A strange alien attempting to eat an owl?
A low-hanging branch of Magnolia macrophylla had to be cut so that it didn't thwack passersby in the face. Not a problem in the garden but out on the public sidewalk, people aren't so keen.
I threw it in a large mug in the kitchen and enjoyed the fragrance as it waited to find a vase. the owl was still waiting to be put away after having been used in a previous IAVOM post. There didn't seem to be anything that would work with this huge bloom so there it sat, spewing it's anthers(?) on the counter. Do you suppose that the owl is simply disgusted that the magnolia seems to have vomited on the counter?
These ceramic items seemed to go together nicely: A pink shell vase from the fifties that I've had since high school, some blue Wellies that were going to be used during the seemingly endless wet spell we had, and a grenade-shaped vase found at Portland Nursery.
Perhaps one could say that early work in the garden "shell" lead to an explosion of bloom?
Filling the vases are:
Deutzia 'Strawberry Fields'
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Senecio leucostachys (Thanks Denise for the ID.)
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Tanacetum parthenium
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Linaria purpurea
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Throw in a little Euonymus foliage and call it a day.
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Oops, forgot the Wellies when I took this picture outside before bringing everything inside.
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Senecio leucostachys (Thanks Denise for the ID.)
Tanacetum parthenium
Linaria purpurea
Oops, forgot the Wellies when I took this picture outside before bringing everything inside.
Sincere thanks to Cathy at Rambling in the Garden for hosting this rather addictive meme!