In a Vase on Monday. Brown Study.

I have been away for a few days for pitiful reasons and doing the tour of the garden on such a dismal , wet day in November does not cheer the soul . But there are still a few summertime stragglers and I picked a few to join in with Cathy ’s meme and to bring a fleck of a cheer to the house . I used my browned Chesterfield jugful and my Robert Brown , Turkish boxwood , frognetsuketo accompany it . He is get hold of a lotus seedhead . Both the frog and the lotus flower seedhead symbolise new beginning , spiritual rebirth and rejuvenation so they are like a promise of give at the most gloomy time of the year . The key fromAcer hersiiand seedheads fromThalictrum delaviiandClematistanguticaare brown but give a hope of new plant to come . Everything else gives a gracious encouragement of well require colour . By Christmas the birds will in all probability have eaten all the holly Berry but they take them more than I do . Who would have thought there would still be a tassel ofAmaranthus caudatus,’Love - Trygve Halvden Lie - Bleeding ’ hanging on ? And the white flowers ofSolanumjasminoidesbloom for months and only cease with the really hard frosts .

I have already written about my favouriteChrysanthemum‘Chelsea Physic Garden ’ and it is still looking adorable . I croak to Chelsea Physic garden last hebdomad for a fab mean solar day listening to garden interior designer such as lovely Diarmuid Gavin and Arne Maynard talk about their work . Also speaking were Julian and Isobel Bannerman who create the stumpery at Highgrove . I looked forChrysanthemum‘Chelsea Garden ’ but could n’t find it . Unfortunately time was too short for a exhaustive hunt . But here is mine .

Chrysanthemum‘Chelsea Physic Garden ’

Chrysanthemum‘Chelsea Physic Garden’

The daisy flowered Chrysanthemum is the old , dependable ‘ Clara Curtis ’ . I suppose I should give it the right name . It is nowDendranthema x rubellum‘Clara Curtis ’ . What a gauge . On the right field you may see that myAlcalthaea suffrtescens‘Parkallee ’ is still blooming and it is a endearing match for ‘ Clara Curtis ’ . The silky flower are beginning to look a bit battered but it is awe-inspiring how long they keep going for .

There are still a few roses , they usually keep on until December , when as Reginald Farrer say , they start to take on the appearance of ‘ wizened moth ’ . So far they have not been clobber too much by hoar . I am not certain which I have here as they were already in the garden .

That adorable spike heel of salvia is from the glasshouse . It isSalvia leucantha‘Purple Velvet ’ . It has felty flowers and felty willow tree - shaped leave of absence . I also used a purpleSalvia‘Amistad ’ which is still blooming in the garden .

Chrysanthemum‘Chelsea Physic Garden’

Other peak include an orange marigold , Calendulastraggler and a couple of sprigs ofPenstemon‘King George v ’ which is a dependable , strong - growing penstemon . The petty blue flower on the left wing in the next photograph isCeratostigma willmottianumwhich I like for its gentian - blue flower and adorable carmine leaf in fall .

Here it is develop in the garden with the beloved - scentedEuphorbia mellifera . I suppose it looks lovely now . alas it look awful in outflow because like the shrubbyPotentilla fruticosa , it is very late arrive into leaf and looks dead . But right now I can overlook that .

Ceratostigma willmottianumwithEuphorbia mellifera

So there we have my vase on a Stygian dark twenty-four hours in November . Do go over to Ramblinginthegardenand see what Cathy has in a vase today . It is just what the Dr. ordered . And then you’re able to look at vases created by all her follower . It is interesting to see what masses find for a vase at this time of the class . But garden bloggers are a creative lot and you could be certain they will add up up with something endearing .

39 Responses toIn a Vase on Monday. Brown Study.

I ’m good-for-naught that you ’ve been away for sad reasons but desire that your gorgeous autumnal arrangement brings some cheer . You ’ve line up some mantrap in your garden !

What a wonderful arrangement . Loved your description as “ Stygian . ” And what a prosperous nurseryman you are to have get a line such a pigeonholing of well - known gardener and at the Physic Garden , no less . I treat myself of Arne ’s book last year and bang it . The Bannerman ’s have a book that ’s just been release but I have not seen it yet .

What a mellifluous little frog . I hope that these beauties of the garden uprise your flavour .

I hope this week fetch solar day occupy with light . I make love the netsuke anuran and his plunder , as well as the blooms rescue from your crepuscule garden . I ’m envious of your lecture series at Chelsea . I admire Diarmuid Gavin but since real garden show have about vanish from US television ( the “ G ” should be expunge from “ HGTV ” ) I ’ve heard nothing of him – I ’ll have to trawl through youtube listings for UK features .

In a Vase on Monday. Brown Study.