Last week I chose random blooms for my Monday vase, blooms that had missed out on being featured; this week I am choosing (mostly) blooms with shorter stems, blooms that have missed out to others such as dahlias, which could otherwise easily dominate vases from June to October.
Making it into the IKEA vase with an attractive matte black finish are unnamed osteospermum, bought as bedding plants last year and overwintered, shortish Persicaria 'Inverleith', Scabious 'Oxford Blue', lingering blooms of Chinese aster Callistephus 'Duchess Mid Blue', Cosmos 'Double Click Bicolor Rose', Chrysanthemum 'Grandchild', an unnamed heather bought to add height to winter planting in baskets at the front of the house, burnished gold seedheads of Clematis texensis 'Princess Diana' and a flowering stem of Heuchera 'Tangerine Wave'.
The clematis seedheads are particularly cute, as is the teeny knitted teddy propping up the vase. Last Christmas, I bought a pattern from the internet to crotchet teeny guinea pigs as stocking-fillers for my adult Girls; crotcheting is not my forte anyway, but these guinea pigs turned out not to be just teeny, but teeny weeny tiny, smaller than a thumbnail, and I had to abandon the project...
Props are not essential to accompany Monday vases for the meme, but can add another fun dimension, so if you are able to gather material from your garden or forage it locally to create a vase or jam jar and share it with us (by leaving the usual links to and from this post) then please give a thought to adding a prop too.
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