No sorry, I am really lax at keeping markers. Thanks, I do think they are quite the showing in the garden and they just keep blooming and blooming.
Yard to Vase - Summer 2009 series
I have used large dahlia blossoms with thick stems in chancel arrangements for my church.. The hardest part is trying to make two arrangements look as much alike and balanced as possible considering that no two stems of flowers are ever the same. Sometimes the stems almost fill the oasis, but the arrangements always receive compliments.
Looks like a huge strawberry and vanilla sundea....LOL
My plants are short and fat.....LOL, since the wind storm.
Beautiful.....love all the pics. I am so glad you posted them.
Back to the earlier discussion of false sunflowers in arrangements--I used them successfully in arrangements this summer. The flowers remained fresh looking for up to a week in a vase. My plants were giants--6-7 ft. tall--and were standing well until the wind and heavy rain last week--the same one happgarden had. I cut them and the real sunflowers off yesterday because they had fallen over and were covering up other plants.
What is the secret to posting photos to this forum? I want to show you a dahlia I had last year.
No secret to posting ffahelper. Just like posting a photo to any other thread. Just go to browse and select the photo from your location that you want to post and click on preview or send.
ffahelper - have you had the chance to try posting yet?
Here is one of my favorite summer flowers - tall, elegant, and fragrant!! Lilium philippinense - Philippine lily. These are taller (about 6-7 feet) than my normal ones which are about 4-5 feet tall.
And here it is in a vase. Candee's perpendicular theme of big, bigger and biggest inspired this arrangement. Bottom layer - sunflowers, middle - Japanese anenomes, and towering over them is the L. philippinese. This is one time that you don't have to bend to smell the flower LoL.
Candee - I will be bringing this over to your thread since it fits the criteria.
Looks like you and I both have those huge lilies Dianne. That looks fabulous!
Amazing, I never knew there was such a tall lily. How great!
Candee, Happgarden - thanks. If anyone is interested in some seeds, I'll save some. I have about 4 plants that I am letting go to seed - not all are this tall. Depending on the environment, most are 3-4 feet tall. For some reason, I have those two plants growing in the planter that shot sky high. They are about 3 years old - I am assuming that the bulbs just gets bigger and bigger. A few that started from seeds flowered in the second year.
Have been on vacation the last two weeks, on and off. With summer winding down, the types of flowering plants are changing. These includes later blooming dahlias, Japanese anenomes, zinnias, and of course, rudbeckias. My sister's plants were blooming in May. She dug up some little ones (two varieties) for me in July, and they are in full bloom now.
And here they are in a vase. I added a few gallardia grandiflora, and aspidistra leaves. If these mother plants that I have growing now survive the winter, I should have blooms from them in May next year. And the seedlings that germinates next year will provide blooms later up until September. I have them growing in morning sun and light afternoon shade, but they seem to thrive in full sun and just morning sun.
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Now which came first Dianne the vase or the flowers, what a perfect combination!
Beautiful pictures as usual. It has been really quiet for a while.
Love the rudbeckias, can someone explain why some have dark eyes and some don't? I noticed that in mine also.
I saw the Japanese anenomes in bloom for the first time a couple of weeks ago. I need some of those...LOL Fell in love with them. I need to get my garden blooming farther into the fall than it is.
Here is a picture of my reblooming iris. It is a mild butterscotch color. I picked the iris yesterday morning around 5am so I don't have a picture on the stalk. It was dark and I didn't think about it. Was more worried what critters were down on the ground and around....LOL
Oh yummy colors and what a great vase of presentation, very oriental.
Thanks, Candee and Joyce. I got that vase in a thrift store several months ago, and really liked the coloring. I have used it for many yellow arrangements already.
Joyce - so reblooming irises do rebloom. Yours is lovely, and elegantly displayed. I bought three reblooming irises - one has since died, one has never bloomed, and the third bloomed this spring, and I am keeping my fingers crossed it will indeed rebloom.
I've got fingers crossed for you Dianne, if you cross yours for me so I have warm weather to get my vigna to bloom?
We have a reblooming iris that we planted in a center raised flower bed as you come in the city and theyhave bloomed the entire summer, honest it is the oddest thing. People have asked if they are fake. Just wait til they get big enough to divide.....I am bringing some home. Payment for weeding.....LOL
I have several reblooming iris and they almost always rebloom. I can't remember a year when they haven't bloomed. I have one called ice something pale bluish color, then this one, a white, and another and I can't think what color it is now and it is still dark outside. Oh yeah, a bright yellow, it always confuses people at work when I bring them in.
Candee - crossed fingers spanning the US - that should bring good luck to all....
I will even throw in our predicted high of 100 degrees for the next two days LoL
Joyce - lucky you to have rebloomers.
So, with summer winding down, white gingers have been a part of my late summer/fall bloomers for the last 15 years. The leaves always looks stressed, but the blooms are reliable. I need to do a better job of staking them up.
And here they are in a vase. The smell permeates the whole building - luckily, no one has minded the fragrance so far. I personally love the smell, but I know some floral scents give people headaches. As I stated last year, I don't like the way the spent blooms stick onto the floral head, but if you are good about picking off the wilty blooms. bouquet will stay nice looking for about 4 days. On the other hand, I have used that backdrop of sago palm leaves for over a month now - starting Aug. 13th. Time to throw them out - finally showing signs of browning.
I've never seen the likes of white ginger Dianne, that is lovely and I can almost smell it over here.
The palms still look good from here, don't you love using and reusing the same for more than one arrangement.
Diane, I never get that many blooms on my butterfly ginger, I can just smell them. The backdrop with the palms is a great contrast. Beautiful!
Came home and have more iris in bloom, problem now is a thunderstorm is brewing and might tear them apart, hope not.
Went on a mini vacation and got another vase similar to the round one with the iris, but the new one is handmade from clay and the base looks like a small terra cotta saucer with a frog in it, then somehow glued to the top is a flat piece of clay, it is really cool. I will find something to stick in it and take a pic.
Thanks, Candee and Joyce.
Candee - that is one of the great things about the sago palm leaves - they do last forever. The down side is that they do have prickly edges. I have two of the sago palms - the one in front is getting too big, but I am not quite at the point that I want to chop it down just yet. It is fighting for space with the persimmon tree. The one in the backyard in this photo is still a manageable size.
Joyce - will be waiting to see your new vase.
Love the lilies, they are just beautiful. Mine are in shade and lean toward the sun, I need to move them, but since I have things to plant I had better leave them for a while longer.
The great thing about sago palm leaves are that it means you live somewhere with warm weather....LOL
Last night I took a picture of the dahlias and right as I got ready to pick, the wind came up and the rain came down! My poor dahlias have been thru the ringer.
Rain is a rarity here in the summer, but we did get a sprinkling about a week ago. Predicted high today of nearly 100 degrees F. Hard to believe that today is the end of summer, and the beginning of fall. I hope you had the chance to actually pick a few dahlias before it poured!!
No I no more got the click from the camera and it started pouring! We can't seem to have gentle rains. Most things are doing ok, but the dahlias are a big blob after being beat down from high winds and lots of water, but some looked really good last night. I hope they made it last night! Want to show you all my new vase.
Hope you have some dahlias to put in tha new vase Joyce. Hope the rain did not ruin them all.
Watch out for those prickly edges Dianne. I know there are several that I reuse, the zinnias and some of the leaves of the grasses and of course the caladiums.
Diane, I have a bud forming on my lions tail, if I can hold the frost off for awhile (high 40's last night) I might actually get to see it bloom!
Joyce - hope your lion's tail is blooming. Wouldn't it be neat for you to end this series with the photo of the same plant that I started it with????
Once you do that, come on over to the Fall 2009 yard to vase!!
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1044158/
I do have a bit of sad news - when I came to work one day last week, with the intention of finally throwing out the old sago palm leaves, the whole vase is gone!!! I have lost several vases throughout the years since I put the flowers in a public area. But, I keep hoping that people will respect my vases and leave them be.....it probably was someone who was coming to the building for a meeting, and not a regular occupant of the building. Maybe they pricked themselves on the sago palm leaves - wouldn't that be poetic justice, Candee?? That is the biggest glass cylindrical vase that I rescued from an old lab.
Now that is just rotten Dianne, I just don't know how some people look at themselves in the mirror or go to sleep at night. To steal something like that is just despicable I hope they not only got pricked but in the process dropped that precious steal of theirs and cut their foot on the broken pieces!
The buds on the lions tail are getting bigger and temps are getting smaller low 40's. Waiting and waiting for blooms on the lions tail...they are so tall. Winds today are gust up to 50 mph so I hope they are still standing when I get home! Since I had never grown them they are in 3 different spots.....but if they don't mature soon we will have frost. So I am waiting with bated breath....LOL
People will never cease to amaze me be it good or bad. And really amaze me on what they will take or throw away! It is hard to find vases that really work, don't know who designs vases but I am guessing someone who doesn't use them....LOL Sorry you have been "touched" by a jerk!
Candee and Joyce - I started taking inventory of the vases that I have in the cabinets yesterday, and discovered that several others are missing. In those cases, it is probably someone who is housed in our building. That makes it even sadder.
Oh I hope your lions tails survive and you get some photos, never seen then so really looking forward to it.
Dianne, I tell you just can't get over some folks, what joy could they possibly get from taking something from another?
Perhaps you should put a note with the next one that says something like I hope whoever is stealing my vases and arrangements finds joy in knowing that many are deprived of the beauty that I have created thanks to your greediness!