Everything that’s blooming down in the grass of our backyard today.
To see what other gardeners have put in a vase, please visit Cathy at Rambling in the Garden.
Tag: In a vase on Monday
Vintage landscape: flowers amicorum
A watercolor by Margaretha Roosenboom from an album amicorum created for the writer Anna Louisa Geertruida Bosboom-Toussaint on the occasion of her 70th birthday in 1882, via Archief Alkmaar Commons on flickr.
The album (684 loose sheets in an ornamental wooden box) contained drawings, watercolors, photographs, text, and music by friends and admirers.
The contributors represented a cross section of the cultural elite in 19th century Netherlands and Belgium, including many artists who were part of the Hague School.
After Bosboom-Toussaint’s death, the album was eventually given to her hometown of Alkmaar and is now in the collection of the Regional Archief Alkmaar.
To see some flower arrangements created and shared today, please visit Cathy at the blog Rambling in the Garden. She hosts “In a Vase on Monday.”
In a vase on Monday: pansies
Easy: purple pansies from the Degerloch farmer’s market, little purple pot.
To see what other gardeners have put in a vase (or a pot) today, visit Cathy at Rambling in the Garden.
My tantalized spirit
Here blandly reposes,
Forgetting, or never
Regretting, its roses—
Its old agitations
Of myrtles and roses:For now, while so quietly
Lying, it fancies
A holier odor
About it, of pansies—
A rosemary odor,
Commingled with pansies—
With rue and the beautiful
Puritan pansies.— Edgar Allen Poe, from “For Annie“
In a vase on Monday: Copenhagen
We spent the Easter weekend in Copenhagen, Denmark. This picture was taken at the Torvehallerne (or food market, located here and on Instagram here) on Saturday.
To see a few more photos of flowers at the market, please click on any of the thumbnail images below.
Inside the food hall, grape muscari with feathers and pussy willow.
Small colored eggs and some winter jasmine vine were added to this arrangement.
The Stalks and Roots flower stand outside the Torvehallerne.
The exchange rate was about six krone to one U.S. dollar.
Lots of potted Narcissus bulbs.
Grape muscari.
The outdoor stall is Stalks and Roots.
To see what other gardeners have put in a vase today, visit Cathy at Rambling in the Garden.
In a vase on Monday: pink Muscari
This morning began with my three tiny pots of a pink variety of Muscari armeniaccum in the kitchen window — along with the Schnapps glasses that I’ve been collecting from our trips in the last year.
I don’t remember where I bought the little clay pots — probably at a thrift store back in Maryland more than ten years ago. The Muscaris came from the Schillerplatz Saturday flower market.
Then I moved the trio over to our rather skinny mantel.
I also tried out a second pot of Muscaris there too.
On the dining room table, I placed a row of daffodils (also from the flower market) and some supermarket red tulips. I bought the assorted vases at a thrift shop recently, inspired by “pins” like this one.
Since I have been taking part in this meme, my vase “wardrobe” has increased tenfold, meaning I had none before and now I have ten (foreign service life is hard on glassware).
Then I moved the rest of my tulip purchase to the dining room table. . .
. . . and tried out the vase assortment on the mantel.
Where it remains.
Above is another pretty flower arrangement from this weekend’s Easter market in the nearby town of Degerloch.
And on Saturday, I had my first Spargel stand sighting — at the Marktplatz farmers’ market.
From now through May, everyone in Stuttgart will be eating lots of white asparagus. Mmhh. . . lecker (delicious).
To see what other gardeners have put in a vase today, visit Cathy at Rambling in the Garden.
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