In a Vase on Monday: Miscanthus Wave

My Miscanthus are simply beautiful at the moment, and have been waving to me all week. So as we wave goodbye to ‘summertime’ (we turned the clocks back here in Germany this weekend too) my Miscanthus are waving in my vase today. Hello ‘wintertime’!

Winter is actually nowhere in sight thank goodness, and as you can see I still have some tough little Japanese Anemones (Honorine Jobert) and even a Cosmos (Purity).

The other white flowers in this Czech crystal vase are the asters I used last week: Aster ageratoides ‘Aschvi’.

I love the very faint pink tinge to Honorine as seen above, and on the bud in this next photo…

Some yellow flowers bring out the centres of the anemones nicely – golden Chrysopsis ‘Sunnyshine’ …

…and a lonesome sunflower nestled into a fresh Alchemilla mollis flower.  There is also some yellow Tansy hidden at the back.

The crystal vase was bought in my year abroad during my studies, many moons ago!  We went to Prague with several classes from the school where I was a ‘language assistant’. This was something I would not normally have chosen to purchase when I was younger, but I had to use up my Czech money… this was before the Velvet Revolution and way before the Euro! Little did I know that I would appreciate it so much later in life. 😉

Many thanks to Cathy at Rambling in the Garden for hosting this lovely In a Vase on Monday meme, and to all those who join her each week and bring us all joy with their vases from around the globe.

Happy gardening!



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