In a vase on Monday - Whatever we can find.

This is what we have been looking out at pretty much all weekend:

It is very mild though, that's about the best you can say about it apart from the fact it is quite atmospheric! Two days is enough though.

I have created two vases though. This is the first:

I pruned these off a smallish beech tree which is near our front gate. Some bits were pushing their way through the gate so needed a trim. I used my favourite vase and glass beads as suggested by Cathy. Thank you.

Then I remembered that there is one thing flowering so I should take advantage of that:

Mahonia flowers, I don't know what variety. Shown here with Heuchera 'Midnight Bayou'. For some reason doing fantastically well when others are a soggy mess. It's a little bit too much like a begonia for my liking but such wonderful colours and patterns on the leaves. Also a grass. I call it Hilda's Grass. I collected the seed when I used to look after her garden for her and have grown it ever since. Hilda has now sadly passed away but her memory lives on in my garden. It's a lovely bronze and green grass which gets quite big, falls gracefully and is perennial but I don't know what it is.

Now does anybody recognise this:

These are my plant labels, I've been collecting them in my shed for a year and a half. Last week I wrote all the names in this beautiful book which my daughter gave me last Christmas.

 
 

 I earmarked it for this job but have never got round to actually doing it. The labels are now stored away in a box too. I wrote the names of the plants and where I have planted them. 
How do you organise yours? Do you keep them in a box, with the plant or throw them?

For more colourful and creative vases visit Rambling in the Garden - In a vase on Monday - hosted by Cathy. It will make you look again at what you grow.