About my garden

Monday 15 October 2018

Purples and blue


A few of the blues and purples around at the moment. 


I've got Scabious, Aster, Salvia, White Achillea, Flax, Catanache, Verbena bonariensis and Daucus carota. 
The funniest thing I've used is Elaeagnus ebbingei flowers. We pruned a hedge and have a huge pile of prunings. I think some will be useful for weaving into wreaths. The flowers are tiny and white and smell delicious (at the front and far right of the vase). I cut off all the leaves and popped in the stems. 
As usual I'm joining in with Cathy at Rambling in the Garden for In a Vase on Monday


This is a bouquet I made for a friend's 50th on Saturday. Luckily some of my dahlias survived the storm. I should have cut them on Friday but there were enough still upright, amazingly. 
Her partner threw a surprise party with balloons, cake, a band, food and then finished the evening by proposing! Quite an evening, happy faces all around. 
Dahlia's are Karma Lagoon (front) and Karma Naomi. I think Thomas A Edison is peeping out from the back. 

8 comments:

  1. Both arrangements are gorgeous and with so many blooms still going strong in your garden, one would never suspect that it's the middle of October already.

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    1. The cold temperature makes me feel as though it's October.

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  2. What a good range of blooms you still have and that eleagnus looks useful - it's not something I have ever grown, but perhaps I should. Glorious bouquet for your friend's happy occasion too - thaks for sharing both

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    1. It makes a very good hedge and has beautiful leaves. Elaeagnus quicksilver is a lovely airy shrub but does sucker.

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  3. Oh my, they are both so beautiful! I have tried twice to grow scabious but the first time they got choked out by bigger plants and this year they just didn't come up. I love the soft colors of yours! :)

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    1. Thank you. The best scabious plants I have had have overwintered and been bigger and better in spring.

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  4. Both arrangements are luscious, Alison. I really need to find a purple-y dahlia like 'Karma Lagoon' for my cutting garden next year.

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  5. Your Scabious are beautiful - such big flowers - and look lovely with asters etc. And that bouquet is gorgeous! :)

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