Each Monday Cathy at Rambling In The Garden invites us to share a vase highlighting what is growing in our gardens.
Coral Charm Peony opened last week and how I wish I could encourage it to be patient: “Take your time beautiful flowers.” One of seven buds opened, followed immediately by the other six at once. The effect is breathtaking and although I usually I do not mind cutting flowers to bring indoors, I could bear to yield just one for today’s vase.
Paeonia ‘Festiva Maxima,’ loaded with buds, offered up two more large flowers.
With this elegant beginning the garden then beckoned “choose me, choose me!” Irises, roses, snapdragons all sang out.
Materials
Flowers
Antirrhinum majus ‘Speedy Sonnet White’ (Snapdragon)
Antirrhinum majus ‘Speedy Sonnet Bronze’ (Snapdragon)
Iris germanica ‘Immortality’
Iris germanica ‘Orinoco Flow’
Iris germanica ‘Raspberry Blush’
Iris Tectorum (Japanese Roof Iris)
Paeonia lactiflora ‘Coral Charm’ (Coral Charm Peony)
Paeonia ‘Festiva Maxima’
Rosa (old-fashioned family passalong rose)
Foliage
Helleborus x hybridus (Lenten rose)
Penstemon Digitalis ‘Husker Red’
Peony leaves
Vase
Red/black raku vase, Charles Chrisco, Chrisco’s Pottery
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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These flowers are all so gorgeous – but you’re right, the ‘Coral Charm’ is something special. I need to find one!
I ordered another one to add to the garden–just need to get it in the ground now. (Longwood Gardens). Very strong stems.
Your bouquet is so perfect. Your garden must be doing well.
Thank you! Some plants are looking nice. Overall garden design is a mess. I’ve lost so many trees and shrubs there is little structure or “bones.”
New beginnings. I tell myself that often.
So many delicious looking flowers in one Vase…
Thanks Noelle. It’s nice this time of year when blooms are still fresh.
What would I rather do – watch the nightly news or look at your wonderful pictures of ‘Coral Charm’ and ‘Festiva Maxima’? No contest. A lovely vase that lifted me up – Iris ‘Immortality’ is also gorgeous. I bought penstemon ‘Husker Red’ (still in a pot this year, although will go out when we have some rain) simply because you have featured it in the past. Thank you!
Hope you will be happy with husker red. I’ve only been able to establish in one place—the meditation circle. It’s getting ready to bloom.
So I will have to take cuttings first and try it in different places!
Breathtaking! Despite the preview I got of this vase on Instagram, I sighed all the way through this post, Susie. I’m SO envious of those peonies! My Itoh peony shows no sign of buds, much less blooms, and my Majorcan peony produced just one flower, now long gone. Your post had me checking both plants, though, and I see that the Majorcan peony has some nice fat seed pods so I’ll be checking into what I might be able to do with those.
Thanks. The peonies have given me and the garden a boost this week. Good luck with those seed pods!
Having a very difficult time entering comments on your blog Kris, so hope this works:
You have such a huge variety of flowers and all interesting and gorgeous. Great idea to create a “scented” theme. My garden is not as fragrant as I would like.
gee, I think of your style as spare…guess you just do everything well.
Oh my thanks Ricki. Were that were true! Hope all is well with you.
Gorgeous! Your peonies are so lovely and the whole display has an air of summer. 😃
Thanks Cathy. The peonies have been exceptional this year. Do they bloom for you in summer? Much too hot and humid here for them by then.
The first ones in my old garden flower early May just as my oriental poppies open. They clash horribly! 😉 The Festiva Maxima then comes a bit later but this year everything is a bit earlier than usual.
Gorgeous, Susie, reminds me of a Dutch painting. 🙂
Thanks Annette. I have come to admire those Dutch floral still lives, sans the animals!
Gorgeous – gives us all hope for what’s to come. 🙂
Thanks Judy! Hope spring is unwinding in your garden. Take care.
Susie, you have outdone yourself with this one! It is breathtaking and makes all the work in the garden worthwhile. I lust for the Peonies..
So kind! Thank you. Working with the first flush of flowers, when they are pristine and colorful, is so rewarding.
‘Immortality’ iris and ‘Festiva Maxima’ peony are RAD! . . . but, I grow neither. There are three white unnamed white iris out there, so there is no need to add another. (One might actually be ‘Immortality’.) Peonies do not do well enough here for me to grow wimpy ones.
A fellow blogger identified this white one for me as ‘Immortality’–it is a reblooming iris.
They are not easy to identify. I am impressed by those who know what they are.
Superbly gorgeous, Susie. It reminds me of a Flemish painting.
Thank you Eliza, working with this batch of flowers was such a delight.
And a glorious bouquet it is!
Thanks Jason. It’s great having a wide choice of flowers again to use.