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A vase on Monday

We are well into the new year now and there are stirrings in the garden.  There are also hangers on from last summer's flowerpots!  I don't care where the colour comes from, as long as it shows and brightens up some rather grey days of early January!

For my vase this Monday, I found a feathery new fennel frond, some marigolds in my raised bed, a few snowdrops, a brave, bright pink geranium, and every garden's stalwart, Erysimum linifolium 'Bowles' Mauve'!
If you have time look back to a Monday vase in December https://therunningwave.blogspot.com/2018/12/a-vase-on-monday-looking-ahead.html, and then see below!  In the warmth of the kitchen, the horse chestnut sticky buds have come out now, and the bright green spikes of red currant have morphed into delicate white blossoms!



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  1. AlisonC21 January 2019 at 18:28

    You have managed a bright vase, I need to look harder! Your branches look fabulous, reminding me that I should bring a few things in. It usually takes a nudge from someone's post for me to remember to do it.

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  2. Stasher21 January 2019 at 18:35

    A lovely colourful arrangement, looking great against the colours of painting acting as a mat.

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  3. Cathy21 January 2019 at 19:30

    What a pretty little collection you have found for today's vase. Sadly Bowles Mauve has never done very well for me - it just grows dry and straggly. It always amazes me that dry sticks like these will break into leaf or even blossom,

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  4. Kris Peterson22 January 2019 at 01:12

    Where did those colorful papers below you arrangement come from, Amanda? They look perfectly coordinated with your new arrangement! Your transformed December arrangement goes to show the value of patience.

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    1. the running wave22 January 2019 at 07:09

      I agree - it is lovely to watch the buds swelling and then bursting out, full of life! A great reward! The vase was sitting on a collage of painting from a past art class! I love colour and it seemed a shame to shove the paper away in a portfolio with all my other past efforts!! A

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  5. Sally25 January 2019 at 06:22

    A beautiful sunny arrangement....with the colours picking up or setting off flowers to painting, painting to flowers.
    I am so looking forward to seeing your garden in June when we are over.

    Love xx

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