not be deceived by this elegant arrangement by the Head Gardener, there is rather more to this than meets the eye. The arrangement features marram grass
Monday Vase
In a Vase on Monday: Venetian Glass
These are the first sweet peas to be grown in the croft garden. Sweet peas are one of my nostalgia plants and this year I decided that I would try to grow a small number just for the pleasure of having a handful of these beautifully perfumed, delicate flowers in a glass. The seeds were
In a Vase on Tuesday
The first of the roses in my In a Vase on Monday has opened and the perfume is enough to bring out the sun on a grey Hebridean morning. This is for Annette who gardens in Aberdeen and everyone who enjoys Cathy’s In a vase on Monday meme.
In a Vase on Monday – Only a Rose
It was five o’clock and I’d still not organised my Monday vase – once again the cottage garden had failed me and it was a choice of a bowl of strawberries or a bunch of buttercups. A third of the way through June and the garden was still not producing anything to inspire me
In a Vase on Monday – Irises
Alas my contributions to Cathy’s meme are somewhat erratic and it looked as if I was set for another failure. Yesterday was wet and windy and today the mist rolled in enveloping everything in a thick white blanket. Somehow a bunch of chervil with a few insignificant white umbels was too feeble, but that was