In a vase Monday, May 12, 2025

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Happy Mother’s Day, yesterday, to all the Mothers on this side of the Atlantic. My full admiration goes also to all those who manage to blog several times a week! I am afraid the last few weeks I have become slow at getting to the computer but with the garden now, I think, back under control after all the spring removals and relocations I should be able to put more thought into recording the ‘goings on’.

With the tulips now in bloom, it is hard to pick a favourite so this week’s simple arrangement is a few tulips from the garden. Red fringe tulip goes by the name of ‘Bendigo’, the pink’ ‘Crown Dynasty’, unopened ‘Black Hero’, pink fringe is ‘G’DayMate’, purple ‘Tahitian Sunset’.

Why is there one large marble in the vase? Because I dropped in a large one for a change only to quickly discover the vase is narrower in the bottom than the top. It is stuck. Any remedies would be welcome. I have tried oil and dish soap, hot and cold water but to no avail.

Please head over to Rambling in the garden, Cathy’s blog, where she entertains us with guests’ arrangements from the far corners of several countries around the world.

8 responses to “In a vase Monday, May 12, 2025”

  1. Eliza Waters avatar

    That rich red fringed tulip is so attractive… I might be tempted to try some of that type. 🙂

    1. zonethreegardenlife.blog avatar

      First time I have had them and yes I love them – not too tall either.

  2. Cathy avatar

    Ooh, that red fringe tulip is lovely Jenny. Well, they are all lovely. If I am asked to draw a flower (I can’t draw to save my life!) it has always been a tulip! How annoying about that marble, but what a nice quirky effect it gives. A conversation piece. 😉 It will probably just slip out one day. Happy gardening!

    1. zonethreegardenlife.blog avatar

      That was my thought! A conversation piece!! You sound like me – totally consumed by the garden and mine is much smaller than your beautiful patch. What a great view.

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    Anonymous

    Love this one. It looks like a Dutch Masters painting.

  4. Cathy avatar

    The vase must be an intriguing shape (but useful for stems to stand up straight in) for the marble to get stuck, but with the failure of the usual solutions I would try rigging up some sort of ‘sling’ to hold it close to the narrow part and then manoeuvre it from there. The tulips are so pretty though, and I am always fascinated by the fringed ones. The marbles are (usually) such a great asset for holding stems, making the vase doubly useful

    1. zonethreegardenlife.blog avatar

      Well, as easily as it got stuck it released itself when I emptied the vase, demonstrating that marbles are truly independently minded, can be lost and gained at will!

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