The right vase

Can you ever have enough vases? I have got twenty, I just counted them. They range from small to medium, nothing really large The colours I have are green, glass, blue, red, one striped with bright colours and a few that have such odd colours that I haven't had an opportunity to use them since I started this blog! Maybe that means that they can be thrown out. I recently bought a square glass one and a little green milk jug. Sometimes though, the best vase is a jam jar with a ribbon!

If time, space and money were never an issue, I'd get a new vase for every single bunch of flowers. Finding the right vase is always a bit of trial and error. For this week's bunch I had at least half of my vases out, put a few back, swopped a few bunches around, cut of a bit more, and it's still not perfect!

It's the fault of this scabious. I made a few sowings last year of a variety that I can't remember. Nothing really came of them as it was all a bit too little too late, but one plant survived through the mild winter and has now produced several flowers. It has a wonderful bronze red colour and I very much like its wildflower look.

I combined it with cornflower "black ball", some cosmos and fragrant nicotiana that has self-seeded on my allotment. It looks a bit like a wild flower bouquet due to the fact that all these flowers consist of branches with flowers at different heights. This unfortunately also makes it impossible to arrange. I tried out several vases, cut of a bit extra, and tried as much as I could to turn it into a cone-shaped round bunch, and it's still not perfect, but the best it's going to get. 

  

Of course these weren't the only flowers that I picked. My first dahlia's, a wonderful variety called Karma Choc:

Last week's bunch with Hydrangea Annabelle only lasted a few days. Hydrangea's usually last longer, but they have to be fully open to do so. I would have been better off waiting for another week or so with picking them. So I made another bunch of flowers with Goldenrod, Hypernicum and Buddleja . The Buddleja has a terrific fragrance, but only lasts for a few days. 

 So today I decided to vamp it up again with some calendula and (hardly visible in the picture) Potentilla Monarchs Velvet

I also changed vase, from round to rectangular. It makes all the difference ... of course!