Mark's book group met at our house last night. These guys start their meetings with pie and ice cream before they dig into the book they've just read, so I got a treat as well.
I decided the meeting was a good excuse for me to cut some flowers for indoors. The overnight lows are creeping downward and I want a chance to enjoy anything that is flowering before they get hit by frost.
I brought in this Begonia boliviensis 'San Francisco' to see if it's anything I can overwinter. I cut it back a bit and did an early Halloween display with the prunings. I love its long drooping stems dripping with these big bright blooms.
My Monkshoods are dramatically tall this year and have just started to open in the last couple of days. I thought it needed a spray of equally dramatic foliage. This leaf is from Begonia 'Cotes de Cotillion' that I overwintered and am going to try doing it again. Currently it is an immense plant that make a gorgeous statement by our front door.
These flowers are typically a very dark blue, so we'll see if that still happens once they're cut. They look a little pale to me. I love to watch the blooms open down the stem starting at the top.
The bench by our front door has a small orange pumpkin on each seat. But it's this big blue/gray/greeny squash that is my Farmer's Market prize. I love these subtle colors which perfectly echo the ceramics.
Good morning, Linda! You arrange such lovely vignettes. Just goes to show its not so much what you have, but how you work it. With your good eye, it works beautifully. That gorgeous purple of the monkshood and the deeper red purple of the begonia leaf, inside the simple vase with a deep indigo motif, next to a bowl splashed with indigo, next to a tray with a cacophony of indigo pattern. And that's just one! Little pieces of eye candy everywhere, all over your house. Delightful! What kind of pie?
Posted by: Elizabeth | Tuesday, October 10, 2023 at 09:11 AM