Quite a few years ago my eldest granddaughter presented me with a jam jar she had decorated with tissue paper. I love jam jars, and I love this jar. Obviously necessary for homemade jams, marmalade, jellies and chutney, and good for dangling from a string in a Hampshire chalk stream to catch minnows (although I haven't done that for about 60 years), jam jars are great for few stems to make a simple flower arrangement. Here is my vase for this Monday, with a handful of colourful blooms from the garden.
I do like orange with blue/purple, as it always so striking. Is this a self-seeded calendula? I never seem to get any but perhaps I deadhead too efficiently! By the way, I don't know what you ahve been doing as I can't see how to access other recent posts - your blog only shows the current one and a small selection of others
ReplyDeleteI have found out how to but it wasn't obvious - and beekeeping! How exciting! If the Golfer didn't have a bit of an issue with bees I would like a hive in the garden...
ReplyDeleteI agree, it isn't very obvious how to access past posts, but with a bit of fiddling about I worked it out! I changed the appearance of the blog a year or so ago, just to keep things fresh, and whilst I like how it looks now, I am not sure it is very user friendly! I am used to its funny little ways now and probably won't change back any time soon! By the way, the calendula was self seeded. I just leave them to do their thing! Rather surprised not to have any self-sown nasturtiums though - I had hundreds and hundreds of flowers last year! Very odd. A
DeleteLovely - I like jam jars too.
ReplyDeleteI find them very difficult to part with, just in case they are the right size or shape for the next batch of jam or something!!
DeleteJam jars always seem to have just the right throats for displaying flowers. I love the contrast of the orange Calendula and the purple flowers (lilacs and stock?).
ReplyDeleteI really enjoy orange and purple together too. The lilac is just coming into flower now, and I think it is going to be glorious! The other purple flower is a perennial wallflower, Bowles' Mauve, which seems to flower all year round! It's a brilliant plant and seems to thrive anywhere! A
DeleteI give all my friends gifts of flowers in collected jam jars..no fuss looking for a vase and they can recycle the jar for something else.
ReplyDeleteI have a decorated jar W did and I use it to burn a tea light candle and the colour that comes from it is rather pretty and makes patterns on the wall in a low lit room.
Beautiful sweet Monday flower posy.
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I am so glad that we are such straight forward simple souls that we can enjoy and celebrate the humble jam jar. Jam jar/Lalique? Give me a jam jar any day! Hooray!!
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