Just a quick vase from me today, and a straight copy of a posy I gave to a friend a few days ago: a spent hydrangea head and 3 sprigs of Persicaria ‘Red Dragon’, the green, red and pink markings of the persicaria picking out the different shades of the hydrangea. Made on my weekly ‘Grannie Day’, the grandchildren were having their afternoon nap in the room where most of my vases are stored, so my choice was limited. This heavy turquoise glass vase is a fairly new acquisition from the charity shop at our local waste disposal site but I am sure it will be used often – I love both its weight and shape.
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GREAT POST AND LOVED THE PHOTOGRAPH, CHINA
Thank you China
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Very effective for a ‘quick’ arrangement! I think your charity shop is similar to our thrift stores – repurposing clothes and household items to benefit charities. Treasures can sometimes be found!
Yes, exactly the same I expect!
Love the vase…yes weight is a great characteristic of a good one. Even fading away blooms are wonderful…Here is my post this week: https://noellemace.blogspot.com/2019/10/in-vase-on-monday-coming-indoors.html
Love the new/old heavy vase, it goes very nicely with your faded hydrangea and the feisty Red Dragon. Here is my week’s offer: https://noellemace.blogspot.com/2019/10/in-vase-on-monday-coming-indoors.html
I have no idea of the age of the vase as there are no markings so it could be new or not- so-new. Not that it matters of course
I love your green hydrangea head Cathy! I used to hate hydrangeas when I was a little girl. I can remember driving with my family from the ferry port on the Isle of Wight to our hotel in Seaview and it was wall to wall pink hydrangeas all along the route. We walked into the hotel reception and there was a huge vase of plastic ones. Ugh! That was in about 1959. Things have changed since then and I particularly love the blue ones now, and white too, which maybe yours was before it faded to that lovely green. Great vase too! I have greedily done two posts this week for IAVOM. I hope that’s OK. The second one had to be shared!! Amanda https://therunningwave.blogspot.com/2019/10/in-vase-on-monday-part-one.html https://therunningwave.blogspot.com/2019/10/in-vase-on-monday-part-two.html
Hi Amanda – how funny, I’m only a mile or so from Seaview!
I love Seaview and the Isle of Wight! We had many happy holidays there when I was a child and returned decades later for my husband’s 40th birthday, when we had a fabulous weekend at the Seaview Hotel along with our children! A
This one was pink and rather sadly not in our garden from my choosing (it belonged to the Golfer’s Mum) – but I do quite like the faded flowers
Nice! I thought that was Coleus foliage with the Hydrangea. Sometimes I think the fading ones are prettier than fresh blooms. I love the new vase, I have found many treasures (especially vases) in thrift/charity shops. Here is my vase this week http://theshrubqueen.com/2019/10/28/in-a-vase-on-monday-nearly-perfect/
The Dragon is a great foliage plant, Amelia, I love it
I do, too.
One of my favorite blooms and the vase is really nice. Good find.
Thanks Beverley
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Subtle and beautiful.
Yes, and sometimes we perhaps miss things like that
I do miss having hydrangeas in my garden but it’s too hot and dry here for their liking. Between fires and construction workers, it’s a tense morning here today. Here’s my post: https://krispgarden.blogspot.com/2019/10/in-vase-on-monday-fall-colors.html
Hope your blooms and the garden can keep your mind away from all the tension
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Whenever I see other people’s dried hydrangea heads I wish that I liked them enough to grow them in the garden to have my own to pick. They really go such interesting colours and your persicaria picks that up v. nicely in your vase.
Here is mine: https://wp.me/pM8Y1-7yv
Haha, well this bush us not here out of choice, I will readily admit – but I shoved it to the back of the woodland edge border where I can forget about it!
That faded hydrangea is most elegant and soothing to the eye Cathy. Your ‘new’ vase an excellent purchase. How great to have a charity shop at your local waste disposal site – I wish ours would follow suite. A little and late in the day vase from me today : https://greentapestry.blogspot.com/2019/10/one-solitary-bloom-in-this-weeks-in.html
Thanks Anna and yes, good on several counts, but for the donor it saves a separate trip to a town centre charity shop
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Hi Cathy
Here’s mine. Great to be back – and love your striking arrangement this week!
And it’s good to have you back, Jenny
Lovely vase. Love the colour. My hydrangeas are changing colour. Some beautiful antique pinks. Here’s my written-in -a -hurry Vase. Everything seems to need doing at once! Love karen xx https://bramblegarden.com/2019/10/28/in-a-vase-on-monday-28th-october-2019/
Thanks Karen and yes, never enough hours, are there?
A late addition from me. https://digwithdorris.wordpress.com
Your comments were off but I wanted to say what an amazing colour your hydrangea was – don’t think I have seen a fiery one like that before
It’s a beauty which caught my eye at GDixter. It’s only been in one year so it’s still small.
I have no idea why comment section is off sometimes and not others
So it should make even more of an impact next year
Lovely hydrangea. I have one to share too
A pleasing coincidence, Dorris – or our minds are on the same wavelength or something..,
The something!
That is a gorgeous arrangement Cathy. The new vase is perfect with the hydrangea. Thanks for hsoting.
Thanks, Susie – it always surprises me how effective ‘simple’ can be
A very nice combination, and I absolutely love the vase. That’s the kind of vase I like to use–the color and shape are so lovely!
Thanks Beth – it is the sort of vase that is a pleasure to hold in your hand
Very pretty. I think we all agree that faded hydrangeas are prettier than fresh ones. They go such lovely antiquey shades.
Indeed they do
Cathy I love your green and faded hydrangea. The truth is that I love hydrangeas anyway. It is divine with the persicaria. The vase you have found in the charity shop is wonderful, I really like its shape and color and that it weighs. It is divine with hydrangea and persicarias: it is a magnificent and simple arrangement at the same time, but wonderfully beautiful, I love it. Have a good week. Greetings from Margarita.
Thanks Margarita – and the persicaria will probably root so I can have some new plants!
Again, I am sorry I missed these, and those from this week too.