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blue jug, blue Roberts Radio, hedera helix, Helleborus orientalis 'Harvington Hybrids', in a vase on Monday, ivy, pulmonaria officianalis

January has thrown all weathers at us: minus 5 degrees last week and 12.5 degrees today. There has been wind, rain, snow and ice and now we seem to be about to get another round of rainy weather. Exhausting. What’s a girl to wear? I find myself tuning in to the weather forecast each and every day.

The poor plants are as baffled as we are. Snowdrops and daffodils are in flower. Hellebores are blooming, roses are beginning to shoot. In London yesterday I noticed Magnolias in flower.

Yet what to choose for Cathy’s In a vase on Monday? Well I have decided to make the most of the Hellebores, mixing two small blooms with the tiny pink Pulmonaria.

I have wound a long strand of Ivy to hold the stems together and to enjoy the scale of the ivy leaves with the flowers. Placed in the small blue jug from the Isle of White, an engagement gift many years ago, the blue jug seems to hint at the blue tones in the Hellebores. Positioned next to the radio, the flowers are ready perhaps to hear the all important forecast.