Whats in Your Vase?

[Snadger]

At this time I cut mostly roses for the vase.
The very pale ones we call Aunt Marion - it came from my mother in laws Aunt.
The darker pink one is Zepherin Drouhin - grows on a north facing wall where it never sees the sun.
The peachy one - not shown to its best advantage here - is Buff Beauty. A truly gorgeous rose.
My best rose - Morning Jewel - did its best in May, and wouldn't show it at less than its best. But truly spectacular at its best. It will come again.
And fill my vases.
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Don't know about the others but I bet the Zepherine fills the room with a wonderful scent

[Flummery]

This week's inhabitants of the Vase of Delights (floral equivalent of Smug Trug!) are alchemilla, ox-eye daisy, feverfew, greater burnet, purple toadflax, a few masterwort and a big umbellifer which is actually a carrot - snipped from under the bird feeder! A little of what you fancy ...!

[dexterdoglancashire]

Thank you for sharing your lovely flowers Alice and Flummery - they have brightened up my day! Bernie

[Alice]

You're right Snadger, beautifully scented. The Buff Beauty smells gorgeous too. It's a big shrub and the scent fills the garden when the air is still. They have all spent their lives standing in the rain this year with no significant damage to the flowers so good weather resistance too.
Nice arrangement Flummery. Thank you. I think flowers from the garden look so much more interesting than flowers from the florist which tend to be always the same things.
Anybody else want to let us see what's in their vase ?

[Alison]

I prefer my flowers in the garden as they last so much longer and whilst I like frest flowers I always think they look really sad when they die! Added to this, OH has really bad hayfever so we don't have flowers much. Mind you, I try to put attractive plants near the kitchen window so that I can see them in the garden when I'm doing the washing up.

[Flummery]

I like a few garden flowers in the house - many tend to put fresh growth out if you pick so they keep coming. I really don't like to buy cut flowers because many are flown in or grown here in heated glass houses and I resent the carbon footprint they have. My Ma, who I think deliberately misunderstands me, always comes in and says 'I thought you didn't like cut flowers!' She bought me an absolutley ghastly pot plant the other week 'instead of cut flowers' which looks like the middle leaves have gone septic! I'm trying to kill it by not watering but it's a toughie!

Just realised my flowers are very like Jennie's - we grow the same stuff obviously!

[cms]

Sweet Peas, a really pretty variegated lamium and some kind of vetch (soft green divided leaves and small dark pink flowers) and then I have added the seed heads from the self seeded field poppies - they might be pretty but I don't want this many next year so the seed heads are getting daily culling!

Having only moved to this garden this year it has been fascinating to see what has appeared - the sweet peas were the only thing in this posy that I had planted and I grew them specifically to cut whilst they provide a quick coverage on the boundary until the clematis and passion flower get established.

[dexterdoglancashire]

Sorry, couldn't resist! Bernie

[JennieAtkinson]

L-o-v-e-r-l-y Bernie! Here's one I started earlier ?

[Two_Sheds]

Its Feverfew Two Sheds !

Nah. S'not. I grow feverfew, but this plant is at least twice the height and spread, and the flowers are all white, not with a yellow centre.

I have eaten feverfew for headache...its got to be the bitterest thing I ever tasted...never again

[Alice]

Nice one CMS and welcome to the Vine.
DDL - that just had to be you !
Two sheds , the pics not very clear, but if it smells awful it's probably some kind of Marguerite. I can't stand the smell of them either.

[JennieAtkinson]

Lovely selection CMS - another Scottish collection!

[heebiejeebie]

Later I will have a few dahlias from the front garden and some green stuff from the back to set them off. I don't have much cuttable - only started planting pretty flowers last summer.

[Flummery]

Sorry, couldn't resist! Bernie [ATTACH]2558[/ATTACH]

You old wind-up merchant you!

[Flummery]

Nah. S'not. I grow feverfew, but this plant is at least twice the height and spread, and the flowers are all white, not with a yellow centre.

I have eaten feverfew for headache...its got to be the bitterest thing I ever tasted...never again

I think it's the double one Two Sheds. Mine is like that and it IS a kind of feverfew. Honest.