In A Vase on Monday

Each Monday, Cathy at Rambling in the garden challenges us to cut some things from our garden to bring inside and enjoy for the week.  Thank you, Cathy for being our host and causing me to throw something together on Sunday afternoon.  Go here to see more arrangements.

Camellias are blooming, species tulips, snowdrops, early narcissus, stachyurus praecox, daphne odora,  an explosion of hellebores along with things that have been blooming for a while now. Although it's still winter, it feels and looks like spring.  Today was a bit blustery and cold but mostly, it feels like spring.  I noticed this bird or other critter-planted ornamental plum beginning to bloom and decided it would be great to try and do something ikebana-esque with them and also cut a nice bunch of berries from the Pernettya mucronata.

After several minutes of searching for a perfect vase for a minimalist arrangement and several more minutes trying to make branches stay in place and do something minimalist, I gave up and cut some camellias and stachyurus praecox to join these in a different vase.

The Stachyurus didn't work well and the Pernettya berries looked a bit heavy for the bright, light spring flowers so they are in a separate vase by themselves.