In A Vase On Monday – Branches And Iris
Every Monday Cathy at Rambling In The Garden encourages us to share a vase with materials gathered from our gardens. Our flowering dogwood opened a couple days ago so, braving a few strikes of lightning and raindrops, I clipped a few branches to highlight today.
In A Vase On Monday – Branches And Iris
At the same time I rescued a deep yellow daffodil and one with pink accents from the pending rains.
In A Vase On Monday – Branches And Iris
In A Vase On Monday – Branches And Iris
A reliable clump of Dutch iris circa 2001 bloomed en masse yesterday and I felt they deserved to be featured as well, as much for their resilience as for their beauty.
In A Vase On Monday – Branches And Iris
The selections turned out to be not particularly compatible in shape or color, but with no time to search for more materials they managed to keep their co-starring roles. The result is far afield from my original vision. The daffodils I believe tied the dogwood and irises together. There are always lessons to learn but in the end, fresh spring flowers are glorious and fill our house with joy.
In A Vase On Monday – Branches And Iris
Materials
Flowers
Cornus florida (Flowering Dogwood)
Iris × hollandica (Dutch Iris)
Narcissus ‘Delnashaugh’ (Double Daffodil)
Narcissus (no ID)
Foliage
Iris leaves
Container
Black metal suiban. 4 x 9.5 x 6.5 inches. Japan.
Black stones
In A Vase On Monday – Branches And Iris
Thanks to Cathy at Rambling In The Garden for hosting each week. Visit her blog to see her vase and check out those of other gardeners from around the world.
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Spring in a vase – stunning.
Thank you, Judy.
A very spring vase. It has been a while since I’ve seen dogwood. Did you get any of the bad storms and tornados?
We had some showers but no damaging storms here. This dogwood came from Arbor Day donation many years ago and it’s never match my expectations. Maybe it’s a different variety than what I’m used to here but the flowers are small, size of quarters this year.
Beautiful, Susie. A delightful spring bouquet!
Thank you Eliza!
My goodness Susie, what a wonderful combination of blooms – the green centres of the cornus reflect the stems of the other blooms, whilst the yellow flashes on the iris pick out the yellow of the narcissus. I really love this! 👍 After seeing your white iris one year, even though I am nor a big fan of irises generally, I bought some for the following year, but they didn’t show at all 🙄
Thanks Cathy. Glad you like them. Wonder what happened to your white iris–usually the first year would be good for blooms. Most of my Dutch iris disappear after that. These white ones are certainly an exception.
Perhaps I could try them in a pot another year?
It’s a beautiful combination with just enough yellow to link all the elements together, Susie. Your post has me wondering why, with all the Dutch Iris bulbs I’ve planted, I’ve no white-flowered ones. That’s an omission I’ll have to correct next fall.
Loved seeing your Dutch irises today, Kris. I planted a group of your dark blue/purple color at the same time as these white ones, but none of those has survived.
This is delicious, Susie. It does my Southern heart good to see some Dogwoods, are they a bit early? I love the Iris foliage accents.
Dogwoods are in my heart too! Growing up my daddy always took an Easter picture of me and my three sisters in front of a dogwood at the corner of the front yard. It has bloomed this time at this time in prior years but sometimes is later by a week or so.
When I married I wanted to be surrounded by dogwoods in a garden. We lucked out and the year of our wedding the dogwoods flowered for us mid April.
Oh, so much white! Because of the weirdly wintry weather here, the dogwoods are not yet blooming. It is quite strange that they will be later than they are in other climates.
Your weather has definitely been unusual. Hope your dogwoods will put on a good show eventually.
They likely will. Early bloomers that prefer cooler winters than they typical experience here are blooming exceptionally well this year.
Subtle and simply superb, Susie!
Thanks so much!
The flowering dog wood is exquisite and would grace a vase just on its own, but I see that you would want to add some of those other lovely blooms too.
Noelle, so true, the dogwood is capable to stand alone. I may have featured it early. The flowers on the tree are starting to open larger.
Oh yes, that last photo shows how the flowers compliment each other. It’s a beautiful arrangement and the white irises are gorgeous!
Thank you Cathy. The white irises are a treat every year. I love no fuss plants.
That is an absolutely stunning display. Spring perfection.
Thanks Linda, so nice of you. It’s an unusual mix of flowers but I enjoyed experimenting.