Tag: wood anemone

In a vase on Monday: the mermaid

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I got up this morning determined to make an arrangement for this cute little Majolica-style vase that I bought at the Saturday flea market. I found these flowers growing in the grass and along the fence in the backyard.


They include primroses, wood anemones, sweet woodruff, and a tulip.

By the time I had everything assembled, I had lost the good morning light inside.  So I spent some time wandering around the house looking for a bright place to take pictures.  At one point I was in the linen closet.  By 2:00 p.m., I was back in the living room with one-half of the curtains pulled back.


The vase is about 8″ (20 cm.) tall.  I say “Majolica-style” because after an hour (or two) on the internet I was no closer to figuring out if it is real or fake.  It cost only €8, so I suspect the latter.


I does seem to have some age, so maybe it’s at least an old fake.


I love the mermaid or siren handle.

She needs tiny pasties.


If anyone reading knows anything about Majolica pottery, I would love to have your opinion.

To see what other garden bloggers have put in vases today, please visit Cathy at Rambling in the Garden.

In a vase on Monday: warm weekend

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Little flowers picked from our yard (except for the tulip) in the kitchen window. . .

We had a relatively warm sunny weekend, and now the primroses are starting to bloom, and the woods behind the house are full of wood anemones.


In the city, all the platz were full of people soaking up the sun. Most were still dressed in black winter coats, so it looked like flocks of large crows had settled down on the grass and concrete. The lines for ice cream were very long — Stuttgarters seem to want cones the minute the temperature rises above 55°F (12°C).


We’ve seen three large hares in the neighborhood in as many days (this is their peak mating season), after not seeing any for months. They are hard to miss, being the size of small dogs — largish small dogs. Occasionally when we come upon one, it stands its ground and we always move along first.


To see what other garden bloggers have put in vases today, please visit Cathy at Rambling in the Garden.

In a vase on Monday: grass flowers

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wildflowers, May 2, enclos*ureEverything 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.

The aforementioned woods

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Stuttgart woods with wood anemones, by enclos*ureA little while ago today. . .

Stuttgart woods with wood anemones, by enclos*ureThe forest behind our house carpeted in wood anemones or Anemone nemorosa, a small white flower native to Germany.

Stuttgart woods with wood anemones, by enclos*ureI just noticed that little black bug on the flower petal. It looks like a tick. I feel itchy now. . . .

Spring, the sweet spring, is the year’s pleasant king…

— Thomas Nashe

On the windowsill, this morning

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I looked out the upstairs window yesterday afternoon and saw that the woods behind our house were carpeted in wood anemones or Anemone nemorosa, a native flower.

When I went out the back gate, I also found yellow primroses — Primula vulgaris, I believe — along the fence.

Except for the little white flowers and some ivy, the forest is still mostly brown and beige, but that will change very quickly now that daytime temperatures are in the 60s° F.

Flowers in a vase
or strewn in mad profusion
across a meadow. Choose

— Tom Disch, from “Memoirs of a Primrose“