It's officially winter and the garden is offering some lovely small and highly fragrant blooms. On still sunny days, the garden's heady incense is a joy. Today's vase is a Chinese cloisonné bowl found at a thrift shop a couple of days ago for fifty cents. Into it went Lonicera fragrantissima, Sarcococca, Viburnum × bodnantense ‘Dawn,' some colorful calyxes of Abelia, and a couple of sprigs of Garrya elliptica. Just these few blooms are perfuming the entire room.
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Finally, a crystal cluster (milky quartz?) that looks a bit snowy and therefore appropriately wintery. I know little about rocks - they somehow follow me home .
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As always, thanks to our marvelous host, Cathy at Rambling in the Garden for encouraging us to bring a little of the outside into our homes to enjoy each week. Click over to her blog to see more Monday vases!
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Joining the arrangement is this Japanes plate, a thrift store find from years ago.
As always, thanks to our marvelous host, Cathy at Rambling in the Garden for encouraging us to bring a little of the outside into our homes to enjoy each week. Click over to her blog to see more Monday vases!
Well dear readers, that's it for 2018. May your new year be full of beauty, love, joy, and prosperity!