In A Vase On Monday – Rose and White
In A Vase On Monday – Rose and White
Each Monday Cathy at Rambling In The Garden invites us to share a vase highlighting what is growing in our gardens.
Virgie was my mother’s first cousin and she shared her love of gardening and lots of plants with me over the years. Her passalong rose is blooming this week and it seemed destined to feature in today’s vase.
When I began photographing the arrangement the heuchera leaf front and center at the lip of the vase seemed much too dark; I added a white snapdragon so it would not leave a black hole. Later I decided I liked the balance of the other flowers without that central snapdragon. Now I cannot decide so thought I would show both ways. The top two images show the original design and these next two show the modified one with the additional snapdragon.
In A Vase On Monday – Rose and White
In A Vase On Monday – Rose and White
Accompanying the roses is a branch of Flowering Dogwood. Dogwood is native to North Carolina and serves as our state flower.
In A Vase On Monday – Rose and White
Other white flowers include a late blooming narcissus, whose name I wish I knew, and the aforementioned snapdragon, Speedy Sonnet White.
In A Vase On Monday – Rose and White
In A Vase On Monday – Rose and White
A few pink and red dianthus were added for accent and texture.
In A Vase On Monday – Rose and White
As concealer foliage I used young leaves of Big Top Bronze Heuchera with their reddish undersides, along with spring green fern-like tansy leaves (one is visible in the upper right corner).
Heuchera villosa ‘Big Top Bronze’ (Coral Bells)
Materials
Flowers
Antirrhinum majus ‘Speedy Sonnet White’ (Snapdragon)
Cornus florida (Flowering Dogwood)
Dianthus Ideal Select Mix
Narcissus
Rose
Foliage
Heuchera villosa ‘Big Top Bronze’ (Coral Bells)
Tanacetum vulgare (Tansy)
Vase
Ceramic Urn Stamped “Vintage 4”
In A Vase On Monday – Rose and White
In A Vase On Monday – Rose and White
In A Vase On Monday – Rose and White
Thanks to Cathy at Rambling In The Garden for hosting and giving us an opportunity to share flower-filled vases across the world. Visit her to discover what she and others found to place in a vase this week. Good health and peace to you.
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I can’t believe you have roses already. How lucky you are and thank you for sharing them with us. I can almost smell them from here. What a lovely arrangement!
Thank you Cindy. When I was growing up it seems to me my mother’s rose like this bloomed at Mother’s Day, but mine usually blooms about now. Hope you’re doing well.
This is a fabulous rose to have inherited. AS usual with plants because we can propagate, we can ensure all our family can share in equally in these treasures.
Thanks Noelle. I love passalongs.
What a beautiful rose and wonderful gift to receive.
Thanks. Yes it means a lot. Nice way to carry memories is in our plants.
All these flowers are so beautiful! I think I like the original arrangement, without the additional snapdragon. Perhaps because without it, you have three white things, but with it, you have four, and because the dogwood is higher, it looks like the fourth, and appears as an afterthought, and a bit out of place. I really like the asymmetricalness of it all!
Thanks Chris. I think the first one interests me more. The second one with the white flower added feels more “resolved.”
How wonderful to have roses in bloom (well, at least one rose!) in April – I have found the odd bud on some of mine but it will still be many weeks before they get to flowering stage. It certainly suggests a vase from later in the year and has such a summery blush about it. Personally, I like it with the antirrhinum, with the whites sprinkled through the arrangement. Thanks for sharing Susie
This is my only Rose in the garden so will look forward to yours later. The extra white snapdragon does help it flow. I keep going back and forth. In person the arrangement looks fine without it, but the camera saw it differently.
It’s intriguing that the camera sees it differently, although I suppose the result is from that specific angle and in pperson the angle may always be slightly different and from different distances. I had forgotten that you don’t really have roses – is it a climate thing? What will the flowering season be of this one?
This rose blooms for several weeks and that’s it for a year. It’s very humid here in summertime and roses tend to get black spot, Japanese beetles, and need feeding and other attention, which I’m unlikely to give them regularly. I love a beautiful bowl of roses but don’t care much about tending them in the garden. Maybe one day I’ll give them a try again or find another easy one.
Presumably any local gardens with roses would only have varieties that can cope…otherwise it would be trial and error, I suppose
That’s a lovely rose, Susie. The scattered touches of white make it sparkle. I didn’t note the lack of anything with your first version but, upon seeing it with the addition snapdragon stem, I admit I like that version better still.
Thanks Kris. It’s interesting how one flower can make a difference.
A pretty pink rose and complementing flowers, Susie. Anyone who received such an arrangement would surely squeal with delight! 🙂
Thanks Eliza. I’m never sure how my arrangements will hold up but this one is still looking perky.
How wonderful to have roses. Very beautiful. All the best. Karen xx
Thanks Karen. I don’t grow other roses, but this one is easy and pretty.
Okay, I know the roses are RAD, but I am even more impressed by the dogwood!
The dogwood barely bloomed at all last year so it’s nice to have it doing well this spring.
They are scarce in California. They dislike the arid climates. This happens to be one of the few regions where they do reasonably well.
Interesting for you to share your dilemma and show us both approaches. I think I like the original best. Either way, it’s a winner!
Thanks Ricki, I think I do too.
Gorgeous vase and, as with all your vases, that beautiful overall shape is remarkable, created with the spray of dogwood. dIs that little spikey bit of foliage (bud?) in your eighth picture (rose close-up) dianthus? Nice to have plants in the garden that remind us of people dear to us.
Hi Cathy, many thank and yes, you’re correct. That is dianthus and the little buds have opened up now in the vase. Hope you’re doing well.
That little cameo with the dianthus were the cherry on the cake! And yes, we are doing well!
What a beautiful arrangement Susie. So professional and well- balanced. Your garden must be a dream right now with those gorgeous blooms! I had to compare the two versions hard as they are both perfect, but I think I rather like that dark spot in the original version. 😃
Thanks Cathy. I’m leaning toward the first version too. It’s a beautiful day here and I should be in the garden but I’ve been lazy today.
Gorgeous and I love the additional white Snap. Sets everything else off and how wonderfully Southern to have a rose from Virgie!!
She was a sweetheart. Funny and warm and smart. I miss her.
my mother had a friend named Virgie. They don’t make em like that anymore.
Nice to see your flowers on a morning when we just got 3″ of snow.
Yikes. Hope the snow didn’t damage your optimistic flowers already blooming.
No, they held up pretty well. But there’s a magnolia down the street that doesn’t look so good.