The fabulous Cathy at Rambling in the Garden hosts In a Vase on Monday each week encouraging us to bring cuttings in from our gardens or foraged nearby to bring us joy throughout the week. It rained all day on Saturday and Sunday was a very busy day so my foraging took place at our local everything store while I was doing some grocery shopping. Chartreuse chrysanthemums have been catching my eye lately so I decided to bring some home along with some Liatris. Long stems and lots of evergreens that will undoubtedly be re-used, required a heavy and deep vase. This ceramic vase from Thailand has been sitting around gathering dust and waiting to be used.
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Just two kinds of flowers seemed a little sparse. I thought of going out and cutting some euonymus seed pods but, being lazy, decided to forage some tilandsias from the kitchen windowsill.
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Joining the vase for this first week of advent is an iridized floppy vase/bowl that I made years ago along with a purple crystal heart. "...Yet what I can I give Him: give my heart."
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I considered picking the red berries off of the holly branch but decided to leave them even though they don't really go with the flowers.
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Just two kinds of flowers seemed a little sparse. I thought of going out and cutting some euonymus seed pods but, being lazy, decided to forage some tilandsias from the kitchen windowsill.
Callicarpa berries might have looked good in here as well.
Joining the vase for this first week of advent is an iridized floppy vase/bowl that I made years ago along with a purple crystal heart. "...Yet what I can I give Him: give my heart."
I considered picking the red berries off of the holly branch but decided to leave them even though they don't really go with the flowers.
Happy Monday all!