In a vase on Monday: golden brown

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Calamagrostis x acutiflora Karl Foerster, golden light, hydrangea arborescens Annabelle, Hydrangea paniculata limelight, in a vase on Monday, January, Miscanthus sinensis, pine cones, Verbena bonariensis

The overhead lighting is casting a rather yellow light over today’s collection of seed and flower heads.

There is a crispness to their texture and a fragility which requires a very light touch.

The fluff of the seed heads of the Miscanthus are so delicate, light as a feather, perfect for catching a breeze and dispersing.

The pine cones are from my friends garden from her so called 100 acre wood tree. The tiny flower is from the Hydrangea arborescens Annabelle. The metal pot with holes is from a shop in Suffolk and I thought it might make a rather good pot for a cactus or succulent.

What can you find in your garden to share this Monday? See Cathy’s blog. Cathy hosts this immensely enjoyable and popular post.

Just the tonic for a Monday. D.

Tuesday view: 29 November 2016 sharing on December 1

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Calamagrostis x acutiflora Karl Foerster, coreopsis moonshine, Eupatorium Elin, ewes, frost, molinia Transparent, Stipa gigantea, Tuesday View

Calamagrostis ‘Karl Foerster’ and Eupatorium ‘Elin’

Cold.  Minus six degrees. The ground is rock hard and the plants are showing a crust of white ice.  The sunrise cast a rather golden light.

Molinia ‘Transparent’, Stipa Gigantea and Coreopsis ‘Sunbeam’

I am enjoying the golden tones of the grasses and the backdrop form of the Horse Chestnut trees. This weather is I understand the coldest snap for six years. It looks rather beautiful but boy it is cold. My neighbours are sporting their thick woolly jumpers.

No jacket required

Cathy at https://wordsandherbs.wordpress.com hosts the Tuesday View meme.  Do take a look at her lovely blog.

Tuesday View: 9 August 2016

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Calamagrostis x acutiflora Karl Foerster, Echinacea purpurea, Echinops bannaticus Taplow Blue, eupatorium, Joe pie weed, Thalictrum Elin, Tuesday View, Verbena bonariensis

Morning view with bright sunlight

 

I have not managed to update my Tuesday view for a couple of weeks and the main difference seems to be the bleaching of the grass Calamagrostis Karl Foerster.

Calamagrostis Karl Foerster

 

The Tuesday View is hosted by Cathy at https://wordsandherbs.wordpress.com It is a meme for us to watch and share the development and seasonal changes to an area in the garden.  If you would like to join in please be sure to add a link back to Cathys blog.

Eupatorium, Joe pie weed is now showing its full colour and has reached a height of about 1.5m.  I have had to water it the last few weeks as it shows droopy leaves when it begins to dry out.

Joe pie weed with Echinops and Karl Foerster

Flowers of the Joe pie weed mingle with Verbena, Thalictrum elin towers above

The purple of Joe pie sits happily with the ever delightful Verbena Bonariensis. The Verbena has self sown itself around the beds and is suggesting a take over bid.  The magnificent Thalictrum Elin has finished flowering and its remains tower above.

Echinacea purpurea

Since last time I posted the Echinacea has opened its petals to reveal its lovely form.  I love a daisy shape flower, don’t you?

The forecast remains pretty good for this week so I hope you get a minute to sit in your own garden and feel the grass tickle your toes.  One final thing I must show you, not in this view but in the garden cutting beds.

Lily

The scent of this Lily is so powerful I bet you can almost smell it.

 

 

Tuesday view 19 July 2016

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Calamagrostis x acutiflora Karl Foerster, cobwebs in the foliage, Echinops bannaticus Taplow Blue, Eupatorium purpureum, Golden Oats., Joe pie weed, Stipa gigantea, Tuesday View

Today is unusually hot at about 32 degrees. Lovely if you have the sea to look at, less so elsewhere. My view is not of the sea but of the garden border. To help cool you down I have decided to share the pictures I took yesterday morning as they are soft and hazy and misty.

A view of a web

The flower heads are forming on the Eupatorium but I have noticed that the leaves are drooping today in the heat, better give him a can of water later. (Must be a him? joe pie weed).

The golden oats of Stipa gigantea are really golden now, such a great plant if space allows.

Golden Oats

Calamagrostis Karl Foerster is also looking good, upright with burgundy seed heads. I have had to stake a couple of them this year as they took a battering by the high winds a couple of weeks ago.

gentle colours

a haze of soft colour thanks to the pink Achillea

Whatever your garden view today you can pop along to Cathys blog and share it with us.  https://wordsandherbs.wordpress.com as she is hosting the ‘Tuesday View’

In a vase on Monday: fewer fleurs

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Calamagrostis x acutiflora Karl Foerster, in a vase on Monday, Miscanthus sinensis malepartus, molinia Transparent, rhei radix pulveratum

Here we are, mid November, still finding things for the vase as part of Cathy’s meme.

https://ramblinginthegarden.wordpress.com/2015/11/16/in-a-vase-on-monday-you-have-to-hand-it-to-the-little-pinkies

My pickings are getting harder to find yet for mid November, it is extraordinary to have any flowers, let alone roses.

I have picked the much used ‘Lark Ascending” rose with some of the orange toned Molinia ‘Transparent”. The colours work so well together . By contrast Calamagrostis xacutiflora Karl Foerster looks bleached and stiff.

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Miscanthus sinensis malepartus is pleasingly fluffy.

The rose has masses of buds but with imminent cold weather (surely) I am not anticipating them having the chance to open. The old enamel labelled bottle is made of orange/brown glass and compliments today’s colours. The earlier contents of the jar,? rhei radix pulveratum a herbal remedy for constipation was absent from the jar by the time I was given it.

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That’s a relief then.
Have a good week and let’s hope it dries up soon.