My favourite carol:-
… In the bleak midwinter
Frosty wind made moan
Earth stood hard as iron
Water like a stone
Snow had fallen
Snow on snow, snow on snow
This pretty much describes my and every other zone three garden right now. Fresh flowers come from the florist or supermarket after travelling great distances to reach our deprived gardening souls.
For today, I reused some of the dried flowers hanging in the greenhouse to stuff an old copper pot. I rather liked the patina of the pot with the Red Osier Dogwood, Cornus siberica leftovers from Christmas so after starting with that, I added some old Eucalyptus, Eucalyptus cinerea, Japanese Lanterns, Physalis alkekengi, and Purple Statice, Limonium. It was interesting to note the two species of Eucalyptus. I grew one species “Silver Dollar’ from seed last year, not nearly enough, so will definitely plant more this year as I was impressed with how easy it was. The other type was a from an old dried bunch I originally purchased and had in a bathroom.
I will now have a peek at all those fresh flower arrangements on ‘Rambling In the Garden’ where Cathy hosts this fun Monday activity where we use flowers from our gardens in arrangements. I hope you will too.
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