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Aquilegia vulgaris, Astrantia Rubra, Geranium phaeum, Geum "Mrs Bradshaw", Geum Totally Tangerine, in a vase on Monday, Sparaxis elegans, Tulip Ballerina, Tulip Queen of the Night
Marmalade jar to link to todays colours
Cathy at https://ramblinginthegarden.wordpress.com will be hosting a group of vases for Monday. Today I have got my act into gear and managed to pick a few of the newly emerging flowers to join in. I seem to have a number of shades of orange in the garden so I decided to use the old marmalade pot. The shot above includes the very strong orange from Sparaxis elegans
Tulip Queen of the Night, with Aquilegia vulgaris
The tulips are beginning to go over so to enjoy them I have picked the wonderfully dark ‘Queen of the Night’, and added the common but certainly not vulgar Aquilegias. There is also a few dark purples from the Geranium phaeum and Astrantia. The Astrantia ‘Rubra’ may be a smaller flowered than some of the astrantias and not as dark as ‘Hadspen Blood’ but I like it and know that it will flower pretty much until October.
Geum Totally Tangerine and Astrantia Roma
Geum Totally Tangerine with Geum Mrs Bradshaw behind
Have a good week.
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Absolutely wonderful….and a marmalade jar is perfect….love the oranges and purples!
Thank you Donna. I never used to have orange in my garden but now, as you can see, I am loving it.
No wonder you thought of the contents of my little campari bottles when you had used a very apt container for your lovely flowers today.
Quite funny really. 🙂
Lively colours! I have a jar just like that one.
Thanks Sandra. I really like the pots they are good for all sorts of things, even flowers!
Oh it’s lovely – and I could indeed have had exactly the same vase and contents!! Oh, no sparaxis, so NOT exactly 😉 Don’t you just love putting little vases together…? 🙂
Glorious colours …. and another lovely orange geum. I love the marmalade pot too.
Thank you. Geums are great plants and flower for a long season.
I miss the old Dundee jars that were printed in the glaze, now it’s just plastic labels. Love your colorful mix – the sparaxis is an eye-catcher!
The contrast between that dark tulip and the orange flowers is wonderful! It sort of makes me hungry – but perhaps that was the mention of marmalade.
That’s funny, I shall be having marmalade on toast this morning as I havent had any for ages. yum.
Gorgeous colours, I ove it.
Thank you Chloris 🙂
I love that Geum – saw it in Cathy’s vase this week too and immediately fell for it. It combines so well with purples and reds too. 🙂