When I walked around the garden between bouts of rain to see what I might spotlight for October Bloom Day, I realized I did not have any great sweep of fall plants. Instead I discovered a number of flowers making statements but on a small scale.
Thus I decided to clip them and make a bouquet that could do double duty for Bloom Day and In a Vase on Monday. As you can see I ended up filling four little vases (left to right): one to put above the kitchen sink, one to take to the hostess of a gathering of women friends on Saturday morning, one for my bathroom and one for Mark's.
I love this stretchy brown paper that comes around mail order plants. I've always wanted to use it in some kind of art project so here's my first attempt at doing just that. I think it helps tie the grouping together and isolate them from the table they're sitting on.
The polka dot vase holds the last of the Sedum 'Autumn Joy,' blood grass and leaves of Heuchera 'Lava Lamp'. The gift vase has Sedum 'Autumn Joy,' toad lilies, golden-scaled male fern fronds (Dryopteris affinis cristata 'The King'), and purple tulips from the grocery.
The tiny purple vase holds diminutive offerings: the first white flower on my autumn blooming Helleborus niger, a toad lily looking away from the camera, a trio of Crocus pulchellus with Heuchera leaves. Mark's bouquet holds just cut Alstroemeria 'Inca Ice' along with blooms that are a week old or more. There's Epimedium rubrum foliage, Hemerocallis 'Stella door,' and Corydalis lutea.
To discover what other gardeners have blooming in their gardens, visit Carol at May Dreams Gardens who hosts this monthly meme. To see what gardeners have put into a vase, visit Cathy at Rambling in the Garden who hosts that weekly meme.
