In a Vase on Monday: Blue and Purple

I decided to limit myself to a less dramatic colour scheme for my vase this week, after posting a purple and orange one last Monday. While looking around the garden beds on Sunday afternoon I was soooo tempted to add a Tithonia… sadly too late now as we had frost again last night!

I chose blue. But realized only when editing the photos that all the flowers in this vase are actually varying shades of purple… the very blue Nigella in the centre makes this very evident.

So, a purple vase with blue accents! 😉

Aren’t Nigella such photogenic flowers… this one below is more grey than blue.

The asters are fabulous right now. There are two dark purple ones in my vase, one of which is Barr’s Blue (the other I am not sure) and the pale blue one in the background below is a definite favourite again this autumn.

Its name here is ‘Silberteppich’ and it really does have a silver sheen to it.

I added a couple of sprigs of blue salvias and some Cosmos foliage – a Cosmos ‘Purity’ that simply refused to flower, but produced lots of lovely lime green leaves and stems. Then I put in some Verbena bonariensis and some Verbena macdougalii ‘Lavender Spires’, which has enraptured me and the bees this summer.

That is a Salvia viridis in the middle.

Finally, a couple of ‘blue’ geraniums. (‘Rozanne’?) These do appear to be a bit less purple than the ‘blue’ asters. 🤣

I am glad I stuck to my calmer colour scheme today – there was enough turbulence in the news last week with hurricanes and tornadoes battering parts of the US again, so calm is without a doubt good this week.  I am joining Cathy at Rambling in the Garden for this wonderful Monday meme. I wonder what colour schemes she and our fellow ‘vase’ crowd have found to use in their vases today.

Have a lovely flowery week, with calm weather and gentle sunshine! 🍁🌻🍄



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