In A Vase On Monday – September Color and Form
Each Monday Cathy at Rambling In The Garden encourages us to share a vase highlighting what is growing in our gardens.
Autumn slipped in with cooler temperatures for a few days last week, but summer persisted. No rain, no rain is the garden’s sad mantra. Week after week the skies are unable to weep.
Dahlias and zinnias, mainstays of the summer garden have given notice. The plants signal distress through browning leaves and withering stems, giving fair warning they are tired, they are tired. And yet they put on another smile and get through the show one more time.
In A Vase On Monday – September Color and Form
The red zinnia palette inspires this week’s vase.
In A Vase On Monday – September Color and Form
A few stems of Buddleja and garden phlox bring a hint of purple and varying form.
In A Vase On Monday – September Color and Form
Dahlia ‘Tsuku Yori No Shisha’ is a white semi-cactus beauty that is finally beginning to produce more flowers. Its strong personality adds a vivacious boost to the vase. I read it is an old variety, bred in 1953 and its name means “messenger from the moon.”
In A Vase On Monday – September Color and Form
Just ripening Callicarpa berries and foliage make an attractive filler.
In A Vase On Monday – September Color and Form
Dahlia ‘David Howard’ and ‘Gallery Art Deco’ effortlessly blend into the mix.
In A Vase On Monday – September Color and Form
Materials
Flowers
Buddleja davidii ‘Adokeep’
Dahlia ‘David Howard’
Dahlia ‘Gallery Art Deco’
Phlox paniculata ‘Robert Poore’
Zinnia
Foliage
Callicarpa americana (American beautyberry)
Container
Ceramic Urn Stamped “Vintage 4”
In A Vase On Monday – September Color and Form
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This is such an elegant vase! We’re having a few ‘light showers’ this morning – I know my zinnia bed will appreciate it! I really love the white dahlia…..
Thanks Chris. That white dahlia is nice, although often the flowers do not fully form. Probably the dry conditions.
A splendid vase – you would never know the distress they are in. I love the white dahlia and its name.
Thank you. I will miss the zinnias and dahlias. They’ve been good company indoors and out.
You really show the rest of us how to arrange Dahlias and Zinnias to make them elegant and give each bloom its own space. I should study this one. Wish I could send you some of our rain, we’re having quite a wet September.
Thanks Christina. I sure would love to share your rain. Drought almost as bad now as the summer you visited!
Another great arrangement. I like the addition of the Beauty Berry.
Thanks. The berries tend to be messy but so far, so good. They haven’t dropped.
What a glorious montage of blooms – worthy of any stately home or hotel foyer even! The messengers from the moon are a wonderful touch within the reds and oranges, and the whole vase glows. They have done well to survive your dry weather. Here, we are going to have a wet week, and after a dry start today it is now teeming down!
Cathy, thank you for the supportive comment. I do love the reds and oranges working together. Hope your rain doesn’t overwhelm the garden. Still nothing in our forecast at all and 88F degrees. Just very hot and dry.
This is wonderful. You do have a lovely selection of dahlias Susie and the arrangement doesn’t even hint at them being tired in the garden – they all look so fresh and vibrant. Still, I hope you get some rain soon. We are waiting for rain too – in fact has drizzled very slightly today, but barely enough to dampen the soil surface!
Thanks Cathy! I’ve enjoyed the dahlias so much this year. Hope you get some restorative rainfall. Nothing here in our forecast.
A beautiful selection this week, Susie. That white cactus Dahlia is esp. lovely. Hope your skies ‘weep’ for your garden soon!
Thanks Eliza! So far the skies have been stoically avoiding the tears.
I love the beautiful autumnal colors in your arrangement, Susie, and hope that Mother Nature comes through for you with some rain soon. Maybe we both need to learn a rain dance or two. We’ve got a 40% chance of rain here on Saturday but I’m not going to invest in the prospect until the first drops fall.
Thank you Kris. Still no signs of rain here. I hand carried a drink to several of the dahlias today but they seem to be telling me “too little, too late.”
Lovely and I especially like the addition of the Callicarpe berries
Thank you! Those berries sometimes end up all over the floor but so far they’re behaving. They do add a little pizazz.
Berries add an interesting texture
Reminds me of those wonderful ‘Dutch Oil Paintings’ and looks like the grand arrangements in fine large houses….
Thanks for your lovely comment. This is a large one for me. It takes a lot of flowers and I think the summer flowers are just about done.
Love how the Zinnias and the Chrysanthmemums complement each other.
Chrysanthemums are coming but you’re right. The Dahlias look like mums
Is beautyberry grown for the berries, or does it just grow wild? I have never seen in before. There are garden varieties of it, and Japanese types too. If I were to grow it, I would like to get the wild species.
Yes, the berries are the appeal. Mine is the native. The Asian one is actually more interesting I think.
I asked that wrong. I meant to ask if it was planted intentionally to provide colorful berries, or if it just moved into the landscape from outside. If it is wild, that explains it. Others have told me that the Japanese sorts are better, but I still want the North American sort, just to experience growing it.