Sunday morning started out with a hail storm. Fortunately, the storm was over in time for the drive to work and, while the sky remained cloudy during work and the weekly shopping, by the time we got home, the wind had picked up, the sky darkened and the rain began falling heavily with, at times, even more hail. Plans of wandering the garden to cut hellebores to float in a bowl were scrapped and instead, s few pots of bulbs were grabbed from the back steps and thrown into a glass basket that I made a few years ago.
The rain did eventually let up and I dashed out to pick a couple iris reticulata, a few primroses and some galanthus to plop into a little vase made by my pottery teacher in Alaska in the 70's.
None of the stems were really long enough but they'll nonetheless make me smile this week which is the goal of In a Vase on Monday, the meme hosted by Cathy at Rambling in the Garden. Click
here to see what others have artfully arranged or unceremoniously plopped in a vase today.
Still o flowers here in the garden and snow in the forecast.
ReplyDeleteYikes! Hope spring arrives soon in your garden.
DeleteI love the colours of your bulbs in a glass basket, Peter, which I know will bring you pleasure but I am pleased you were then able to add some little treasures to a vase to make you smile
ReplyDeleteYou made that glass basket? Oh my you are so creative and talented....but of course I knew that from the the amazing arrangements you make. Lovely vases this week!
ReplyDeleteGlad you liked the vases!
DeleteThat glass basket alone is testimony to your artistic flair. As for those blue iris they are just gorgeous.
ReplyDeleteThe blue iris were a bit of a cheat as the pot of bulbs just came home from a nursery but they were too pretty not to share.
DeleteYour hand made weaved glass vase is impressive, and it works beautifully with the blooms you picked. Somehow your teacher knew the exact flowers you'll be growing in your garden and painted them on his vase... astonishing.
ReplyDeleteIf you can bake cookies, you can fuse glass I always say. The oven is just a little different and temperatures are higher. It's pretty amazing that my teacher knew I'd be growing these 40 years in the future!
DeleteLooking very "spring in the PNW"...
ReplyDeleteThe pots of bulbs are very festive, and the little ones in the pottery vase match it perfectly. You got hail?! We just got torrential rain by afternoon. The morning was clear enough here (but very cold) that I managed to run around and cut a few little things.
ReplyDeleteSaturday was sure beautiful but I went to the NHS sale and hit nurseries so didn't get anything done in the garden.
DeleteYour plants have stood up pretty well to the elements. Tough. The snowdrops give me a sense of scale. Really good.
ReplyDeleteFor something you threw together, the contents of the glass basket fit that container perfectly, Peter! Mother Nature needs to sit down and listen to the song in 'Camelot' about timing her rainstorms - or is she deliberately trying to be irritating?
ReplyDeleteI wholeheartedly concur that Mother Nature needs to pay more attention to that song!
DeleteSuch a beautiful glass basket, what a talent you have. Two lovely spring arrangements.
ReplyDeleteOh Chloris, you are too kind!
DeleteOh my goodness: That glass basket is stunning! As are your arrangements. I will live vicariously through you for the next few weeks until things start blooming around here. Happy meteorological spring!
ReplyDeleteThanks Beth. The glass baskets are easy and fun to make. Hooray for meteorological spring!
DeleteSecond attempt to comment, so hope this doesn't come across as duplicate. Just want to say how much I admire the glassware you created. The flowers are lovely.
ReplyDeleteDidn't come across as duplicate. Thanks PMB, playing with glass is fun.
DeleteYour glass basket is stunning! the flowers show off good in it too.
ReplyDeleteThanks Lisa!
DeleteI like both creations, and especially the containers!
ReplyDeleteThanks Linda! You and Tom would have fun making glass baskets!
DeleteThe weather is very trying, I hope your garden has not been damaged too much by the hail. You have plenty of colour inside though and the glass basket is amazing.
ReplyDeleteThe hail didn't seem to bother the garden much at all. Glass baskets are easy and fun to make.
DeleteLove those little muscari
ReplyDeleteSuch a pretty combo (I love ranunculus) and the woven glass basket is wonderful!
ReplyDeleteLovely spring colours, and what pretty vases this week too! :)
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