In a Vase on Monday: Favourite Colour Combination 2025!

I love pink and yellow, or orange and purple, but this year pink and orange is my absolute favourite colour combination. So since it is Monday, and Cathy at Rambling in the Garden is hosting her lovely meme again, here is a vase with those colours dominating, and a bit of purple and lime green thrown in.

I started off by picking some Geum Totally Tangerine and a lovely Aquilegia that is pink but with a slightly peachy hue to it.

The bright Magenta flower is Erodium – these plants do well in my garden, with drought and heat barely bothering them in the summer – in fact they seem to thrive on it.

Then I saw that a Scabiosa had opened. It is neither pink nor orange, but was so pristine I just had to add it to my handful. There are also a couple of the similar Knautia flowers in there – a deep reddish pink.

I have had some chive flowers in vases with geums over the past fortnight, and since I have so many I cut some of them too. The lime green is Lady’s Mantle – Alchemilla mollis. They flowers haven’t quite opened yet but the colour is already vivid.

I had some flowers left over so made another little arrangement with more Alchemilla and chives, and this lovely Dianthus from the Words and Herbs Bed that has mainly fragrant plants in it. Just two small flowers give off enough scent to be pleasant indoors.

 

Those frilly pink flowers don’t only smell lovely, they are really sweet to look at too!

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Last week I posted about our Ice Saints and we did actually have a white frost on the last date (15th-16th May). I am hoping it really is the last. The tomatoes spent their first night outside last night (4°C where they are standing) and looked fine this morning. Fingers crossed!

Have a great week, and Happy Gardening!