Succumbing to the urge to move unusually lanky aster Symphyotrichum'Little Carlow' today instead of waiting till it was dormant, I also moved the sanguisorba I featured in a vase a few weeks ago, and again today, a little nearer the fence. Whilst doing so, I realised the label read Sanguisorba dodecandra and not S canadensis as I had thought. Googling doesn't tell me a lot about the former, and illustrations suggest it looks more like the latter, so it remains a bit of a puzzle. The aster looks all the better with something behind it and, having dug it out with a large rootball, doesn't look any the worse for its experience; the sanguisorba, however, is now glowering at me and I cut a few flowering stems for today's vase rather than leave them to a potentially slow demise on the plant.
I had already envisaged using sprays of wood aster Eurybia divaricata alongside the sanguisorba and wondered if there might be enough material to create a wholly white vase on Monday. That turned out to be the case, and joining the first two are Cosmos 'Double Click Snow Puff', Scabious ' Snowmaiden', Dahlia 'Twynings Afer Eight' and useful white limonium from the cutting beds, astonishingly pure white Busy Lizzies from pots, still-flowering super-fragrant Phlox 'Rembrandt', a couple of creamy white blooms of Rosa 'Claire Austin' and reliable foliage from Arum italicum 'Marmoratum'.
Today's prop is the current 'What's On' brochure for one of Birmingham's theatres. We may live in a semi-rural location, but Birmingham is still less than 20 miles away, so a theatre trip is only a 20 minute train journey away. I would have liked to have seen the featured 'Calendar Girls' musical, but it was only on for a week and I couldn't fit it in. Shows at The Hippodrome, Birmingham's other main theatre, tend to be on for a longer period and I have seen both Les Mis and The Lion King this year, with Hamilton and Six booked for next year, the former two not just for the first time.
If you would like to join us today on IAVOM with material from your garden or foraged nearby, as always with or without a prop, please do so by leaving the usual links to and from this post.
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