In A Vase On Monday – Hydrangea Gift
Monday brings the chance to share cut flowers from the garden by joining in Cathy’s weekly challenge In A Vase On Monday.
I confess the hydrangeas in my vase today are not actually from my garden but still are quite local. They grew just a couple of houses away at my neighbor Eileen’s. She showed up at the back gate several days ago bearing freshly cut blooms.
Eileen said she remembered how much I have admired them in summers past and that, like mine, her hydrangea bushes had not bloomed the previous two years. This is a good year for hydrangeas though and what a wonderful surprise to enjoy these richly colored flowers from a friend.
In A Vase On Monday – Hydrangea Gift
Hydrangeas seem to arrange themselves. They are quite adaptable and pleasing in any vase. I chose the light mint green ceramic one acquired at the spring neighborhood yard sale. It has a lid with holes, a sort of built-in frog to hold the stems in place.
In A Vase On Monday – Hydrangea Gift
Many thanks to Cathy for hosting this weekly flower obsession. Visit her at Rambling In The Garden to discover what she and other gardeners are placing In A Vase On Monday.
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So fresh and lovely! I’m afraid mine suffered in the heat while I was away.
Hope you had a wonderful trip Marian. My own hydrangeas are stressed as well. They really are thirsty plants.
What a lovely gift and one you’ll be able to enjoy for a long time as you could dry them slowly to keep for winter after enjoying them fresh at the moment.
That’s a great idea. Once before I was able to keep some, but another time they didn’t age gracefully over time. Will definitely try it with these hydrangeas.
The hydrangea colors are beautiful. What a nice neighbor!
Yes, wonderful neighbor. Her hydrangeas have much deeper, richer colors than my pale pink ones.
The stronger colours look so attractive, don’t they? Your vase sounds really useful if it has that removable lid as it is a different shape from the more usual shorter, squatter ones with holes in the top. Thanks for sharing – and celebrating neighbour friendship too 🙂
I do prefer the stronger colors. The vase lid sits on top of the vase much the way a cookie jar lid would do and it works pretty well. To add water to the flowers one has to be careful to lift up the lid, bring up the entire arrangement though.
Your friend is indeed wonderful gifted those incredible hydrangeas to you! I love hydrangeas and it appears mine are going to bloom. Short but still blooming. They do seem to arrange themselves, don’t they!
Yes, receiving the hydrangeas from a friend was a treat. Hope yours will perform well this year. Short is ok if they bloom!
What a wonderful neighbor! Nothing like living near another gardener.
It is nice to have neighbors interested in gardening. Many people around are busy with other things and just do the basic mow and blow routine.
Hydrangeas look so nice in a vase! Mine have just started blooming.
I agree Anca and they last for such a long time in a vase. Hope yours bloom well for you.
They are gorgeous. How nice to have a neighbor that shares!
Thanks Eliza. Yes, the hydrangeas made my day.
So kind of your friend. These are beautiful flowers and a lovely vase.
Thank you. They’re a source of joy this week.
That is a good neighbour to have !
Hydrangeas are so colourful – must be great to go out into the garden an pick them.
Nice that you had a white one in there as well, to set off the vibrant colours.
Yes, she is a good neighbor. Neither of us had hydrangeas blooming the past two years due to cold snaps in early spring, so we’re both enjoying them this year. The whitish one is a lacecap I think.
Hydrangeas are so romantic and so very pretty. What a lovely gift from your friend and neighbour! 🙂
Oh, I agree. At Art In Bloom this past spring the floral designers used zillions of them, especially a green one.
I do so miss Hydrangeas but planting them here would be a death sentence. You balanced the colors beautifully in your vase but of course I expect no less from you!
Kris, thank you very much. I just used all the hydrangeas she brought and the colors work so well together. This is the first year my own hydrangeas have bloomed but I’m already tired of watering them. They get too much afternoon sun and wilt terribly if I don’t water.
Regardless of their garden origin, a day with those beautiful hydrangea blooms can’t be anything but good. Lucky you to have such a wonderful neighbor. 🙂
Thanks Judy, and yes, we feel so lucky to have wonderful neighbors.
Oh, that we could all have such neighborly neighbors. The vase is perfect.
Thanks Ricki. We are lucky here to have some special neighbors. It makes life nicer, doesn’t it?
They are so fresh and perfect Susie! What a lovely present. You must have good neighbours. The vase is exactly the kind of thing (with the holes at the top) that I’ve been looking for. Stylish and elegant as always with your vases!
Thanks Cathy. I picked up this vase second-hand at a yard sale but originally it came from Crate and Barrel.