There’s a simple joy in going out to your garden, cutting some flowers, then sticking them in a favourite vase.
You don’t even need to spend any time arranging them if you don’t feel like it, just bunch them up and let them do their thing. Their beauty is in their forms, colours, scents, and the way they blend with their vase companions.
Of course, you could always take time to make them sit ‘just so’ to complement each other and create a pleasing shape, but sometimes it’s ok not to.
It’s mid to late spring here, the weather is hotting up, so flowers are at their peak. It’s been a wonderful spring so far for most flowering plants; roses have been sublime.
I’m not sure which rose this one is, the real colour is a bright red, it’s lightly scented, and isn’t very thorny. It might be ‘Firefighter’ and it might not.
The rose is accompanied by some Cape Fuchsia (Phygelius sp) and a gorgeous but excessively active Salvia, whose name I forget. It is very lovely but I may have to cull it as it has outgrown its space, and it does drop lots of flowers in the vase.
I’ll sit back and enjoy these flowers in my home while I’m starting to think about summer pruning and beginning a watering schedule as the days get warmer.
Til next time!
The Flowerpot Pen 