We've had a cold and wet spring so far with no significant change predicted for the next few weeks. Despite the sogginess and chill, plants are blooming and beginning to leaf out. My choice of container this week is a crystal pitcher because since it's pouring outside, it might as well be pouring inside as well.
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The bright side of our cold spring is that snow in the mountains continues to fall and isn't melted by warmer temperatures which insures plenty of water for late summer when we sometimes run a bit low.
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While it would be nice to say that I went outside between showers, that would be impossible as the rain came down constantly from shortly after dawn and continued through the night. Skipping a vase this week was a temptation but since I had to brave the rain to water the plants in the greenhouse, some flowers got cut on the way back inside. Some camellias, Stachyurus praecox, and Lonicera nitida ‘Baggesen's Gold’ got plopped into the pitcher.
Spring is full of possibilities for new life and a new gardening season as represented by a trio of pysanky eggs from the Ukraine and a few glass eggs from Italy.
The bright side of our cold spring is that snow in the mountains continues to fall and isn't melted by warmer temperatures which insures plenty of water for late summer when we sometimes run a bit low.
Just think, soon it might even be warm enough for eggs to start hatching!
Many thanks to Cathy at Rambling in the Garden who hosts In A Vase On Monday. Click here to see her arrangement this week and to find links to those of other participating bloggers.