In a vase on Monday – Page 8

In a vase on Monday: grape hyacinths

March 7, 2016August 20, 2017 Cindy at enclos*ure15 Comments

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On Saturday, I wandered around the downtown Stuttgart flower market admiring all the blooming spring bulbs — which were being sold both potted and as cut flowers (pictures below). I bought some cut tulips and then went to Butler’s for a vase and another container of seashell chips. On the way home, I stopped at a florist and bought a little pot of forced Muscari, or grape hyacinth, bulbs.

I think I should have set the bulbs lower in the vase, but I didn’t want to disturb their rootball, which I covered with the chips.

Click on any thumbnail in the gallery below to scroll through photos of the flower market.

To see what other gardeners have put in a vase today, visit Cathy at Rambling in the Garden.

The flower market at Schillerplatz.

Tulips — 6.50 euros for 10.

Potted forced dark blue irises.

Potted primroses in almost every color are a feature of the markets and florists right now.

Potted forced Fritillaria meleagris.

Cut tulips and Narcissus.

The Saturday markets, Stuttgart, March 5, 2016, enclos*ure

Cut Narcissus.

A potted lime green Chrysanthemum.

This stall had the prettiest colored cut Hyacinths, Muscaris, and tulips.

Cut Muscaris.

Cut Dutch hyacinths.

Potted forced tulips and Fritallarias. This was in the farmers’ market in the square in front of the Rathaus, or Town Hall.

I caught this woman in mid-step. I love the colors of her outfit.

Potted forced Narcissus and Dutch hyacinths.

The “ingredients” of my Muscari arrangement.

On the coffee table in our living room.

Muscari bulbs, Stuttgart, March 5, 2016, enclos*ure

The baskets are from Rwanda.

My tulips, Stuttgart, March 5, 2016, enclos*ure

In a vase on Monday: Fritillarias

February 29, 2016August 20, 2017 Cindy at enclos*ure11 Comments

Potted Fritillaria meleagris in our living room this week.

The plants are 13″ to 15″ tall.

I love the checkered pattern on the blooms.

Right now, almost all the supermarkets and florists here are selling small plastic pots of three or four blooming or almost-blooming spring bulbs (about €3.30 each — cheaper than a lot of cut flowers).

I replanted these into two purple ceramic pots that I had from a previous plant purchase. Then, to catch the excess water, I also put them down in blue pottery teacups from Rwanda’s Gatagara Cooperative.

I covered the soil with seashell chips.

The yellow-blue sake pitcher and cups in the photos above were made by American ceramics artist Hayne Bayless. They were purchased years ago at the Smithsonian Craft Show — which will be held this year from April 21 to 24 at the National Building Museum* in Washington, D.C. If you plan to be in the D.C. area that week, you can buy advance (discounted) tickets here.

To see what other gardeners have put in a vase today, visit Cathy at Rambling in the Garden.

*The Oehme/van Sweden exhibit will still be there.

In a vase on Monday: Narcissus

January 25, 2016June 27, 2017 Cindy at enclos*ure20 Comments

I got tired of watching the stems — or the whole pot — of my indoor winter bulbs fall over almost as soon as they bloomed, so when I bought these four Narcissus already a few inches tall in a little plastic pot, I lifted them out of the potting mix, shook it off (I also trimmed back some of the root mass), and replanted them in chipped-up seashells at the bottom of a vase.