In a Vase on Monday: Summer into Autumn

Well, the calendar and the weather have coincided perfectly and yesterday it was a glorious 25°C with blue skies and sunshine. Today, the first day of autumn, it is very chilly and wet. Luckily I picked some flowers in the sunshine on Sunday, so I am joining Cathy at Rambling in the Garden for her Monday Vase meme again today. Do follow the link to visit her and find links to many other Monday vases from around the world.

Japanese anemones sometimes last well in a vase, and sometimes they don’t. But they are simply too pretty not to give it a try and these are holding up well after 24 hours in my vase at any rate. There are a few pink Cosmos in there too, almost the same shade and quite similar in appearance.

The Dahlia I kept from last year ‘Feline Yvonne’ has produced another flower – small and a little crooked, but pretty nonetheless. I simply love that colour. The Miscanthus grasses go so nicely with it and give the arrangement an autumnal feel.

The delicate magenta flowers are Erodium. This plant flowers almost all summer here and is taking off again now it is cooler and damper. I added a few sprigs of the Salvia ‘Aromax Blue’ that seems to have settled permanently into the Herb Bed, despite being a little tender.

The tiny paler pink stars are Aster ‘Pink Star’ – one of my favourites that has spread nicely. (Possibly due to mice excavations rather than seedlings!) Then there is some Verbena bonariensis and peony foliage too.

Apart from summer coming to an end, other big news is that the greenhouse is up!  I’ll be writing a post all about it later this week. But here is a sneak preview.

Many thanks to Cathy for hosting, and I hope you all have a wonderful gardening week!